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Postcards From Cedar Key (Cedar Key #4)
by
Terri DuLong (Goodreads Author)
Starting a new life in Cedar Key, Florida, Berkley Whitmore, plagued by self-doubt, is delighted when her new store, Berkley's Chocolates & Gems, draws a wide circle of new friends and the admiration of English mystery author Saxton Tate III, giving her the courage to find the truth about her past.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 30th 2012
by Kensington
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I felt like I was slogging through treacle. I like a clean book as well as the next person (maybe even more so, since clean writing is high on my list of desirables) but seriously?
1. Basically no character development. Really, not any character that was memorable or even well defined. And there were so many of them, I felt like I needed a chart just to keep them straight.
2. Tired plot.
3. Cause book - one with an agenda: to educate us about abuse and hemachromawhatever it is.
4. Immature writin...more
1. Basically no character development. Really, not any character that was memorable or even well defined. And there were so many of them, I felt like I needed a chart just to keep them straight.
2. Tired plot.
3. Cause book - one with an agenda: to educate us about abuse and hemachromawhatever it is.
4. Immature writin...more
I had read the others in this series, but it had been a while. I love stories about small towns and how people come together to help each other and that is what this book was mostly about. The main plot, though, is one that is quite common...Berkley Whitmore's mother had a secret that neither she nor Berkley's beloved granmother would reveal. Some mysterious postcards turn up after both women died and Berkley is determined to find out why her mother left her with her grandmother for an entire su...more
Author: Terri DuLong
Title: Postcards from Cedar Key
Description: Berkley, a fortysomething chocolatier, relocates to Cedar Key to find out why her mother had deserted her for a summer when Berkley was five. As she begins to build her life on the island, she makes friends, falls in love, and learns more about what her mother dealt with forty years ago.
Review source: Library Thing Early Reviewers
Plot: The main plot is this question of Berkley’s mother. Fairly early on, Berkley meets a person who co...more
Title: Postcards from Cedar Key
Description: Berkley, a fortysomething chocolatier, relocates to Cedar Key to find out why her mother had deserted her for a summer when Berkley was five. As she begins to build her life on the island, she makes friends, falls in love, and learns more about what her mother dealt with forty years ago.
Review source: Library Thing Early Reviewers
Plot: The main plot is this question of Berkley’s mother. Fairly early on, Berkley meets a person who co...more
3.5 stars
Berkley Whitmore moves home and chocolate store business to Cedar Key from Salem, Mass. Berkley’s relocation is prompted by the discovery of postcards from her recently deceased mother to her grandmother. Her mother spent a summer in Cedar Key forty years ago and the mystery of why is what Berkley hopes to solve. When Saxton Tate III, British mystery author, enters her chocolate shop for his bi-weekly fix Berkley discovers that more than one mystery awaits her in Cedar Key. At forty-six...more
Berkley Whitmore moves home and chocolate store business to Cedar Key from Salem, Mass. Berkley’s relocation is prompted by the discovery of postcards from her recently deceased mother to her grandmother. Her mother spent a summer in Cedar Key forty years ago and the mystery of why is what Berkley hopes to solve. When Saxton Tate III, British mystery author, enters her chocolate shop for his bi-weekly fix Berkley discovers that more than one mystery awaits her in Cedar Key. At forty-six...more
“Secrets, Memories and Revelations Abound”
We first met dark-haired beauty,(with a purple streak),entrepreneur Berkley Whitmore in Ms. DuLong’s “Sunrise on Cedar Key”, when she visited the island, met Grace, Chloe,
Suellen , plus many others, and decided to stay. She made a deal with Chloe to rent the store front of Chloe’s newly acquired building, and in doing so, had the opportunity to reside in its second floor apartment.. With the death of her Mother from Hemochromatosis, came delays in settli...more
We first met dark-haired beauty,(with a purple streak),entrepreneur Berkley Whitmore in Ms. DuLong’s “Sunrise on Cedar Key”, when she visited the island, met Grace, Chloe,
Suellen , plus many others, and decided to stay. She made a deal with Chloe to rent the store front of Chloe’s newly acquired building, and in doing so, had the opportunity to reside in its second floor apartment.. With the death of her Mother from Hemochromatosis, came delays in settli...more
Postcards From Cedar Key by Terri DuLong
Wanted to read this book as I've been following the series and know there are many things I like about it. To me a good book is one that takes me places and I learn something new. This book has done that and so much more.
The knitting - there can never be enough books about knitting. Also the mystery and just the island living how everybody helps one another out when needed.
There is so much I love about this book: chocolates, knitting, crystals, soft shell...more
Wanted to read this book as I've been following the series and know there are many things I like about it. To me a good book is one that takes me places and I learn something new. This book has done that and so much more.
The knitting - there can never be enough books about knitting. Also the mystery and just the island living how everybody helps one another out when needed.
There is so much I love about this book: chocolates, knitting, crystals, soft shell...more
Berkley Whitmore moved to Cedar Key, Florida to open a chocolate shop. She quickly makes new friends, and learns to love her new home. But Berkley moved to Cedar Key for another reason. Her mother lived on the island years ago when Berkley was a child and left Berkley behind. Berkley has never understood why her mother left her and why she went to Cedar Key. Now a series of postcards she found after her mother died, draws Berkley to Cedar Key, hoping to find the answers to her questions about he...more
Best-Kept Secret
Terri DuLong returns with book five of her Cedar Key series: “Postcards from Cedar Key”, which will by far be one of your favorites! Postcards, is a true work of Women’s Fiction that transports you directly to this small close-knit island community where the residents look after each other while welcoming strangers seeking sanctuary. A story filled with heartfelt emotion that holds you captive while slowly revealing a woman’s struggling journey to salvation, providing the truth b...more
Terri DuLong returns with book five of her Cedar Key series: “Postcards from Cedar Key”, which will by far be one of your favorites! Postcards, is a true work of Women’s Fiction that transports you directly to this small close-knit island community where the residents look after each other while welcoming strangers seeking sanctuary. A story filled with heartfelt emotion that holds you captive while slowly revealing a woman’s struggling journey to salvation, providing the truth b...more
Postcards from Cedar Key by Terri Dulong is the first book I have read in this series. I don't know how I had not discovered it before this series is the small town feel I love! I will be on the look out for more from this series.
Berkley Whitmore moves to Cedar Key in search of some answers. What she finds is a wonderful community that she quickly belongs too and grows to love. She's not looking for love but it arrives when she meets Saxton Tate the Third.
I enjoyed watching Berkley search for...more
Berkley Whitmore moves to Cedar Key in search of some answers. What she finds is a wonderful community that she quickly belongs too and grows to love. She's not looking for love but it arrives when she meets Saxton Tate the Third.
I enjoyed watching Berkley search for...more
Rating: 2½ Stars
Berkley Whitmore doesn't know why her mother abandoned her during the summer of 1972, leaving her behind with her grandmother in Massachusetts. Neither woman was willing to talk to Berkley about the reasons for the trip, even after she became an adult.
When her mom passes away, she finds a stack of postcards from the summer in question that lead her to Cedar Key, Florida. Berkley moves to the island and opens a chocolate shop. In between her time working at her store and spinning...more
Berkley Whitmore doesn't know why her mother abandoned her during the summer of 1972, leaving her behind with her grandmother in Massachusetts. Neither woman was willing to talk to Berkley about the reasons for the trip, even after she became an adult.
When her mom passes away, she finds a stack of postcards from the summer in question that lead her to Cedar Key, Florida. Berkley moves to the island and opens a chocolate shop. In between her time working at her store and spinning...more
This book was great from the beginning to the end. It is a Mystery/Romance. I don't like a lot of romance novels but this one was delightful not explicit and not full of sex. Terri DuLong made me feel I was there in Cedar Key and one of the people who lived there. I felt all the characters were my friends too. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is about a woman in her middle age who goes to Cedar Key, FL in search of finding out more about her mother. Only thing she has are some postcards from h...more
DuLong presents many areas that I found interesting. I loved many of the topics detailed from the world of yarn from the animal (alpaca) to the knitting of a piece of clothing. The sense of community spirit made me want to move to Cedar Key where each person is an important part of the town. Even in all this glow of love, loyalty, and compassion; DuLong infuses the results of domestic violence. DuLong does not dwell on domestic violence, but slyly inserts a chapter on this hardship. I feel that...more
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Berkeley (named after the University her parents met at) goes to Cedar Key to find answers to why her mother left her for the summer when she was 5 years old. She owns a chocolate shop and gets to know the locals and build friendships as they visit her shop to purchase chocolates. There are a few topics the book brings up such as judging a person before hearing the full story, knowing someone more after their death then while alive, family secrets, banning a book for it's type of genre and domes...more
I met the author at my little Beach Street Knitting Club when I lived in Daytona Beach, and she's a knitter. There are four books, and this is the fourth one. They are fun reads, and you feel that love she puts into each of her characters. The author lives on Cedar Key - the books' setting. On her website you can see the real places in her books and visit there. It's a beautiful island off the west coast of Florida. http://www.cedarkeyseries.net/ Now, I have to give you an update - she's just fi...more
Enjoyed it very much but book had one major fault. There are too darn many secondary characters and I never could get them straight. There's mothers and daughters and aunts and nieces and cousins etc. Also couldn't place an approximate age on a lot of the characters, ---no clues given. I realize that this is book 4 in a series and I have not read them all. Maybe if one read all in order one would not have this problem. But it did bother me and I even had read one of the earlier books.
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From the book synopsis:
Everyone has been eagerly awaiting the opening of Cedar Key's newest shop, Berkley's Chocolates and Gems. For Berkley Whitmore, movie to the peaceful Florida island is more than a business opportunity. Beneath the bright purple streak in her dark hair lies a woman struggling with self-doubts. In Cedar Key, Berkley hopes to uncover the secrets that rippled through her mother's life, and in time, perhaps fill the gaps in her own.
Berkley's mouthwatering truffles and quirky ch...more
Everyone has been eagerly awaiting the opening of Cedar Key's newest shop, Berkley's Chocolates and Gems. For Berkley Whitmore, movie to the peaceful Florida island is more than a business opportunity. Beneath the bright purple streak in her dark hair lies a woman struggling with self-doubts. In Cedar Key, Berkley hopes to uncover the secrets that rippled through her mother's life, and in time, perhaps fill the gaps in her own.
Berkley's mouthwatering truffles and quirky ch...more
Berkley Whitmore, in her mid-forties moves to Cedar Key, Florida after the death of her mother. While looking thru the house, she discovers a box of postcards sent back and forth between her mother and grandmother. Berkely makes the move to Florida to discover why her mother left her in her grandmother's care while she spent a summer alone in Cedar Key.
Despite her outward confidence, she doubts her ability to have a meaningful relationship. There, Berkley meets Saxton Tate III, a British mystery...more
Despite her outward confidence, she doubts her ability to have a meaningful relationship. There, Berkley meets Saxton Tate III, a British mystery...more
It's always a treat to read Terri DuLong's latest book from Cedar Key, Florida. This year was no different. It's like visiting with long time friends and catching up with what has been going on in this wonderful and caring community.
In Terri's last book we briefly met Berkley Whitmore as she considered opening a chocolate shop on the island. Now, she has moved there, opened her shop and is settling in nicely to the rhythmn of island life.
But Berkley has not just come here from New England for w...more
In Terri's last book we briefly met Berkley Whitmore as she considered opening a chocolate shop on the island. Now, she has moved there, opened her shop and is settling in nicely to the rhythmn of island life.
But Berkley has not just come here from New England for w...more
Mar 02, 2013
Monica
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4 of 5 stars
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I have never read Terri DuLong before so I didn't know what to expect. I found the writing and character development superbly executed. I loved the characters from the beginning. This is the story of Berkley Whitmore.
Berkley finds Cedar Key through postcards that her mother had sent to her grandmother. Berkley was 5 years old when these postcards were sent and living with her grandmother at this time. Postcards from Cedar Key tells the story of Berkley and why her mother had lived in Cedar Key...more
Berkley finds Cedar Key through postcards that her mother had sent to her grandmother. Berkley was 5 years old when these postcards were sent and living with her grandmother at this time. Postcards from Cedar Key tells the story of Berkley and why her mother had lived in Cedar Key...more
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NY Times & USA Today bestselling author of the Cedar Key Series. Debut novel, Lost Souls of the Witches' Castle, was released by a small press in 2002. Based on the mental facility north of Boston where I did my Psychiatric RN training, it weaves the story of a love both past and present. Since the press closed, Lost Souls is no longer in print, but is now available in eBook on both Kindle and...more
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