Quilted Lilies

Colebridge Community #6

by Ann Hazelwood

Enter the charming, historic town of Colebridge, Missouri, and view life from Anne Brown’s perspective. As the owner of Brown’s Botanical Flower Shop, Anne encounters a serious challenge in her life while also seeing a big dream fulfilled on the Dickson properties. Grandmother Davis’ trademark lilies show up in a patterned wholecloth quilt. This quilt gives much comfort to Anne until she is forced to give it up to its intended owner. See what changes await Anne in her home life, family, and business in this sixth novel in the Colebridge Community Series.

Genres: Romance

329 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2015

About the author

Ann Hazelwood was the owner of a quilt shop for 30 years. She has always adored quilting and is a certified quilt appraiser. In addition to her cozy quilt fiction, she has written travel guides and quilting non-fiction.

Reviews

[Phyllis Mescia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This may be the BEST book of the series!

I’m not going to spoil this for those of you who haven’t read Quilted Lilies yet. I will tell you that at one point I literally gasped out loud and began to cry. I found myself in Anne’s shoes many years ago when I was 43 years old. I could so relate to her. Ann Hazelwood is an awesome author and I’m so glad I discovered her series of books! I’m working my way through all of them!

[loraknits · Rating 4 out of 5]

Anne is a tad annoying to me yet I enjoy all the side characters. I also enjoy the details of the daily events - food, flowers and quilts

[Sherry D'ambrosio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lilies for so many occasions

My only complaint here is the amount of recapping the previous novels. If the concern was a new reader not knowing the characters and their relationship to one another then another option often used is to have a list of characters with brief note about them to proceed first chapter. But I've not written a series so cannot rightly say how difficult such decisions might be.

I did predict two of the major events in this novel but they were handled nicely and provide fuel for the next novel. There were a few small surprises but I think what makes this a very readable series is that the characters are well written. They feel real, like people you might know and care about.

[Zen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is book six in the Colebridge Community series and Ann Hazelwood's writing has really improved from the first one. These books are more like installments in a serial than stand alone novels, so you might as well commit to the whole series - they are very easy to read. In this installment many things happen to Anne Brown Dickson and her family and friends. Without any spoilers, I think the events were handled quite well and seemed realistic for the depth of the series. Ann Hazelwood has introduced a lot of charcters and story lines across these six books, so I hope they will all be tied up in the seventh and last book which I am starting tonight.

[Marlyn G. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sad and heartwarming.

I really enjoyed reading this story. Anne has lost the love of her life and then found out she was expecting his baby. Along with trying to enlarge her floral business with greenhouses. Amazing characters who are supportive.

[Kathie Reynolds · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful series

I have really enjoyed this series so much. I feel like these are my friends and family, and I cried quite a bit through this book. Thank you for writing such a wonderful story.

[Elaine Reinhard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Warm, sensitive, lovely book. Makes you laugh and cry. Beautifully written.

[Pat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don't want this series to end .

[Dru · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes these books get too busy. And the time frame doesn't always sit well with me. You never know how much time elapses between events. Otherwise a good story.

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Filled with all manner of emotions. A must-read.

[Heidi A · Rating 4 out of 5]

Felt this book held my attention the most out of all the Coleridge community books. I’ve loved watching th family and found family grow through the series.

[kc · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent addition to the series. And on to #6.

[Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actually much better written and a lot happens.

[Debra Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

Ann Hazelwood keeps us in the book. So fun to read all of the series. I wish they would write one book. It's expensive to read them all, but love her books.

[Tonya Mathis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was the best and the worst, I'm not an emotional reader, but this was and emotional roller-coaster. I loved and hated it for that reason.

[Sue Slatter · Rating 5 out of 5]

terrific character development.

I feel like Anne is my best friend. And that we’ve known each other all our lives. And the ghosts don’t scare me.

[Shari Heinze · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very emotional book. Brings all emotion and dreams for each of the people in this series

[robin warrens · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

I am in love with these books the are so good and about happy times and sad. It is true

To how life is.

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

paper

[Pauline Stevens · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lovely read, although the English character, Jean, spoke in ‘Jane Austin language’ which didn’t really relate to 20th Century English!!

[Kelly Himmelberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was so good and so hard to put down. I’m going to start the last book in the series. I’m sorry to know that this is the last book in this series.

[Marlene · Rating 5 out of 5]

Only one more to go in this series. I will miss these characters when the series is over. Nothing truly outstanding about this book -- just a great visit with what have become old, close friends. I love the sentiment and the heartwarming story that has developed through the series. And being a quilter, the quilt associations are my favorites of course. As the series has developed, the stories have become less and less about the quilts and quilting, which has been a bit of a disappointment, but I like the books non-the-less.

[Deborah Sherman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Many a tear was shed

This book is my favorite so far in the series. Though it caused many tears to be shed it also brought happiness by the discovery of new life to come. It was hard to remember it was just a story. I felt a part of it.

[Meri-Lyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Same writing style and characters. Extra star for plot development. Definitely surprises in this one. Almost too much bad news for reader. Now I'm hunting A Quilted Christmas to see series to the finish.

[Judy Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great!

I was so sad but then things turned around and it turned out to be so much happier. Gotta get the next one!

[Waggonerdebbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a good easy read about Anne and the Coleridge Community. Quite a surprise in this one.

[Lucy Burdick · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot and characters are great, but this book really needed an editor. As a retired English teacher, I cringed at the number of grammar/usage errors in this book.