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Perennials by Julie Cantrell

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lisa11111's review

3.0

3.5. Really liked most of the book but a couple of things made it not quite a 4. I really wanted the main character to stand up for herself

kriste's review

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4.0

In general, this was a beautifully told relational story. The strong good bad men though, sigh, reminded me of Disney, the parts I don't like.

livietess's review

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4.0

A somewhat cheesy, predictable ending, but a throughly good read.

"Everything in life can be explained by a garden."

Beautiful setting, even if the characters and the storyline were a little cliched. I am certainly no gardener, but I still found the descriptions of the lush greenery and flowers, in the heat of a Mississippi summer, to be lovely. And I ended up caring about the characters more than I thought I would. This is definitely a better book than the other one I've read by this author (Into the Free).

And how about that cover? So pretty!
Did I read this just so that beautiful cover shows up on my end-of-year Goodreads collage? Maybe!

Clean readers: this is billed as Christian fiction, and thus it's super-squeaky clean (even though one of the major themes of the book is infidelity).

debbiecuddy's review

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1.0

I wanted something light and entertaining to read and found this for $1.99 on my Kindle. It started out okay, but quickly went downhill. The main character was a 45 year old woman with the emotional maturity of a 13 year old. The characters were stereotypical and uninteresting. Then I read this sentence: "A Nobel Prize-winning Oxford boy, Faulkner became infamous not only for his way with words but also for his ability to capture the day-to-day lives of his people, my people." Infamous??? Oy vey! I skimmed ahead thinking it might improve, but it was just more of the same. Life's too short to spend anymore time on this book, hopefully the next one I read will be better!