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Liked It “Loved this. Although I usually like her historical romances better, this was fun. It involves Kimberly van Dorn, sports PR rep, who has just been fired and bruised from her last job. She goes home to her mother's boarding house to escape. In comes Bo Crutcher, baseball hopeful, who has just...” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “Not sure why I didn't like this one as well as the others in the series, but I think it was because I wished they talked more about the other characters we have become familiar with in the other books. This one just seemed like it centered on Bo & Kim with just a sprinkling about the others. I...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Loved this. Although I usually like her historical romances better, this was fun. It involves Kimberly van Dorn, sports PR rep, who has just been fired and bruised from her last job. She goes home to her mother's boarding house to escape. In comes Bo Crutcher, baseball hopeful, who has just acquired his son, whom he has never seen, from his ex-girlfriend who is being deported. Sad? Yes, but the dialogue and romance is so much fun.”
Marty H wrote this review 2 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This story is of course predictable by reading the book jacket, but once again I enjoy the characters she creates.”
Sunnybrook wrote this review 4 weeks ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“I enjoyed the book but maybe not as much as others in this series. The setting is still beautiful but I am not sure I found the characters or the plot all that believable. Bo and Kim sound like the perfect couple but not very "real". AJ is a nice kid but again the INS raid and the detention of his mom seemed contrived. Not a bad book but I was expecting more. I would like to hear more about Daisy so maybe there will be another book down the road”
Molly B wrote this review Sunday, October 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“really good”
Anne-Paige B wrote this review Thursday, September 17 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“It wasn't my favorite book in this series, but it was worth reading.”
Nicole T wrote this review Monday, June 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“In Fireside he gets an opportunity that he never thought he would get, to play Major league baseball. But at the same time, he gets a frantic call from the mother of his son, and it may just be life changing. For the first time in twelve yea rs he'll have a chance to spend time with son. But he knows next to nothing on raising children.
Wandeca wrote this review Sunday, June 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Kimberly van Dorn, left LA after a rocky relationship with a pro athlete. Not only did the jerk breakup with her, he also fired her. She comes to Willow Lake for some much needed TLC, and her mothers kind support.
Kimberly and Bo soon find that they can help each other. Bo needs help with his imagine, and to get media savvy. And Kimberly wants to get back on her feet. Along the way she helps Bo connect with his son, and loses her heart to both Bo and AJ.
I found myself glued to the couch. I was engrossed. It was fast paced and entertaining. The characters (as usual) were interesting and familiar. It's great to see some of the characters from the previous books. And the newly introduced characters weren't too shabby either. I liked Kim. Her wanting, her needing a change but also her willingness to help Bo not only with his media training but also with his son, spoke volumes in my opinion. Bo grew from a self centered bachelor to caring single father. But the scene stealer of the book was AJ, he was such a courageous boy and it showed with everything he did.”
“Fireside is the sixth book in the Lakeshore Chronicles series and I loved this book as much as the first five. I started reading the series after the first two were released so I read those out of order but it doesn’t matter too much.
Princess Sara wrote this review Wednesday, April 29 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I just love the characters in this book. Kim is a former PR who handled big time sports players, and Bo is a pitcher trying out for the NY Yankees. They are thrown together by chance, in the small town of Avalon, NY where all the books take place.
What I love about these books is that its like visiting with old friends. As you read you meet back up with other characters from other books, and get to find out how they are doing.
Kim left L.A. in the middle of the night, to go back to her childhood home. She had been dumped and fired at the same time. Once arriving back in Avalon she agrees to be Bo’s PR person, and quickly falls in love with him and his son, AJ.
Bo knew he had a son, but it wasn’t until AJ’s mother is deported that he finally gets to meet him. Things are rocky between the two from the beginning, but Bo tries his best to turn that around.
All in all, a great book by Susan Wiggs. I loved that Bo plays baseball which is only the greatest sport ever, my only issue with the book was that he was trying out for the Yankees. I hate the Yankees. But that’s okay, I won’t take any points away for that. *smile*
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“Great book!”
Alicia B wrote this review Tuesday, April 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Not sure why I didn't like this one as well as the others in the series, but I think it was because I wished they talked more about the other characters we have become familiar with in the other books. This one just seemed like it centered on Bo & Kim with just a sprinkling about the others. I just couldn't get too attached or into it.”
Wordsmith Wannabe wrote this review Sunday, March 15 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“While romance is not one of my favorite genres, I found the main characters and their conflicts interesting, three-deminsional, with realistic and timely conflicts. Their love, while it had it's conflicts, did not feel forced or overdone, the way I find it in so many romances.
Marguerite E. W wrote this review Monday, February 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Bo Crutcher, a professional minor league baseball pitcher with a chance at the big leagues, has met his twelve-year-son for the first time when the boy's Hispanic mother is caught up in a government raid for illegal aliens at her place of employment taken place while her son was in school. Placed in an internment camp and threatened with deportation, she has no choice but to send her son to his father whom he has deliberately left out of the boy's life.
So, Bo must suddenly learn to be a dad, and the boy wonders why his father never wanted him. Meanwhile, he misses his mom. Both Bo and the boy try to find ways to clear his mother.
Meanwhile, he and his son reside in a boarding house run by Kimberly's mother. Kimberly, a media consultant for professional athletes, is on the run from her abusive boyfriend and the shame of their very public breakup. She is hired to help Bo deal with the media as he starts his career in big league baseball.
Father, son, and media cunsultant with their seperate conflicts, are thrown together. What follows is a growing affection among the three and love between Kimberly and Bo.
But, in order to reunite his son with his mother and avoid her deportation, will Bo have to leave Kimberly behind and marry the boy's mother so she can obtain her US citizenship?”
