Access Today Coming Home (Chesapeake Diaries, #1) Devised By Mariah Stewart Made Available In Paperback

this book bore you It did for me, Usually when I read something terrible, I can basically get it done in less than two days and give a longwinded speech on how it fails at romance and how it is degrading to feminism, etc.
etc. etc .

So you get the point, I gave it three because the author gets brownie points for stating:
"What's pathetic is a man who is so small that he has to hurt someone else in order to feel like a man.
" p In this case, I'm glad she brings up abuse and tackles it head on, Vanessa faced two shitty marriages, the second almost getting killed by her exhusband, It doesn't help that her female role model was Maggie who went through crappy marriages and didn't bother raising her children in the first place.
Maggie dumps her son, Beck, on Hal's door with a birth certificate and later sends Vanessa there because she can't help in any way or form.


The sense of community was there, but I was rather bored with the daily interactions, Despite having a stalker destroying Vanessa's property and trying to get back at her, St, Dennis is a very dull town and even the newspaper editor bored me to tears with her diary entries that sounded obviously the author's voice.
No rule against that, but it made me wonder if the author is boring in real life as well as her other works.


The suspense happened pretty quickly as well as the attraction between Grady and Vanessa, I didn't expect sparks flying or some heated smut here and there, But the moment they show interest, the kissing and groping comes out of nowhere that I have to go back and reread the paragraph to expect some form of building emotional appeal for the reader.
I didn't get a whole lot of that, If the author did a good job at something, she was right about them being closed off, Grady was great until he left, Um, okay I guess that pissed me off a little, You clearly love her, but decide that leaving is the best for the both of you, Because you can decide what's best for her feelings too, I get that you're

still wounded from your murdered wife, but it doesn't make you a freaking psychic on how others feel exactly.
This book took me awhile to get into, Set in a small town Vanessa is trying to learn to live independently and open her clothing store, She falls in love with her sisterinlaw's brother and he will stay to protect her, I do like the characters, and plan on reading the rest in the series, but the story was predictable and not suspenseful enough for me.
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I've always loved Mariah Stewart's heartwarming love stories, And this is another book from her that brought me such enjoyment, Despite being a bit slowpaced at times, this was a very nice and pleasant read, It was sweet, beautiful, touching, and emotional, I enjoyed reading this one a lot,
This was not a good fit for me, The writing style I did not care for, Too many switches between characters and in addition also diary entries from a bystander character, It seemed to me that the author wanted to use every trick there is too story telling and lost me on the way.

The story is not thrilling, The romance is not sizzling, I could not identify with any of the characters,
The comparison to Carr and Macomber is too far fetched, The only similarity is that this is a small town happy life kind of book,


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sitelink BookCrossing. com/journal/ Enjoyed this sweet romance

This was a sweet romance that had a little mystery thrown in.
I wish there had been an epilogue or a little more of the couple together, but overall it was an enjoyable read.
In pursuit of another summery book to scratch my itch, I tried this one that's been sitting on my shelf for quite a while.
I'm glad I did! I loved the cute little seaside town she created with great characters and an interesting storyline, Too much astonishment, it actually had some suspense as well! This was definitely a win and I will be continuing this series! This is my first time reading this author.
I didnt know what to expect, so I thought this was just another contemporary romance, but it was more, It had a little mystery and a little bit of suspense, I loved Grady and Vanessa, They laid ground rules and followed them, There wasnt much misunderstanding that some authors use to get the characters to realize their love, It was just them getting to know each other with some outside drama and then when something threatens to disturb the balance it makes them realize what they have.
I liked all the secondary characters and look forward to getting to know them too, I listened to this on audio, At first, I didnt think I was going to like the narrator, but she did a good job with all the voices.
Well worth reading or listening too, Anyone that likes Debbie Macomber, Sherryl Woods or Robyn Carr, will love this book, Coming Home is the first book in The Chesapeake Diaries series by Mariah Stewart, It is part romance and part suspense, but really it is a story about relationships and families,

The story takes place in St Dennis, a small town on the Chesapeake Bay, This book helps to set up the next two books in the trilogy, In this book you are introduced to all the key players, The focus of this book is Vanessa and Grady, Both are wounded individuals when it comes to relationships, but something clicks between them,

The romance blossoms, much faster than it would in real life, but hey! this is romantic fiction, It isn't real life. Vanessa and Grady really seem to belong together, regardless of the things that happened to them in the past, The past however doesn't want to stay in the past,

Vanessa has a string of incidents happen that is more than just a tiny police matter, and Grady feels the need to step in.


This is really when their relationship blossoms, it is also when some other relationships start to mend,

I love the small town that Ms, Stewart created in this book, The townspeople are fun and much like those that you find all over America, This book could easily have been about my town,

She keeps both the romance and the suspense fairly light, making this a great read for the beach, I can't wait to dive into the next book I only read the first chapter and couldnt get past the fictitious names of places near my beloved Chesapeake Bay.
Again, I only read the first chapter but the name St, Dennis is what I assume to be St, Michaels. The local airport was BMI instead of BWI, That was the end of it for me, . . why not just use the correct names,