Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Blog Tour and Giveaway for The Kissing Tree by Prudence Bice!

From Goodreads: After five long years, Georgiana McLaughlin returns to the only place she’s ever considered home—the same place she stole a kiss from Ridge Carson under the community “kissing tree.” But this time he’s a man, and reconciling their past is just the beginning. You’ll find yourself applauding each new chapter filled with fun, romance, and adventure in this captivating, heartfelt tale of love, friendship, and finding your way back

Honestly, there was so much to love about this book!  I’m so happy to be a part of the blog tour for The Kissing Tree.  My thanks to Cedar Fort for providing the opportunity and the books.  One book for me, one book for you.  Awesome stuff, Cedar Fort!

I’m a fan of historical fiction, so this was right up my alley.  The story was filled with love and friendship, misunderstanding and reconciliations.  The small western town feel versus the proper society, big city feel was perfect.

Georgiana’s poor young heart was broken when she was forced to move away from her childhood home, her grandparents and her friends.  Her return journey home provides such satisfaction and mending but not without the bumps and bruises a fiery Irish temper can bring.  I love the friendship between Georgie and Sammy.  I have friends that even after not seeing each other for years, we can fall right back into that easy friendship that once was and pick up right where we left off.  Those kinds of friends are keepers, for sure.

Ridge is such a great character.  I love his playfulness and easy going nature.  And how swoon worthy to have a guy fall for you at such a young age and never get over it.  So sweet.  I love all the little things that make Ridge endearing.  Keeping a hair ribbon all those years, carving Georgie’s name along with his own in the tree,… Bice has done a great job of making the characters real and personable.

The one drawback for me personally, was the remembering.  Each character seemed to be doing a lot of “remembering” in order to tell the back story.  And while I realize that needs to be part of the story, there was so much of it.  It seemed like characters were remembering the same events and it got a bit long.  I found myself wanting to skim through instead of read those parts.

Still, having said that, I really did love this sweet story.  I love to sit down with a good historical romance and just enjoy myself with no worries of offensive language or sexual scenes.  It’s such a relief to me.  I left this book feeling good and uplifted.  My romantic heart was satisfied.  J 

SO, if you’d like to read The Kissing Tree for yourself, here is your chance!  Cedar Fort is offering one book for this giveaway.  This giveaway is open to both my US friends and my International friends.  (yipee!)  If you are a winner from the US, you have the option of a print book or an Ebook, and an International winner will receive an Ebook.  To enter, just leave me a comment telling me why you’d love to read this book, along with your email address so I can contact you if you win.  Giveaway ends Nov. 10th, 2011

The Kissing Tree will be released December 8th, 2011
You can find out more about Cedar Fort here.
You can purchase The Kissing Tree at Cedar Fort here.
You can also purchase The Kissing Tree at Amazon here.

30 comments:

  1. It sounds like a great book! I love romance stories, especially ones that give you the feel that it could be real.

    ashlynwilliams@hotmail.com

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  2. This sounds like a Great feel good story. Something to make me smile!

    Vivien
    deadtossedwaves at gmail dot com

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  3. Sounds great! Count me in for an ebook. Thanks!

    Margaret
    singitm@hotmail.com

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  4. I'd love to read it because I like "childhood sweetheart" stories; in fact, I wrote one myself. I love your cover too!

    serena at serenacasey dot com

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  5. This books sounds really interesting and romance novels are always my favorite, so I would love to win this book. Especially since its almost my bday, yay!!

    Alice/escagirl1056@hotmail.com

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  6. Anything with romance, you can count me in. Thanks for the giveaway! Gloria

    geschumann at live dot com

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  7. I would love to read this book. Historical Fiction is my favorite and I love it when romance is added. Thank for offering the giveaway.

    Cindy
    drjakesma at sbcglobal dot net

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  8. I love historical fiction and I'm a fan of kissing, too:)

    meredithburt at g mail

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  9. I would love to read this, Historical Romance is my favorite! Thanks!

    katsaddress AT gmail. DOT com

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  10. Thank you for this giveaway. I love historical fiction and the idea of a kissing tree sounds like a fun idea.

    wfnren(at)aol(dot)com
    wrensthougts.blogspot.com

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  11. I love historical fiction, hope I win!! erinbrand at gmail dot com

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  12. Your review, the description, the name of the publisher, and the beautiful cover all make me want to read this. Thanks for the giveaway! moncheriDOTschmidtATgmailDOTcom

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  13. I'm always looking for a Good romance. This looks like it would fit the bill. Fingers crossed! chellelynnpennington at gmaildotcom

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  14. This sounds so wonderful! So many romances are so depressing and this one sounds light with a happy ending.

    rachie2004 AT yah00 *d8t* c-m

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  15. I love novels with clean romance. I would love to read this novel! chaundellmonn@gmail.com

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  16. This one is for Julianne

    I tried to post a comment at the end of your blog, but that didn't seem to work. Is this where I put it? I would be interested to see this book. Clean is good!

    JulianneMiller2004@Yahoo.com

    Thanks,
    Julianne
    Mesa, AZ

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  17. I am an INTERNATIONAL.

    why I’d love to read this book???...."chapter filled with fun, romance, and adventure"... after seeing line like this in description,who can resist this book????

    Thanks for the giveaway!!

    sweety225(at)rocketmail(dot)com

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  18. This sounds like a great story. I am a sucker for romances!

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  19. I enjoyed reading this blog. You have an interesting and comfortable writing style so I would like to read your novel!

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  20. Another Linda here!! :) I love historical fiction and a clean romance on top of that. Yeap!! I'm so in! :) smithlinda60(at)hotmail(dot)com

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  21. I am always looking for a clean historical novel. I feel like I have to put many down or skip pages. This sounds like a great book.

    ashlee.huffman@gmail.com

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  22. Sounds like a good one!
    Holli
    hollichristensen@gmail.com

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  23. I have never read her books before. This one looks like a good one to start with.
    Aly, USA
    TweeElfin@live.com

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  24. This sounds really good. I look forward to read this book. Thanks for the giveaway.

    GFC- Christine A.
    your1chef at aol dot com

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  25. Sounds like a good book. :)

    Beautiful cover.

    jjandstormy@yahoo.com

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  26. Sounds like a wonderful book! I love stories where true love triumphs! Thanks for the giveaway.

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  27. I would love to win this because I've read a lot of good reviews on it and I love historical fiction.
    mamabunny13 at gmail dot com

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  28. I like historical fiction, but I've never read one with this type of western setting. sounds fab!

    hannahmariska at hotmail dot co dot uk

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  29. Ohh long ago I wanted to read this book! although I have given priority to others .... hehe Your review made ​​me want to read it even more ... I felt identified ... a little ;)

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