Dating Maggie

M.J. Greenway

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Release date : October 27th 2015

Rating : 4 Stars

With her 25th birthday looming, Maggie Jennings makes herself a promise… She will get a boyfriend and an acting gig within the year or break-up with Tinsel Town for good. She has a cool job as a movie studio guide, and Botoxed blondes and traffic jams have even started to grow on her. She’s using a new dating app and has a dating vlog—but she yearns for more. Cliff Kincade is in L.A. for a wedding, but he’d much rather be back home at his Oregon ranch… Still stinging from a divorce, he’s gun-shy about women. But when he meets a cute, curvy tour guide, he’s surprised by the chemistry between them. His ranch keeps him in Oregon, though, and Maggie’s Hollywood dreams keep her in L.A., a situation that can’t possibly work. Maggie and Cliff search for happiness in the arms of others, but fate has other ideas. She can’t stop thinking about the rugged rancher, and when her life takes an unexpected turn, sending her back to her hometown of Portland, she’s forced to make some serious choices. Maggie and Cliff both have dreams—and dreams are a wonderful thing—but what if they’re hoping for the wrong things, and love is waiting in the one place they’d never expect?

With “Dating Maggie” by M.J. Greenway you get one of those books that first seems like this typical girly book, but then you figure out that it is so much more…

It´s a story about Maggie who easily lets you become a part of a story about dating. But you know what? It´s not just this cheesy story that you would expect from a blurb like this. You get introduced to Maggie who is such a likeable character-one that makes it easy to connect with the story.

The same I can say about Cliff. He is a character that got married very young. A marriage that does not make him as happy as he should be which is why he gets divorced.

So what did the talented author do with these two authentic characters? She lets them create this unique story that makes you not just smirk, but also laughing and crying at the same time.

A story that seems realistic. A story that makes you think about yourself and your dating experience….

So what can I say? I really enjoyed this debut novel. At some points the scenes felt a bit rushed, but this is nothing that influenced my opinion deeply enough. It´s still this very good story that I will keep in my mind for sure….

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