Susan Mallery
Författare till Chasing Perfect
Om författaren
Susan Mallery is a Romance author, and holds a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in Writing Popular Fiction. She is a New York Times bestselling author who has written over 80 books, including: the Marcelli Sisters Trilogy, the Desert Rogues Series and the Fool's Gold Series. visa mer Mallery won the Romantic Times' award for best Silhouette Special Edition and the National Readers' Choice Award. In 2015 her titles, The Girls of Mischief Bay, Kiss Me, and Thrill Me were listed as NYT bestsellers. Susan's title's: Daughters of the Bride and Sisters Like Us made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. Her latest book is entitled When We Found Home. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Susan Mallery
Summer Brides (The Borrowed Bride / A Bridge to Dreams / Sister of the Bride) (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 116 exemplar
Montana Mavericks: Big Sky Grooms aka Montana Legends (The Gamble / Spirit of the Wolf / As Good as Gold) (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
Mother By Design (Lily's Expecting / Rachel's Bundle of Joy / Jenna's Having a Baby) (2004) 33 exemplar
Hometown Heartbreakers (Good Husband Material / Completely Smitten / One in a Million) (2003) 27 exemplar
Montana Mavericks Weddings: Return to Big Sky Country (The Bride Who Was Stolen in the Night / Cowgirl Bride) (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Susan Mallery Fool's Gold Series Volume One: Chasing Perfect / Almost Perfect / Sister of the Bride / Finding Perfect (2014) 9 exemplar
Silhouette Sensational [c. 1999] (Forgotten Vows / License to Love / Cowboy Daddy / Babies On his Mind) (1999) 8 exemplar
Susan Mallery Fool's Gold Series Volume Three: Almost Summer / Summer Days / Summer Nights / All Summer Long (2015) 8 exemplar
Susan Mallery Fool's Gold Series Volume Four: Halfway There / Just One Kiss / Two of a Kind / Three Little Words (2015) 6 exemplar
Susan Mallery Fool's Gold Series Volume Two: Only Mine / Only Yours / Only His / Only Us (2015) 4 exemplar
The Sheik's Kidnapped Bride / The Sheik's Arranged Marriage / The Sheik's Secret Bride (2009) 4 exemplar
Finding Perfect | The Hometown Hero Returns | The Fire Still Burns | Rainy Day Kisses (2015) 3 exemplar
Triple Trouble: The Girl of His Dreams / The Secret Wife / The Mysterious Stranger (2015) 3 exemplar
Lone Star Sisters (Under Her Skin / Lip Service / Straight from the Hip / Hot on Her Wheels) (2009) 3 exemplar
Desert Seduction (Sheikh's Woman/ Her Desert Family/ Sheikh and the Bride Who Said No) (2009) 3 exemplar
Possessed by the Sheikh: The Playboy Sheikh [and] The Sheik and the Runaway Princess (2007) 2 exemplar
Cowboy Ever After: Lonesome Cowboy / A Creed in Stone Creek / A Royal Baby on the Way (2022) 2 exemplar
Desert Rogues: The Secret Bride 2 exemplar
Le figlie della sposa (eLit) 1 exemplar
Ritorno a casa (eLit) 1 exemplar
L'estate di Sunshine e Margot 1 exemplar
Un nuovo sole in California: Harmony Romance 1 exemplar
Quell'estate a Fool's Gold (eLit) 1 exemplar
Õed nagu meie 1 exemplar
Mischief Bay tüdrukud 1 exemplar
The Best of Griends 1 exemplar
best of my life 1 exemplar
Ozeanträume: Roman (German Edition) 1 exemplar
Akiss in the Snow (Fool's Gold) 1 exemplar
Man liebt nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit 1 exemplar
Only His [Hardcover] (A Fool's Gold Romance) 1 exemplar
Part-Time Wife | Winter's Proposal 1 exemplar
Too Many Grooms [and] Father in Training 1 exemplar
Dead Men's Hearts 1 exemplar
Fuga estiva 1 exemplar
Halfway There (WRONG ISBN) 1 exemplar
The Vineyar at Painted Moon 1 exemplar
Gib mir eine zweite Chance 1 exemplar
The Suductive One 1 exemplar
El seductor seucido 1 exemplar
Big Sky Mavericks 1 exemplar
Marrying Mandy 1 exemplar
Not Strictly Business: Having Her Boss's Baby / Prodigal Son / Shelter in a Soldier's Arms 1 exemplar
Meant to Be Yours | A Very Merry Princess 1 exemplar
Sommerøya 1 exemplar
Cowgirl Bride | The Sheik & the Bride Who Said No | The Sheik & the Princess Bride (2014) 1 exemplar
Logan's Legacy Series (To Love and Protect, Secrets & Seductions, Royal Affair, For Love and Family, The Bachelor) (2004) 1 exemplar
Desert Sheikhs (Silhouette Spotlight) 1 exemplar
Where We Found Home 1 exemplar
Nouveau départ pour Charity Jones : T1 - Rencontres à Fool's Gold (French Edition) (2012) 1 exemplar
Hoofd koel, hart verloren 1 exemplar
Desert Rogues: The Christmas Bride 1 exemplar
Un nuovo inizio (eLit) 1 exemplar
Segreti tra sorelle: Harmony Romance 1 exemplar
Desert Rogues: The Virgin Secretary 1 exemplar
Desert Rogues: The Bought Bride 1 exemplar
L'accordo perfetto: eLit 1 exemplar
Ricetta d'amore (eLit) 1 exemplar
Le ragazze di Mischief Bay: Harmony Romance 1 exemplar
Bij de blauwe baai 1 exemplar
Duizend kleine dingen 1 exemplar
Dure kussen 1 exemplar
Playboy wordt papa 1 exemplar
Sorelle di cuore 1 exemplar
Imune aos Seus Encantos 1 exemplar
Summer of Sunshine and Margot 1 exemplar
Herbstfreundinnen 1 exemplar
L'incantesimo di Natale (eLit) 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
The Knitting Diaries (The Twenty-First Wish / Coming Unraveled / Return to Summer Island) (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 278 exemplar
The Paternity Proposition [with bonus novella: 'The Sheikh's Virgin'] (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
All Romance, All The Time: A Fiction Sampler for Every Mood (13 titles) (2015) — vissa utgåvor — 2 exemplar
The Sheik and the Bought Bride — Original Text — 2 exemplar
The Sheik's Kidnapped Bride [manga] — Original Text — 1 exemplar
The Unexpected Millionaire [manga] — Original Text — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Vedertaget namn
- Mallery, Susan
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Redmond, Susan Macias
- Födelsedag
- 1968
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA - Yrken
- novelist
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Romantic Times Career Achievement Award (Contemporary Romance, 2006)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
Contemporary Romance i Name that Book (december 2016)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 417
- Även av
- 30
- Medlemmar
- 28,722
- Popularitet
- #700
- Betyg
- 3.8
- Recensioner
- 1,079
- ISBN
- 2,195
- Språk
- 19
- Favoritmärkt
- 38
Laurel is a divorced mother of two tween girls, Jagger and Ariana. Her husband left them to "follow his dream" and took all of their savings. It took her a while to get back on her feet using her resale business, but things are looking better now. Unfortunately, her bitterness and anger toward her ex has affected Jagger, who frequently comments about how terrible men are. Laurel is advised to find a good male role model or two - a task easier said than done, especially as she has no interest in another relationship. How she finds that male role model to be friends with is amusing. I loved watching Colton become part of their lives. He's excellent with the girls and the perfect example to show Laurel that not all men are jerks. It's easy to see them grow closer, and Colton's feelings are apparent. But Laurel fights her feelings for him until it's almost too late. Run-ins with her ex complicate their lives.
Paris is also divorced with no children. She runs a successful farm stand, and I loved seeing her marketing creativity. Her divorce happened ten years earlier when her husband could no longer handle her volatile temper. Years of therapy have taught Paris how to handle her emotions, but she still doesn't trust herself, so she has avoided any romantic entanglements. Her life and sense of calm are upended when her ex, Jonah, returns to town with his eight-year-old son, Danny. Jonah holds no grudges against Paris and makes it clear that he would like to be friends. I got a little frustrated with Paris as she frequently mentioned her past treatment of him as a reason he should stay away from her, even though she realizes she still loves him. I loved Jonah's patience and persistence as he helped Paris overcome her guilt and fears.
Cassie is the newcomer to town. The youngest in her family, she was the most affected when their parents died when she was fourteen. She coped by becoming the person who stepped up whenever her older brother or sister needed help, putting her dreams and activities aside. She also tends to form relationships with men/boys who need fixing and then gets dumped when they no longer need her. As the story opens, Cassie's brother and sister sit her down and tell her it's time for her to live her own life. They use a "tough love" method of kicking her out and sending her to California to check on the property she inherited from their uncle. Cassie is hurt, angry, and a little scared, and determined to survive her six-month exile and return to Maine as soon as possible. She doesn't count on making two good friends in Laurel and Paige, discovering a connection with the land she inherited, or finding a man who sees past her insecurities.
I loved the intertwining of Laurel's, Paris's, and Cassie's lives. Paris was there for Laurel when her husband walked out, and Laurel gave Paris the support she needed to confront her anger issues. I loved how they welcomed Cassie into their circle. Each was always ready to back up the others in an emergency - emotional or physical. They were also prepared to call each other out when they avoided the truth of their feelings about the men in their lives or the issues they tried to ignore. With her years of therapy, Paris is especially good at getting to the heart of a problem.
I also liked the realistic depiction of the children's reactions to various things. I ached for Jagger and Ariana as they dealt with their father's desertion. Each girl handled it differently, and I liked seeing the results as the summer progressed. I especially enjoyed seeing the changes in Jagger as she got to know Colton and his parents, Jonah, and Raphael. Jonah's son Danny was a sweet kid who was dealing with his mother's death. I liked his quick connection with Paris. I laughed when his love of Paris's dog, Bandit, resulted in his pestering Jonah for a dog of his own.
I wish there had been an epilogue, as I would love to see how everyone's lives are going a few years later.
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