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Loving (Bailey Flanigan #4)
by Karen Kingsbury
by Karen Kingsbury
SO SO SO disappointed. I feel duped!
I've been a Karen Kingsbury fan for so long. I've read every book of hers that includes the Baxter family and have felt like I've invested myself in so much of this story.
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I am saddened that she had trouble separating her real life from fiction. The Bailey series feels like Dayne and Katy Part II, aka Kelsey and Kyle's real life. All along we've been set up that Cody and Bailey are meant for each other. It was pretty obvious from the start of Loving where it was going, but I kept holding out hope that something would change.
I feel disappointed at how Karen minimized Bailey and Cody's relationship, saying that it was just a school girl crush and that Cody could never love Bailey. Even Karen admitted that she was changing her mind as she wrote the last book, so we know that Cody was the original choice. She should have stuck with that. Instead, she decided to write out her own daughter's love life and disappoint the majority of her fans.
I give it two stars because it was a pretty good book, and I could feel the love Bailey and Brandon had for eachother.... but Karen ruined a 12+ books leading up to Cody and Bailey's love story.
I've been a Karen Kingsbury fan for so long. I've read every book of hers that includes the Baxter family and have felt like I've invested myself in so much of this story.
SPOILERS
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I am saddened that she had trouble separating her real life from fiction. The Bailey series feels like Dayne and Katy Part II, aka Kelsey and Kyle's real life. All along we've been set up that Cody and Bailey are meant for each other. It was pretty obvious from the start of Loving where it was going, but I kept holding out hope that something would change.
I feel disappointed at how Karen minimized Bailey and Cody's relationship, saying that it was just a school girl crush and that Cody could never love Bailey. Even Karen admitted that she was changing her mind as she wrote the last book, so we know that Cody was the original choice. She should have stuck with that. Instead, she decided to write out her own daughter's love life and disappoint the majority of her fans.
I give it two stars because it was a pretty good book, and I could feel the love Bailey and Brandon had for eachother.... but Karen ruined a 12+ books leading up to Cody and Bailey's love story.
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Jul 04, 2012 09:51am
I agree with you 100%. I guess in retrospect, we should have seen this coming when Karen uses her now son-in-law as the picture for Brandon. I am very disappointed at the outcome and found myself thoroughly disgusted with Bailey's character. She seems shallow and hardly able to cope with setbacks much less display the strong faith shown in the other books. I would love to read a series on Cody and how he does handle real world problems instead of the fairy-tale world Bailey hides in.
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I love Karen Kingsbury and all, and only have read Unlocked, Leaving, and Longing. I've felt like Cody and Bailey were supposed to be together from the beginning, but in reading these reviews I was sadly disappointed to find out that she changed the storyline for the Brandon & Bailey pairing. I might read the book itself for old times sake, but I hope that KK writes better books in the future than this one. Mrs. Kingsbury, I love you. Don't let your fans down like this!
