Immerse In Something To Talk About Fabricated By M.J. Fredrick Accessible As Hardcover

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When Ellie Morgan breaks up with the towns football coach, all she hears is the old refrain, “Shes just like her mothernever happy, ” Ellie doesnt know exactly what she wants in a relationship but she does know she wants more than a self absorbed man who puts her second to his career.
So Ellie cuts him loose after a year a personal best for her and attempts to go on with her life and ignore the accusations and disapproval from the town.


Noah Weston is still recovering from the shattering blow of his wife Lilys death, She died suddenly, along with their unborn child, After a year and half, Noah begins to emerge from his self imposed seclusion and notices Ellie holds a similar vibrancy and light that Lily did, Noah is confused and unsure as his feelings grow stronger the more time he spends around Ellie, Noah begins to find himself at odds with a town that isnt ready for Nick to move onespecially with his dead wifes best friend,

As Ellie and Noah begin to explore their fragile emotions, the heat and sexual tension that simmers between them threatens and overwhelms them in its intensity, When their new relationship takes a serious turn, Ellie and Noah have to figure out how to make peace with the past in order to have a future,

Something To Talk About is a sweet, heartwarming, and very,very sexy contemporary romance about a young woman who is relationship shy due to her past and a widower who is fighting the guilt of wanting another woman.
The story is set in a very small town whose residents long memories are only matched by their ability to hold a grudge, Ellies mother left her familyyears ago, She raised her sisters and now watches her father pretend that his lover doesnt spend the night with him every night, She finds herself unable to commit to anyone because shes not sure what drove her mother away and strives to not be like her, I found myself drawn to Ellie, Shes smart, courageous, and while everyone thinks shes flighty in love shes not, She knows exactly what she wants and refuses to just “settle, ” The town has painted her with the same brush they painted her mother and sadly, I never see anyone defend her BUT Noah,

Noah have been friends with Ellie for overyears, He married her best friend and they all absorbed him into their circle, When Noahs wife dies, it leaves them all at a loss especially Noah, When Noah begins to “see” Ellie in a different light and Ellie reciprocates his feelings, it opens a whole new aspect in their relationship as guilt, sadness, and old memories overwhelm them both.
Noah feels his falling in love again betrays Lily and Ellie feels that she will never be anything be second place to Lily in Noahs heart,

I adored both Ellie and Noah, Ellie with her quick smiles and obvious love of life and Noahs smoldering sexuality and quiet charm makes the chemistry between them burn hot and bright through out the story.
Ms. Fredricks does a fabulous job of facilitating Noah and Ellies romance amongst the disapproval of the town, Legitimate concerns are addressed and nothing is skimmed over to make the story more aesthetically pleasing, Its an emotionally heartbreaking journey that realistically shows us the pain and grief these two feel as they try and find their way down a very rocky path to love.
As with love and relationships in the real world, nothing is perfect and we arent sure till the very end if Ellie and Noah will be able to accept the second chance they have been given.
Ms. Fredrick also doesnt take the easy way out by painting Lily in a negative light in order to give Noah a plausible excuse to love Ellie, Noah falls in love with Ellie because of who she is and in doing so he doesnt cheapen his feelings for her or Lily, Rather, Ms. Fredrick explores the possibility that you can find love more then once in life and that you dont have to erase or forget a special time or person in your life in order to move forward.
The heart is boundless in its capacity to love and that is the best lesson of all in here,

All in all Something To Talk About is a delightfully romantic contemporary that packs quite a powerful punch for only beingpages, I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Noah and Ellie and being a part of their lives and look forward to reading more of Ms, Fredricks stories.

Overall Rating: B Read as part of Hometown Heroes Box Set Something to Talk About is the novel that officiates M, J. Fredrick's position in my favorite authors list, authors that are mustbuy as their stories are so very worth it, There are no blazing guns, no hair raising adventure in this as in the two novels Don't Look Back and Breaking Daylight by the author that I have read and reviewed prior to this.
Rather, Something to Talk About is a contemporary romance that nevertheless packs into it a story that any romance lover ought to read because this is a novel that swept me away on a journey towards a happily ever after that I very much rooted for right from the very beginning.


Something to Talk about takes place in the small town of Winchester Cove, California whereyear old Ellie Morgan has ended her latest relationship with the golden boy of the town and high school football coach Trey Berenger.
Knowing that she wants much more from a relationship than Trey's selfcentered nature allows him to give, Ellie cuts off ties with the man whom she had been seeing for almost a year a personal best for her where relationships are concerned.
What Ellie didn't expect to happen upon her breakup is for everyone in town to once again start talking around corners, whispering behind her back and painting her in the same light as that of her mother who had left a husband and three children behindyears ago and never looked back.


year old Noah Weston is just starting to recover from the blow that fate had dealt him when his wife had brutally being snatched away from his life, just when they were happily anticipating a new addition to their family.
Almost a year and a half had passed by and Noah was starting to notice the vibrancy that has always been part of his wife Lily's best friend Ellie who lights up his otherwise grey world with her mere presence.
Wary of a desire that seems to grow stronger rather than abate as the days go by, Noah wills himself to take a chance amidst the fanfare of small town life that supports and berates his choice to move on with his wife's best friend.


Ellie doesn't recall just when and how her libido and emotions had started going on instant alert whenever Noah is around but Ellie knows that its a passion worth risking her heart for if the answering fire of need that simmers in Noah's eyes is anything to go by.
As their desire explodes and makes each of them embrace new heights in a physical relationship that neither of them was expecting, other emotions start getting involved lending their relationship a fragility that could break the bonds that bind them together so very easily.


With Noah battling his fear of starting over and trusting his heart to guide him in the right path and with Ellie fighting her need to become anything but the center stage of Winchester Cove's gossip central, both Ellie and Noah certainly lead the reader on an emotionally wrenching journey towards their happily ever after made infinitely that much sweeter because of the fact.


Something to Talk About is definitely landing in my favorite reads of this year as M, J. Fredrick completely took me by surprise with the turn of each page, bringing forth emotions that I didn't think I was even capable of feeling, Noah Weston with his killer dimples, his intensity that can fry the brain cells of any woman and his quiet strength is a hero worth savoring and worth allowing into your dreams, yes because he is the stuff that dreams are made out of.
Ellie is a heroine who made me fall in love with her because she has those qualities that makes a reader root for the heroine right from the very beginning.
Beautiful inside and out with a heart that yearns for a love like her friend Lily had found in Noah, Ellie is a heroine who is willing to fight for what she believes in, even with the whole world frowning down on her.


What endeared the story most to me is the way M, J. Fredrick managed to make Noah and Ellie's love work without sullying up the beautiful relationship that Noah had with his wife Lily, without painting Lily as the good for nothing previous wife who deserved what she got in the end.
Rather than doing that, Ms, Fredrick explores the possibility that yes, you can find love in the most unexpected of places and let it be a beautiful one, untainted by a past that is beautiful in its own right.
All the secondary characters in the story from the reverend to Noah's charming nieces to the navelpierced psychic who manages to catch the eye of the reverend all wormed their way into my heart not to be easily forgotten.


With an epilogue that beautifully ties up everything and made me grin and inwardly smile at the same time, this is a contemporary romance that is definitely worth talking about, worth your time and money and comes highly recommended from the sunny side of life.


Memorable Quotes

He stepped inside and caught her fresh scent from the shower, He wanted to drop the toolbox and pin her to the wall behind the door, taste the dampness of her skin, the warmth of her mouth, He wanted to feel her hands on him, but he kept walking,

She made a small sound in the back of her throat as he slanted his mouth over hers, reining in his hunger to concentrate on the taste of her, the feel of her, the rhythm of her breath, of her heart.
He wanted to absorb her, to savor her,

Every now and then hed look her way and smile

and she tumbled, just tumbled right over into love,

er's Note: Though Ms, Fredrick didn't request for a review, she did provide me with a copy of this wonderful romance for which I want to thank her and show her my appreciation.
The fact that she gave me a copy had no effect whatsoever on my review or rating of the story,

Rating/

Original review posted on sitelink MBR's Realm of Romance Something to Talk About!

The whole town definitely likes to talk.
I really felt sorry for Ellie, She falls in love with her best friends widower, How will she ever be able to fill Lilys shoes It wont be easy, especially with the meddling townspeople keeping track of her every move, I enjoyed the family dynamics and how the author shows how each family member deals with a “situation” in their own way, Well done!
Ellie and Noah have quite a history together, Ellie decides to move out of her boyfriend's house and her friend, Noah offers to help her, These two realize that they have feelings for each other, They decide to move their relationship forward without letting anyone in their small town know, Both have stuff from their pasts come back and they have to deal with, This was a good book!/,stars

A nice little read, I felt the ending lacked a little something but all in all a decent enough story, It was nice how the reader saw from the POV of both H/H,

Not a huge amount happened aside from the relationship and it was just trivial stuff of a small town life,

There were a couple of bits where I thought the dialogue was odd and abrupt/rude which seemed a bit out of character for instance between Ellie and Delinda when discussing the church fair.
It wasn't anything major but there were just a couple of bits like this of odd conversation where it stopped the flow of the story a little for me and made me think "huh, that's a bit odd".


I would read other books by Fredrick as I quite liked the writing style,

Oh and there were pretty hot/steamy sex scenes too! I loved this book, I come from a small community, so the 'something to talk about' theme really resonated for me, The author does a great job recreating that claustrophobic, fishbowl feel, yet she doesn't villify the townspeople in the process, Kudos! Which brings us to the romance, Whooboy, it was a good one! Lots of chemistry, lots of reasons why these two should get together, but the why nots are really stacked against them, Ellie is freshly out of a relationship, and Noah is finally, after a year and a half, emerging from numb grief over the loss of his wife in an accident.
But here's the kicker his dead wife was Ellie's best friend Lily, How can Ellie measure up in anyone's eyes, especially Noah's And how are they ever going to have a chance when everyone thinks Ellie is wrong and/or bad for Noah Originally posted at: sitelink blogspot. c

Small town life is nicely encapsulated in this whimsical story,

Ellies been friends with Noah for years, They helped each other through the sudden death of Lily, Ellies best friend and Noahs wife, So why is she suddenly having inappropriate thoughts about him Shes barely broken up with the local high school coach something the people in town may never forgive her for as it seems the teams game is off.


Noah cant figure out why things changed either, but they have, Hes feeling happy for the first time since Lilys death, and its all because of his new feelings for Ellie, In theory, theirs is a romance that should have been simple and easy, Until you factor in Ellies past and her mothers, with whom she is constantly compared, She has a history of not "sticking" in a relationship, and no one wants to see Noah hurt, Especially not Ellie.

And then theres Noahs severe fear of loving and losing again, Not to mention the ghost of Lily that lingers between them,

While I found both internal conflicts believable, I also thought they were dragged out too long, After a bit I felt like a yoyo, Theyd get past their problems, then suddenly they would let them intrude again, Then theyd get past them, and then theyd intrude, Again and again.

Regardless, the authors skill with the written word and her distinctively interesting and diverse characters kept me turning pages,

Perhaps because of the many other books Ive read and enjoyed by this author, I hold her to a very high standard, Ive come to expect the best from Ms, Fredrick. While this story may not have been my favorite of hers, it still entertained me with its cast, its sexual tension one thing this author especially excels at, the spicy love scenes and the satisfying, sighinducing ending.


If you havent added M, J. Fredrick to your autobuy list, you should, I have yet to be disappointed,

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