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A review by buttonsandbooks
London Falling by Chanel Cleeton
4.0
I saw Chanel Cleeton wrote this one on Netgalley and had to request it. I had no idea it was an old book of hers, but I consider myself lucky to get to read more from her.
Maggie isn't like her crowd of friends at her college, the International School in London. She's there on a scholarship. She's not from a wealthy family, but was raised by her grandparents in a small home in South Carolina. The people who are supposed to lovers her never stick around and this has defined most of her life. Samir is her best friend Fleur's cousin and part of her group of friends. He thinks he's God's gift to women and behaves as such. At the end of her freshman year and his junior one, the two hook up, fully knowing he has a girlfriend and commitments back in Lebanon. But when they both return to school in the fall, it's not so easy to just be friends.
This was very sweet and very unlike all the historical fiction I've read from Cleeton previously. I didn't look up anything so the setting and time period surprised me a bit, knowing what I've read of hers before. I enjoyed it though. It was a quick read that had a lot of heart.
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Maggie isn't like her crowd of friends at her college, the International School in London. She's there on a scholarship. She's not from a wealthy family, but was raised by her grandparents in a small home in South Carolina. The people who are supposed to lovers her never stick around and this has defined most of her life. Samir is her best friend Fleur's cousin and part of her group of friends. He thinks he's God's gift to women and behaves as such. At the end of her freshman year and his junior one, the two hook up, fully knowing he has a girlfriend and commitments back in Lebanon. But when they both return to school in the fall, it's not so easy to just be friends.
This was very sweet and very unlike all the historical fiction I've read from Cleeton previously. I didn't look up anything so the setting and time period surprised me a bit, knowing what I've read of hers before. I enjoyed it though. It was a quick read that had a lot of heart.
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