Feels Like Family (The Sweet Magnolias Book 3) Kindle Edition

This is book 2 in the series. It’s a delight to read. You feel you know these characters. It is fun to get lost in their feelings and share their lives. I plan to read the entire series and cannot wait to start book #2.

Feels Like Family: A Sweet Magnolias Novel, Book 3 is by Sherryl Woods. This series is about three ladies in Serenity who call themselves the Sweet Magnolias. They have known each other almost all their lives. They care about each other as if they were sisters and they care greatly ab out their home of Serenity. Dana Sue owns and runs Sullivan’s restaurant. The three of them, Helen, Maddie, and Dana Sue own and run The Corner Spa, a gym and spa they built out of necessity as the only other gym in town was a dingy man’s gym. Women needed a clean place to exercise, thus The Corner Spa. Although built for women, it does include men too. Maddie runs the spa. Helen is a lawyer and has her own firm in town. She helps the other two out when they need it. This particular book is about Helen.Helen is a workaholic and is obsessive with her life. She had lists of things to do and then lists of how to do things. It organizes her and works for her life. She is a divorce lawyer and loves helping her clients get the best deals in their divorces. This last divorce leads to a very upset man who tried to cheat his wife out of her fair share and gets extremely upset at Helen when she catches him in his cheating attempt. Even his own lawyer isn’t sure what he might do. Helen’s friends gather round to help protect her from him if he should do anything.Meanwhile, Maddie and Dana Sue are attempting matchmaking between Helen and Erik, the chef at Sullivan’s. Neither Helen nor Erik are looking for a relationship, much less romance. However, Erik is protective of Helen and Helen isn’t immune to his looks. Helen is also thinking of having a baby and ringing it up on her own. She is just thinking about it; but her involvement with an employee of Sullivan’s, Karen, leads to her keeping Karen’s two children for several months while Karen gets her life straightened out. After keeping the kids, Helen decides she is definitely going to have a baby. Now to find the father.The book is filled with the antics of the three women and the rest of the characters in Serenity. All the problems and hilarious events that occur in a family, occur in Serenity and the three women are usually in the middle of the excitement.The book is a great escape into another world. Sherryl makes you want to travel to Serenity and meet the characters.

I never heard of Sweet Magnolias before binge watching the Netflix show two weeks ago. The show is so very well written and enjoyable I had to read the books. I started with this one because I'm a Heather Headley fan and she plays Helen on the show. She's amazing in the role. I have to say as always I enjoyed the book better than the show and I hope they incorporate more of the back story from the books into the upcoming season of the show

Please read the series. This is great. This book is about Helen. I was smiling and crying while reading this!

I came here from Netflix, so worth it. Although the story is not exactly the same the book is amazing.

These books just keep getting better and better! Can't wait to see what's next!!! Love all the characters and their own stories.

This is such a great series. It's now nothing like the show. It's better. I love the story line. It brings such emotions with each chapter. I don't tell what is in the books I read. That is for you to read and find out. Off to the next book. Hope you enjoy the series as much as I have.

Enjoyed the books. Got tired of waiting for the seasons to come to Netflix. I ordered the books and had a grand time reading each one.

Helen is the best of the three characters in this trilogy (there appear to be more books in this set but the first three do act as a trilogy) because she seems to have a lot more character. She is focussed and driven and successful at her job as a hard-working lawyer - at least this was the character she had when she was part of the other two stories, in this one she seems to have lost a lot of that focus and become more indecisive. I was sorry about that but I suppose that the author has done this so that it is easier to understand how she and Erik can come together. Erik is a pastry cook who has a troubled past, he seems laid back and kind but it is difficult at times to see how he has the dynamism to be a suitable partner for Helen.This book has lots of plot themes going off at the same time and so it is not just about Helen at all. The story of Karen, the single mother who is overwhelmed, is almost the main part of the book. The author fixed Karen's problems in the long-run by giving her a good man - it was sad that we couldn't see how well some single parents can do without a partner (although, as this is a romance novel I can see why she did it).Helen's desire for pregnancy and her underhand treatment of Erik lost her a lot of sympathy for me and I just couldn't see how he could change his opinion quite so quickly and maintain his attraction in the circumstances.In the end, this book failed the realism test a little too often for me. I just didn't find it all rang true enough to keep me completely engaged.

Read this years ago via local elibrary and my review missing. Have own copy now and re-read. Enjoyable except for Helen's machinations. They were tacky and diminished how i viewed her.

Following the life of a strong women. Love the characters depth strength and grit. Story full of love and hope and of course drama.

Ever since Debbie Macomber recommended her books, I have been hooked. This series is great, so far I have read8 and have enjoyed every one, I can't seem to put them down till I get to the end.

Great read in third part of the sweet magnolia. Set!! Other two books left you wanting to find out more about the third sweet magnolia than the insite into her complicated character already glimpsed in the first two books!!!!