• 26 September 2024
• Sunday Morning #1
A small-town, forbidden, standalone, new adult romance with
Footloose meets A Star is Born vibes from USA Today & Wall Street Journal
Bestselling author Jewel E. Ann
Her boyfriend’s older brother should be off-limits, but he’s
a sinful temptation.
Sarah is a preacher’s daughter and a people pleaser. She’s
also on the verge of graduating high school and following her dream of singing
in Nashville. The only thing standing in her way is that the entire town of
Devil’s Head, Missouri, thinks she will marry Matt, the son of the town’s
richest rancher.
But Sarah’s not sure he’s her future husband, especially when
his older brother, Isaac, returns home after serving six years in the Army. He
has tattoos on his arms and bad habits that are not “father-approved.”
When he’s not working on the ranch or roping at the rodeo,
Isaac hangs out in the barn, playing his guitar. He’s trouble, but Sarah's
music-loving heart gravitates toward him.
Isaac loves consuming Sarah’s mind, crawling under her skin,
backing her into corners, and whispering inappropriate things in her innocent
ears.
After weeks of playful banter and guitar lessons blurring the
line between right and wrong, Issac makes Sarah a proposition she can’t refuse.
But when
the unthinkable happens, and everything she knows is destroyed, will Sarah make
the right choice?
Sarah + Isaac
The year is 1985 and pastor daughter Sarah has just turned 18. She's dating Matt - the son of the town's richest rancher. Everybody believes they'll get married soon. But they're both pretty happy with going their own ways after the summer. Matt will be a College baseball star and Sarah....she wants to go to Nashville to become a singer.
Isaac is Matt's older brother. Back home from the military to work on the ranch. And he has a guitar...and tattoos....and he smokes. He is so not pastor son-in-law material... But Sarah is fascinated.... and that is only the beginning...
What will happen with Sarah and Isaac?
Will there be a HEA?
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT! 
Well. I kinda loved this.... But. No, I really enjoyed reading it. But...
It's my own fault for not really reading the blurb and all the teasers when they were revealed.
The book is set in 1985. Which... to be honest, you don't really notice 80% of the time. But I'm not a fan of such set-in-the-past kind of things. And it also didn't really make sense to me anyway. Why 1985? Why not today? It could've been set in today's world with not much change in the story. Especially in rural America 2024.
The worst thing about the book though... I don't want anything religious in my books. I hate religion. So so much. And this book has a lot of all that stuff. I almost already stopped reading when I read the dedication. And it only got more religious the more I read. Ugh.
I wanted Sarah's dad to be just a strict parent maybe. Just anything really ... a teacher. Lawyer. Construction worker. But not such a preachy guy. That whole religion stuff made me hate so much of the book. A book that I would've really loved otherwise. I still really loved it. But I just wish the religion stuff would've been .. not in there.
Even though now, after reading the whole book - it wasn't that preachy. Sarah rebelled against it all quite a bit and Isaac didn't care for any of it anyway. So it wasn't super bad. Nobody tried to talk me into joining their cult. But it was still too much for a book which is not categorized as a Christian Romance.
But... even with my religion rant... the book was cute. Isaac is amazing. He's the best part of the book. And the sisters and friends and even the parents were great here and there. It was a great book with a great cast. I just wanted a bit more of all the amazing things. It ended too quickly. I wanted more of Isaac and Sarah together. Just more...of everything. Another 100 pages would've made the book super amazing.
But it was a very beautiful story the way it was.
Sweet. Sparky. Forbidden-ish. Sad. Heartbreaking.
I so need to see this on TV one day!
Can't wait to read book #2 about Sarah's sister with an age-gappy single dad!
SUNDAY MORNING was such a sweet and beautiful and heartbreaking love story. Full of family. Friends. Love. Music. Expectations. Rebellion. Secrets. Small Town things. Hopes. Dreams... and so much more! I loved it. Go read it!
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Jewel is a free-spirited romance junkie with a quirky sense of humor.
With 10 years of flossing lectures under her belt, she took early retirement from her dental hygiene career to stay home with her three awesome boys and manage the family business.
After her best friend of nearly 30 years suggested a few books from the Contemporary Romance genre, Jewel was hooked. Devouring two and three books a week but still craving more, she decided to practice sustainable reading, AKA writing.
When she’s not donning her cape and saving the planet one tree at a time, she enjoys yoga with friends, good food with family, rock climbing with her kids, watching How I Met Your Mother reruns, and of course…heart-wrenching, tear-jerking, panty-scorching novels.
