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Wickham Falls Weddings #1
Home to Wickham Falls
There's No Place Like Home…
Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town he left behind years before. Or so he thinks, before he meets his sister's best friend. As soon as he matches wits with gorgeous, gregarious teacher Jessica Calhoun, Sawyer realizes he's got a lot to learn about friendship…and love.
Smart, savvy Jessica wants to grow old in Wickham Falls. Software engineer Sawyer has made it to the big city—and away from small-town life. And just like his ailing father, Sawyer's used to calling the shots. But can losing his heart make Sawyer realize that home is where the heart is…and that his heart is with Jessica for good?
Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town he left behind years before. Or so he thinks, before he meets his sister's best friend. As soon as he matches wits with gorgeous, gregarious teacher Jessica Calhoun, Sawyer realizes he's got a lot to learn about friendship…and love.
Smart, savvy Jessica wants to grow old in Wickham Falls. Software engineer Sawyer has made it to the big city—and away from small-town life. And just like his ailing father, Sawyer's used to calling the shots. But can losing his heart make Sawyer realize that home is where the heart is…and that his heart is with Jessica for good?
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First published June 19, 2017
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Rochelle Alers
220 books1,054 followersRochelle Alers was born in Manhattan, New York, USA, where she raised. She obtained degrees in Sociology and Psychology, before started to work. She is a member of the Iota Theta Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc., and her interests include gourmet cooking and traveling. She has traveled to countries in North, Central and South America, and Europe. She is also in accomplished in knitting, crocheting and needlepoint.
Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary.
Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.
Published since 1988, today a full-time writer, has been hailed by readers and booksellers alike as one of today's most prolific and popular African-American authors of romance and women's fiction. With more than fifty titles and nearly two million copies of her novels in print, she is a regular on the Waldenbooks, Borders and Essence bestseller lists, regularly chosen by Black Expressions Book Club, and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Gold Pen Award, the Emma Award, Vivian Stephens Award for Excellence in Romance Writing, the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award and the Zora Neale Hurston Literary Award. She also wrote as Susan James and Rena McLeary.
Rochelle Alers lives in a charming hamlet on Long Island.
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May 10, 2018I got to 43% and decided to call it quits. This is very small town cutesy with zero conflict. Like, there's no conflict. You're basically reading about two people going about their daily lives and they happen to be attracted to each other. They seem like nice people, but...I need conflict. So I'm throwing in the towel.
June 23, 2018
This is the first book I've read by the author, and the first in a new series set in the small West Virginia town of Wickham Falls.
Overall it was a pleasant, easy read, with a likeable hero and heroine, each, perhaps a bit too perfect. I kept wondering what the eventual conflict was going to be as the two met and fell in love over a period of several months. While each had previously vowed that they were not ready to marry, they ended up engaged pretty quickly. When the conflict finally did come, it seemed a bit contrived to me. However, I generally enjoyed this, and will definitely pick up the next in the series. Overall, I'd give this a C+, so 3 stars here.
Overall it was a pleasant, easy read, with a likeable hero and heroine, each, perhaps a bit too perfect. I kept wondering what the eventual conflict was going to be as the two met and fell in love over a period of several months. While each had previously vowed that they were not ready to marry, they ended up engaged pretty quickly. When the conflict finally did come, it seemed a bit contrived to me. However, I generally enjoyed this, and will definitely pick up the next in the series. Overall, I'd give this a C+, so 3 stars here.
August 26, 2017
2.5 Stars
The heroine, Jessica is best friends with Rachel and meets Rachel's brother Sawyer when he comes to town after their father suffers a heart attack. When Sawyer sees Jessica he is immediately struck by the thunderbolt of attraction and they quickly embark on a whirlwind -- almost perfect romance.
While Sawyer is allowed to have flaws, Jessica is perfect, too perfect, so much so -- that she doesn't seem real to me. She still isn't real and becomes nearly unlikable when she utters these words:
“I met him for the first time two months ago, even though I feel as if I’ve known him much longer. I’m friends with his sister, and when Rachel would go on and on about her older brother being Mr. Wonderful I thought their relationship was a little creepy. But when I finally got to meet him I knew everything she’d said was true.”
Rachel loves, respects and is proud of the accomplishments of her brother. This is not creepy -- it's called admiration!
In part, this book suffers from the standard Harlequin (writing) formula: meet/attraction by page xx, dinner/date by page xx, kiss by page xx, (tame) sex by page xx, conflict by page xx and resolution by page xx. This is a very old-fashioned (think Andy Griffith/Mayberry) style romance. I could easily see this couple transported to an earlier time period, though their relationship wouldn't have been common or most likely accepted.
As for the conflict, it was very contrived and unnecessary and certainly didn't require a cooling off period. What was required was for Jessica to act like an adult, by having a conversation about the issue, instead of behaving like a petulant child. The whole story and the ending seemed rushed and the book definitely suffers from the lack of an epilogue.
The heroine, Jessica is best friends with Rachel and meets Rachel's brother Sawyer when he comes to town after their father suffers a heart attack. When Sawyer sees Jessica he is immediately struck by the thunderbolt of attraction and they quickly embark on a whirlwind -- almost perfect romance.
While Sawyer is allowed to have flaws, Jessica is perfect, too perfect, so much so -- that she doesn't seem real to me. She still isn't real and becomes nearly unlikable when she utters these words:
“I met him for the first time two months ago, even though I feel as if I’ve known him much longer. I’m friends with his sister, and when Rachel would go on and on about her older brother being Mr. Wonderful I thought their relationship was a little creepy. But when I finally got to meet him I knew everything she’d said was true.”
Rachel loves, respects and is proud of the accomplishments of her brother. This is not creepy -- it's called admiration!
In part, this book suffers from the standard Harlequin (writing) formula: meet/attraction by page xx, dinner/date by page xx, kiss by page xx, (tame) sex by page xx, conflict by page xx and resolution by page xx. This is a very old-fashioned (think Andy Griffith/Mayberry) style romance. I could easily see this couple transported to an earlier time period, though their relationship wouldn't have been common or most likely accepted.
As for the conflict, it was very contrived and unnecessary and certainly didn't require a cooling off period. What was required was for Jessica to act like an adult, by having a conversation about the issue, instead of behaving like a petulant child. The whole story and the ending seemed rushed and the book definitely suffers from the lack of an epilogue.
April 16, 2023
[3.5 stars]
November 26, 2018
This book was cute, and I did enjoy it but it was not able to hold my attention from beginning to end. I found it to be a little too long and a bit too slow moving. I was expecting more from this author, but I will try the next one in the series and see how well it goes.
April 10, 2018
This romance is a genial tale of friendship that blossoms into love and marriage. In fact, there is less drama and tension than in a Jane Austen novel. I had to wonder if the main reason Sawyer and Jessica were attracted to each other was because it had been a long, dry spell of sex for both of them.
It was safer to broach a generic topic than to think about wanting to make love to Jessica. She was the first woman in a very long time to whom he had found himself physically attracted on sight and that made him slightly off balance when around Jessica.
Jessica didn’t want to believe she was sitting across the table in her kitchen talking to a man who made her feel incredibly comfortable in his presence. She found herself physically attracted to Sawyer and that, in and of itself, shocked her, because it had been a long time since she felt desire that palpable.
Love is definitely a thing that can grow by degrees. Although Jessica Calhoun Sawyer Middleton are attracted to each other (why not? They’re both gorgeous people), the feeling between them is more of a slowly growing affection rather than the coup de foudre mentioned in so many other romances. She wants children and a family but she’s a tad gunshy after her rotten fiancée played his own version of “bros before hos” attitude. He’s also attached to his company in New York.
As in many modern romances, we get to see Sawyer at work. But because Jessica is a teacher and she’s on her summer vacation, we don’t get to read about her and her students. We are told that she’s a dedicated teacher and we witness her encounter two of her students while on break. But it’s hardly in a teaching capacity.
We are forced to ignore this disparate attention paid to their respective professions because of the timeframe. Sawyer also likes Jessica because, golly, she’s the girl he’s been looking for all his life. She’s beautiful, a great cook and grows her own vegetables. She’s a Suzy Homemaker all tied up in modern dress. Jessica likes Sawyer because…well, everybody likes Sawyer.
The ways in which they change their lives to accommodate and reconcile each other is pleasantly predictable. Most people in these stories keen on small-town lives rarely leave for the big city, even if it is the city that never sleeps. Sawyer and Jessica’s roadblocks are a bit too neatly dispensed with (the story even has her parents moving so they’re within easy driving distance of her home). So there is little or no conflict over their inevitable mutual attachment.
Love needn’t have Sturm and Drang tossed into it. But a little spice never hurt and this is one bland dish.
It was safer to broach a generic topic than to think about wanting to make love to Jessica. She was the first woman in a very long time to whom he had found himself physically attracted on sight and that made him slightly off balance when around Jessica.
Jessica didn’t want to believe she was sitting across the table in her kitchen talking to a man who made her feel incredibly comfortable in his presence. She found herself physically attracted to Sawyer and that, in and of itself, shocked her, because it had been a long time since she felt desire that palpable.
Love is definitely a thing that can grow by degrees. Although Jessica Calhoun Sawyer Middleton are attracted to each other (why not? They’re both gorgeous people), the feeling between them is more of a slowly growing affection rather than the coup de foudre mentioned in so many other romances. She wants children and a family but she’s a tad gunshy after her rotten fiancée played his own version of “bros before hos” attitude. He’s also attached to his company in New York.
As in many modern romances, we get to see Sawyer at work. But because Jessica is a teacher and she’s on her summer vacation, we don’t get to read about her and her students. We are told that she’s a dedicated teacher and we witness her encounter two of her students while on break. But it’s hardly in a teaching capacity.
We are forced to ignore this disparate attention paid to their respective professions because of the timeframe. Sawyer also likes Jessica because, golly, she’s the girl he’s been looking for all his life. She’s beautiful, a great cook and grows her own vegetables. She’s a Suzy Homemaker all tied up in modern dress. Jessica likes Sawyer because…well, everybody likes Sawyer.
The ways in which they change their lives to accommodate and reconcile each other is pleasantly predictable. Most people in these stories keen on small-town lives rarely leave for the big city, even if it is the city that never sleeps. Sawyer and Jessica’s roadblocks are a bit too neatly dispensed with (the story even has her parents moving so they’re within easy driving distance of her home). So there is little or no conflict over their inevitable mutual attachment.
Love needn’t have Sturm and Drang tossed into it. But a little spice never hurt and this is one bland dish.
July 22, 2017
Sawyer Middleton returns home to Wickham Falls years after a disagreement with his father caused him to flee the small town. He’s back for a few months after his father suffers a heart attack. While there, he meets his sister’s best friend, Jessica Calhoun, and is immediately infatuated with her. What follows is a whirlwind courtship.
Longtime readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of Rochelle Alers. I really wanted to like this book but it felt a lot more formulaic than her previous books. While this book is said to take place in present time, it felt very dated. The storyline, the characters, the setting, and the pace in which the book carried on seemed to be 15 years old or earlier. Jessica seemed to a little too picture perfect. She was the perfect teacher and the perfect friend. She cooked food for her friends, dropped off picnic baskets, checked in consistently on family friends etc. She grew her own fruits and vegetables, for goodness sakes! She came off a little stiff as her interactions with Sawyer increased, and while I feel like he had a little more room to be flawed, she didn’t.
This book also seemed quite slow moving for me. The storyline really matched the small town vibe and everything seemed to move at a snail’s pace.
There was also no conflict. They had one little brief tiff towards the end of the book but there was nothing that would really cause them to break up or severely impact their relationship. You all know that I firmly believe that good romance need some drama or conflict and I feel like a bit of angst would have helped a lot.
Now all wasn’t lost with this book, I did appreciate the small town setting and the familial aspects that were incorporated in the book.
Longtime readers of this blog know that I am a huge fan of Rochelle Alers. I really wanted to like this book but it felt a lot more formulaic than her previous books. While this book is said to take place in present time, it felt very dated. The storyline, the characters, the setting, and the pace in which the book carried on seemed to be 15 years old or earlier. Jessica seemed to a little too picture perfect. She was the perfect teacher and the perfect friend. She cooked food for her friends, dropped off picnic baskets, checked in consistently on family friends etc. She grew her own fruits and vegetables, for goodness sakes! She came off a little stiff as her interactions with Sawyer increased, and while I feel like he had a little more room to be flawed, she didn’t.
This book also seemed quite slow moving for me. The storyline really matched the small town vibe and everything seemed to move at a snail’s pace.
There was also no conflict. They had one little brief tiff towards the end of the book but there was nothing that would really cause them to break up or severely impact their relationship. You all know that I firmly believe that good romance need some drama or conflict and I feel like a bit of angst would have helped a lot.
Now all wasn’t lost with this book, I did appreciate the small town setting and the familial aspects that were incorporated in the book.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 23, 2017
So I'ved read a variety of Rochelle ALers, not my fav author but readable. This Harlequin suffers from what the rest of her books suffer from. This woman is 72/3 and she didn't right her first book until she was 42 (I knew I was right!!, but just today researched it) I could TELL be the righting, the story lines that she was OLDER, every single book.
the personalities are old fashioned, the interactions are old fashinoned and the love making (better than when I first started reading her in the 1990's,) is still fairly blah. The scenes are rushed the story line has many holes and in THIS book I didn't FEEL a connection with the couple. I read about it but Rochelle did not paint the PICTURE. I was not invested in this couple or any other character actually. She missed some family connections that she only half played up as well. In fact the female in the book came off as stiff, anal, and slightly unlikable for someone who was around 35 in the book. Female lead didn't seem to have a sense of humor either. Then at the very end a extremely non/issue fight took place before the bland make up. Thankfully I only paid $4.31 for this but
the personalities are old fashioned, the interactions are old fashinoned and the love making (better than when I first started reading her in the 1990's,) is still fairly blah. The scenes are rushed the story line has many holes and in THIS book I didn't FEEL a connection with the couple. I read about it but Rochelle did not paint the PICTURE. I was not invested in this couple or any other character actually. She missed some family connections that she only half played up as well. In fact the female in the book came off as stiff, anal, and slightly unlikable for someone who was around 35 in the book. Female lead didn't seem to have a sense of humor either. Then at the very end a extremely non/issue fight took place before the bland make up. Thankfully I only paid $4.31 for this but
January 30, 2024
I deeply disliked this book. The dialogue is almost unbearably cheesy, and the interactions between Sawyer and Jessica feel weird and stilted. Throughout the book, there was this weird emphasis on Sawyer and Jessica’s genders. This happens a lot with Harlequin romances and straight romances in general, but I find it really off-putting and annoying. The emphasis on gender was even more egregious in this book than normal. Maybe this is how straight people really do think about people of the other gender, but, as a panromantic person who couldn’t care less about gender, it comes off as really weird and uncomfortable to me.
The crisis at the end was not only unnecessary (I hate the romance trope of having the main characters having a major falling out and then immediately making up in the last few pages of the book), but it also seemed to come out of left-field. I don’t think that Alers provided sufficient setup before in the book to think of Sawyer as someone who is dictatorial and bossy. To be honest, he spends a lot more time thinking about how he hates those character traits in his father. Sawyer also did not seem to boss Jessica around until the very end of the book. The last-minute crisis just felt incredibly forced.
I would not recommend this book. It is very disjointed and awkward. There are much stronger contemporary romance books out there, even some written by the author, Rochelle Alers.
The crisis at the end was not only unnecessary (I hate the romance trope of having the main characters having a major falling out and then immediately making up in the last few pages of the book), but it also seemed to come out of left-field. I don’t think that Alers provided sufficient setup before in the book to think of Sawyer as someone who is dictatorial and bossy. To be honest, he spends a lot more time thinking about how he hates those character traits in his father. Sawyer also did not seem to boss Jessica around until the very end of the book. The last-minute crisis just felt incredibly forced.
I would not recommend this book. It is very disjointed and awkward. There are much stronger contemporary romance books out there, even some written by the author, Rochelle Alers.
December 8, 2021
A good story with some mistakes throughout it.
I gave this book a four star rating because there were some mistakes throughout the book that made it kind of hard to understand what the author was trying to say. Sawyer returns to his hometown town Wickham Falls after receiving a phone call from his sister that his father was rushed to the hospital. Jessica a school teacher born and raised in Pennsylvania, comes to Wickham Falls to teach. The two first meet when Jessica who is friends with Sawyer's sister Rebecca comes over to his parents house to drop off food so that his mom didn't have to cook while his father was in the hospital. Jessica and Sawyer start to get closer the more time that they continue to spend together. When he came back home falling in love was not on his agenda, but once it happens Sawyer couldn't see himself going back to his life before he fell in love with Jessica. I would definitely reread this book again.
I gave this book a four star rating because there were some mistakes throughout the book that made it kind of hard to understand what the author was trying to say. Sawyer returns to his hometown town Wickham Falls after receiving a phone call from his sister that his father was rushed to the hospital. Jessica a school teacher born and raised in Pennsylvania, comes to Wickham Falls to teach. The two first meet when Jessica who is friends with Sawyer's sister Rebecca comes over to his parents house to drop off food so that his mom didn't have to cook while his father was in the hospital. Jessica and Sawyer start to get closer the more time that they continue to spend together. When he came back home falling in love was not on his agenda, but once it happens Sawyer couldn't see himself going back to his life before he fell in love with Jessica. I would definitely reread this book again.
July 3, 2017
Sawyer and Jessica small town love
You never know when love will come a knocking and when happily ever after will seek you. Coming home for Sawyer to Wickham Falls was more than just a notion. Having to reconcile with his ailing father Henry was truly a prayer fulfilled. As he is introduced to his sister's Rachel, best friend Jessica, he is forced to embark on a journey that he never thought possible. Forsaking bachelorhood and returning home to Wickham Falls permanently. Jessica a 21st Century Renaissance woman. Full of heart and compassion for others. After a painful relationship between her college fiance found herself in Wickham Falls as a place of refuge. A remarkable educator who found herself on the journey of love with Sawyer. More than a notion as it allowed her to open up and trust again.
You never know when love will come a knocking and when happily ever after will seek you. Coming home for Sawyer to Wickham Falls was more than just a notion. Having to reconcile with his ailing father Henry was truly a prayer fulfilled. As he is introduced to his sister's Rachel, best friend Jessica, he is forced to embark on a journey that he never thought possible. Forsaking bachelorhood and returning home to Wickham Falls permanently. Jessica a 21st Century Renaissance woman. Full of heart and compassion for others. After a painful relationship between her college fiance found herself in Wickham Falls as a place of refuge. A remarkable educator who found herself on the journey of love with Sawyer. More than a notion as it allowed her to open up and trust again.
February 2, 2018
A Little Too Gentle Of a Plot
This isn't a bad book, and as an example of an interracial romance between a Black woman and white man, race is treated with the right amount of emphasis for these characters and the context of the rest of the plot.
The critique is on the unfolding of the characters/plot. Both main characters frequently engage in internal dialogue that they immediately contradict in a conversation with someone else. Similarly, each of them have, for lack of a better term, mood swings about themselves, each other, and their surroundings. It was jarring, especially against a throughline that emphasized a slow build and quiet tension/internal conflict over more overt drama.
This isn't a bad book, and as an example of an interracial romance between a Black woman and white man, race is treated with the right amount of emphasis for these characters and the context of the rest of the plot.
The critique is on the unfolding of the characters/plot. Both main characters frequently engage in internal dialogue that they immediately contradict in a conversation with someone else. Similarly, each of them have, for lack of a better term, mood swings about themselves, each other, and their surroundings. It was jarring, especially against a throughline that emphasized a slow build and quiet tension/internal conflict over more overt drama.
June 26, 2019
According to Hoopla, who I borrowed the book from, I got 87 pages into this, give or take before I decided to throw in the towel. I was bored while reading this while trying to stave off boredom. Jessica and Sawyer, there was no fireworks, chemistry, no intensity of any kind. This book was like watching your grandparents court one another, and even saying that kind of feels like an insult because some grandparents love stories have some sort of razzle dazzle lol. This book, the parts I read failed to capture my attention. It was staid. I'm all for slow burns, advocate for them in romancelandia, however, I also need to FEEl something in order to invest in the characters. These characters just didn't seem like people of the modern era. Shame. A real shame.
November 13, 2017
Boring
This book was a snoozefest, home of boringville. Sorry to be so harsh but this book is the epitome of, read it cause you have absolutely nothing left to lose except your precious time. Will not be recommending this, the book was just bland, the relationship was bland, the sex was bland, the chemistry was bland, the character development was ... You guessed it bland! The ending was rushed and quite unfulfilling for me. I love when authors care about me the reader and take time to fully flesh out and develop their books from beginning to end. This book was a sore disappointment.
This book was a snoozefest, home of boringville. Sorry to be so harsh but this book is the epitome of, read it cause you have absolutely nothing left to lose except your precious time. Will not be recommending this, the book was just bland, the relationship was bland, the sex was bland, the chemistry was bland, the character development was ... You guessed it bland! The ending was rushed and quite unfulfilling for me. I love when authors care about me the reader and take time to fully flesh out and develop their books from beginning to end. This book was a sore disappointment.
July 28, 2022
I thought it was just me, but after reading some of the reviews, it isn't just me. The story was kind of choppy. They are in one place talking and the next they are somewhere else. I found it questionable that Jessica had trust issues with men, yet after they've had coffee (he returned a basket) they are interlocking fingers. Then he kisses her hair. They just met, what a few days ago? It was too soon after meeting her. I can say that I like that this is a more mature couple. They aren't twenty somethings. WoWhooo! The book just didn't flow well, in my humble opinion, and by chapter 7 I lost interest. I try to finish books I start, but this is one I just can't. Sorry Jessica and Sawyer.
July 9, 2017
Always say never...
... until you find the one worth it to change your mind. That's what Sawyer Middleton realized the minute he saw Jessica Calhoun. The magic between them was instantaneous. But, Jessica had trepidations about getting involved with someone who would not be around for only the summer. Her heart had not quite healed from a previous fiance. That lack of trust caused her to over react to a surprise Sawyer was planning. Despite this and with the help of friends and family, they were able to work on their HEA.
This was a sweet, easy read predictable romance.
... until you find the one worth it to change your mind. That's what Sawyer Middleton realized the minute he saw Jessica Calhoun. The magic between them was instantaneous. But, Jessica had trepidations about getting involved with someone who would not be around for only the summer. Her heart had not quite healed from a previous fiance. That lack of trust caused her to over react to a surprise Sawyer was planning. Despite this and with the help of friends and family, they were able to work on their HEA.
This was a sweet, easy read predictable romance.
January 7, 2019
A lil different...
This romance surprised me in that it lacked that whirlwind effect so prevalent in this genre. You actually get to read about two people trying to get below the superficial and quick sex. In fact I felt Jessica held back less than Sawyer. A thoughtful approach of two strangers molding their differences to become a couple. Healthy compromises & some self reflection. I didn't agree with Jessicas' anger at Sawyers' surprise...And the tale lags at times; but overall an impossibly sweet & endearing coupling.
This romance surprised me in that it lacked that whirlwind effect so prevalent in this genre. You actually get to read about two people trying to get below the superficial and quick sex. In fact I felt Jessica held back less than Sawyer. A thoughtful approach of two strangers molding their differences to become a couple. Healthy compromises & some self reflection. I didn't agree with Jessicas' anger at Sawyers' surprise...And the tale lags at times; but overall an impossibly sweet & endearing coupling.
December 31, 2018
It was okay
This story was just okay to me . It read as a scene by scene instead of flowing cohesively together. Some parts didn’t fit well within the storyline or didn’t make sense as to why it was mention at all within the story . For example , one minute Sawyer would never find a woman to make him propose marriage and move ( even after meeting Jessica) then the next minute he is head over heels in love . It just didn’t flow together enough for me
This story was just okay to me . It read as a scene by scene instead of flowing cohesively together. Some parts didn’t fit well within the storyline or didn’t make sense as to why it was mention at all within the story . For example , one minute Sawyer would never find a woman to make him propose marriage and move ( even after meeting Jessica) then the next minute he is head over heels in love . It just didn’t flow together enough for me
August 9, 2023
I love a good romance
This book had a sweet romance with great character chemistry and little drama. I loved that they had to figure out how to make it work beyond the instant connection. Although they had an intent connection, they took a little time before steaming up the sheets to feel ech other out. All of that made th story a little more realistic and an extremely heartwarming romance. Great story!
This book had a sweet romance with great character chemistry and little drama. I loved that they had to figure out how to make it work beyond the instant connection. Although they had an intent connection, they took a little time before steaming up the sheets to feel ech other out. All of that made th story a little more realistic and an extremely heartwarming romance. Great story!
July 3, 2017
A Dream Come True
What an amazingly written modern day interracial love story. I enjoyed this story with Jessica and Sawyer because it didn't start out with them being intimate with one another and it was a mature relationship with mutual respect and Sawyer was a true gentleman. Kudos
What an amazingly written modern day interracial love story. I enjoyed this story with Jessica and Sawyer because it didn't start out with them being intimate with one another and it was a mature relationship with mutual respect and Sawyer was a true gentleman. Kudos
November 19, 2017
Boring
I expected better from this author. The story line was good however , Ms Alers missed opportunity to make it a great read. The book was not an attention getter and rather boring. Sawyer was the better character, Jessica not so. Hopefully next book will be more of an attention holder.
I expected better from this author. The story line was good however , Ms Alers missed opportunity to make it a great read. The book was not an attention getter and rather boring. Sawyer was the better character, Jessica not so. Hopefully next book will be more of an attention holder.
September 28, 2018
I have to get used to Alers' style. There's kind of an "oh, by the way, this happened" structure sometimes, but this is a good story. Two seemingly different people, who are actually not that different, find a way to merge their strong personalities, compromise and live happily ever after! This is what romance novels are about.
November 11, 2018
Is it just me, or did this story go way too fast? I felt like I didn't get to know the characters at all, and the book was a little over 200 pages. At every point in the story, it was like I couldn't figure out how we got from Point A to Point B. How did I end up finishing this? I would've put this down in a heartbeat, but I didn't. I guess that's my bad luck.
August 1, 2017
Sweet
Lovely story. Loved Sawyer and Jessica. Recommend you read this love story and find out more about this happy couple, their friends, coworkers and relatives. Thank you Ms Alers for sharing. I plan to read more of your books
Lovely story. Loved Sawyer and Jessica. Recommend you read this love story and find out more about this happy couple, their friends, coworkers and relatives. Thank you Ms Alers for sharing. I plan to read more of your books
February 26, 2019
This is my first book dealing with BWWM romance. I dont know what I was expecting but I just couldnt really get into it. I love Rochelle Alers other books though and thats what made me give this book a chance. The plot just seemed so rushed.
August 2, 2019
Reversal of future plans
We all make plans for the future, but sometimes we meet someone who changes our mind about the future. When Jessica meets tech wiz Sawyer Middleton her future changes. Technology wiz Sawyer Middleton enjoys bachelorhood and living in the big city. Meeting his sister's friend changes Sawyer 's mind and future. Their differences demand communication and compromise to form and maintain a friendship and later love. But truth above all was needed and found.
We all make plans for the future, but sometimes we meet someone who changes our mind about the future. When Jessica meets tech wiz Sawyer Middleton her future changes. Technology wiz Sawyer Middleton enjoys bachelorhood and living in the big city. Meeting his sister's friend changes Sawyer 's mind and future. Their differences demand communication and compromise to form and maintain a friendship and later love. But truth above all was needed and found.
August 19, 2019
Seriously
Love this book, it is possible to fall in love after a couple of months seeing each other. Sawyer had known after the first look. It took Jessica a little longer because of her first boy friend whom she was gonna married. Love the ending will read again.
Love this book, it is possible to fall in love after a couple of months seeing each other. Sawyer had known after the first look. It took Jessica a little longer because of her first boy friend whom she was gonna married. Love the ending will read again.
January 5, 2021
Love unexpected
Sawyer came home because of his sick father and never expected to fine love. Jessica was his sister's best friend and so he was not ready to cross that line. But they figured it out in the end so love was a winner once again.
Sawyer came home because of his sick father and never expected to fine love. Jessica was his sister's best friend and so he was not ready to cross that line. But they figured it out in the end so love was a winner once again.
December 8, 2022
Hometown man in love!
This is a rich detailed romance enjoyable tale of two career people who come together and find the richness and bond in the other. This a small town goodness, family and friends story that you will enjoy.
This is a rich detailed romance enjoyable tale of two career people who come together and find the richness and bond in the other. This a small town goodness, family and friends story that you will enjoy.
July 9, 2023
Nothing to write home about
The book was okay. It was supposed to be a whirl wind love affair but to me it seemed like 2 people who were attracted to one another had become good friends and that friendship went a step further to love and eventually marriage.
The book was okay. It was supposed to be a whirl wind love affair but to me it seemed like 2 people who were attracted to one another had become good friends and that friendship went a step further to love and eventually marriage.
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