{"id":5975,"date":"2015-07-28T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2015-07-28T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T14:45:45","slug":"magnolia-by-kristi-cook-book-review-small-town-matchmaking-big-time-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=5975","title":{"rendered":"Magnolia, by Kristi Cook (book review) – small-town matchmaking, big-time tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>She hates him for an eighth grade prank,
\nHe’s mad at her for taking aim at his senior class rank.
\nTheir families have been planning their wedding since pre-kindergarten… sigh.<\/p>\n

Neither Ryder nor Jemma want to give in to the expectations of their closer-than-family families.<\/p>\n

But when a hurricane heads toward their tiny town (The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore <\/a>lands in Gulfport, so the Mississippi coast is doomed), Ryder follows family orders to take care of Jemma, and things get crazy.<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt from the first chapter here <\/a>at the publisher’s website, then whirl away to get your own copy of Magnolia<\/em> to see how stormy the relationship between Ryder and Jemma truly gets!<\/p>\n

What crisis would you choose to live through with your not-so-best pal?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Magnolia \/ Kristi Cook. Simon Pulse, 2014 (hardcover & paperback).\u00a0 [author site<\/a>]\u00a0 [publisher site<\/a>]\u00a0 Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n

My book talk<\/strong>: Matched by their families since birth, Jemma and Ryder can’t stand each other, until a tornado rips through their Mississippi town and the teens find out how thin the line between hate and love truly is.<\/p>\n

Ever since Corporal Cafferty saved Captain Marsden during a Civil War battle, the two families have been inseparable. When Jemma C and Ryder M were born six weeks apart, their mothers started planning the wedding. Of course, no one counted on the pair having a huge fight in junior high.<\/p>\n

Now it’s their senior year – Ryder’s being recruited for his football skills, Jemma wants to go away to film school, and they’re still feuding. When her older sister’s brain tumor surgery takes Jemma’s parents to Houston, she stays home her short film for NYU.<\/p>\n

As a hurricane-spawned tornado heads for Magnolia Branch, Ryder and Jemma are on their own to survive and to discover the true depth of their feelings for one another.<\/p>\n

Football rivalry, family plans in conflict, girls in pearls – echoes of Romeo and Juliet in this story set amid moss-draped Magnolia <\/em>trees. (One of 6,000 books recommended on www.abookandahug.com<\/a>)Mississippi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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