About the book: Landyn longs for home, but her mother may have other plans.
Audrey
Whitman's dreams are coming true. Now that their five kids are grown,
she and her husband, Grant, are turning their beloved family home into a
cozy bed and breakfast just a mile outside of Langhorne, Missouri.
Opening
weekend makes Audrey anxious, with family and friends coming from all
over to help celebrate the occasion. But when Audrey's daughter, Landyn,
arrives, the U-Haul she's pulling makes it clear she's not just here
for a few days. Audrey immediately has questions. What happened in New
York that sent Landyn running home? Where was Landyn's husband, Chase?
And what else was her daughter not telling her? One thing was for sure,
the Chicory Inn was off to a rocky start. Can Audrey still realize her
dream and at the same time provide the comfort of home her daughter so
desperately needs?
My review: This was an interesting story about a family entering a new stage in their lives. I liked Audrey and Grant a lot; they were trying to make Audrey's dream of a bed and breakfast work while trying to be there for their daughter and son-in-law. I felt for them as they tried to walk the fine line between giving good advice and telling their daughter what to do. I felt pretty frustrated with both Landyn and Chase. They were both stubborn and felt they were each in the right and neither wanted to give in. I was especially annoyed that Landyn kept putting off telling Chase something he needed to know. They both seemed pretty immature at the beginning, but it was nice to see them grow up and learn to turn to each other as the story progressed. I also liked that faith was an important element to the story. This was book one in the Chicory Inn series and it looks like the next book will focus on the oldest daughter. The characters and their crazy situations made me feel a little stressed out, but if you like realistic circumstances and how people work through them, you'd like this book!
I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review.
I received this book free from Litfuse Publicity in exchange for an honest review.
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About the author: Deborah Raney's
books have won numerous awards, including the RITA, National Readers
Choice Award, HOLT Medallion, and the Carol Award, and have twice been
Christy Award finalists. She and her husband, Ken, recently traded
small-town life in Kansas---the setting of many of Deborah's
novels---for life in the (relatively) big city of Wichita, where they
enjoy gardening, antiquing, movies, and traveling to visit four children
and a growing brood of grandchildren who all live much too far away.Deborah is celebrating the release of her new series with a $200 B&B Weekend Getaway and a Facebook author chat party.
One winner will receive:
- A B&B Weekend Getaway (via a $200 Visa cash card)
- Home to Chicory Lane by Deborah Raney
So grab your copy of Home to Chicory Lane and join Deborah on the evening of September 9th for a chance to connect and make some new friends. (If you haven't read the book, don't let that stop you from coming!)
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