The Peach Keeper takes place in a small southern town and follows a few main characters who grew up here. The renovation of a local mansion brings many things to the surface including a decades old murder and the real truth about the local society club. As events unfold relationships change and l...
I read this book in under 48 hours. I'm not sure if I was fueled by the fact that my library loan was about to end, or if I just needed a little something to get me through the many hours it seems to take to get my daughter to sleep these past few days. Many nights sitting in the rocking chair ...
Really LOVED this book. I've liked everything that I've read by Sarah Addison Allen, but I especially loved this one. I am not a fan or reader of fantasy, however, this author's books always have just a little sprinkling of magic that somehow seems believable as it's woven so expertly into the ...
"Everything had a presence. Even small things. Even things you took for granted."Waking Kate is a short teaser for Lost Lake, that talks of a moment in time that will change everything in 20 pages."She wasn't sure exactly when it happened, when she had realized that she could only make one of the...
Cute. Not overdone. A good story about a Southern family with secrets. Sounds familiar. But it was really pretty good.
I read her book Sugar Queen so I knew to expect a sweet story with interesting characters and plot. This kind of book is a nice break when you need one, but it missed a few notes that would have made me more satisfied with the time I spent reading it. But it was a sweet treat all in all.I would...
This would be a great summer read, a cute story but a bit cheesy and predictable in some parts This was a good story but in my opinion not as good as some of the author's other works.
The women of the Waverley family -- whether they like it or not -- are heirs to an unusual legacy, one that grows in a fenced plot behind their Queen Anne home on Pendland Street in Bascom, North Carolina. There, an apple tree bearing fruit of magical properties looms over a garden filled with he...
She wanted distractions, any distractions. She wanted to forget about how quiet the apartment was last night, how out of place she felt in it alone. Unfortunately, Finding Forgiveness kept appearing by her on the counter, nudging her, reminding her. At least Old Love, New Direction had decided to...
They were the kids from the farthest edges of the city school district. They were a quieter crowd than the rest of the kids. Their lives weren’t filled every minute with something. Most of their lives, it seemed, were actually spent on the bus. Bay was usually the first one off, at Pendland Stree...