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Officiële naam: Chastain, Sandra
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: Chastain, Sandra
Darcy, Jenna
Jordan, Allie
Geboortedatum: 1936
Geslacht: female
Geboorteplaats: Wadley, Georgia, USA
Korte biografie: Sandra Chastain was born on 1936 in Wadley, Georgia, 100 miles northwest of Savannah. As a little girl, she created fantasy lives for her paper dolls, and then she discovered Nancy Drew. Sandra wrote her first novel with a friend when she was 10 years old, The Mystery of the Green Necklace. Some four decades later, when her three daughters had gone off on their own, she returned to writing and was soon busy with writing, in addition to working with her husband in their veterinary practice in Smyrna, Georgia. Before long she was writing full time.

Published since 1988, she writes historical novels for Bantam, short contemporary romances for Harlequin, and southern women's fiction for Bellebooks. To date, she has produced over 50 works, including her first fairy tale, The Tiniest Fairy In the Kingdom, published by Bellebooks. She writes under pennames Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan as well as in her own name. Sandra has won many honors and recognitions from her industry.
Ontwarringsbericht: Sandra Chastain also writes as Jenna Darcy and Allie Jordan.

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Mossy Creek door Deborah Smith

Story of a small town in GA that likes to do things its own way, Bunch of quirky, fun people. Enjoyable read.

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IMAGINARY LOVER (Loveswept) door Sandra Chastain

Wasn't for me, didn't find the characters compelling.

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msmattoon | Aug 24, 2023 |

On Grandma's Porch (The Sweet Tea Series Book 3) door Deborah Smith

Loved this glimpse back at a more simple time.

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For Love of Lacey: A Loveswept Classic Romance door Sandra Chastain

This was just a really awkward book. The writing style was incredibly disjointed. For instance, a character would describe a scene or a person we had met in a way that would not make sense considering the event/person we had been introduced to. This happened continuously throughout the book. Tyler keeps referencing the "joy" that Lacey has brought into his life, but I honestly never saw an example of this. Lacey once says that Tyler and Lacey's mother are kindred spirits, a remark that was so out of the blue that I had to go back and read the previous scene to try and discern where she had gotten that idea from. I never figured it out. Those are just a few examples I highlighted, there were more that I just passed over, especially closer to the end.

The dialog was unbelievably over-the-top, an unrealistic idea of how "southerners" speak. We had everything from multiple uses of "Lordy", to "Whahoo", to "Sweet Suffering Je-housh-a-phat" and "Horsefeathers". Every time a character used that over-exaggerated speech I literally rolled my eyes. I live in the Deep South, and I have never met anyone speak like these people did.

Every single character felt like a caricature, and not just the "goofy" side characters that were in Lacey's "family". Add to that Tyler and Lacey not sitting down to get to know each other until well after the midway point of the book, and only then touching on the subject of Tyler having been married to Callie, Lacey's best friend... Yeah.

I really wanted to like this book because of the set-up, but the whole thing was just awkward.

Note: This book is a repub from 1988, which explains why Tyler can't call Lacey when her family's phone service is cut off. No cell phones.

ARC courtesy of Random House Publishing Group - Loveswept, via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.… (meer)

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