Unless you’re REALLY into, like, strawberries.Įnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Go check out First Position, Waiting in the Wings or any of the Soho Loft romances for some decent Melissa Brayden, and consider giving this one a miss. Strawberry Summer by Melissa Brayden, Apr 18, 2017, Bold Strokes Books edition, paperback.

Series of grand gestures = replacement for talking seriously about anything of any significance.

Small town nonsense where gay teenager has zero angst at all: she fits in socially with a minimum of fuss, is good looking, becomes buddies with local football hero, has a ridiculously cool older brother, has zero coming out trauma, dates gorgeous exotic city girl, has lots of sex in lots of rural settings with said exotic city girl, who it turns out is really fucked up (but not really, oh look a tractor accident). rak s vlemnyek egy helyen Just because youre through with your past, doesent mean its through with you. I’m usually a big fan of Melissa Brayden (much more so than Outdoors Type is) but I could barely drag myself to the end of the epilogue on this one. Actually, who doesn’t like strawberries? And that’s about as far as this book goes. Now you mention it, I really like strawberries. Strawberry Summer Paperback 18 April 2017 by Melissa Brayden (Author) 1,189 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Paperback 26.50 1 Used from 37.77 6 New from 26.41 Just because you’re through with your past, doesn’t mean it’s through with you. Recently, shes fallen down the rabbit hole and rediscovered. She currently works full time as a theater director at the performing arts center of one of the largest high schools in the state of Texas, a job she completely enjoys. This is all ok, I guess, but so much of it is around the ‘bad’ that actually it just made me feel a bit anxious. Melissa Brayden received her bachelors degree in film production and speech communication from Baylor University.

Then it goes bad, and we watch while it goes good again. In this one, our opening chapter lets us know that all is not great between the two lovebirds, before we go back in time to see them get together, knowing it’s going to go bad. And unpleasant family circumstances or abandonment.

So, the thing with a few Melissa Brayden books (see also How Sweet It Is) is you think they’re going to be nice and fluffy and a light read, but they have these horrible backgrounds of grief or loss.