Dana Sue might run the best little restaurant in Serenity, but when you're feeding a small town of neighbors, busybodies and best friends, things can get a bit hot in the kitchen. Never mind that she's putting on too many pounds (an occupational hazard for a chef)she's worried about her too-skin...
Maddie Townsend might live in a town called Serenity, but there's been nothing calm or peaceful about her life since her marriage broke up. This stay-at-home mom has no job skills, an out-of-control sixteen-year-old son, a talkative fourteen-year-old who's suddenly gone silent, a six-year-old dau...
Helen Decatur spent a lifetime setting goals--getting through college and law school, opening her own practice, becoming financially secure and establishing herself as one of the most highly respected matrimonial attorneys in the state of South Carolina. Achieving those goals was a breeze compare...
This is the eleventh book in the Sweet Magnolia's series and features Adelia and Gabe. While I liked this one, it wasn't one of my favorites from this series. Adelia felt very unlikable to me, ever since we were introduced to her in previous books. So from the start I wasn't as involved as I was ...
Satisfying story about an idyllic town, Serenity, NC, where a beaten-down woman find herself and starts fresh with a new love, a former MLB star from the Boston Red Sox. Story was a 3, a lovely escape into fictional wonderland where there are happy endings. But the reading was absolutely atrociou...
It's been awhile since I read this, so some of the details are fuzzy. What I DO remember is being so excited for this book to come out - I just knew Ty and Annie's story was going to be chock full of awesomeness. Then I read it. By the last page I not only didn't want Ty and Annie together, I wan...
This is a Christmas themed book. Christmas is gearing up in South Carolina's Serenity. Only two people seem to be in the bah humbug mood Jeanette Brioche and Tom McDonald. Jeanette from suffering a tragic loss many Christmas's ago, and Tom is suffering from a false Christmas's he's spent with ...
When I began this story and I saw a little boy, I thought this book was right for me. Children and pets are my favourite themes.But I didn't like the adult part of the story. Both Ty and Annie were so far and so unreasonable (Annie sure was!) that I felt detached from the story.I think I can rela...
Raylene is the third of the next generation of Sweet Magnolias. She's come back home to escape an abusive husband, who's now in jail for that abuse, staying with Sarah and helping take care of the children--but she can't leave the house without a panic attack. So when Sarah's little boy takes off...
Reviewed by AubreyBook provided by NetGalley for reviewReview originally posted at Romancing the BookI feel like a broken record by saying I love small town stories and especially ones in a series. Midnight Promises is the 8th novel in Sherryl Woods’ Sweet Magnolias series set in Serenity, South ...
I think it was interesting/good to read a story about how important it is to continue the romance and work on it after you are married. So many stories end with the happy ending and I think many people think that once they are married, then there life is supposed to be happy forever after then. B...
"When Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single mom Karen Ames, it it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal trainer made it his mission to restore Karen's strength—physical and emotional—and to charm her children.Now, a few years into the marriage, colliding dre...
The last of the Sweet Magnolia series finds Lynn Morrow who is in the process of a nasty divorce trying to put food on the table for her two children and keep the house they are living in, while her soon to be ex is consistantly going on so-called golf trips. She is working as many jobs as she ca...
This book in the Sweet Magnolias concerns Jeanette who works for the 'Corner Spa,' and the new Town Manager, Tom McDonald. Both Jeanette and Tom are not fond of the Christmas Season due to memories of their personal childhoods.The match-making Sweet Magnolias assign Jeanette to be liaison between...
3.25/5; 3 stars; BI am not familiar with this author and I must say I will read more of her books even though this one did not bowl me over. This book was well written and well paced but its several books into a series so I wasnt as attached to the characters as I would have been if I had read ...