READ-2-REVIEW - CONTEMPORARY - TO HAVE AND LET GO (The Women of Boone County, #2) by Julieann Dove

To Have and Let Go
Women of Boone County, #2
by Julieann Dove
Release Day July 9th 2024

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Chelsea Hayes is no stranger to running away from her problems. That could explain why she moved six states away from Boone County. And the reason she works a second job to go talk in circles to a therapist bi-weekly, to avoid hitting the dead end and facing her demons. 

Unfortunately for Chelsea, a call back from home forces her to hang up her running shoes and return to face some ghosts that never left, even if she did.

Patrick Jergan is new in town. Someone to take away some of the tension from all the things spinning out of control in Chelsea’s life. But like Chelsea, he’s fighting his own set of problems. The two might make a good match, except for one thing…or one person. He’s the topic her therapist knows nothing about. In fact, no one in town knows of their past. If they did, there would be no end to the tongues wagging. 

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"If you haven't discovered Julieann Dove's books, start right now with Coming Home, the first book in her latest series. It's filled with the complex characters and smalltown charm I love." Sherryl Woods, New York Times #1 bestsellling author of The Sweet Magnolias and Chesapeake Shores series.

The Book Junkie Reads . . .  Review of . . .  TO HAVE AND LET GO (The Women of Boone County, #2) . . . If you haven't yet, pick up The Women of Boone County book one. It is not totally necessary but it gives you a place to start falling in love with the writing, the characters, the county, and the friendship of these women. I have to admit that before I started book two for the first time, I went back and re-read book one of the series. 

With this trip to The Women of Boone County we have a look in on the life of Chelsea. She is a woman that don't stay around when things get a little tough. She has own reasoning behind making a run for it. With some time and patience she begin to unravel the past to have a future. Then there's a new comer to the county, Patrick.  The two have much in common. Come find out what To Have and Let Go have in store for the Women of Boone County.

 

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Julieann Dove takes great pleasure in writing about love and all the mess that goes along with it. How else does happily ever after become realized, if not for some type of hardship and journey? When she’s not writing, she loves playing with fabric at her sewing machine, baking new recipes, and playing in the dirt, trying to get things to grow. Julieann loves old movies, and never tires of listening to music—it’s where she finds most of her inspiration for her books.

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READ-2-REVIEW - WOMEN'S FICTION - COMING HOME (The Women of Boone County, #1) by Julieann Dove

Coming Home
The Women of Boone County, #1
February 6th 2024
by Julieann Dove

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Thirty-five-year-old Abigail’s midlife crisis first appeared as an innocent trade in of her Ford Taurus for a two-seater BMW. Then she resigned as lead prosecutor and took a job at Patty Cakes Bakery heating cinnamon buns. But no one was more shocked at her behavior than her fiancé, Joe Batista, when she gave back his engagement ring without a reason why.

They say your past always catches up to you and one day Abigail’s past showed up on her porch wearing Converse shoes and holding an old picture of her and her high school sweetheart, Ryan Jameson. Tessa Snow had traveled from Florida to Maine to meet her biological mother and the next stop was Boone, Texas to meet her dad, the guy in the picture.

Ryan Jameson, as fate would have it, just returned home and was settling in as the most eligible doctor at Mercer Hospital. He hadn’t seen Abigail in 18 years, when she disappeared with her parents without as much as a text message saying goodbye.

It was a good thing Abigail got fired on day three of her bakery job, because she had to make it to Texas before Tessa, in order to tell Ryan the reason she left was because she was pregnant. But when she got there, it was harder than she thought; their chemistry together had grown stronger. And nothing would kill it faster than the truth about Tessa Snow.

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The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . COMING HOME (The Women of Boone County, #1) . . . Be ready for the real life of growing up and not really moving on with life. Abigail had what she thought was a good life. Or at least that was the way her parents saw it. She was a successful prosecutor, young, and engaged. But for her, her life was falling apart. Things were not adding up or making much sense. Then one day her past comes back to her in living color.

This was a heartfelt story of a woman and her life as she saw it. She was working too hard for someone else's view of what her life should be like. Then she was working to stave off the past, but that never really works for long. The one thing, okay maybe two things that were good in her life were Tessa and Ryan. 

I loved Ryan from our first meeting. I knew something was not right when the picture of him and Abigail was produced by Tessa. I want to say it was the hesitation in Abigail that gave it away. It only took 90% of the story to unfold to have it confirmed. I did not like Joe or his mother. I can't really say that I liked Abigail's mom and dad very much either. But for me this makes a story that much more. I don't want to love everyone. 

Coming Home was my first story from Julieannn Dove. It will not be the last. I will make sure that I get each of the stories for the Women of Boone County.

Reasons I enjoyed this book:

Realistic Page-turner Inspirational Past Trauma Mental Health Self-Realization Growth Understanding True Love

Julieann Dove takes great pleasure in writing about love and all the mess that goes along with it. How else does happily ever after become realized, if not for some type of hardship and journey? When she’s not writing, she loves playing with fabric at her sewing machine, baking new recipes, and playing in the dirt, trying to get things to grow. Julieann loves old movies, and never tires of listening to music—it’s where she finds most of her inspiration for her books.

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