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    When the Stars Fall Down
    When the Stars Fall Down
    When the Stars Fall Down

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    When the Stars Fall Down

    Written by Anne Stuart

    Narrated by Laura Darrell

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    Jessica Hansen's success and icy calm hide painful secrets and a past that shapes her life. That is, until she meets Springer MacDowell, her best friend's son. One decision sets off a series of cataclysmic events that rip apart her safe life.

    Retreating to an old summer house in Vermont, Jessica slowly learns to accept friendship, the past, and the new family she's made. She's building a hopeful future, until Springer comes back into her life, ready to shatter her new-found peace.

    Will these two survivors ever learn how to belong? Can they heal enough to make a family theirs?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Publishing
    Release dateSep 12, 2023
    ISBN9781094460451
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    Anne Stuart

    Anne Stuart loves Japanese rock and roll, wearable art, Spike, her two kids, Clairefontaine paper, quilting, her delicious husband of thirty-four years, fellow writers, her three cats, telling stories and living in Vermont. She's not too crazy about politics and diets and a winter that never ends, but then, life's always a trade-off. Visit her at www.Anne-Stuart.com.

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    • 4/5
      Good story and a decent ending, although missing things like no marriage proposal, just married. Nothing about what happened to Springer's mother. How many sisters did Matthew have besides his 1/2 sister? If the VT house becomes the summer house, where did they move too? What happened to Sarah's mom and Andrew? Lots of holes left.
    • 3/5
      I felt that this book had a pretty weird obsession with the main characters weight. Other characters would say super weird and inappropriate things to her like “anorexia isn’t in anymore”, but then it would be glamorized it the rest of the time with lines like “her beautiful thin frame”. I found it odd that it had lines like this in nearly every chapter, so I was waiting for it to matter or to lead to some kind of result but it really didn’t. I would have given it 5 stars if those comments had been left out.

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    • 4/5
      This is an interesting storyline with many twists. The characters are believable, and no left loose ends.

      1 person found this helpful