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May 20, 2011

Darlene rated it:

Did you love the movie "You've Got Mail"? If you did you will love this book even more. Story of a young woman whose parents die when she is 5 and is sent to live with her aunt, uncle and two beautiful cousins. She feels ugly next to her beauty pagent winning cousins and only blooms when she goes to college and meets a young man. They become engaged but when she takes him home he falls for one of her cousins and 6 days before their wedding she catches them together. Heartbroken sh More...

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May 01, 2011

Tamara rated it:

SEASIDE LETTERS was an amusing read. Nothing really deep, but entertaining just the same.

After her ex-fiancé and cousin betray her by falling in love with each other, Sabrina Kincaid chooses the touristy town of Nantucket to start over. While waitressing, she finds herself falling for Tucker McCabe one of her regular customers. Gun-shy regarding men, she keeps her feelings for Tucker to herself and instead, distracts herself with her second job as a research assistant for a local au More...

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Oct 14, 2010

mary rated it:

I liked this book, but I did feel myself getting a little impatient for it to wrap up already. It felt like it went a little longer then needed. She was really stubborn and although I could see her point of view, it started to seem spread too thin. I found myself thinking, "enough already." As Hanah Montana (not really a fan, but...) sang, "Nobody's perfect", and yet this girl just kept rehashing this one reason- grant it was a huge reason, but she would not allow herself More...

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Apr 28, 2010

Cafelilybookreviews rated it:

Sabrina Kincaid (Sweetpea), a server at the Cobblestone Café, finds herself in a tangled web when she strikes up an internet relationship with a regular customer, Tucker McCabe (Harbormaster).

What Sabrina doesn't know is that Tucker intentionally initiated contact via "Nantucket Chat" in an effort to get closer to Sabrina, after overhearing she was a member there.

Reminiscent of Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in “You’ve Got Mail”, this love story incorporates More...

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Apr 21, 2010

Janel rated it:

just finished reading this one last night. I enjoyed it but wasn't as impressed with the story as I was with The Convenient Groom. (I forgot to say that reading TCG made me want to visit Nantucket very badly...i started planning a trip in fact.) This story revolves around an email relationship that a man and women have and a real relationship that a man and woman have. The trouble is the other one doesn't know that the other knows who they are....in the email relationship...because they are the More...

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Feb 14, 2010

Jeanette rated it:

I love Denise Hunter's books. Seaside Letters is Hunter's third book in the Nantucket Love Story collection...and was just as great if not better than the first two. It had me drawn in from page one...sometimes fiction books are a little slow at the beginning as they develop the characters, but Hunter has a way of reeling you in from the beginning. I finished the book in one day (and I was watching 3 kids while I did it)...granted I stayed up until 1am to finish it and woke up a little tired... More...

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Jan 04, 2010

Laura rated it:

***I received this book from the Amazon Vine program***

Sabrina Kincaid has been left too many times. She's given up on finding love and is settling for a comfortable email relationship. Tucker McCabe wants a relationship, so he enlists Sabrina to find the woman he who he is emailing. He has fallen in love with her and wants to meet her in person. Sabrina only agreed because she is that woman and doesn't want Tucker to know.

This is not the first Denise Hunter book in the N More...

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Dec 03, 2009

Lori rated it:

My Synopsis: Sabrina Kincaid is a waitress at Cobblestone Cafe, and a part-time research assistant for Renny, a local mystery writer. She's been through some very tragic experiences in her short life. They have caused her to become a timid person, who lacks self-confidence, and feels like she is unlovable because of them.

Tucker McCabe is the owner of Cap'n Tucker's Water Taxi, and is head over heels in love with "Sweetpea" ~ his best friend online ~ who has stolen his heart More...

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Oct 27, 2009

Nora rated it:

At first this book reminded me of the movie, You’ve Got Mail, with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. It’s similar because it talks about an online relationship but brings in so many more twists and turns—it’s great!

Denise Hunter has a note to her readers, it says, “I’m so thankful to have a God who seeks me out, one who persistently pursues me—despite my efforts to hide and build walls—and lavishes love on me like I’m his only child.” What a insight into this creative story.

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Oct 30, 2009

Princess Bookie rated it:

My Thoughts: Whoa. I had seen this book on goodreads, one of my friends were reading it. So I knew I had to read it. I loved the description. We are introduced to Sabrina and we get to know her as a person, we find out why she is the way she is (scared of relationships) and why she keeps herself shut down from everyone. We than meet Tucker, who is in love with Sweetpea (aka Sabrina). The chemistry is there from the get go, even though she does not know he knows that he is talking to her (Sabrina More...

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May 23, 2010

Sally rated it:

Sabrina never intended to fall in love with Tucker McCabe, the man she serves coffee to every morning at a Nantucket cafe - especially since he's unwittingly tied to a past she deeply regrets. But she's fallen hard, though she keeps her feelings a secret.

When Tucker learns Sabrina is the research assistant for a local mystery writer, he asks Sabrina to help him with a little sleuthing of his own... locating an elusive woman he's fallen for online.

If Sabrina accepts the jo More...

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Jan 09, 2010

Kelly rated it:

Denise Hunter is the award-winning and best-selling author of several books including: Surrender Bay, The Convenient Groom, and Sweetwater Gap. She resides with her husband and three sons in Indiana.

Sabrina Kincaid never meant to fall in love with Tucker McCabe. Every morning she had been serving coffee to him at a Nantucket café, trying to ignore his smile and the way it made her heart flop. When Tucker wants to hire her to find an elusive woman he’s fallen in love with online thro More...

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Jan 03, 2010

Cherise rated it:

Sabrina went to Nantucket, leaving her old life behind, after an emotional upheaval that left her bruised internally. For the past year she has been working in a café as a waitress and on her off hours having a rewarding email relationship with a man. They haven’t exchanged real names; she is known only as sweet pea and he only as Harbormaster. Sabrina, however, has known the identity of her online love interest for a long while now; he’s none other than her daily coffee customer, Tucker.
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Feb 23, 2010

Casey rated it:

A young woman running from poor judgement, a young man falling in love, searching for the woman he know is hidden under the tough exterior layer.
The last thing Sabrina Kincaid wants to do is find the woman Tucker McCabe has fallen in love with through an Internet chat room. But to refuse is to put herself in a worse bind- because that woman is her! And Tucker holds the key to her worst secret, a secret if revealed will ruin their "relationship" for eternity.
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Dec 31, 2011

Kaitlin rated it:

This was a really cute and easy read. The story follows Sabrina and Tucker - the book reminded me a lot of the movie You've Got Mail actually. Sabrina is working as a waitress during the day and helping another woman, Renny, write stories at night. Sabrina has been hurt in the past when her fiancee and cousin fell in love only days before he was supposed to get married to Sabrina. Now, Sabrina writes emails to someone else who lives in Nantucket and they have developed a great friendship and hav More...

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Jan 08, 2012

Nancy rated it:

Sabrina is a waitress in a Nantucket cafe. Tucker runs a boating tour company and comes to the cafe for coffee every morning. They meet in an online chat room and form a friendship. When Tucker sends his picture to her, Sabrina realizes that she knows him from the cafe. Unfortunately, he is tied to mistakes she has made in her past and she decides he must never find out who she is.

Tucker knows who Sabrina is, but wants her to reveal herself. Not knowing the secret of her past in More...

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Dec 05, 2009

Carman rated it:

Seaside Letters is now one of my favorite books by Denise Hunter. Sabrina is a character that I believe all women today can connect with and understand. Tucker is SO full of love and integrity, and is just trying to get Sabrina to open up to him and trust him. Throughout the whole book Denise shows the incredible love that God has for each of us. How He longs for a personal relationship with us, and wants us to trust Him with every fear, insecurity, and hope that we have. I loved this book. I th More...

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Feb 21, 2010

Stephany rated it:

This was a good book, although it seemed a little dated. The book was written in 2009 and while the two protagonists met in a chat room, they had an e-mail relationship, which seemed more of an instant-messanger relationship. They would often "chat on e-mail" giving each other one or two word answers sometimes.

I think the author tried to make the female character a lot more troubled and standoffish that she needed to be, or else she didn't quite give her enough history to More...

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Jul 25, 2010

Annalisa rated it:

This is part of Denise Hunters Nantucket books and I swear I can still smell the salt in the air from the island. This is a fun book about a waitress Sabrina and one of her customers Tucker. Tucker has always lived on the island while Sabrina is from the south. While interacting with her at the cafe Tucker is determined to build a relationship with her so he seeks her out at a Nantucket online forum and they begin an internet relationship of sorts. After sending her a picture of himself he knows More...

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Mar 05, 2011

Charlene rated it:

Denise Hunter's writing is outstanding. She pulled me in with just a handful of words. I gave this book only 3 stars because the heroine -- although she was well-written, (perhaps too well-written!) -- really wasn't likable. Of course, that is just MY opinion and plenty of readers disagree with me. They have that right. I am just not into weak females who whine and wallow in self-pity and aren't in the least bit pro-active when it comes to facing life's challenges.

I loved the mes More...

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Nov 03, 2010

Sara rated it:

Nice idea for a book, but somewhat lacking in storyline, especially being a Christian book: After Sabrina gets dumped by her fiance for her cousin, she goes to Nantucket to use her would have been honeymoon tickets. She begins to write online anonymously to a man, Tucker, who she knows from a cafe where she waitresses. That storyline is fine. What I did not like was that Sabrina depressed from being dumped, gets drunk and has a one night stand with someone she just met in a bar. It just see More...

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Oct 08, 2011

Melissa rated it:

This book is a Cinderella meets You’ve Got Mail story. Sabrina is running from her past…she is an orphan that ends up living with her Aunt and Uncle who force her into beauty pageants like her beautiful cousins…only she is an “ugly duckling” compared to her cousins. She ends up in Nantucket, because she is on her Honeymoon alone…because, of course, her beautiful cousin has stolen her groom. While being depressed she drinks a bottle of champagne then heads to the bar to do shots runs into a hu More...

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Jan 22, 2011

Joy rated it:

Seaside Letters was everything I want in a romance. It grabbed me from the first chapter with angst and emotion and kept me glued to my seat until the book finished some three hundred pages and a couple of hours later. I did not get up to get a drink, I did not get a snack. I did not answer my cell phone. I just sat there and read the entire novel in one sitting.

This is the kind of book that makes me LOVE romance (and yes, all caps required). The heroine was vulnerable and wary. The More...

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Oct 11, 2009

Michelle rated it:

I read Seaside Letters straight through in one day, and as busy as I am that is no small feat. Every time I pick up a romance by Denise Hunter I know I will get an awesome allegory about God's love for us. This story did just what I expected. It showed how we try to hide the truth about ourselves when all along Jesus knows who we are and he's just waiting for us to be real with Him and trust Him. And like Sabrina in the story, we don't understand how we can be forgiven. Yet, Christ woos us More...

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Jun 15, 2011

Aimee rated it:

Really like this author, but this book was painfully slow to read. The pretense was extremely annoying: She knew it was he, He knew is was she, but she didn't know that he knew. Yup, imagine that...and she really had personal issues that built an almost impenatrable wall around her heart - supposed to be an allegory/metaphor for our relationship with Christ (he pursues us and forgives us all). Sometimes I just like a story to be a story and not necessarily something deeper.

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Dec 27, 2009

Jennifer rated it:

I did like this book--just maybe not as much as her other books. Like some of her other books, she stretched the "coincidence" factor here--connecting her characters in present day "randomly", yet they are connected (unbeknownst to them) through incidents in their pasts. Yet, she is such a great author, that you have to forgive her and just go with the story. Overall, a great read, it just took me a little longer to get through it then it usually takes me to get through he

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Jan 23, 2012

Connie rated it:

This started out as a really cute story and I was loving it until the middle of the book where the main character gets drunk and has an overnight affair with a married man. That ruined the whole rest of the book for me. Not necessary. It could have been written differently to get a point across. Her previously books I've read "The Convenient Groom" and "A Cowboys Touch" were squeaky clean and SO good compared to this one.

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Mar 30, 2011

Brenda rated it:

I picked this book up at a charity store because the summary on the back sounded so good. I found the story to be very "run-of-the-mill." There were very few curves in the story. I got a little frustrated with the main characters because neither one of them wanted to hurt the other. Sometimes you have to hurt so you can move on. I did pick-up a few other books written by this author, but I am not rushing into reading them.

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Feb 17, 2010

Aimee rated it:

There were lots of things I really enjoyed about this book. I've read quite a few books by this author and I've liked them all. Wow, what was Tucker? Some sort of dream? We could use a few more guys like Tucker in this world. I felt like the resolution was so sudden at the end of the book, it almost didn't make sense. And I really do feel like there was no resolution in some ways regarding the sister in law.

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Jan 16, 2010

Ellen rated it:

this book was really good. It's pretty much just like any other romance. You want to slap the main characters because they can't come out and say what they feel. But i definitely recommend it. I read in just a few days, it's an easy read. Nice story line and it really made sense, all of it. once you got a little tidbit of information it fit in with everything else that was all ready written or to come.

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