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“The story starts off with Liberty Jones, a 16 year old girl living in a trailer park in Welcome, TX. She lives alone with her mom (her dad died when she was young). She ends up falling in love with Hardy, who also lives in Welcome. About Hardy: he's a few years older, he's her first love, he refuses to get involved with her because if he does, he would never be able to leave her. He has ambitions, goals... and in order to succeed, he needs to get out of Welcome. He tells her he loves her back, but can't be with her. Obviously, it breaks her heart. Meanwhile, her mother has another baby. For some reason, Liberty is the one who is always taking care of Carrington, waking in the middle of the night to soothe her, feeding her, babysitting her, teaching her. Soon after, her mother dies in a car accident. Liberty is given custody of Carrington, while working to pay the bills and going to school. She moves to Houston after graduating high school where she gets enrolled in beauty school. She gets a great job at a salon, where she eventually meets someone. Without giving away anything, she ends up (9 years later) having to choose between Hardy, who shows back up in her life, and the new guy she's dating, Gage. Just when she finally thought she was getting over Hardy...
sharmee wrote this review 7 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I had to read this for a book club, and although I have nothing against romance novels, I was hesitant about reading this one. After the first chapter, I was hooked. The story was easy to read and also very interesting, since it was based in Houston, where I'm from :) ”
“While this is a contemporary romance, it was not as predictable as usual. I enjoyed the storyline and development of Liberty as a character. One thing, Carrington seems an unusual name choice for Liberty's mom to make.”
Becky C wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Another great book about Travis family even reading them out of order. I was totally absorbed in story from the first sentence ... read it in under 24 hours.”
Dawn wrote this review 3 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I loved this book. The characters were realistic and I cared about what happened to them. ”
Scarlett Zade wrote this review Thursday, November 19 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“In the 80s, I was like, 5, but still a fashionista, albeit clad in Care Bear couture. So I don’t have much concept of the 80s, except to know that it was an era of unforgivable fashion and awesome music. (Bananarama anyone?)
RipMyBodice wrote this review Sunday, November 8 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Lisa Kleypas’ new contemporary “Sugar Daddy” has a heroine born in the late 70s/ early 80s, so there are plenty of references to The Decade That Taste Forgot. And it’s not strictly a romance, more of women’s fiction instead, one of those personal growth kind of stories. So people expecting more Derek Craven, gambling king extraordinaire and Lisa Kleypas’ greatest creation might be a tad disappointed.
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For more of this review, check out: http://www.ripmybodice.com/2007/04/02/love-in-the-first-degree/”
“Despite the fact that I wasn't too crazy on Gage and Liberty spending a lot less time than I would enjoy in a romance novel, I couldn't help but more than like this book. There's just something about it that tugs at you from the very beginning.”
Ari wrote this review Monday, October 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No1 of 1 members found this review helpful“sharmee said: 4 stars
Play Book Tag Shelf wrote this review Wednesday, October 14 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
The story starts off with Liberty Jones, a 16 year old girl living in a trailer park in Welcome, TX. She lives alone with her mom (her dad died when she was young). She ends up falling in love with Hardy, who also lives in Welcome. About Hardy: he's a few years older, he's her first love, he refuses to get involved with her because if he does, he would never be able to leave her. He has ambitions, goals... and in order to succeed, he needs to get out of Welcome. He tells her he loves her back, but can't be with her. Obviously, it breaks her heart. Meanwhile, her mother has another baby. For some reason, Liberty is the one who is always taking care of Carrington, waking in the middle of the night to soothe her, feeding her, babysitting her, teaching her. Soon after, her mother dies in a car accident. Liberty is given custody of Carrington, while working to pay the bills and going to school. She moves to Houston after graduating high school where she gets enrolled in beauty school. She gets a great job at a salon, where she eventually meets someone. Without giving away anything, she ends up (9 years later) having to choose between Hardy, who shows back up in her life, and the new guy she's dating, Gage. Just when she finally thought she was getting over Hardy...
I had to read this for a book club, and although I have nothing against romance novels, I was hesitant about reading this one. After the first chapter, I was hooked. The story was easy to read and also very interesting, since it was based in Houston, where I'm from :)
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“Its really romantic, really cute, and really good!!”
Safiyah Sadiq wrote this review Tuesday, September 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“When I first started to read it I enjoyed it. I wanted to know what would happen next, but a few chapters in it got on my nerves. I don't know if it was the way it was written (first-person) or the characters? I'm still not sure. I've liked her other books, so I thought I would give this a try, but it was difficult reading it. One thing that really got me annoyed was how there were a lot of references to Houstonians and Texans. Maybe because I've lived in Houston practically all of my life, but those references annoyed me- especially when I saw more of them through out the book. They distracted me from the story when I was already having trouble getting into it. I want to read the others in the series, but I don't want to have the same thing happen even when they do sound interesting. I might give them a shot later on just because I really like how Lisa Kleypas writes her historicals. I don't want to give up on her contempararies so soon by reading just the one book. I will say that the characters were interesting.”
Flor R wrote this review Sunday, September 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Liberty Jones
Justine B wrote this review Friday, September 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Hardy Cates and Gage Travis
Awesome contemporary novel by Lisa Kleypas. It focuses more on the heroine and her growing up story and the romance story is an extension of that. It's also one where you're not positive who the hero of the story is right away, which I always like.
1st person point of view.”
