Shore Lights Paradise Point Paradise Point NJ Book 1 edition by Barbara Bretton Literature Fiction eBooks
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There's nothing more dangerous to a woman's heart than a man who is single, loves his kid, and doesn't kiss and tell . . .
The first book in USA Today Bestselling Author Barbara Bretton's acclaimed Paradise Point series
Maddy Bainbridge left her Jersey Shore home town right after high school, determined to put as many miles as possible between herself and her many meddling relatives.
Now she's back in Paradise Point -- an unemployed single mother whose only option is to accept her mother Rose's offer of a job and a place to live.
But it doesn't take Maddy long to discover that the things about your mother that made you crazy at 17 make you even crazier at 32. Rose's critical comments bring out Maddy's inner teenager and by the beginning of December, the end is in sight. Maddy would stay there at the Candlelight Inn, her mother's popular B&B, through Christmas for her daughter Hannah's sake, but once the New Year rolled around, she'd be out of there.
And then fate, in the form of an online auction battle over a Russian samovar that looks like Aladdin's lamp, brings home-town hero Aidan O'Malley into her life and suddenly Maddy begins to believe anything is possible.
A child's dreams, an old woman's memories, the joys and heartaches that come with being part of a family, the thrill of new love and the deep comfort of love that stood the test of time -- it all comes together that one special holiday season when even the most battered hearts open just wide enough to let a miracle or two slip through.
Home it's where your story starts.
˃˃˃ And Maddy's story continues in Chances Are, Book 2 in the Paradise Point series.
USA Today bestselling author Barbara Bretton has been hailed as a "monumental talent" (Affaire de Coeur) and now she delves deeply into the mysteries of family and shows us that even the most independent woman is still a daughter at heart.
SHORE LIGHTS is an absolute wonder of creative writing that comes right from Barbara Bretton's heart into the reader's. It flows with realism and features characters that are so well drawn that you may recognize the same personalities in people you know - "A Perfect Ten" --Carol Carter, Romance Reviews Today
Filled with exceptional, multi-dimensional characters and a real-life, easy to believe storyline, you can't go wrong with SHORE LIGHTS. --Thea Candee, The Romance Readers Connection
Exploring relationships and the drama of human emotions are specialties of Barbara Bretton, and once again she delivers. --Jill M. Smith, Romantic Times
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Shore Lights Paradise Point Paradise Point NJ Book 1 edition by Barbara Bretton Literature Fiction eBooks
Too many characters, too many stories in one book. It got confusing trying to follow all the cousins, kids, and background stories. I was getting bored and just wanted to read about the main characters love story but it was more back burner to all the other ones.Product details
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Shore Lights Paradise Point Paradise Point NJ Book 1 edition by Barbara Bretton Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I was 1/3 of the way through the book before the h/H meet each other no they don't even realize their connection. Lots of small town/ family talk and betting. The best part happens during the last 20% of the book. The rest is very slow paced. It is a stand alone book, but it has a near 400 page sequel which I won't be buying. I love this author and have read and loved other books by her, but this I didn't really cut it for me. It almost seemed like there was a connection between a little girl and the elderly grandmother(not hers) and they did not even know each other, yet the child was saying things the elderly lady had said, plus she was saying some Russian(elderly lady's background)words. It was rather spooky! Bretton does know how to push all your emotional buttons though. Good author, but this just wasn't my cup of tea. Pun intended
This book was a nice easy read and I enjoyed it for the most part. What I didn't like was how it was so drawn out with a lot of repetition and explanation through side stories through the majority of the book, but then once the daughter found the teapot and fell ill, things suddenly sped up without any explanation of what was happening, as if the author didn't quite know herself and was just looking to end the book somehow. It wasn't much of a twist, it was a different writing style- rushed- in a part of the story that could finally use a little explanation. It just didn't seem balanced or planned out, with no answers as to why the story ended the way it did (why was the little girl mysteriously happy again; how was the old lady speaking through her and was the old lady even aware of it-what was that even about; was the little girl's father back in her life after the hospital stay; was the teenager pregnant or not...???) Lots of unanswered questions for the characters outside of the main three, and too much repetitive information when it came to them pushing the limit of boredom.
I really liked this story.I would like to give it 4.5 stars.
Since I am a Jersey girl, and this takes place in a fictional New Jersey shore town, what’s not to like? This is the story of Madelyn “Maddy” Bainbridge and Aidan O’Malley. Maddy couldn’t wait to shake the NJ dirt from her feet fast enough once she graduated from high school. She and her mother, Rose DiFalco, had a very tenuous relationship, ever since her parents had gotten divorced. As Maddy saw it, her mother was never the June Cleaver type, she was more out to prove that she could play with “big boys” as a single mother. Maddy spent her adolescent summers at her father’s farm in Oregon. Due to circumstances, Maddy finds herself unemployed, alone, and a single mother to Hannah; a precocious 4-year-old, and a poodle puppy. Rose contacts Maddy and asks her to come back to NJ to helo her with her B&B business, the Candlelight Inn. Reluctantly, Maddy agrees, and finds herself in the bosom of her family once again. Maddy has a tough time letting her 17-year-old self slip away, when faced with her mother’s comments and criticisms.
Aidan O’Malley, former firefighter, now tavern manager/cook, has had some tough times himself. He currently works for his sister-in-law at O’Malleys. He was badly injured in a fire that claimed his brother’s life. He has a 17-year-old daughter, Kelly, who is the light of his life. He just doesn’t feel that they connect anymore and he is concerned that she and her boyfriend Seth are getting too serious too soon.
Strangely enough, these lives will intersect when Kelly asks her dad to bid on an old samovar on a local auction website. Kelly thinks it looks just like the one that used to grace O’Malley’s in its heyday and had belonged to her great-grandmother. She wants to give it to her great-grandmother for Christmas, in the hopes that it will bring her happy memories. Maddy is bidding on the same item for Hannah, since she loves all things Aladdin. Maddy is hoping it will make her bright, young daughter smile again. See how an old samovar can work a little magic in the shore town of Paradise Point.
Nobody weaves heart and home together like Barbara Bretton. In Paradise Point, the Jersey shore town that time forgot, new beginnings are stirring. Both DiFalco and O'Malley clans have struggled and suffered in life and in love. While Rose DiFalco has found success through her business, she has failed spectacularly in bridging the gap with her estranged daughter Maddie. Maddie reluctantly accepts her mothers offer to "come home" and help run their B&B. She does it to give her own daughter, Hannah, a chance at stability and family. While tensions remain high between the fiery DiFalcos, change like the onset of winter is in the air. What neither mother or daughter expect is how deeply they will be challenged and allowed to grow.
Aiden O'Malley is struggling to maintain the family business, raise his teenaged daughter and let go of the ghosts of the past. The arrival of Hannah and Maddie and the matter of a mysterious tea pot will set in motion events neither of the two clans could anticipate.
Many characters and themes are woven through Bretton's family centric romance. Love is seen through generations, decades of misunderstandings and secrets are slowly, offer painfully peeled away. This isn't your average holiday romance. Instead Bretton has gifted us with the hard truths we often avoid facing and how familial love can run deepest of all.
Filled with humor, wit and more than a little melancholy, Shore Lights is the perfect Holiday novel.
Mothers and Daughters have very unique relationships. They can be the heartbreak and the elation. Throw in a Grand-Daughter and a Good Looking Man, with a Daughter, then all the relatives and you've got this book.
It has much 'thinking' of characters and drags the book out, which I just 'skipped read' to get back what was going on. This is the only complaint I have though.
It's 'G' rated, no sex.
Too many characters, too many stories in one book. It got confusing trying to follow all the cousins, kids, and background stories. I was getting bored and just wanted to read about the main characters love story but it was more back burner to all the other ones.
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