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One Night in Boston (One Night #1)
by
Allie Boniface (Goodreads Author)
Can anything really change in 24 hours? Can everything? Maggie Doyle is about to lose her home, her business, and her last grip on sanity unless she comes up with fifteen thousand dollars to pay off the bank. Her only option? Forget the pain of one life-altering night, find the stepbrother she hasn't spoken to in years and ask him for help. Everything in Jack Major's life...more
Paperback, 304 pages
Published
May 1st 2008
by Samhain Publishing
(first published May 1st 2007)
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I give this something between 3 and 4 stars. I enjoyed the story but the weird style and flash backs turned me off. Plus I wanted to slap the heroine many times but I guess for the story to work she had to be an idiot.
I was a little dubious about whether I would enjoy a story set over 24 hours as I’ve never read anything like it before but I have to say I was pleasantly surprised.
Maggie is a very confused and desperate person who has one last chance to contact her step brother to see if he is willing to help her so she doesn’t lose everything. She has had a complicated life that never seems to go right for her.
Jack lost the love of his life when Maggie left him but he picked up the pieces and carried on, bury...more
Maggie is a very confused and desperate person who has one last chance to contact her step brother to see if he is willing to help her so she doesn’t lose everything. She has had a complicated life that never seems to go right for her.
Jack lost the love of his life when Maggie left him but he picked up the pieces and carried on, bury...more
Maggie has not had an easy life. She has loved and lost and, with lots of regrets, feels as if she has come out stronger on the other side of life. When parental responsibilities and life changes catch up with her, she draws on memories from her past – both the good and the bad, and goes looking for the one chance she thinks she has left to help her.
Jack Major, from a good family, best of education, and with more regret than you can shake a stick at, has made a name for himself. Even though he’s...more
Jack Major, from a good family, best of education, and with more regret than you can shake a stick at, has made a name for himself. Even though he’s...more
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[my rating is really 3.5 stars:]
This was a cute book. I liked the ensemble cast and how the story all came together in the end.
Its been a while since I shed a tear in a book, and while I am a total softie, there were some parts that will pull at your heartstrings.
Alot of people didn't like the flashbacks in the book. I have to admit, while they didn't really bother me, sometimes it did feel like there was more flashback than current story.
But all in all, a sweet book.
This was a cute book. I liked the ensemble cast and how the story all came together in the end.
Its been a while since I shed a tear in a book, and while I am a total softie, there were some parts that will pull at your heartstrings.
Alot of people didn't like the flashbacks in the book. I have to admit, while they didn't really bother me, sometimes it did feel like there was more flashback than current story.
But all in all, a sweet book.
This book was a good read. It was sweet and has a good ending. The characters are well written and very realistic. It has all kinds of emotions and feelings like loss, insecurity, anger, forgiveness, and love. Maggie, Jack, and Dillon are brought together through many hardships that seem almost unsurpassable. The dilemmas in Maggie���s life push the story on and everyone can reminisce and appeal to the remembered or regretted pasts and the chance that some things are no longer a possibility. Jac...more
While I found this book to be quite predictable and the circumstances a little too coincidental, I enjoyed reading it. I liked the author's writing style; it's easy to read, which is a good thing when you're just looking to be entertained for a couple days. I gave it above three stars not because I thought it was a really great story, but because it lightened my mood and served its purpose of entertaining me for a while.
I'm only giving this one the 'ok' rating. I thought the delivery was weak and could have been much stronger if the author went into past events a little more. Some of the flashbacks were the most interesting parts. I found myself skimming pages without really loosing any of the storyline, which is always disappointing for me.
Maggie is about to lose her home and her business. She decides to go to Boston to find her long lost step-brother and ask him for a loan. While there she re-unites with Jack, but his agency is trying to buy out her house and business to build a new company extension. Lots of drama ensues.
This is yet another free Kindle book I added back in 2010 and then never got around to. This book had no real redeeming qualities. It was a totally ridiculous book with no real redeeming characters, and a story that's been told over and over again.
Girl and Boy fall in love. Girl has secret, so Girl breaks up with Boy. Girl and Boy still love each other....chaos ensues to allow Boy to save Girl.
This book was just plain dumb. Also, since when do people wear wedding rings on their third fingers...more
Girl and Boy fall in love. Girl has secret, so Girl breaks up with Boy. Girl and Boy still love each other....chaos ensues to allow Boy to save Girl.
This book was just plain dumb. Also, since when do people wear wedding rings on their third fingers...more
I picked this book up as a free ebook from AllRomanceeBooks. Since it was free I wasn't expecting a lot, but I have to say that I really enjoyed the book. The main character did get on my nerves at times, but it was still a good book.
I hate myself a bit for reading this. Even more for liking it. Romantic drivel if I ever read some. White knight saves damsel in distress. Barf. But I did swoon a bit. Stupid drivel.
Free on Amazon Kindle.
Free on Amazon Kindle.
Reminded me of one of those commercials where the whole idea is to make you shed a tear. I didn't really connect with the characters & skimmed lots of the book.
It was okay, the ending could have been better. There was room for at least another chapter to clear up or at least face the issues that were left open.
Surprisingly liked this one. Wasn't what I expected when I opened it up, but enjoyable in the end. Almost didn't feel like there was enough of the book. I would have liked it to be a bit longer and better fleshed out.
I love romances about reuniting with "the one who got away." Pretty light reading, but lots of character development. For such a short book, I actually fell in love with the main characters. Nice, quick enjoyable read.
I picked this because of its geographical location-nice story and everyone lives happily ever after. Good read for the beach!
something to read while on the treadmill. bit of life imitating art. good fiction writing is so very difficult.
It had it's good points. It kind of was agonizing getting to the point where they recognized each other.
Very cute love story. This was a free book I had on my Kindle. Would definitely read more by this author.
Another freebie on Kindle - I would read more from this author; easy read in one evening for me.
The concept of a book that takes place over the period of no more than twenty-four hours could be a good one, in the hands of a talented author. However, Boniface is not a talented author.
The characterization was lacking, the circumstances contrived, and the execution of the plot was just that: an execution. I was relieved when I finished the book so I could move on to something better.
This is the first, and almost certainly the last novel I will read by Allie Boniface.
The characterization was lacking, the circumstances contrived, and the execution of the plot was just that: an execution. I was relieved when I finished the book so I could move on to something better.
This is the first, and almost certainly the last novel I will read by Allie Boniface.
Much happened in 24 hours, disaster, misunderstandings, but it all works out in a charming romance.
Worth the read, but not fabulous.
A light read.
3.5 stars
I did enjoy this book - as a matter of fact I lost a little sleep last night because I had reached the part of the story I found hard to put down. There were a number of events and people in this young women's life to keep the interest, wondering how things would change in the following pages.
This book was written by a Homer High School graduate. She was the daughter of Emily's guidance counselor. The book was well done. It contained a romance, a famiy torn apart, and a former love who the main character runs into ten years after they split up. It was a decent read and I would read future books written by her.
As a resident of metro Boston, I did not appreciate how, at one point, our heroine is stuck in a traffic jam at the Boylston T Stop, and more than one hour later was not only still in the city but also on local roads instead of 93 South (as she was heading towards RI). A quick and easy read.
I don't remember this book, but I didn't give it a very high star-rating on Amazon.
Very light reading...
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Allie was born and raised in a very small town in upstate New York, which probably explains her fascination with the magic of small town life.
She earned her B.A. in English, with a minor in Education, from the University of Rochester in New York and then moved to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she earned her M.A. in English Literature.
Since 1997, Allie has enjoyed life...more
More about Allie Boniface...
She earned her B.A. in English, with a minor in Education, from the University of Rochester in New York and then moved to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she earned her M.A. in English Literature.
Since 1997, Allie has enjoyed life...more
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