Magnolia Parks

The Magnolia Parks Universe, Book 1

De: Jessa Hastings

Narrado por: Benjamin Noble, Ella-Rae Smith

“How many loves do you get in a lifetime?”

She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved, and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad boy who broke her heart.

Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it.

She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of every sad endeavor to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to.

But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely.

As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?

©2021 Jessa Hastings (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Toxic abusive relationship

Author writes quite lovely description, but the characters never resonated with me personally. Take out all the expensive fashion and bottle service and this is basically the story of an emotionally and, sometimes physically, abusive relationship and all the dysfunctional people/addicts around them who enable it. Was not rooting for them. Hoping for them to break up for good and be with the whole book and almost gave up on it. Narration was solid.

Ahhhhhh

I love this series I own it on three different platforms now and I can’t get over the story still so heart wrenching
On to Daisy Hates!!!

🐝🐝

Regardless of what your favorite book genre is, EVERYONE should read the Magnolia Parks Series! Such a fun listen/read! :)

10/10

Jessa is a prolific writer wow! I’m deep into the magnolia parks universe 😊 absolutely loved it

Emotionally Charged

After physically reading the book I went back in with the audible, boy I am so glad I did. The audible is amazing and adds to the story.

This story felt incredibly realistic, and because of that, I can understand why it might not appeal to everyone. The toxic relationship between Magnolia and BJ was deeply frustrating at times, yet it perfectly captured the truth behind the saying, ‘the heart wants what it wants.’

The detailed outfit descriptions added an extra layer of vividness to the narrative, enhancing the visualization in a way that was truly chef’s kiss.

Anyone who enjoys emotionally charged narratives will love this.

W O W

when I tell you this hit me in my sore spot that has never healed correctly it HIT. Maybe ill find answers in this series I haven't already come to on my own , on to the next book. Thank you.

Magnolia’s narrator

Is perfection. She somehow made this more emotional for me than when I read it. BJ’s narrator took a little bit to get used to.

Story & acting was great, editing was awful

The editing of this audiobook was abysmal. Overly long pauses in the middle of a paragraph, random lines of dialogue read by an AI computer voice, sometimes half of the text conversations were cut out, etc. It made it hard to listen to, and I’m not super picky.

Omg perfect

Round of applause for the narrator playing Magnolia!! Babe, you’re a star. Truly you made her come to life for me. Brava.

And this story was so fun. Loved the drama, loved the chaos. Tom England 4ever

wasn't expecting

Seriously was not expecting to be so drawn in to this story/world. I've always thought (spoilers stop reading) that if an author can make me feel the break up and heartbreak that they've done their job and whew did I feel that end. I could feel the hurt, betrayal and embarrassment Magnolia felt. Of course I'm going to finish the series but I'm crossing my fingers that Magnolia gets her happy ending.