Fruit Punch Kisses

A Once Upon a Wedding Story

De: K.S. Thomas

Narrado por: Allyson Voller

New York wedding planner Mercy Rose is looking forward to a future not unlike the fairy tales she creates day after day for her clients. She's even got the perfect prince to seal her fairy-tale fate. But when a hurricane savagely blows through her small hometown in rural Louisiana, it's her past she needs to worry about.

Going home means risking more than finding her family's B&B in ruins; it could mean churning up every last piece of her past she thought was dead and buried. Mainly, every piece she ever shared with Frank Kingston. The boy next door and her first love.

Determined to prove she's moved on, Mercy sets her sights only on matters of the hurricane and serving the community ravaged by it. But the longer she's here, the harder it gets to separate who she's become from who she's always been. And, the harder it gets to deny, the boy who broke her heart...could now turn out to be the man who still owns it.

All Once Upon a Wedding stories are stand-alones and do not need to be enjoyed in order.

©2019 Karina Gioertz aka K.S. Thomas (P)2021 Karina Gioertz aka K.S. Thomas

First and Last Kiss

This book is about Mercy Rose and Frank Kingston. Mercy left her hometown of Lacey, LA for New York about 10 years ago after Frank broke her heart. Mercy and Frank were childhood sweethearts and neighbors. Now hurricane Rose has struck Lacey and Mercy has come home to check on her families bed and breakfast. Being home has stirred up old feelings and heartbreak. Frank always told Mercy he cheated on her to get her to go to New York. Frank didn't think he was good enough for Mercy. Clearly Frank and Mercy haven't moved on even after all these years. Mercy's boyfriend from New York flies to Lacey as well. It is a good love story with emotional angst. It is also very PG nothing bad that I can remember in it. I did enjoy the story. I wasn't expecting the twist with Camden...why she didn't like Mercy.

Sweet second chance romance.

Beautifully written, Fruit Punch Kisses will warm your soul. Once I started I could not stop listening and finished this wonderfully narrated story in one sitting. Filled with richly drawn characters, drama, excitement and a bit of angst, this one will be listened to again. Throughly enjoyable!

Sweet

This was such a sweet story and the narration was great! It wasn’t an all consuming love story but I really enjoyed this book.

Sweet and Romantic!

This standalone romance is part of a Once Upon a Wedding Story. Mercy and Jack’s second chance to love is sweet and romantic. Their journey is filled with misunderstanding and miscommunication. The supporting characters are great. This is a great story. Allyson Voller did a great job with the narration. She has a beautiful voice, very pleasant to listen to. #AudiobookObsession

loved it

Comedy in the eye of a hurricane. This is a must listen for the year.

Allyson Voller is quickly becoming a fav narrator of mine. I love her reading style and the heart she adds to her every word.

I received a copy of this audible free. I'm thrilled to be able to leave my honest review.

home for a second chance

Frank pushed Mercy away, certain that she was bound for bigger things than their small town could offer. She headed to New York for college, and a busy career as a wedding planner. After a catastrophic hurricane hits town, she comes back to check on her family B&B. It's a sweet story, but Mercy finds her life in a state of uncertainty, with mixed feelings about Chase, her current love, and Frank, her past. I enjoyed the narration of this book; Allyson Voller's voice is fresh and calming. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

I stopped listening

Audiobooks are a passive activity. You listen while you are doing something else. As such, the book has to make sense or you lose the rhythm. The main character in this listen, Mercy, left her hometown ten years prior and in the opening chapters, she's driving to her hometown in Nolo after it was hit by a hurricane. The premise then is that no hurricane has hit her town (very possible) in ten years (since she hasn't been back in ten years and this hurricane is why she's returning now.) Got it.

As the story progresses, we find out that Mercy left behind a B&B in Nolo that was owned by her much-loved grandmother who has since passed. A grandmother that we now have to presume she has not seen at the B&B because Mercy hasn't been back in ten years. A grandmother who has passed within the ten years but, if Mercy's ten year hiatus is to be believed, Mercy did not attend the service. What? For a grandmother she considered her last connection to her father and who left her a B&B that she is risking life and limb to check on? Mercy didn't attend her funeral? First question mark.

Mercy had a boyfriend all through high school. Some misunderstanding happened with that boyfriend and Mercy left, never to see or discuss things with him, or anyone else in her hometown, until she returned ten years later. Okay, that could happen, but Mercy was also best friends with the boyfriends sister and very good friends with the boyfriends best friend. Neither of them, over ten years, bothered to clear up the misunderstanding? Second question mark.

Now, I still stuck with the story because the narration was really good and I wanted to listen. Here is where I got lost in the weeds. If the boyfriends sister is Mercy's "ex-best friend," something happened. What? Enter the sister. She teases her brother about still being in love with Mercy (um), challenges him to man up and tell her, and then when Mercy and the sister meet (the morning after Mercy arrives to check on the B&B), the sister and Mercy have a quick interaction with no mention of why no contact in ten years. It's like it never happened. Third question mark.

When I finally stopped listening it was when the boyfriend told his friend that he (the boyfriend) told Mercy that he still loved her. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN??? I noped out. It could have happened but that's a pivotal plot point and there should have been a response/discussion. I don't think I would have missed it. Fourth and final question mark.

I'm not being nitpicky. I just needed the story to make sense. There will be a HEA, as always with this genre, but I can't endure anymore of this story when I have to stop and constantly question why or how something is happening.

Fruit Punch Kisses

Fruit Punch Kisses by K.S. Thomas. Wonderful story that was heartfelt and full of charismatic characters, charming setting in difficult times, undeniable chemistry, and a second chance that put a huge smile on this readers face. Even though the story ended, I will often wonder how Mercy and Frank are doing. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

First love and Second Chance

First love gets a second chance Mercy and Frank were a young love but Frank makes a gesture that pushes Mercy away to pursue her dream. Years later and a hurricane bring them back together with a cast of characters will these two get a second chance at that first love. A love second chance romances especially when it’s the first love.

Mercy and Frank

A sweet small town country second chance romance! This one was a clean romance, which is not normally my thing, but this one is super adorable! Also K.S. Thomas does a good job of making a misunderstanding between 2 people way less annoying then most authors I've read. The lack of communication normally, for me, is the hardest part to get through. She does it in a way we're you can understand how that could happen.

The narrator is awesome at voices to match the personally of each character. It really helps you get lost in the story.

I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.