Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940150677876 |
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| Publisher: | World Literary Press |
| Publication date: | 08/23/2014 |
| Series: | Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers Series , #19 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | NOOK Book |
| Pages: | 300 |
| Sales rank: | 2,582 |
| File size: | 842 KB |
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Seaside Dreams (Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers, Book 1)
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Melissa Foster has done it again! I fell in love with a great group of girls and their friends who have been hanging out at Cape Cod every summer since they were kids. The Seaside Series will feature a love story of each of these four wonderful girls - Bella, Jenna, Amy and Leanna. This book focused on Bella and her hunk, Caden, a police officer who moved to the Cape to raise his son in a safe environment.
When Caden and Bella first met, neither of them were looking for love. In fact, they each hid from it in their own way. But once they meet, and the sparks start flying, nothing can get in their way. Or can it?...
This beautiful story featured everything I love about romance novels: A great couple, a fantastic love story, wonderful friends, family matters, and just the right amount of steam. Well, maybe a bit more than I'm used to... I wouldn't recommend the series to YA or NA readers. This is definitely adult only.
This is the second series in the Love in Bloom collection I have started. I read the first set, Snow Sisters, when the books were first published. They are all wonderful additions to my bookshelf. I look forward to reading the rest of the Seaside stories. Nice job Melissa! Keep 'em coming.
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Bella and her friends love to play pranks, but when one involving a toilet bowl goes awry, along comes Officer Caden Grant. Being a single dad, Caden’s focus has always been on his son Evan. Once he meets Bella, it’s immediate attraction. This creates a problem because Bella is in the middle of a life change and has a plan, which doesn’t involve dating. When Caden finally wins her heart, he discovers the cost of losing focus on his teenage son. With tragedy averted, will Bella and Caden be able to move past this event and form a more permanent bond?
This story just sucked me in. It felt so good reading the beginning of Bella and Caden’s relationship. Their attraction was so natural and just felt right. It brought back memories of my younger days, and it was a good feeling, one too long forgotten. With Caden being the perfect gentleman, Bella didn’t have a chance. I felt like a fly on the wall. I would have loved to be best friends with Bella and the girls. They were a riot, with their pranks, and chunky-dunking, and open-window-love-making. And I loved the Jay and Silent Bob reference. That really made me laugh-out-loud. Can’t wait for Book 2.
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Nice to read a book that has it all. Good beginning, middle, and end, AND subjected to effective editing. I was getting tired of those others that didn't fit the bi?l.
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I truly enjoyed this one by her, it had me hooked from the beginning of the book to the very end.i loved the flow of the book.
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A book for a rainy afternoon, cuddled up in my cocoon of blankets. A quick read of a full story! Not a cliffhanger!
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Can't wait to read the next one
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This was a nice light read. I have enjoyed all of the books in the different series by this author.
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Love it
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This author can't miss!
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Seaside Dreams by Melissa Foster
Seaside Summers #1 ~ Love in Bloom Series
Summer friends are all together again and Bella is trying to figure out how to tell her best friends that she is leaving her job in Connecticut, selling her house and moving to Wellfleet to set up a high school work study program. She is “thinking with her head” and not doing relationships...or so she says...when she falls into the arms of police officer Caden Grant. With him thinking she could be the one and her thinking she has to avoid commitments it takes a bit of time for them to figure out whether or not they are even dating. Caden’s son adds a bit of drama now and then and the friends and some guys they hve their eyes on also play parts in this first in a series book that was a delight to read. There were a few times I wanted to smack Bella or Caden and I had a pretty good idea what the plot of the book was going to be ~ that said...it was a fun way to spend the day today and I look forward to reading book two when it comes out.
Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4 Stars
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Seaside Dreams by Melissa Foster
Seaside Summers #1 ~ Love in Bloom Series
Summer friends are all together again and Bella is trying to figure out how to tell her best friends that she is leaving her job in Connecticut, selling her house and moving to Wellfleet to set up a high school work study program. She is “thinking with her head” and not doing relationships...or so she says...when she falls into the arms of police officer Caden Grant. With him thinking she could be the one and her thinking she has to avoid commitments it takes a bit of time for them to figure out whether or not they are even dating. Caden’s son adds a bit of drama now and then and the friends and some guys they hve their eyes on also play parts in this first in a series book that was a delight to read. There were a few times I wanted to smack Bella or Caden and I had a pretty good idea what the plot of the book was going to be ~ that said...it was a fun way to spend the day today and I look forward to reading book two when it comes out.
Thank you to the author for the ARC – This is my honest review.
4 Stars
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Great read.
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Cute story.
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The story itself was heart warming;.. a real feel good type of story. It would have been even better without so much grafic sex.
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These are great summer or vacation sequals. You get to see personalities of each in all the books as they each fall in love and come back to the cove they all grew up coming to each summer.
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Enjoyed
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The second time they met, she was pissed he wouldn't sleep with her because he had morals. Of course they did everything but. That's when I knew this book would be trashy and I stopped reading.
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Very good book
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You people should just read this novel yourselves and write your own review on this novel. I really enjoyed reading this novel very much so. ShelleyMa
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More bedroom action then story
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If you have not read books by Melissa Foster you are missing a real treat.
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Seaside Dreams is book #24 in the Love in Bloom series and is book #1 in the Seaside Summer series but can be read as a standalone.
And Melissa has done it again! Another great book.
Bella Abbascia is a teacher who is ready for a change. She is tired of being lied to by the men she dates and ready to have a little more purpose in her life. Every summer since childhood she heads to the Cape to meet up with friends and this summer is going to be a game changer. She is planning on staying and has sworn off commitments to men who ultimately end up disappointing her anyway. That was until she meets Caden.
Caden Grant is new to the Cape a police officer who is starting new with his teenage son away from Boston where his partner was recently killed. With it only being Caden and his son Evan he needed a slower paced life that wasn’t going to jeopardize his life or his time with Evan.
When Caden and Bella meet they have an instant connection but both are afraid of what their future would hold. Caden has not dated in year, not since Evan was dropped at his door as a newborn and Bella and her no commitment rule.
I can’t wait to see what happens with the rest of the Seaside gang.
**CONTENT WARNING: Due to mature content, recommended for readers aged 18+**
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