by Kristi Cook
Thank you to Simon and Schuster and Edelweiss for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!I've had a lengthy debate with myself whether to give this 2 stars or 3. Ultimately, I've decided on 3 but I refused to post my review during the tour. Because although I've enjoyed reading Magnolia, I found ...
Disclaimer: I live about ninety minutes from the Galveston which means I’ve had dealt with my fair share of tropical storms and hurricanes. That means some of the mellow drama that is in Magnolia does not fly with me. That being said, despite the severe amount of melodrama, eye rolling, and...
The book grabbed me because of the Romeo and Juliet retelling part. Now while indeed you can see the references, I would rather called it inverted Romeo and Juliet or Romeo and Juliet with a twist. Instead of having parents/family who hate each other, we got 2 families/2 parents couples who love eac...
***This review has also been posted on The Social PotatoWhen I first heard about Magnolia, I was sold. Tornados? SURVIVING one? Love/hate relationships? What else could I want? Nothing. This book lived up to every single one of my expectations and then some. Okay, I was lying. I wanted more. SO MUCH...
MAGNOLIA by Kristi Cook Hardcover, 384 pages Expected publication: August 5th 2014 by Simon & Schuster In Magnolia Branch, Mississippi, the Cafferty and Marsden families are southern royalty. Neighbors since the Civil War, the families have shared vacations, holidays, backyard barbecues, and the o...
Jemma Cafferty didn't always hate Ryder Marsden. In fact, she was kind of crushing on him back in eighth grade... Only he kind of unknowingly crushed her heart. Which in turn, crushed the dreams of the two closer families of ever being united by marriage. Now seventeen and on the brink of their high...
I absolutely loved this book. And I may have read it all in pretty much one sitting. I only stopped to feed my monsters.Magnolia is a fun book, and the characters are pretty awesome. I loved Jemma and Ryder. They pretty much despise each other while being forced to try to spend time together by ...
Release Date: August, 5th Arc kindly provided by Simon & Schuster Be careful what you wish, people use to say... A little more than a week ago, I read the most glowing review of this book an author could wish for. lol In the follow up of that experience _ the review _, I was rea...
"We’ve hated each other since forever.” “Love, hate,” she says with a smile. “Such a fine line between the two, isn’t there?” Help. I have a Mississippi-sized grin on my face and it's not going away. I wanted a sweet, wildly romantic, happily-ever-after romance, and I got it all. The characters ca...
Park reason elsewhere, Magnolia is one of those feel good books where one really shouldn’t examine things too closely (if at all.) There’s an attempt to turn the typical on its head starting with the Romeo-Juliet allusion. There’s an intentional divergence from that, but in pointing out all those di...
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