Stealing Home (The Sweet Magnolias #1)

It started out okay, but as I got further into the story, I began to regret this purchase. It was soooooo drawn out and boring. Maddie the future ex wife, got on my nerves quickly with her doormat personality and Bill, the cheating piece of crap husband was the worlds biggest douchebag. No one batted an eye at the fact that the cheating dirtbag pediatrician knocked up his nurse, who was only 8 years older than his son, WHILE he was still married. They walked around town while she sported her huge baby bump. Didnt slow down business a bit. The wife however, has pizza with her sons coach and the whole town is out for blood. They practically had a trial. Beyond stupid. I barely made it through the rest of the story. I wont read anymore of the series because I hated almost the entire town of Serenity. Everyone was so judgmental. It was like a Peyton Place. The writer seemed out of touch with current times. No thanks to anymore of this series.

I started reading the book becAuse I loved the first season of Sweet Magnolias on Netflix. I usually find the book better than tv but not in this case. The book is drawn out, unrealistic and boring. Do not waste 7.99 on this.

Typical story, girl and boy meet, girl see conflict in being with boy, boy stands up for girl and the rest is sappy history. Maddie (main character) and Dr. Bill (cheating ex-husband) are the worst characters in the story. You just want to slap the crap to both of them, one for being a \”whoa is me, I can\’t date you, what will the town say.\” to just an idiot (no offense to idiots). The only redeemable characters are Tyler (Maddie\’s son who has a backbone) and Helen (fiesty attorney). Dana Sue (chef and not great mother) doesn\’t want to admit that her child may have an eating disorder and let\’s her daughter tell her that she won\’t to go to the doctor. Do kids really get to decide if they go to the doctor or not? I\’m still trying to figure out why the author would think that women from Charleston would drive to a podunk town( I live in a podunk town outside of Atlanta) to go to a spa that is 25 miles away from Charleston. It seems a bit far-fetched. This book seemed to be a step above a Harlequin romance or a dollar store romance novel.

I was introduced to this author, because of the TV show. I generally prefer to read the books first and then watch the TV show. I really enjoyed the book so much better. Helen, Dana Sue, and Maddie are the Sweet Magnolia\’s. Best friends forever and living in a small town has it\’s benefits and it\’s trials. Everyone is there to lend a hand, but they also get up in your business. When Maddie\’s marriage falls apart, because her husband leaves her for a younger woman who he\’s gotten pregnant. She is left to pick up the pieces and hold it together for their three children who are angry and confused. When their oldest boy\’s coach steps in to help with the attitude adjustment that Ty needs, he never realized he\’d fall for his mother. With the town in an uproar, they find themselves defending their friendship. This is a story of friendship and love, that will make you want to keep reading the whole series to see what everyone is up to.

Buy the first three books, maybe even the fourth. They are all good reads. After that, you\’ve got the story. Don\’t bother buying the rest. The story becomes rather repetitive: The insecure woman with bad experiences from the past is making a lot of fuss trying to trust and/or forgive the near perfect hunk (that also may have bad experiences but the woman means more). The Magnolias becomes ever more intrusive and respectless when it comes to gossiping and pushing their friends around, and their once tight group is expanded any time a female with guy problems shows up in the story. Even when the group starts to exceed 10 grown up women they have all the time in the world for margarita nights and helping each other out starting businesses or handling men, besides full time jobs, growing families, and regular excercise, of course. The exercise is really needed though, I never knew anyone drinking so many milkshakes or eating so much pizza or restaurant food as these guys. Also, after a while even the author seems to lose control of details from the earlier books, like relations and character names. The guys line up, one more perfect than the other, taking all the bullying from their women in a stride. A shame, really, the writing is really good and the descriptions of the town and the side stories, but the story of the main characters remains mainly the same in every single book! Time to come up with something new, Sherryl!

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