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Summary: Along Came Mary~
Review: In Along Came Mary, Mapson brings us back once again to the girls of Bad Girl Creek and their delightful flower farm. The girls are all back, and the sense of sisterhood that Mapson captured in Bad Girl Creek is just as strong. The girls will go through some more ups and downs, but their friendships will help them prevail.Along Came Mary also introduces us to two new characters Mary Madigan & Rotten Rick. The only disappointment I felt while reading Along Came Mary was that the majority of the book seemed to focus on Maddy & Rick, instead of the girls at the flower farm. I enjoyed Bad Girl Creek a little more for this reason, as I loved the focus of Nance, Phoebe, Ness & Beryl that Bad Girl Creek had. Despite this, Mapson still maintains her gift for writing, and has you feeling all of the joys and pains that her characters go through, as if they were actually happening to you or your closest friend. I can't wait for the next book, so I can return to these women who have become friends~
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Summary: Truly A Sequel
Review: Most say that sequels are not as good as the originals, and I would have to concur in the case of Along Came Mary. I loved Bad Girl Creek and thought it was the best "chick" book of the year. I was really hoping that Along Came Mary would pick up right where that one left off...and it did, but not in the way that I expected. This story focuses mainly on a new character, Mary Madigan, and Rick Heinrich. He was in mentioned in the first book, and is Nance's ex-boyfriend. The story follows them and has chapters in between that focus on the original Bad Girls. The story entertwines them all together at some point, but you learn the most about Maddy and Rick in this book. It was a good read, but I wanted MORE about my Bad Girls. This one had a little more darkness to it and sadness. It was definitely good, but not as good as the original.
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Summary: Truly A Sequel
Review: Most say that sequels are not as good as the originals, and I would have to concur in the case of Along Came Mary. I loved Bad Girl Creek and thought it was the best "chick" book of the year. I was really hoping that Along Came Mary would pick up right where that one left off...and it did, but not in the way that I expected. This story focuses mainly on a new character, Mary Madigan, and Rick Heinrich. He was in mentioned in the first book, and is Nance's ex-boyfriend. The story follows them and has chapters in between that focus on the original Bad Girls. The story entertwines them all together at some point, but you learn the most about Maddy and Rick in this book. It was a good read, but I wanted MORE about my Bad Girls. This one had a little more darkness to it and sadness. It was definitely good, but not as good as the original.
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Summary: Another great one!
Review: She has done it again! Another great book in the Bad Girl series. It is true, although we don't get but glimpses here and there of our fav girls, we do get enough to feed the question of what is going on with each of them. This book only took me a couple of hours. I can't put them down! You won't be able to either! Enjoy!
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Summary: Another fabulous read from Mapson!
Review: What a novel! An exhilarating read about friendship, love and the way paths intersect, even far from the flower farm. All the glorious women from "Bad Girl Creek" are back, Mary, Phoebe, Beryl, Nance and Ness--old friends with new secrets--and we also have the delicious Rotten Rick. What is so wonderful here is the way Mapson understands, appreciates, and shows us female friendships, how she knows a heart can be torn to shreds, but it can also heal. Written in prose as crystalline as a mountain stream, Mapson breaks your heart, makes you laugh, and she does it brilliantly. I can't wait for the next book in the trilogy.
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Summary: More from the Best Bad Girl
Review: You don't read a Jo-Ann Mapson novel. You take up residence in it, as if it were the comfortable home of a good friend. When it ends, dumping you rudely into reality, you want to move back in and claim squatter's rights. This was never more true than with Bad Girl Creek, the first book in this trilogy, so now I'm thrilled (and relieved) to find that you really can go home again. The Bad Girls are all back, and there's an intriguing addition--Maddy, a honky tonk angel who's gritty, heart-breaking and real. She's from Oklahoma and her life becomes entwined with the flower farm gang of four in a simple twist of fate that only Mapson could dream up and pull off. One of my favorite things about her writing, as in all her previous books, is the way she weaves the separate strands of her characters' lives together with deliciously fascinating details on various subjects, like flowers and music, pulling all the threads into a tapestry world so compelling and involving you want to wrap it around yourself and settle in for the duration.
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