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Kelsey Rodkey

Start date: August 1, 2022

Finish date: September 30, 2022

Discussion: Stand Alone

Why we're reading this: Won the poll for the stand alone BOTM
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Stand Alone

* Stand Alone- Maybe Meant to Be
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* Stand Alone- The Summer of Broken Rules
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Jan 04, 2025 Sara rated it did not like it

Shelves: abandoned, chick-lit

While I love the premise of finding love in rival bookshops, Madeline is an unbearable character and I can’t bear to listen to her whine about her family’s bookstore or her mom any longer. Made it to 29% and I’m DNF’ing it.

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Jan 12, 2021 Tara rated it liked it · review of another edition

Kelsey Rodkey had me at You've Got Mail and kept me with her witty banter and bookstore dreams.

That being said, Rodkey gives her story more than enough legs to stand on without the You've Got Mail comp. Sure there are competing bookstores and enemies to lovers, but there's so much more.

Madeline Moore has a complicated life and she reacts to situations in an equally complicated way. She's not perfect but lives her life unapologetically but does make amends when necessary. At first, I didn't lik ...more

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