TLC Book Tours: On Magnolia Lane by Denise Hunter

The Story:
From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes the final book in Hunter’s Blue Ridge Romance series.

Pastor Jack McReady has secretly carried a torch for Daisy for two long years. She’s a member of his congregation, after all, and she’ll never see him as more than a trusted counselor. Jack’s best friend Noah has taken every opportunity to encourage his lovesick friend, but when Noah catches wind that Daisy has joined an online dating site, he takes matters into his own hands and orchestrates a meet-cute of the most unconventional kind.

Owner of the local flower shop, Daisy Pendleton is content with her small-town life, but she’d sure like someone to share it with. After several disastrous first dates, she’s about to give up—and then she finds a seemingly wonderful man online. Daisy gets to know TJ through a series of messages but finds herself spending more time with Pastor Jack outside of the church at the same time. What she doesn’t know is that her online prospect and Jack are one and the same.

Just as Daisy’s love life starts to look promising, a mysterious woman appears in town. Daisy is faced with a revelation about her family that turns her world upside down, and she looks to both TJ and Jack for help.

Jack must find a way to reveal himself as her online suitor without breaking her heart and losing her trust. As Daisy faces Jack’s betrayal, she’ll have to learn to extend grace to herself, her family, and the man she’s grown to love.

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My Thoughts:
Note: This is mildly spoiler-y. I hate writing spoilers, but I can't get around it. Proceed with caution.

When I first picked this up, I thought, "Oh. This is going to be fun. Denise Hunter's books always make me smile." Admittedly, the ending had the cheesiest grin exploding on my face, but the rest of the story was probably my least favorite of the series. Why? Well...the catfishing pastor. I have seen so many real life horror stories that started from catfishing, so I basically couldn't get over the fact that no matter how whitewashed it was, he was still catfishing. Dang it, Pastor Jack! You were a Hottie McHotterson, too. Why did you play us like that?

Since this is a romance, everything had a Hallmark ending and I was a happy camper. I just wish he wasn't let off the hook so easily by Daisy (no pun intended). That's probably very un-Christian of me, but I'm allowed to be uncharitable to fictional characters. ;-) I actually really loved the little (literally two pages) blip-on-a-page romance between Daisy's mom and Mr. Francis the most. Can they get some clean romance action in a novella or something??? Paint me a picture please, Dan.

So, when all is said and done, this book is cute. Clean, cute, and not too preachy. If you're a fan of Denis Hunter, you will like this and, of course, if you're a fan of Hallmark movies you'll wanna read this too. I honestly stand by my statement in my review of the previous book, Honeysuckle Dreams that is should be the next book adapted by Hallmark!

Be sure to visit each stop on the tour to read what others are saying about the book!

~ My Rating: 3 out of 5 stars ~

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Happy Reading!