Maggie Marrion is just getting back on her feet after a horrible year, or two, or three. With their twentieth reunion approaching, she invites four of her closest friends from college for a mini-reunion at her beach cabin on Whidbey Island. What she doesn’t expect is her best friends Selah and Quinn to play matchmaker. Will Maggie risk her heart and her quiet life for another chance at romance?
romance?
Gil Morrow, former grunge musician turned history professor, joins them as Selah’s date for the weekend. With the support of old friends, a few wishing rocks, the world’s largest burrowing clam, and a hot lumberjack thrown into the mix, Gil reminds Maggie she isn’t too old to fall in love.
Reality Bites becomes The Big Chill when a group of Gen-X friends spend a summer weekend together sharing laughter, tears, life’s ups and downs, old stories, second chances, and new beginnings in this humorous contemporary adult romance.
Geoducks Are for Lovers is the first novel in the Modern Love Stories series.
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3.25, actually. This one was interesting and kept me reading, but there was never really a truly “I can’t put this down!” moment. It’s a pretty typical second chance story, but it takes until the very end of the book for a decision/chance to be taken. In the meantime, Maggie began to get on my nerves.
Maggie and Gil have a history. A …
I fell in love with this. As a 40 something, I loved the intertwining of past and current and it seemed as something realistic to me. Thoroughly enjoyable!
Life has changed course for Maggie Marrion. Gone is the chaos of city life and a marriage that was doomed from the beginning. Now Maggie spends her time writing, conversing with her neighbors and enjoying all of the attributes that makes her island home a sanctuary. Everything about Maggie’s life on the island is a dream come true.
An impending …
4.5 stars
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“I’m not waiting another twenty-two years.” ~Gil
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Writing style: 3rd person POV
Cover/chapter heading design shout-out: I like the purple color for the font and the beachy feel to it. I also like the shell design for the chapter headings.
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Minor spoilers alert!!!
I am so glad I found out about the group readalong for this novel which …
Loved the characters!!
Truly one of my all-time favorite reads! I fell in love with these characters in ‘We Were Here’ and if possible, fell even further. The writing and storyline will pull you in not let go, the characters will never leave you. WOW, just wow!
Took me back to college days and memories of great times and greater friends!
This is a sequel (kind of) to We Were Here. I enjoyed learning more about the characters from We Were Here and seeing how their relationships progressed.