READ-2-REVIEW - WOMEN'S FICTION - FORGET ME NOT (Women of Boone County, #3) by Julieann Dove

Forget Me Not
Women of Boone County, #3
by Julieann Dove
 Release Date: January 21st 2025

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Sadie Billingsly cannot remember the last time she ate a vegetable, shaved her legs, or slept in a bed. Since the morning she woke up in the hospital and was told her husband was dead, nothing resembled her life. For the last ten months all she’d been able to do was survive the life she’d been dealt. She quit going to her private practice, started lying to her mom, and knew entirely too much about the top ten streaming movies any given day.

Campbell Stone watched from a far as Sadie, his departed best friend’s wife, withdrew from society. He didn’t want to upset her with mentioning she should return to work, but most of all, he didn’t want to hurt her with the truth about the year leading up to the accident that spared her life and took his best friend’s. He knew her amnesia of the events and time prior to the fateful night was necessary to protect her.

Sometimes your life has to fall apart so it can fall into place. The storm that hit Boone County that night in November did more than knock out half the town’s electricity… with the help of a stranger, it shifted Sadie’s mindset about her situation. But time would tell if she was ready to face the truth about her marriage, Campbell Stone, and her part in the night that changed her life.

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The Book Junkie Reads . . . Review of . . . FORGET ME NOT (Women of Boone County, #3) . . . Amnesia, Hidden Truths, and the Storm That Changed Everything!

Julieann Dove delivers a compelling, emotionally raw story that reminds us sometimes your life has to fall apart so it can fall into place. FORGET ME NOT centers on Sadie Billingsly, a woman who wakes up after an accident with a brutal truth—her husband is dead—and a necessary lie: amnesia that shields her from the pain of the year leading up to that fateful night.

Sadie’s journey is heartbreakingly real. We meet her ten months into her grief, surviving on streaming movies and shutting out the world. Her amnesia, however, becomes her chance for a new outlook on life and a path toward self-discovery. She has to encounter much to get to where she is, and I felt every bit of her sadness, joy, and ultimately, her redemption.

Standing in the wings is Campbell Stone, her departed husband's best friend. He watches from afar, carrying the heavy, dangerous truth about Sadie's marriage that he believes is necessary to protect her. Campbell acts as the consistent counterpoint to all she is going through, a beacon of stability amidst the chaos.

The moment a storm hits Boone County and forces a shift in Sadie's mindset, the drama ratchets up! The central tension lies in whether Sadie is ready to face the truth about her past, her marriage, and her relationship with Campbell Stone.

This book is a beautiful blend of tears, community, and the pleasantness of watching broken pieces fall into place. While you can dive in, reading the prior books would let you feel comfortable and familiar with Boone County. I am wholeheartedly looking forward to the next Woman of Boone County!

The Women of Boone County Series

Coming Home | To Have and Let Go | Forget Me Not

"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 small-town charm I love." -Sherryl Woods, New York Times #1 bestselling author of The Sweet Magnolias and Chesapeake Shores series.

Author Info

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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