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Jericho
by
Ann McMan (Goodreads Author)
Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho–a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. Her plans to hide out and heal her wounds go by the wayside as she gets drawn into the daily lives of the quirky locals and becomes fast friends with Maddie Stevenson, the enigmatic physician who has returned...more
380 pages
Published
September 2011
by Bedazzled Ink
(first published December 2010)
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I admit that I was reluctant when I started reading this book because it's yet another uber Xena fanfic that's making up of what feels to be 95% of the lesbian romance books. Sadly enough, this is also exactly what I got: glorified fanfiction and not the engaging kind either.
This book suffers from excess. The story would have been better if it'd stopped 100 pages sooner. There are pointless one time point of views in the book that have very little point. Cut those out and I would have felt more...more
This book suffers from excess. The story would have been better if it'd stopped 100 pages sooner. There are pointless one time point of views in the book that have very little point. Cut those out and I would have felt more...more
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I really enjoyed this book, and a good bit of that was because both Syd and Maddie came across as being three dimensional characters. Syd is dealing with a failed marriage and trying to figure out what happens next in her life. As a result, she takes a temporary (18 month) job setting up a library in the rural town of Jericho. In her opinion this is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate her life. While there meets and becomes friends with the local Doctor, Maddie.
The reader gets to go along for...more
The reader gets to go along for...more
Syd Murphy, a librarian, relocates to the little town Jericho in Virginia after her almost-ex-husband cheats on her. A flat tire stops her before she even reaches Jericho, and she's rescued by Maddie Stevenson, Jericho's doctor.
Maddie has returned to Jericho after her father, the local physician, died two years ago and she took over his medical practice.
Syd and Maddie become fast friends, and Syd, who has only planned on staying for eighteen months to set up a library in Jericho, becomes more an...more
Maddie has returned to Jericho after her father, the local physician, died two years ago and she took over his medical practice.
Syd and Maddie become fast friends, and Syd, who has only planned on staying for eighteen months to set up a library in Jericho, becomes more an...more
This is a very long book that earns it's worth. Be sure to pace yourself, if you are one of those readers like me that keeps reading through the night to get to the good stuff. Fortunately, the entire book was engaging as the relationships between the characters builds up. Spending time in the lives of Syd and Maddie as fate goes above and beyond to throw them together, is a fun journey. I've since gone back and read it again, from the beginning and no parts of it were worth skipping over. The w...more
I very much enjoyed this book. The author really takes her time in letting us get to know the characters - to include many of the members of the small community of Jericho. And there are a few good hat tips to Xena & Gabrielle; Jericho was initially posted online as a Xena uber.
Andy and I just got done recording episode 30 of Cocktail Hour and Ann McMan joined us to talk about the book. Her humor definitely comes through in the book. She was a blast to talk with!
She is currently working on...more
Andy and I just got done recording episode 30 of Cocktail Hour and Ann McMan joined us to talk about the book. Her humor definitely comes through in the book. She was a blast to talk with!
She is currently working on...more
Read this originally online and I don't think that there is much difference between the two versions. A few grammar issues still in the published version and the dog got renamed in one paragraph. :) I do believe that there was a short story giving a further epilogue online, plus a very funny short piece the author wrote about the characters taking over the story.
All in all, a great romance. It has a slow build up, but the characters (main and supporting) are well developed and the dialogue is h...more
All in all, a great romance. It has a slow build up, but the characters (main and supporting) are well developed and the dialogue is h...more
This is one of the better romances I've read. The characters were charming. I liked that there wasn't the typical sort of character 'damage' to overcome that can often be found in these types of novels. Some minor issues, which can apply to all novels of this genre, is the overuse of pets (dogs!) and children and moving in together. It gets to be a bit much. Sometimes I wish the characters could just have a relationship without getting too lesbian. That said, it's still a good read.
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I loved it! The characters were well-developed and the story very interesting. I enjoyed the setting, having lived in NC and VA. The depiction of the area was very acurate,aptly describing the beauty of the region. I enjoyed the medical aspects of the book also. Being a nurse, I could identify with the small town troubles encountered in a small private practice. I loved that the general store was portrayed as the town information center. So true to the life experiences that I have had living in...more
Nov 05, 2012
susan
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
anyone who likes romance
Recommended to susan by:
No one
Great book. No need to recap events of the story. I think the characters were well built and very interesting. Sometimes conversation between Maddie and Syd was repetitive, but not a show stopper. Glad to hear there is a sequel popping up this Fall. Can't wait to see how Ann ties up loose ends (especially with lil Henry). Great author. Will definitely follow her career. Second read for me. Will read again - it's that sort of book for me.
A wonderful first novel by Ann McMan. I truly enjoyed the humor and banter between the characters, and I absolutely loved the picture that had been painted of Jericho and its residents. It felt like I was watching a movie!
Which is actually a drawback as well. As much as I love a good Lifetime movie, I felt that this was too simple, too clean. Love is messy. I don't care if you gay, strait, black or purple. Love is messy. Syd and Maddie's relationship was way to perfect, from the first sentence t...more
Which is actually a drawback as well. As much as I love a good Lifetime movie, I felt that this was too simple, too clean. Love is messy. I don't care if you gay, strait, black or purple. Love is messy. Syd and Maddie's relationship was way to perfect, from the first sentence t...more
This is a pretty straightforward, well-written romance. The characters are fully developed and the author takes her time building a believable, solid romance without resorting to the usual romance cliches. The only downsides: an awkward, unnecessary subplot about a stalker, another tacked on subplot about fostering a child one of the women meets on a plane (can we have a lesbian romance without the baby plot please!), and a tendency to write far too much, overly-clever dialog. The only other iss...more
This book is AMAZING and who ever did the cover needs to smacked or shot, it does the book NO justice. One of my all time favorite. If you are a Radclyffe fan and you are worried if it's going to be just as good like I was, well rest assured that this book goes above and beyond.
Enjoyed the first half but the second half seemed to be packed full of action - action which I would rather have seen spread over another book or two. I did enjoy the book, but I truly started to lose interest and had to make myself read the end.
I loved this book! My first book my the author and couldn't put it down!!! I recommend this book highly. Just now started sequel which is aftermath.
One of those books that I couldn't put down simply because I fell in love with all the characters. Can't wait to read Aftermath!
Awesome read. I felt like I was living in the town of Jericho with Syd and Maddie. I like the military storyline too.
I really didn't get these two for the first couple chapters, until they found themselves alone together at Maddie's house and felt all awkward in the speed of their friendship. Then I was sold on their complete adorableness.
Pet peeve: the "I may be writing genre fiction, but I know plenty about fancy things like literature and classical music" thing, far from unique to this book, and fortunately less glaring as it went on. So I guess I shouldn't read books with musicians as main characters, but...more
Pet peeve: the "I may be writing genre fiction, but I know plenty about fancy things like literature and classical music" thing, far from unique to this book, and fortunately less glaring as it went on. So I guess I shouldn't read books with musicians as main characters, but...more
So pleased to finally have a romance novel featuring a librarian protagonist that I can recommend without any reservations.
I liked this so much I was even tempted toward a 5. It's long but the story didn't seem to drag. I really like that the relationship was allowed to develop with all the usual confusion that can go along with a budding relationship. Of course, the main characters in these romances are never frumpy, middle-aged women like me (always hot, overachieving women) but that's ok. I enjoyed David & Michael, the gay male secondary characters. There was a lot of drama at the end but it at least pertaine...more
In spite of myself (and the cover... ah, the old adage...) I really liked it.
The story is funny and once you start reading you don't want to put it down.
I loved this book. I think this will be one of those book I will read again!
One of my favorite lesbian fiction books of the past year!
Great book wonderful story of love
Loved the story, the characters had me constantly smiling. Great read!
Loved the characters and the dialog! My favorite kind of romance -- the kind that grows naturally out of shared values, experience and affinity for each other.
Book club book. This is not a book I would have normally picked up but I know the author. Very good for its genre.
May 20, 2013
Sarah Russell
marked it as to-read
May 20, 2013
Karson
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College at an indifferent liberal arts institution taught Ann McMan that understanding subject/verb agreement was not enough to secure her fame and fortune. After graduation, she got a job driving a young adult bookmobile—and spent her days piloting the great rig across the dusty back roads of rural North Carolina. Her duties included making certain that the mobile library always contained at leas...more
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