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Summary: A heartwarming read--regardless of where you're from.
Review: Home is where the heart is--and that's basically the crux of this story. I
was surprised to see a few readers think that the author was trying to make
fun of the big city or people who aren't from Walton, Georgia. They have missed the whole point. It's about finding the place to call home that's in one's own
heart--wherever that may be.Cassie Madison is at a crossroads. She comes home after 15 long years in
Manhattan to small town Georgia. In some ways, this is a fish out of water
story--until Cassie learns what has been waiting in her own heart all those
years. I laughed and cried while reading this book. As a person born in New York
City and raised in New England, I don't think this book has made me want to
move south. But it did open my heart to all the things about my own memories
of home--which made the story that much more poignant. Beautifully written and deeply moving, this is a book for my keeper shelf. And that is why I'm giving this book 5 stars.
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Summary: Couldn't put it down...
Review: I enjoy a good romance novel and this is definitely one that you don't want to miss. As soon as I picked it up and started reading, I couldn't stop... I ended up staying up all night to finish the book in one sitting. If you enjoyed Reese Witherspoon's recent movie "Sweet Home Alabama", then you'll definitely enjoy this book =)
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Summary: Couldn't put it down...
Review: I enjoy a good romance novel and this is definitely one that you don't want to miss. As soon as I picked it up and started reading, I couldn't stop... I ended up staying up all night to finish the book in one sitting. If you enjoyed Reese Witherspoon's recent movie "Sweet Home Alabama", then you'll definitely enjoy this book =)
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Summary: I pray Ms. White wrote this book before Sept. 11th
Review: If you are narrow minded then please, by all means, buy this book.The heroine is from a town called Walton, Georgia. Unfortunately for her she leaves due to the fact that her boyfriend hooks up with her sister and leaves her hanging.She goes to New York to live and work. Unfortunately for her she comes back to Walton, Georgia. Everyone in this book has a quip for our heroine. New York is the big bad evil city. New Yorker's don't take care of the homeless like we do in Walton. I haven't even started on the mysogny in this book, how dare our heroine move to NYC and have career.There is so much anti-NYC bias for me and it makes me sick. It almost seems as if Ms. White is trying to stick every sterotype into this small romance novel. Big City=Bad People and Small Towns=Great People. Really scary and sad. This book should go right next to a Rush Limbaugh or Jerry Falwell book.
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Summary: Falling Home is Real and it has Heart
Review: It's rare that I am moved to tears when reading a book. Movies can often make me cry but books, almost never. Falling Home managed to reduce me to tears but that is certainly not why I loved this story and it is not my criteria for what constitutes a great book. But when a book can elicit that kind of emotional response from me it's because the story is well written, it's real and it has heart. Cassie Madison has spent 15 years in Manhattan building an enviable and powerful career in advertising. She hadn't spoken to her younger sister, Harriet, in those years since Harriet ran off and married the love of Cassie's life. During her absence Cassie kept in touch with her father and would meet him in Atlanta for a weekend once a year but refused to return to her hometown of Walton. Cassie believes she has outgrown the small town life and has become a big city snob. The story begins when Cassie must return to Walton after receiving a phone call from her sister with the news that their father is dying. Cassie leaves Manhattan, her job and her fiancé, Andrew, to return to Walton to see her father for the last time. After arriving in Walton one of the first people Cassie meets is the town doctor, Dr. Sam Parker, one of her childhood friends. Sam is no longer the nerdy, goofy kid she knew but has morphed into an incredibly gorgeous hunk and one of the towns most loved and respected citizens. There are surprises, mysteries, and twists in this book that kept me reading until 4:30 a.m. on more then one night. I could not put this book down! There is hardly an emotion that isn't played on in this story about returning home, old hurts and heartbreak, growing up, letting go, learning what is really important in life and finding one's heart. Karen White's first book, In the Shadow of the Moon, convinced me that she is an author whose books I will always look forward to reading and re-reading. Falling Home contains the excellent character development, story line, twists and turns and emotional depth that Ms. White consistently creates in her work. Those who read her work will not be disappointed and will ultimately become fans.
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Summary: Falling Home is Real and it has Heart
Review: It's rare that I am moved to tears when reading a book. Movies can often make me cry but books, almost never. Falling Home managed to reduce me to tears but that is certainly not why I loved this story and it is not my criteria for what constitutes a great book. But when a book can elicit that kind of emotional response from me it's because the story is well written, it's real and it has heart. Cassie Madison has spent 15 years in Manhattan building an enviable and powerful career in advertising. She hadn't spoken to her younger sister, Harriet, in those years since Harriet ran off and married the love of Cassie's life. During her absence Cassie kept in touch with her father and would meet him in Atlanta for a weekend once a year but refused to return to her hometown of Walton. Cassie believes she has outgrown the small town life and has become a big city snob. The story begins when Cassie must return to Walton after receiving a phone call from her sister with the news that their father is dying. Cassie leaves Manhattan, her job and her fiancé, Andrew, to return to Walton to see her father for the last time. After arriving in Walton one of the first people Cassie meets is the town doctor, Dr. Sam Parker, one of her childhood friends. Sam is no longer the nerdy, goofy kid she knew but has morphed into an incredibly gorgeous hunk and one of the towns most loved and respected citizens. There are surprises, mysteries, and twists in this book that kept me reading until 4:30 a.m. on more then one night. I could not put this book down! There is hardly an emotion that isn't played on in this story about returning home, old hurts and heartbreak, growing up, letting go, learning what is really important in life and finding one's heart. Karen White's first book, In the Shadow of the Moon, convinced me that she is an author whose books I will always look forward to reading and re-reading. Falling Home contains the excellent character development, story line, twists and turns and emotional depth that Ms. White consistently creates in her work. Those who read her work will not be disappointed and will ultimately become fans.
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Summary: Karen White exceeds all expectations with FALLING HOME
Review: Karen White has produced a book in FALLING HOME that goes far beyond the normal expectations of a contemporary romance novel. The growth in maturity and perceptions of her heroine, Cassie Madison, encourage the reader to look into her own past for people she has failed to forgive and the growth enabled by that forgiveness. The texture and atmosphere Ms. White gives to Cassie's hometown in Georgia is worthy of a literary novel and her love interest, Sam, is reminiscent of the actor/writer Sam Shepherd, with all his "laid back" strengths. For readers who enjoy suspense, there is also an element of danger that hovers over the novel with enough red herrings and surprise elements to keep you reading. I read this novel over a week-end, taking little time off. Readers will not be disappointed.
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Summary: Fall in Love with Falling Home
Review: Karen White has written a true winner in Falling Home, and her prose is as textured and evocative as ever. You'll laugh and you'll cry with Cassie, Sam and the whole town of Walton. Plan on staying up late, because you won't be able to put this book down! A reader in New York
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Summary: It's never too late for love to heal.
Review: Karen White writes from the heart to bring you a story of love and forgiveness when a young woman returns to her small hometown and finds that what she really wants and values in life is there and not in New York's distant avenues. You will laugh and you will cry as Cassie discovers true love with an old friend and builds new bridges over old hurts with her sister. Cassie is a modern heorine who learns that for her, being "keeper of the hearts," is the most important job she can have.
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Summary: Treat yourself to an emotional rollercoaster
Review: The great Southern writer Thomas Wolfe once noted that you cannot go home again. But Southerner Cassie Madison learns the clay of her native Georgia smalltown does not scrape off easily when she returns after a long absence in the marvelous new book by Karen White, FALLING HOME. Cassie Madison has a successful career and finance in Manhattan, a complete life that has nothing to do with her roots as member of a well-established family in Walton, Georgia. She hasn't been back home for fifteen years, even though she practically raised her younger sister after their mother died of cancer. When that sister and Cassie's own first love married, without Cassie even knowing they particularly liked each other, she was done with the lot of them. Now her sister Harriet has called her home. Their father is dying and wants to see Cassie. At first, she treats her family as another business problem that can be organized and solved. But the death of her beloved father and her sister's large family slowly make her question whether she wants to sell her father's glorious old home and return to New York. And then there's that smalltown doctor who Cassie has known her entire life, the sexy, well-adjusted Sam Parker. Although Sam plays an important role in Cassie's decision, it is her sister, her family, at least two mysteries and a town filled with enchanting characters, from senior citizen Steel Magnolias to the nerdy kid who grew up to be successful, who play at least as central a role. Karen White's storytelling prowess is delightful in showing how Cassie stayed away because of a broken heart but never stopped loving her sister. She shows how family circumstances forced Cassie into being the keeper of her kinfolk's hearts and how she has dealt with that pressure. At first, it appears the rifts are healed too quickly or smoothed over in a hurried fashion. But FALLING HOME is a more subtle, and ultimately more rewarding, work. The healing of old wounds, the need to win at all costs and what makes a home are all addressed within the framework of Cassie deciding what to do with her home and her life while Sam, Harriet and the townfolk wait for her answer. FALLING HOME is a rarity for the demands of today's cookie-cutter marketing practices. It is a fully integrated story that shows how intertwined family, friends and the love of one's life are when a person discovers their true place in the world. FALLING HOME is the kind of book that makes one laugh and cry buckets of tears. It's the kind of book to stay up far too late at night reading because it's too darned hard to put down, dangnabit. It's filled with real people facing real things without resorting to melodrama or phony plot twists. Ms. White's talents that were showcased so engagingly in her historical Gothic, WHISPERS OF GOODBYE, are again shown in their best light in FALLING HOME. Both books would be at home on any keeper shelf. ...
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