Quilted Lilies (Colebridge Community, #6) by Ann Hazelwood

Quilted Lilies (Colebridge Community, #6) Reviews

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  loraknits

  Anne is a tad annoying to me yet I enjoy all the side characters. I also enjoy the details of the daily events - food, flowers and quilts
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  Zen

  This is book six in the Colebridge Community series and Ann Hazelwood's writing has really improved from the first one. These books are more like installments in a serial than stand alone novels, so you might as well commit to the whole series - they are very easy to read. In this installment many things happen to Anne Brown Dickson and her family and friends. Without any spoilers, I think the events were handled quite well and seemed realistic for the depth of the series. Ann Hazelwood has introduced a lot of charcters and story lines across these six books, so I hope they will all be tied up in the seventh and last book which I am starting tonight.
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  Pat

  Don't want this series to end .
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  kc

  Excellent addition to the series. And on to #6.
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  Kay

  Actually much better written and a lot happens.
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  Tonya Mathis

  This was the best and the worst, I'm not an emotional reader, but this was and emotional roller-coaster. I loved and hated it for that reason.
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  Tiffany

  How this is rated nearly 5 stars, I have no clue. This book is the biggest rip off ever, and honestly kind of terrible in general.
  
  The only reasons why I read it were because my grandma suggested it (how do you say no to your grandmother? And she has't steered me wrong before), and because it fulfilled some requirements for some reading challenges.
  
  But damn.
  
  I was sold a quilt-related mystery.
  
  And I got a whole lot of nothing.
  
  The mystery? Who a white quilt is supposed to go to. It's solved halfway through the story and the main character keeps it until literally the last chapter because she's selfish.
  
  And the quit itself? It's not even the focus, even though the quilt is the storyline described ON THE BACK OF THE BOOK! No, the main storyline is embezzlement at the company owned by the main character's husband and how he dies from stress and the main character wallows in pity until she finds out she's pregnant. It's the most potentially interesting storyline, and she's a spectator for all of it, forcing the reader to be a spectator as well because the story is told from her perspective.
  
  The entire cast of characters in general are terrible. Not in that they're terrible people. Oh no. They're all nice and pleasant. Which is the problem. They're bland. It's boring. Kind of like Stepford Wives, but even less interesting than that. The main character herself is also constantly told that she's perfect and amazing and strong, but does nothing but back it all up.
  
  The whole book just follows them through various challenges, and ends up sounding like corny old training videos where they spit morals and values at you. And some of them are even terrible. There's all of, like, five chapters where it MENTIONS that one character has an abusive boyfriend, she moves out and then back in something like three chapters later because he's magically in AA. AND NO ONE'S CONCERNED AT ALL AFTER THAT. There was entirely too little attention paid to a SERIOUS ISSUE and it honestly pissed me off.
  
  By the way, that character? Yeah, total English stereotype. It was painful.
  
  And don't even get me started on the main couple. They were the most entitled rich folks I have ever read about, with the only exception being Donald Trump. They literally wanted to buy the land next door because it was, and I quote, "better than someone else buying the land." Because their needs and desires are so important they need AN ENTIRE HILL OF LAND TO THEMSELVES. They don't even have any set plans when they make the offer. They just do it because they CAN. It's so frivolous.
  
  The writing is dreadful, too. So many relative words and phrases. This author especially loved pointing out "new adventures" and commenting on how people were encountering new challenges. There were almost no pronouns used to refer to people or things, resulting in an overuse of the same words and names. And don't even get me started on how there were was no flow or transitioning between a majority of the sentences in this book.
  
  And I haven't even mentioned the "hmmm..."s yet.
  
  The last half of the book? Nearly every other chapter ended with the word, "hmmm..."
  
  You get one "hmmm..." from me. ONE. That is all I will tolerate, and after that? No. Stop. You do not to emphasize that your character is thinking IN THE EXACT SAME WAY AT THE END OF EVERY OTHER CHAPTER!
  
  There was no "showing" either. It was all telling. There was too much description given to mundane, unimportant things, and not enough description where it ACTUALLY mattered.
  
  I feel betrayed by my grandmother.
  
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  Marlene

  Only one more to go in this series. I will miss these characters when the series is over. Nothing truly outstanding about this book -- just a great visit with what have become old, close friends. I love the sentiment and the heartwarming story that has developed through the series. And being a quilter, the quilt associations are my favorites of course. As the series has developed, the stories have become less and less about the quilts and quilting, which has been a bit of a disappointment, but I like the books non-the-less.
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  Deborah Sherman

  Many a tear was shed
  
  This book is my favorite so far in the series. Though it caused many tears to be shed it also brought happiness by the discovery of new life to come. It was hard to remember it was just a story. I felt a part of it.
  
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  Meri-Lyn

  Same writing style and characters. Extra star for plot development. Definitely surprises in this one. Almost too much bad news for reader. Now I'm hunting A Quilted Christmas to see series to the finish.
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  Sue

  The plot and characters are great, but this book really needed an editor. As a retired English teacher, I cringed at the number of grammar/usage errors in this book.