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Feels Like Falling

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I absolutely loved this book and am crossing my fingers there will be a sequel! A wonderful story about how you can be at your lowest and the best is still yet to come. Wonderful. strong female characters!

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Kristy Woodson Harvey does a great job of drawing in the readers in her southern fiction. This reader couldn't help but feel for the characters in this book, and it felt like I was there with them. It conveys that one can create their family despite different backgrounds with people you meet that you wouldn't expect to become family or friends. This book was engaging, entertaining, and funny at times. It's a very enjoyable read. Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC.

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This was such a sweet novel about the ups and downs of life and how it all mixed with those around us. The main characters relationships really made the book for me, I thought each of them were relatable in their own ways and to each their own happy ending!

Thank you to Netgalley and Gallery Books for allowing me to read this title in exchange for an honest review.

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I discovered Harvey this summer, and I have LOVED reading her books. "Feels Like Falling" is a fun, excellent, perfect vacation read, and the cover is absolutely adorable. Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to review this!

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I received a complimentary copy of this book through Netgalley. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
Grey is a self-made millionaire, building her own internet company since her early twenties. She thought she had it all until, while on vacation with her husband, he tells her he's leaving her for another woman...a much younger woman. She is struggling with the hardships of shared custody of their young son. She inadvertently gets Diana fired from her job on the same day as Diana finally decided to leave her loser boyfriend and becomes homeless. Out of guilt, Grey offers Diana a job as her housekeeper and a home in her guesthouse. Guilt soon changes to friendship until they are as close as family as they help support each other with new relationships.
While I enjoyed the book overall and thought it was a fun lighthearted romance, I couldn't stand the character of Grey. She was so shallow and too concerned with appearances. I did like Diana's character, but I didn't like how she dumbed down her speech. I think it was so readers could picture her as the self-described "trailer-trash orphan", but I just thought it was annoying.

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Loved this book! She’s one of my fav authors! This one is going to be a summer hit! gray was an awesome character that I loved to get to know.

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This book gave me all the feels. Going through a divorce, myself, I could completely relate to main character, Gray (and don't you just love that name!?). This book was entertaining and inspirational, showing that all is not lost when a relationship ends. There are plenty of new beginnings to be found, if one keeps an open heart.

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This was such a good story! Kristy Woodson Harvey writes books with such amazing characters you can’t help but grow to love them. This book centers around the lives of 2 characters who come from 2 entirely different worlds. Gray, who has money earned from starting her own business at a young age, and Diana, a woman that’s down and out, sleeping in her car, that grew up in foster care. It’s a story that shows that when you least expect it, you can come across someone who becomes such an important part of your life, they feel like family. It’s about friendship, family and being there for each other. It shows that no matter your age, it’s never too late to find love and happiness. I really enjoyed reading this and would love to read more about these characters. I’m hoping the author decides to turn this into a series. I would love to know if Gray marries Andrew, if Marcy ends up with Price, and if Frank and Diana live their happily ever after. I’d like to thank NetGalley and Gallery, Pocket Books for the opportunity to read an arc in exchange for my honest opinion. I give this 5 stars!

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I loved this. Kristy wrote a great story from both Gray and Diana’s perspectives. I love that they were at two different places in their lives but that they could still be friends and live their lives together. I loved that gray had a hot young boyfriend. Gives hope to the older ladies. I also loved that Diana’s mom came back and that she used gray’s story about being angry with her mom to realize that she should forgive hers.

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I'm so glad I discovered Kristy Woodson Harvey! I absolutely love her writing and her ability to tell such wonderful stories. Feels Like Falling is a touching summer story that takes place in the lovely coastal Carolina. From themes of family, friendships, hardships, and the one that got away, this book has it all! Feels Like Falling shows life through two very different lenses and perspectives, but in the end the pursuit of happiness is all that really matters.

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Kristy Woodson Harvey is a phenomenal author. Her books are always fantastic. This new one definitely does not disappoint. Loved it!!

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This is the story of an unlikely pair, two women from different walks of life that form an unbreakable bond. I would recommend this book without hesitation to anyone. Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC, and this is my honest review.

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Kristy Woodson Harvey is one of those few authors that you just know - even before you read the first page -that you are going to meet wonderful believable characters in a beautiful location. You want to read her books fast because they are so good but you also want to read them slowly because you don't want to leave these new friends. I am one of her major fans and have read every book that she's written and I can tell you that all of her books are fantastic but this is my new favorite.

I really don't have anything in common with the two main characters -- I'm not uber-rich like Gray and I've never had to live in my car like Diana - but they are both so well written that I feel like I know them and could have a great time with them if we met.

This is a story of love and heartbreak, family and friends and the search for happiness and fulfillment in life. It shows that family isn't just the people that you are related to but also includes the friends that you learn to love throughout your life. It reminds us that even when life gets tough, there will be a second chance waiting - maybe not what you planned but definitely what you need.

Thanks to Kristy for another wonderful book that made me laugh and cry with two characters that I feel like I know and then I won't soon forget. See is one of the best authors of Southern fiction writing today. My prediction is that Feels Like Falling will be one of the MUST READ books for the summer of 2020.

Thanks to the publisher for a copy of this book to read and review. All opinions are my own.

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Feels Like Falling redefines unputdownable. I planned to read a few pages...ended up staying up waaay past my bedtime, then got up at 4 a.m. to try to finish it before work.

On the surface, Gray and Diana seem to not have much in common. Gray is a successful entrepreneur, with a son and soon-to-be ex-husband. Diana is a former foster child, with a string of unsuccessful jobs and loser men in her past. But both are loyal friends with abandonment issues and a yearning for a happily-ever-after. They are thrown together when Diana loses her job and home, and Gray believes she is solely to blame. Neither could have predicted how transformative their summer would be.

With its coastal setting, April release date, and romantic elements, Feels Like Falling will probably be considered a beach read—and it’s addictive nature does contribute to that designation, but it really is an enduring story about women’s strength, friendship, and forgiveness. A must read.

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Thank you #Netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read these book.

Loved! Perfect balance of a summer read tied in with a couple hard topics. The novel follows to main leads, Diana and Grey who lives eventually began to intertwine. The novel covers, divorce, cheating, financial struggles, being a single parent, being homeless, and so much more!

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Another fantastic read by Kristy Woodson Harvey. I love love love her books. Her characters are wonderful they feel like real people and I feel like I am standing right next to them as they are going through their trials and tribulations. I laugh with these books, cry with these books and absolutely and heartbroken when I finish them. I feel like I lived through them, she is that good of an author. She has quickly become one of my very favorite Southern authors and I look forward to every new book she publishes. I cannot recommend her enough.

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Another fantastic read by Kristy Woodson Harvey. I love love love her books. Her characters are wonderful they feel like real people and I feel like I am standing right next to them as they are going through their trials and tribulations. I laugh with these books, cry with these books and absolutely and heartbroken when I finish them. I feel like I lived through them, she is that good of an author. She has quickly become one of my very favorite Southern authors and I look forward to every new book she publishes. I cannot recommend her enough.

I would like to thank the author/publisher/Netgalley for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for a fair an honest review. I cannot say how much I loved this book.

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This book was a little too "wrapped up in a neat little bow" for me. I have enjoyed this author's other titles and like "women's fiction" but this was just too much to buy into.

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This was my first reading of this author even though I have heard her books were great. Well I concur, great book. After I read a few more of hers, she may be added to my list of favorites along with Mary Alice Monroe and Dot Frank.
You'll laugh, cry, and want to smack a couple people, but will thoroughly enjoy the book. Characters come to life and you are transported to the beach where it is set. Great beach or anytime read!

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Feels like Falling was my first book by Kristy Woodson Harvey. I read it while traveling home from vacation and it was the perfect balance of being easy and engaging without being too fluffy. It was the kind of book that I had a hard time putting down but I also didn't want it to end because I wanted to follow along with these main characters even more.

I enjoyed getting to know the characters and the idea that sometimes "family" is the one we create ourselves. Harvey's writing is emotional, engaging and has a perfect touch of humor. I loved the topic of friendship and supporting one another through tough situations and choices. Feels Like Falling perfectly captured how sometimes the right people come into our lives when we least expect it and the amazing power of connection. The romance element was light and easy and helped round out this powerful story of friendship. I hope this becomes a series too like her Peachtree Bluff trilogy!

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an advanced copy.

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