Sometimes, one needs a happily-ever-after, and from the beginning of Lost in New Falls you know you are going to get one. But the path to the end in this particular book is funny, charming and also deeply sad, but with a thread of hope and caring through it all.

Kate Delaney is the character many of us can identify with great ease from our own childhood experiences. The ‘friendly fat girl’ all through school in New Falls, Tennessee she and her brother Reese find themselves in the care of their beloved grandfather when their parents are killed in an accident. Tagging along after Reese and his best friend, Quentin Taylor, Kate spends her childhood and teen years being just one of the boys. When her growing attraction to Quentin leads to heartbreak, her path takes her to Hollywood, where she ghostwrites, writes for the occasional television show, and is now climbing her way to success. With a famous producer now wanting her newest script, this should be the happiest time of her life. However, her beloved grandfather is close to death, and she must return to Tennessee to be with him in his final days. Of course, with email, she can still finish her script in the cabin her grandfather once called home. Oops.

Returning to the cabin after a visit to her grandfather in the hospital, Kate discovers that her cabin has been robbed, her laptop, flash drive backup gone, and even her underwear drawer cleaned out. What happens next is funny in a mildly slapstick way as Kate attempts to ship off the rough paper copy of her work to her agent, only to wind up in a game of pass-the-football with her treasured screenplay. Everyone in town seems to be reading her work, but whether it gets to her agent is another question.

Cherie Marks characters are funny and charming, thought the whole “Hillbilly Red Neck” situation comes into play, but not in a grating way. The chase for the burglar is well done, and quite realistic overall, and the thief was a shocker – funny as all get out in the end, though the acts weren’t themselves funny at all.

This is a great summer read. I accepted the book as I admire Cherie Marks, a breast cancer survivor like myself. Now, I am glad I did simply because I enjoyed the book and want to read more of her work.

I receive this book in return for a realistic review. All thoughts are my own.

1 Go Fuck Yourself Star (Thanks Mrs. Ballsworthy)

DNF at 71%

Nina got on my nerves the whole fucking book but she took the cake with this one. OOOOH MY GOD, bitch took a 6 teir wedding cake that cost a million dollars. 

Let me click that fucking spoiler button right quick.

Jake and her finally do the damn deed and somehow amazingly they did it all night and his dick didn't fall off and her vadge didn't hold up a white flag, even in my nympho days that shit was impossible. He is READY and is about to confide his deepest darkest secret that might possibly hurt her bitch ass but he doesn't get to because she wants the dick inside her so bad, and what man is going to say no to someone he's been holding back from and has a dong so hard that a midget could head butt him in the balls and the midget would lose? Right! I'm so politically incorrect right now I'm so pissed. 

Remember he was ready and willing to divulge his biggest secrets BEFORE, YES BEFORE they got it on and he drilled her like an offshore oil rig. She fucked that up on her own, that was Nina's fucking fault. 

He climbs a fucking fire escape and finds her after the bitch runs from him and tells her everything about his schizo wife who's been in the mental hospital for 4 fucking years in another damn city and tells her EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

No man in this damn world would do the romantic things he did, would help her dumb ass get A's in her college math classes and say the most romantic things he's ever said to her, as well as lay it down, and then put his heart on the line for NOTHING. 

The bitch then has the nerve to say she's moving out and needs some time. Bitch you can get time away from him in your own damn room, you had to move out??????

Fuck that, he gave more than any man would have and came clean, and it wasn't a horrible secret like he was cheating or anything and the bitch didn't forgive him immediately. Fuck that.

I already thought she was a fucking dumbass and rude bitch the whole book by sneaking into his room and going through his personal shit and then she got pissed because he fucked some girl when he didn't even KNOW Nina. She got all bitchfaced for that shit too. Ugh, she's a fucking child. Just because she's from the country doesn't mean that she's a fucking idiot and is stunted in her growth and maturity. They go through shit just like everybody else out in small towns too. 

I was ready for the love and the happy ending to come and ready to hear the bitch finally grew up and gave him some damn beautiful babies, because anything from Jake would be amazing. I'm in love with Jake's character but Nina just ruined the whole fucking book for me. Fuck that bitch. I'm out.

I don't know if any of these counts as novels, lol. I don't remember anything about this book, except that it was my very first "English" book purchase ever, after I arrived in the United States. I bought it from a Scholastic Christmas book order (i LOVED THOSE SCHOLASTIC BOOK CATALOGS SO MUCH), and was so proud of owning my very first book in America, lol.

With certainty, the Baby Sitters' Club book was a gateway drug to my addiction of middle grade series. It led onto Sweet Valley Kids, Sweet Valley Twins, Sweet Valley High, Goosebumps, Baby Sitters' Mysteries, Baby Sitters' Little Sister. Nancy Drew. The Boxcar Children, Hardy Boys, etc.

But my love for reading after I arrived in the US all started with Kristy's Great Idea.