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    Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection
    Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection
    Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection
    Audiobook9 hours

    Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection

    Written by Olivia Dade

    Narrated by Kelsey Navarro

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    About this audiobook

    "Sweetest in the Gale": Candy Albright has always stomped confidently through the halls of Marysburg High, passionate and loud and entirely devoted to her students. From his first day as her colleague, Griff Conover couldn't look away, despite his best efforts. After a summer apart, though, Candy returns to school a changed woman, bowed by grief. And when they're thrown together to coordinate a poetry project, Griff can't resist the urge to read between her lines once and for all-even if doing so means he'll have to confront his own loss . . . and his own lonely, longing heart.

    "Unraveled": Math teacher Simon Burnham-cool, calm, controlled-can't abide problems with no good solution. Which makes his current work assignment, mentoring art teacher Poppy Wick, nothing short of torture. She's warm but sharp. Chaotic but meticulous. Simultaneously the most frustrating and most alluring woman he's ever known. But the more tightly wound a man is, the faster he unravels . . .

    "Cover Me": Elizabeth Stone has no health insurance. No savings. No one to turn to when she finds a lump on her breast . . . except James Magnusson, her friend of over twenty years. When he offers her a marriage of convenience for healthcare coverage, she'd be a fool to say no. But given the emotions she's buried for so long, saying yes might lead to a broken heart.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateApr 27, 2021
    ISBN9781705283066
    Sweetest in the Gale: A Marysburg Story Collection
    Author

    Olivia Dade

    Olivia Dade grew up an undeniable nerd, prone to ignoring the world around her as she read any book she could find. Her favorites, though, were always, always romances. As an adult, she earned an M.A. in American history and worked in a variety of jobs that required the donning of actual pants: Colonial Williamsburg interpreter, high school teacher, academic tutor, and (of course) librarian. Now, however, she has finally achieved her lifelong goal of wearing pajamas all day as a hermit-like writer and enthusiastic hag. She currently lives outside Stockholm with her delightful family and their ever-burgeoning collection of books.

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    • 4/5
      4.5 stars ?
      Olivia Dade does it again!
      Her stories are so real and wholesome and mature and adorable and I am running out of adjectives to describe how great her stories make me feel. And for this book, she opted to give us three stories instead of one.
      The first one deals with grief. The second one deals with fitting in and acceptance. And the third one was a marriage of convenience for purposes of health insurance. And the moments between all the main characters were just amazing! If she ever opts writing these as full out novels, I'd be down to read more about them.
      As for now, I'm glad to have spent time at Marysburg and I can't wait to go back there again when I undoubtedly decide to reread these books.

      I highly recommend this book series !
    • 4/5
      A SOLID 4.5 stars for me, and this is going on my HIGHLY selective "LOVE" list.

      Not gonna lie, when I saw that this was three shorter stories, I was immediately primed NOT to be impressed. I don't enjoy novellas as a rule, since they really don't allow for the kind of character/relationship development that I really need, to enjoy a story.

      Plus, I expected the stories to be kinda lame. I mean, if the author has an idea that's really GOOD, they're gonna turn it into a full length book, right?

      So....when I tell you that I did not just like, but LOVEDDDD the first two stories....

      They didn't feel like ANYTHING was missing, other than the kind of contrived drama and side-plots that would have had to be developed IN ORDER to make them full length....

      They were about older characters, which younger readers might not find as compelling....but this older reader really appreciated them!

      And Olivia Dade continues here to write about larger women in a way that neither makes the appreciation of them feel fetishistic, nor focuses on their weight as a huge source of angst and insecurity.

      I also appreciated, in these stories, that the male leads themselves were not described as being model-perfect in every way. Mileage may vary on that, I suppose.

      Olivia Dade was one of my favorite discoveries of the year, and I'm avidly anticipating "Ship Wrecked"!

      (ETA: I can't really comment on the third novella in this book, because outside distractions were being pesky while I listened to it)

    • 5/5
      Was pleasantly surprise to find there are 3 short stories and not just 1!