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4.5 heart Warming Stars 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Debbie Macomber! We’re not on Blossom Street anymore! This book had all the feels... it touched on every single emotion you have! Wow... just wow!I picked up this book expecting a sweet fluffy love story and what I got was so much more... this was a book about loss, heartbreak, friendship, family, second chances, and so much more... at times during this book I was reaching for a tissue and at other times I couldn’t get the big smile off my face... what a beautiful st...
Debbie Macomber has quickly become for me an author that when picking up one of her books I have some pretty high expectations having enjoyed the previous titles I’ve read. Thankfully when finished with this new novel I can say that she completely met all my expectations and gave me a bit more.Cottage by the Sea begins by introducing Annie Marlow as young and carefree with a bright future ahead of her. But for Annie things come crashing down in her world when she gets some devastating news and f...
Yes, this is a Romance. Sort of. Well, I'm sure that is where it would be shelved in a bookstore. But I am not a genre snob. I don't proclaim that I read only Fantasy. Or only SF. Or only books by (choose a category of human.) I love to walk through a library or book store, picking up books here and there, Romance, Mystery, Young Adult, Picture book, Science Fiction . . . I don't limit myself. It's like Forest Gump's box of chocolates.Oh, and a small caveat. I meat Debbie Macomber once. I was at...
I wanted to like this book, I really did.Unfortunately, there never came a time where I was able to truly connect with the characters and their emotions.The premise of this story and the real-life events it is based upon drew me in immediately. It was gut-wrenching from the start, but that emotion slowly leaked from my heart as the characters in Oceanside were presented to me. I appreciate the struggles and history of characters like Keaton and Mellie, but his clipped conversation and her brusqu...
now i am hooked. This was such a great, easy and creative book. i was hooked after the first page. The characters were easy to fall in love with and follow, along with the story. the author made the mental visions so easy and vivid of the surroundings and the characters actions felt so real.i would highly recommend this author and this book.
Pretty much all the characters needed serous counseling for their mental health issues but instead it was glossed over and they were just "cured". I know this is a fluffy romance but if you're not going to do this justice, keep it all fluff instead of throwing in serious themes!
Cottage by the SeaDebbie MacomberWow, all I can say is, this story blew me away! Keep the tissues close by as you are reading COTTAGE BY THE SEA by Debbie Macomber. She will have your emotions all over the place. Once I started reading, it was very hard to stop! The twists and turns made it impossible to put down, as I had to know what was going to happen to Annie after so much heartache! What an awesome story. All of Debbie's characters feel genuine and relatable and put your emotions on one he...
This book was a bit out of my usual taste in readings. I have to admit, the cozy cover of the cottage by the open water drew me in. Nothing against the author but the book fell flat for me. The style of writing was close to that of a romantic teen book. No real depth or plot twists and a bit too mushy in the love department. I kept waiting for a shift in the story to give the plot a bit more meaning, but it just kept going in the most predictable route, creating a bland narrative. I felt that th...
I absolutely tore through this book and got it all read in one day, which shows how quickly it got and kept my attention. After a devastating tragedy, Annie moves to her childhood family vacation cottage, where she begins to heal. Really all of the characters in the story are scarred by their pasts in one way or another, and this was a sweet story of connection and friendship. The romance was there, certainly, but the several friendships (including the romantic one) were what resonated with me.T...
This is the third book in my #atozchallenge! I'm challenging myself to read a book from my shelves that starts with each letter of the alphabet. Let's clear those shelves and delve into that backlist! After a horrible tragedy alters her life forever, Annie Marlow picks up and moves to Oceanside, a beach town in the Pacific Northwest. It's where her family vacationed once a year--a place that contains her happiest memories. Staying in the same cottage her family once rented, Annie tries to heal.
Annie Marlow has lost her entire family in a tragic mudslide that destroyed their home. Rocked by grief and guilt, she is struggling to move on with her life. She returns to the place from her childhood where she felt true happiness, Oceanside in the Pacific Northwest. Her family rented a cottage there during the summer as she was growing up. There she meets some fellow broken souls who quickly find their way into her heart. Together they find, with the support of one another, they can move past...
Great novel about survival, hope, love and healing. The best part of this book is the young woman’s discovery of helping others is how to heal, grow and move on. The romance is a plus.
I had to read something by Debbie Macomber. She seems to be so successful and popular, that I just had to check it out myself. I do have to admit that she reminded me very much of Nicholas Sparks, which means romantic romance novel. Simple, straight to the point, perfect to people who love that style. But a little bit less my cup of tea. Annie lost all of her family in a mudslide near Seattle on Christmas. She was also supposed to be there, since her mom begged her to come, but she deferred to h...
An extremely benign, wholesome, superficial, lacking in conflict lifetime movie. I can’t tell if it’s 1 or 2 stars. Was it ok? Probably. Though, there are other books that I’ve given two stars that I enjoyed more. One side character (male) calls women girls constantly. Another character has serious PTSD from childhood—a situation was alluded to that was never discussed again. It may have explained things, but oh well. Might as well drop that thread since it might cause the book to have real conf...
Awesome story of loss and love. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~When you pick up a book by a favorite author like Debbie Macomber, you tend to know what you’re going to get. Similar themes and that warm sweet romance that we love.However, this book was something so much more than that. It literally grabbed me from the beginning and never let me go. I feel like I was either crying or smiling throughout the entire story.We all have heartbreak in our life but not the type of heartbreak that this book is
Wow! Ms. Macomber writes such amazing books. This one didn't fail to amaze me. How do you write so many books, and all of them are amazing? Annie Marlow loses her family to the mudslide in Washington. Just like the real one that happened in 2014. Annie slips into depression, and then one day... her therapist suggests she thinks of somewhere she was happy. Of course, Oceanside was one of the places she was most happy in her childhood.Seth Keaton is a man of many secrets. A man who feels only one
I had been so looking forward to reading this book. The description and cover made me desperate to read it. It started off well and I was really enjoying it but it quickly became mundane and hard to read. This kind of book puts me off reading. Typical romance boy falls out with girl and won’t speak to her. Sadly I didn’t enjoy as much as anticipated
3 stars. This book was not for me. But, Debbie Macomber is a very good writer and I have liked other books by her much more. This is a story of loss, grief, healing, second chances and love. There are some characters that could be great, but I didn't really like them. The setting. a small seaside town called Oceanside, is somewhere I'd love to vacation or live so high points for that. Well described and beautiful. The premise of the story, a tragedy involving Annie losing her entire family to a
Cottage by the Sea was a great, clean, heart-warming, hometown story with more than one romance. I love how Macomber takes a bunch of emotionally scarred people and brings them together to make a family. Amazing protagnosit!I received this ARC copy of Cottage by the Sea from Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine Books. This is my honest and voluntary review. Cottage by the Sea is set for July 17, 2018.My Rating: 5 starsWritten by: Debbie MacomberHardcover: 352 pagesPublisher: Ballantine Boo...