Only You (Audible Audio Edition) Deborah Grace Staley Erin Novotny Inc Belle Books Books
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A charming romance about the lives and loves of people in a small Tennessee town, in the tradition of Debbie Macomber.
"Hey, ya'll. Dixie Ferguson here. I run Ferguson's Diner in Angel Ridge, Tennessee, population 345. It's a picturesque town in the valley of the Little Tennessee River, established in 1785. In the early days, its first families - the McKays, the Wallaces, the Houstons, the Joneses, and, of course, the Craigs - staked their claims on hundreds of acres of the richest bottom land anyone had ever seen. After all the years I've spent behind the counter at Ferguson's, I could probably tell ya'll a story about near everyone in town. But we only have so much time, so I'll narrow it down to just two for now.
This is a story about coming home. It's also a story about acceptin' folks for who they are. You could say it's a story about Josie Allen, a librarian, and Cole Craig, a handyman, but I say it's a story about finding love where you'd least expect to."
Only You (Audible Audio Edition) Deborah Grace Staley Erin Novotny Inc Belle Books Books
Only You by Deborah Grace Staley was a first for me by a new author and I enjoyed this book. A fast and easy read taking place in a small Tennessee town. This is a great story about coming back home to a small (very small) town and all the prejudices one encounters. Being that I graduated in a small town with only 98 other classmates, I totally related. Although I haven't moved back home, I did move to another small small town near Tennessee.Staley effectively takes you into the lives of Josie Allen and Cole Craig; two folks from the opposite side of the tracks. Josie moved away, got her PhD in Library Science, becoming indebted to the town busy-body in the process. She moves back to run the town library and fall in love with Cole Craig, from the wrong side of the tracks and a high school dropout.
Read along and follow the growth of Josie's and Cole's relationship as they force their small town to face their economic prejudices.
While 208 pages, this is a great short read. I think I finished it in about half a day. I would classify this as a beach read for sure. It's enjoyable, fun, light hearted and quick to read. I guarantee you'll be looking for more of Staley's books. Only You
This book will be near the top of my Books in the Pile [...].
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Only You (Audible Audio Edition) Deborah Grace Staley Erin Novotny Inc Belle Books Books Reviews
I can't help flashing back to different movies when I am reading some of these books. This one reminded of "Hope Floats" or "Sweet Home Alabama" Don't get me wrong, they are heart warming and cute, but so predictable. Beautiful girl returns to small hometown, falls for down home gentleman, all is forgotten and they live happily ever after...then I get back to the real world, married 9 years, kids, pets, bills...I guess it is nice to spend a day in these stories.
Enjoyed this story very much I usually read mysteries but this was a nice change are there more in this series?
Found this to be an enjoyable read. Had never heard of this author before and decided to download as a free read. Was not disappointed. Sweet story, set in the little town were everybody knows everybody. Found the ending to be a little rushed and some parts of the story were a little slow. Some were quite funny. There are other stories in this series and I am curious to see how they rank as well. Overall a nice sweet light romance and would recommend to others. If you like Debbie Macomber books you will probably enjoy this book as well.
They were nothing more than casual acquaintances when they were in school together as children, but there's always been something about Josie Allen, now Dr. Josie Allen, that Cole Craig hasn't been able to forget, despite her years away obtaining that high dollar doctoral education. Now she's back in Angel Ridge putting that education to work in running the prestigious local library, and Cole can't help but notice (and appreciate) that neither one of them are children any longer.
Josie is struggling with the state of the art library program she created and she's starting to panic. With a Memorial Day deadline looming and computers that crash whenever they're touched, she can't seem to make the upgrade work and it's making her crazy. As if that weren't bad enough, she's stuck with her family house and feeling suffocated by the pressure of and obligations to the rich and influential McKay matriarch, who financed Josie's post graduate education in exchange of her taking over the job at the library when she graduated. As a result, Josie's starting to feel like an indentured servant to the snobby old biddy. She doesn't have time to breathe, let alone spend time with Cole...no matter how fantastic a man he seems to have grown into. Not that Cole is going to let her work herself to death when he can do something to stop it.
He's a high school dropout from the wrong side of the tracks who works around town as a handyman. She's the daughter of one of the socialite families, highly educated and successful. It's a recipe for disaster, but Cole likes to stir things up and this woman's worth the storm.
Only You could have been a sweet southern romance but it stumbles out of the gate with a weak, underdeveloped plot and two dimensional lead characters who never quite felt real to me. The problems were compounded by cliched plot devices and secondary characters that are closer to caricature than to small town southern charm.
On the surface, Only You is an uncomplicated, too-cute romance about a guy who has loved a girl all his life and is just now able to catch her eye...and I would have preferred the book had it stopped there and simply focused on the issues between the characters as they grow together into a relationship. True, it may not have been the most complex story, but there's a lot to be said for simple in romances. Instead, external issues are brought in but never developed enough to be anything more than a distraction, nor did they show off the lead characters in much of a complimentary light.
I liked Cole well enough at first, but his flowery, overly expressive emotional responses to Josie when they started to click felt contrived and unrealistic. He was, though, my favorite of the two characters, because I found Josie to be hopelessly prosaic and immature for a woman who was supposed to be a highly educated, intelligent contemporary woman. Perhaps if this book was set up as a fifties era romance, her diffidence and the provincial reactions to the difference in the social status between she and Cole would have felt more organic, and her reactions to the town's interest and to Mrs. McKay's interference would have seemed less tragic.
And for a romance featuring a small southern town and its townspeople as a backdrop, there were way too many missed opportunities to establish a quirky individuality and capture the unique flavor of such wonderful slices of Americana.
There were a few glimmers of promise in Josie's elderly neighbor and Cole's friend Dixie, but they just weren't tied in to the central plot enough to be more than peripheral pleasures. I enjoyed them, though. And Cole wasn't so bad that I disliked him, either. Only You left too much room for improvement overall, though, and that was a shame.
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This author writes of a small town like any town in rural USA. Everyone knows everyone and she has Dixie Ferguson, who has the town cafe and knows everyone, to narrate all of the stories she writes about. It is very homey and fun reading. I can put myself into her stories easily since I have lived my life in a rural atmosphere. I come from a small town where in the days of my childhood, everyone knew everyone. I now have moved to rural Wisconsin and it's kind of the same.
Only You is a sweet tale of unconditional love. I found myself thinking early on that it was just too perfect - a non-antagonistic story...admittedly, for me, the almost childish-like "necking" made me a bit uncomfortable...but the story came together nicely in the end, and I even found myself holding my breath that something horrible was about to happen! I was so delighted at the unexpected turn of events that pulled the entire story together. I loved the explanation at the end of the book about how Angel Ridge got its name. (I believe I read that this account was found only in the version?) That addendum alone would make a great historical, christian tale.
Dawn M. Kurtz, author ofSecret of the Mexican Doll
Only You by Deborah Grace Staley was a first for me by a new author and I enjoyed this book. A fast and easy read taking place in a small Tennessee town. This is a great story about coming back home to a small (very small) town and all the prejudices one encounters. Being that I graduated in a small town with only 98 other classmates, I totally related. Although I haven't moved back home, I did move to another small small town near Tennessee.
Staley effectively takes you into the lives of Josie Allen and Cole Craig; two folks from the opposite side of the tracks. Josie moved away, got her PhD in Library Science, becoming indebted to the town busy-body in the process. She moves back to run the town library and fall in love with Cole Craig, from the wrong side of the tracks and a high school dropout.
Read along and follow the growth of Josie's and Cole's relationship as they force their small town to face their economic prejudices.
While 208 pages, this is a great short read. I think I finished it in about half a day. I would classify this as a beach read for sure. It's enjoyable, fun, light hearted and quick to read. I guarantee you'll be looking for more of Staley's books. Only You
This book will be near the top of my Books in the Pile [...].
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