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Revised and expanded for this new trade paperback edition, Karen White's novel t... read full description
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Aug 06, 2011
Staci
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This book has it all....a great family story, love, heartbreak, secrets, humor, sadness....and it's written beautifully. I finished this book in one day and resented whatever chore took me away from reading. I absolutely loved spending time with these characters and the town of Walton. It made me a bit nostalgic for my childhood days and upbringing. I lived in a small town where everyone knew you and your parents. If you were misbehaving your mom knew about it before yo More...
This book has it all....a great family story, love, heartbreak, secrets, humor, sadness....and it's written beautifully. I finished this book in one day and resented whatever chore took me away from reading. I absolutely loved spending time with these characters and the town of Walton. It made me a bit nostalgic for my childhood days and upbringing. I lived in a small town where everyone knew you and your parents. If you were misbehaving your mom knew about it before yo More...
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Aug 06, 2011
After having read a few Karen White books, I have to confess that I have fallen in love with her writing style and how her stories always seem to warm and touches my heart. Needless to say, when the publicist contacted me and asked if I would like to review Karen White's Falling Home, I didn't even have to think about it.
As the title indicated, Falling Home is a coming home story. However, there are more to it than about just having the protagonist coming home; it is also a story ab More...
As the title indicated, Falling Home is a coming home story. However, there are more to it than about just having the protagonist coming home; it is also a story ab More...
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Aug 06, 2011
Anita
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Lately I have been very choosey about ARCs that I agree to read. I find that it is a very narrow road for me, whether I will like a book or not, and I am not the kind of person who enjoys simply saying "I do not like this book," because someone took the time and energy to create the characters and the story and write it. Inevitably there are people who will like it, it's just in that instant, it wasn't me. This is a horrible way to preface this entry, because this is not what happen
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Jan 21, 2011
Kim
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For the most part, the plot was entirely predictable (and seemed like a pretty close cousin to "Sweet Home Alabama"). But it was so beautifully written, that I let the author take me there. Even if I saw what was coming, I still wanted to be swept away into the world that White creates. White does "Southern" very well, both aptly poking fun at some of the things we do and yet maintaining the integrity of the things we southerners hold so dear.
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Jan 03, 2012
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Dec 18, 2011
I read this as part of a library book club in which I served as the staff presenter. This book was chosen before I came on board. Our group was somewhat divided on the judgment of this book, but to my delight, about 90 percent of them loathed it, or massive parts of it. Let me summarize -
Main character's father dies and leaves house to her. She leaves NYC and fiance to return to the South to sell said home.
Childhood classmate turns into adult hottie and doctor (who oddly More...
Main character's father dies and leaves house to her. She leaves NYC and fiance to return to the South to sell said home.
Childhood classmate turns into adult hottie and doctor (who oddly More...
Nov 17, 2011
Molli
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Cassie and Harriet are sisters that were separated by betrayal on one end and a need to distance themselves, become their own person. A broken heart and the bitter pill of guilt are hard things to endure and eventually ware on the two sisters. Being no longer able to cope with these things Cassie flees her home town and tries to put behind her the tragedies she has endured as well as the people who created them.
They live with this for years until one fateful day tragedy strikes their fa More...
They live with this for years until one fateful day tragedy strikes their fa More...
May 20, 2011
Krissy
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Imagine a Hallmark movie, but as a book. If you don't know what I mean by that, let me assure you that the Hallmark channel has tons of movies that center around some of these same themes: big city is bad, career-oriented thinking is bad...well, you get the picture. The following quote stunned me:
"Her MBA training and years of working in New York had taught her to ignore the twinge of conscience."
All this time, I thought an MBA was an accomplishment for the hard- More...
"Her MBA training and years of working in New York had taught her to ignore the twinge of conscience."
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Nov 26, 2010
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Falling Home by Karen White
Contemporary Romance -Nov. 2nd, 2010
3 1/2 stars
When Cassie’s sister, Harriett, eloped with Cassie’s fiance, Cassie left Walton, Georgia and never looked back. For fifteen years, Cassie stayed in New York, burying herself with work and reinvented herself. She got rid of her Southern accent and her penchant for eating fried foods. She never went back home to visit and refused to keep in contact with her sister or her family. Now fifteen years late More...
Contemporary Romance -Nov. 2nd, 2010
3 1/2 stars
When Cassie’s sister, Harriett, eloped with Cassie’s fiance, Cassie left Walton, Georgia and never looked back. For fifteen years, Cassie stayed in New York, burying herself with work and reinvented herself. She got rid of her Southern accent and her penchant for eating fried foods. She never went back home to visit and refused to keep in contact with her sister or her family. Now fifteen years late More...
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May 19, 2010
Crista
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Falling Home is one of the few romance novels that I've read that reads in some ways more like women's fiction. This is really Cassie's story, not Cassie and Sam's story.
This is a story about a woman coming home to the small town she left after her sister married her boyfriend...(I know..a very icky premise!) She's come in response to her dying father's last wish.
I pretty much had to force my way through the first half..I would've given it 1 star...it was very slow, not More...
This is a story about a woman coming home to the small town she left after her sister married her boyfriend...(I know..a very icky premise!) She's come in response to her dying father's last wish.
I pretty much had to force my way through the first half..I would've given it 1 star...it was very slow, not More...
Feb 06, 2012
Julie
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Jul 27, 2011
Linda
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What did I think ? I think this was a 2-3 borderline. Had I read this first, I never would have read "On Folly Beach" which was a favorite 2011 of mine.
Ms. White says that this is a rewritten version of this earlier published book of hers. That does not speak well of the first !
It is, basically, the story of the on again, off again romance between Cassie and Sam, the reunion of Cassie w/her sister,and small-town life with all it's charm and frustrations. There is de More...
Ms. White says that this is a rewritten version of this earlier published book of hers. That does not speak well of the first !
It is, basically, the story of the on again, off again romance between Cassie and Sam, the reunion of Cassie w/her sister,and small-town life with all it's charm and frustrations. There is de More...
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Aug 15, 2011
Lorraine
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I just finally got to read this book that I got while visiting Jefferson, Texas. I enjoyed this book very much. I had never read anything by this author and I really enjoyed her writing style, humor, and easy flow. This book is about a young woman, Cassie, who comes home to Georgia after exiling herself for 15 years. She moves to New York to leave her little town of Walton, Georgia and begins a new life. Her father is dying and she returns, but is very hesitant and wants to forget her old lif
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May 07, 2011
Mary Anne
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I really enjoyed the story of Cassie who had left her small town after her sister Harriet eloped with Cassie's boyfriend and didn't go back for fifteen years. When she did go back it was at the request of ehr father who was dying. During her time back home, Cassie is forced to re-evaluate her life in NYC, her fiance, and her feelings about ehr sister and her hometown. Although the books is somewhat predictable, I could not put it down. I loved the dialogue between Cassie & Sam, the town doct
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Dec 06, 2011
Chris
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I picked up this book after reading recommendations on Amazon in hopes of finding a new author I'd like. No such luck. The main character was not very likable and the situations EXTREMELY unrealistic. This is a rewrite of a book the author originally wrote 10 years earlier. She said she was so much happier with this one because she removed the melodrama from it. Um...nope. My first and last Karen White book. The mystery is why I hung in there through all 437 pages of this. Probably for th
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Feb 14, 2011
Cheryl
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Fifteen years ago, Cassie Madison left Walton, Georgia with no intention of returning. She moved to New York City and reinvented herself, leaving no trace of the Southern girl who played pranks for attention.
But then the call came.
Cassie's father was dying and he refused to leave this world without seeing her one more time. The passing years haven't helped heal the broken heart Cassie suffered when her sister, Harriet, ran off with her fiance, Joe and got married. They ha More...
But then the call came.
Cassie's father was dying and he refused to leave this world without seeing her one more time. The passing years haven't helped heal the broken heart Cassie suffered when her sister, Harriet, ran off with her fiance, Joe and got married. They ha More...
Jan 25, 2011
Becky
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This book felt like a cross between Hope Floats, Sweet Home Alabama and any number of Lifetime Original Movies. Cassie was aggravating and for the life of me I can't figure out why they didn't just let her leave town again. Also I found the sub-plots a bit fantastical and unnecessary to the story - there was enough drama without them being included. It sounds like I hated this book but I didn't. I couldn't put it down. It was like popcorn - you know you should stop because there is no redeeming
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Dec 30, 2011
Michelle
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I was pleasantly surprised by this book. Yes, it started out not unlike every other "fish-out-of-water" story (Cassie being the fish, who once belonged in the novel's quaint, southern town of Walton, Georgia but who has now found herself vastly different from its inhabitants) but, as the story progressed, I found myself immensely connected to White's characters and the struggles they face. Heck, I even found myself tearing up a number of times throughout the book, which is as uncommon
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Jan 17, 2012
Julie (julie37619)
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I was particularly excited to read this novel knowing that it was a re-write of an earlier novel. The author and I talked about it some in our interview, and she also included a note in the opening pages of the book. She originally released the book from one point of view, but, when she re-wrote, she included two other characters' voices as well. And for me, that completely made the book. I loved hearing not only from Cassie, but also from Harriet and Maddie. I can't imagine t More...
I was particularly excited to read this novel knowing that it was a re-write of an earlier novel. The author and I talked about it some in our interview, and she also included a note in the opening pages of the book. She originally released the book from one point of view, but, when she re-wrote, she included two other characters' voices as well. And for me, that completely made the book. I loved hearing not only from Cassie, but also from Harriet and Maddie. I can't imagine t More...
Jan 14, 2012
Jessica
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Aug 06, 2011
Cheryl
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Cassie Madison was awaken by the ringing of the telephone. Nothing good comes from a ringing phone in the middle of the night. Cassie answers the phone to hear her estranged sister, Harriet’s voice. Harriet informs Cassie that their father had a heart attack and he is dying. Their father wants both of his girls home.
Cassie has not been back home in a very long time. It is almost too painful for Cassie to consider the though of coming home as Harriet married Cassie’s boyfriend, Joe. C More...
Cassie has not been back home in a very long time. It is almost too painful for Cassie to consider the though of coming home as Harriet married Cassie’s boyfriend, Joe. C More...
Aug 06, 2011
Laurel-Rain
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Cassie Madison has successfully reinvented herself in New York as an advertising executive and the fiancée of a man with whom she shares dreams of a life of work and mutual goals.
A late-night phone call takes her back to her small town roots in Walton, Georgia, to see her dying father and the family she fled from all those years ago. The only thing more frightening than losing her father, however, is seeing her sister Harriet—the one who betrayed her and stole her fiancé to marry hi More...
A late-night phone call takes her back to her small town roots in Walton, Georgia, to see her dying father and the family she fled from all those years ago. The only thing more frightening than losing her father, however, is seeing her sister Harriet—the one who betrayed her and stole her fiancé to marry hi More...
Aug 06, 2011
Heather
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Cassie Madison was a small town girl with big city dreams. After a she learns that her sister and her boyfriend have fallen in love and eloped together, she runs away from her small town of Walton to chase those big dreams, never giving it a second thought until the phone call comes that changes everything.
Returning to her childhood home 15 years later to attend to her ailing father, Cassie must finally face old hurts and learn to forgive and forget, or run away once more. But this tim More...
Returning to her childhood home 15 years later to attend to her ailing father, Cassie must finally face old hurts and learn to forgive and forget, or run away once more. But this tim More...
Aug 06, 2011
Lisa
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In the last few years, I have become a big fan of Karen White's work, so when I received a copy of FALLING HOME in the mail unexpectedly, I was beyond thrilled. I had recently read (and loved) ON FOLLY BEACH, so I was sure I was in for another terrific story. Here's a quick rundown, but don't worry, I won't give anything away . . .
Cassie Madison is the protagonist in this story of family, love and sometimes, regret. She has been living in New York City for fifteen years since leaving h More...
Cassie Madison is the protagonist in this story of family, love and sometimes, regret. She has been living in New York City for fifteen years since leaving h More...
Mar 23, 2011
Jessica
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I really enjoyed reading this chick-flick style book. It made me laugh and relax about my southern family who expect to be involved in every aspect of my life (and who say it is unthinkable for me to ever move out of the state again). I related to it on a lot of levels. On the other hand, it exaggerated the differences between northerners and southern folks so much that it became unrealistic. I would definitely recommend it as a good beach read.
Aug 01, 2011
Dixie
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I needed a "chick lit" book after reading that previous gruesome serial killer story and this was perfect! Cassie leaves town after her boyfriend & sister run away & get married. She comes back home 15 years later, as her father is gravely ill. She meets her sister's family for the first time in all those years. Small town, charming book, with a little mystery thrown in. The ending made me cry several times.
Sep 13, 2011
Ronya
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Not good. Not bad. Totally predictable. Disregard the cover art--I think it's been redesigned since the author "revised" the book a few years ago. Never heard of an author taking an already popular book and modernizing it. But I guess it worked for her. Chick lit, for sure--love, loss, betrayal, family drama, love triangles, eccentric townspeople, mismanaged expectations...this book has it all.
Oct 23, 2011
Nancy
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This one was recommended to me by a friend who has very similar taste in books, so I was really looking forward to it. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it or my expectations were too high, but Falling Home didn't do much for me. It was fine. I didn't dislike it. But it was predictable and the heroine tended to irritate me at times. I won't remember it at all by this time next year.
Aug 17, 2011
Kami
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Perfect summer read for a hot August day. Made me laugh and cry and feel grateful for family and forgiveness and love. Predictable yes, but the tall glass of ice cold lemonade you drink to get to the bottom is satisfying. The one I read had a different cover and apparently it is an updated version (tighter language) so you might want to find the one with a different front cover.....
