It looks like sticking with Mallery paid off, and I'm so glad it did. This book fulfilled the promise of the other and without all the cliché.Liz was certainly the big draw. I liked her from the start. She's strong and smart and kind and doing her best as a mother. Indeed, the motherhood moments in the book were standouts both in the character of her son as well as her interactions with the nieces dumped in her lap. Liz shows courage and no small amount of forbearance in dealing with the town an...

3 I hate Ethan Stars****Spoilers****Okay here are my thought on this book down and dirty. I liked everything about this story but the hero Ethan. He was a stupid, asshat, douchebag, and treated the woman he suppose to love who is also the mother of his child like shit. Not just in the beginning but til the very last page. So sorry I'm not sorry, but I don't give a shit he says he sorry. He is sorry alright a sorry ass selfish POS. I would have given the book a 5 star rating had he ended up alon

Yet another POS H and incredibly wimpy throwrug h. Sadly she is so pathetic she just sucks up the abuse. In a strange kinda way, they probably do belong together, but I was looking for a romance not a tragedy. The only thing missing was the dramatic throwing herself in front of a train. Frankly I kinda think it happened that way after the book closed, cause srsly, who could like or live with the utter and complete ass the Zero Hero was, I figured 6 months later she OD'd on valium just to get aw...

(Note: I don't mean to sound like a troll or anything. Also if you are uncomfortable with swear words.. it would be better if you didn't read this)I blame my need for reading a chic lit on Jenn Bennett.This is not what I was looking for.This was horrible.I wanna crawl into my bed and cry. It was that bad.The hero is an asshole.. he keeps on blaming the female lead for things she had no control over when from my point of view he should be taking most of the blame or his dead ex wife. Through out

Gross, and apologies to Boogenhagen. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I should have re-read your review before I read this.The heroine gets thrown under the bus repeatedly by EVERYONE from the wimpy, whiny H, her own kid, her ungrateful niece, the H’s mother and the town…yes THE TOWN.The H gets his kid and the hot mama that can help with the day to day rearing because being a dad is all too much to handle on his own. He never fails to rub it in that she didn't try hard enough to tell him

[EN] Liz Sutton didn’t have an easy childhood. With an alcoholic mother, she didn’t have any other option than leaving Fool’s Gold at eighteen when everyone in town was judging her based on her mother’s attitudes. She left behind Ethan, the love of her life, but she didn’t care since he was the first one humiliating her. Until she found out she was pregnant with his kid. During the last eleven years they were apart she tried to tell him about the pregnancy twice, and she was sure that he got the...

I never believed the hero loved the heroine from start to finish. And God, there were WAY too many kids in this book. Everyone is either arguing about kids, for kids or with kids.

It was good story and Liz was awesome so strong and brave,inspite of being a outcast from society cause of what her mother does.she keeps fighting through her teens,excels in studies, Liz is really great---kind, caring,almost too good, half way thru this book and wondered why Liz would even want this guy!Ethan on the other hand is Selfish,mean,arrogant and in first book of this series"Chasing perfect"u will come to know he stopped speaking to his best friend Josh for 10 years because Josh became...

This book should be retitled Opposite of Perfect or Barely Likeable.Let's see... where to begin with this one... Susan Mallery is so hit or miss with me. I was hoping this would be good because the premise had potential to be heartfelt and angsty. Oh, I felt something alright. Just not the warm and fuzzies I was hoping for. The H and h are the typical social opposites; the H being the small town's golden boy and the h the pariah, mainly because of her mother's drunkeness, prostitution-ness, and

*DNF*Ethan is the suckiest hero I’ve read to date. Yuck.

This was good-ish. I love second chances, I love the hero redeeming himself, but although the former proved well enough, the latter was a bit of a let down. Ethan was quite a jerk most of the time. Yes, he got better and made up for it in the end, but when a hero gets on your bad side for a sizable part of a book it's hard to warm up to him as quickly as the heroine does. This is the first book I've read by this author, but I'm not interested in continuing the series. So, not bad, it was decent

Rating: 4.5 / 5I'm really loving this series. Mallery has hooked me completely. I wish we didn't have nearly two months to read the last book in the series.Series Note:I'd recommend reading the series in order. Lots of continuity going on.Summary:Back when they were teens, town golden boy Ethan Hendrix and poor-girl-with-an-unwarranted-bad-reputation Liz Sutton had a classic secret romance. But then Ethan trashed Liz to his friends to save face and she ran away. Only to find three weeks later sh...

Seriously, people need to get over the whole moving back to San Francisco. Liz lives there. Tyler's whole life is there. Liz can't just pick up and move. Ethan pisses me off regarding that- thinking he has the rights to demand that Liz stay in Fool's Gold. Why doesn't he move to San Francisco instead? After all, he'd be the only one changing lifestyle compared to Liz and Tyler. (not including Melissa and Abby). Ethan and his mom need to get over missing out on Tyler's life because seriously? it

Almost PerfectSusan MalleryALMOST PERFECT is the second book in the Fools Gold series. I am really enjoying this series and I truly loved this story more than the first one and I really loved the first one. Susan Mallery has now become my newest auto buy author and I'm excited to read all of her previous books.When Liz Sutton graduated high school she ran as fast as she could from Fools Gold, California. She was picked on in school and because her mother was a drunk and a prostitute, everyone as...

ALMOST PERFECT is the story of Ethan Hendrix and Liz Sutton. Let me warn you now that if you are not a fan of secret baby stories, then this is not the book for you. Twelve years after she left Fool's Gold pregnant with Ethan's baby, Liz returns to the small town where she grew up, her 11yo son Tyler in tow, to come rescue her two nieces who were abandoned by their step-mother. No way, no how is she prepared to stay there. Through a series of mishaps and bad luck and bone-headed moves on Ethan's...

I just….I….I wash my hands of this cheating no good fu*ker!And really, aside form not being able to use contraceptives and practice safe sex, there are a heap of more horrible characteristics to him. Plain and simple- he sucked. Big time.Also the stage speech in the end? Sorry it can not delete all the bad things that happened. Not in my book.I did like the heroine, but I am unable to give more than 2 stars on the sole stand of her being written well.P.S. Did any of you feel he had even a spec o...

By Susan Mallery. #2 in Fool’s Gold Series. Grade: FI’d heard good things about this author, and thought I’d try one of her books out. I like books with kids – they add a twist – and picked Almost Perfect.I am still recovering from the horror.Back in high school, Liz Sutton was the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Then she’d stolen the heart of the most popular boy in town, and their secret romance helped her through the worst of times. Until Ethan Hendrix betrayed her and everything they...