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    The First Love Cookie Club

    By Lori Wilde

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    “Lori Wilde has created a rich and wonderful story about the charm of small town life combined with the power and passion of first love. Delicious!”

    —New York Times Bestselling author Robyn Carr

    The top rules of the First Love Cookie Club: No men. No kids. No store-bought. No gossip!

    And no one is going to keep rule #4 now that local-gal-made-good Sarah Collier has reluctantly returned to Twilight, Texas. The once-awkward teenager has become a big-time success with her bestselling kids’ books. Now she’s come back home to grant one child a very special wish, even though her own heart was once broken by the little girl’s father, Travis Walker.

    This all makes Sarah wonder, even though you can go home again—should you? Every time she turns the corner, the memory of who she was hits her square in the face, and it isn’t pretty. But there’s magic in Twilight, Texas—the magic of friendship and the magic of love, if only Sarah would open her heart to it. . . .

    With delicious cookie recipes from the club inside!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 1, 1991
    ISBN9780062018458
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    Lori Wilde

    Lori Wilde is the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers’ Weekly bestselling author of 97 works of romantic fiction. She’s a three-time Romance Writers’ of America RITA finalist and has four times been nominated for Romantic Times Readers’ Choice Award. She has won numerous other awards as well. Her books have been translated into 26 languages, with more than seven million copies of her books sold worldwide. Her breakout novel, The First Love Cookie Club, was made into a Hallmark movie titled A Kismet Christmas. Lori is a registered nurse with a BSN from Texas Christian University and a MLA from the same university. She holds a certificate in forensics and is also a certified yoga instructor. A sixth-generation Texan, Lori lives with her husband, Bill, in the Cutting Horse Capital of the World.

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    • 3/5
      The First Love Cookie Club by Lori WildeTwilight, Texas series #3Sarah Collier, a.k.a. Sadie Cool, reluctantly returns to the little town where she spent summers and holidays as a child. She had always loved her time in Twilight and had wonderful memories of time spent with her grandmother. Unfortunately, she left the town in shame nine years before when, as a besotted 15yo, she had crashed the wedding of a neighbor boy she had grown up with and was sure she was destined to marry. Her last memories were of her being sent home as the wedding guests laughed at her and the groom, Travis Walker, patting her on the shoulder with a sorry look on his face.Sarah has lost her belief in destiny and true love and the power behind "kismet cookies", which her grandma taught her to make and when, on Christmas Eve, you slept with some under your pillow, would tell you in your dreams the identity of your soul mate (in her case, it was Travis).Now, as the author of a beloved children's book about the magic of Christmas, she is asked to return to Twilight at the request of a dying little girl. How can she say no? She will have to swallow her pride and face the town again. It may be harder than she thought, however, when she realizes the little girl's father is none other than Travis Walker, now single after his wife abandoned the family when she couldn't handle their daughter's illness.This was a nice story but I kept wishing it would have been better than it was. I think what got me the most was there were gaps in the story that made me go "huh?". There were instances where we were told about the connections between certain characters, esp. between Sarah and the little girl, Jazzy. We never really saw them spending any real time together but later on in the story, their closeness would be referred to in a few sentences about how they shared a special connection. The connection between the H/h also seemed rushed as we were once again told that they cared for each other but not really convinced that they had time together as adults to really get to know each other. It all seemed to be based on chemistry and/or the matchmaking done through the ladies in the cookie club and the magic of the kismet cookies. It made the possibility of a HEA seem a little contrived or unbelievable.
    • 3/5
      I almost gave up on this book. The plot started off good but got heavy with thoughts and I skimmed. I skipped pages in the cookie baking section. I didn't like interaction between hero & heroine. Sarah, age 15, tried to stop Travis' wedding and nine years later she is a famous author.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I felt like the problems and emotions were ones that were realistic. While both Travis and Sarah have issues, none of them seem to overwhelm the story. It starts with Sarah as an awkward teenager discovering that the guy she's been dreaming of is about to marry someone else. After humiliating herself by trying to stop the wedding she swears she will never risk her heart again. Fast forward nine years, and Sarah has become a successful children's author. When she receives a letter from a sick fan, she reluctantly returns to Twilight, only to discover that the little girl is Travis's daughter.I had a little trouble connecting with Sarah at first. She was so resistant about going to Twilight that she came across as a bit selfish. Even once she was there she seemed rather standoffish. Some could be blamed on her memories of that day, but other things about her life are slowly revealed and begin to explain her problem. Her initial meeting with Travis shows her that she has never really forgotten those feelings for him. She also knows that she won't stay in Twilight so there's no sense in starting anything with him, tempting though it may be. She doesn't count on the ladies of the cookie club doing their best to push them together, or that Travis seems equally drawn to her. As the week goes on Travis and Jazzy start to break down the walls that Sarah has built up to keep people out. She starts to connect with them and others, but still doesn't see herself as able to have that happy ending.Travis was a wonderful hero. From his kind attitude toward Sarah on his wedding day to the amazing father he is today he is awesome. He may have made a mistake by getting his girlfriend pregnant when he was twenty, but he was determined to do the honorable thing and take care of them both. He was an involved father from the beginning, and even more so when Jazzy got so sick. He took on the role of both parents when his wife left them, making Jazzy the center of his world. When Sarah came back to Twilight he was surprised by the strength of his attraction to her. He would be very happy to see where it goes, but he has some of his own baggage to overcome. Between watching his dad fall apart after his mom's death and then his disastrous marriage, Travis resists the idea of soulmates, fearing that his life would fall apart too if he were to lose someone he cared about that much. I really liked the way that he saw Sarah's pain and fears and gave her the space she needed to process what they were beginning to feel for each other.Even as they began to acknowledge their feelings for each other, there were still some obstacles to overcome. Jazzy's mother comes back to town, causing Sarah to question her own place in their lives. Sarah has some professional problems that also interfere with her decision making process. Then there is a health crisis with Jazzy that brings a whole host of feelings to the surface, causing both Sarah and Travis to take a good look at what they really want from life.The town itself is another character in the book. I enjoyed seeing the various Christmas traditions and how they worked with what Travis and Sarah were going through. The people had the usual small town nosiness and tendency to interfere, but mostly in a positive manner. There was a secondary storyline that was left hanging, but it is addressed in a later series of novellas.
    • 4/5
      Sarah Collier believe in the Twiight, Texas legend until as a pudgy teenager went running down the church aisle on Christmas Day trying to stop Travis Walker from marrying. Now grown up and a bestselling children's book author she returns back to Twilight after she receives a fan letter from a sick fan. she discovers the little girl's father is Travis Walker. Cute story. Classic ending.
    • 3/5
      A light tale of Christmas in a small town that personifies the Christmas spirit. Lots of description of small town events. The danger came at the end and resolved itself when the various characters learned to forgive.
    • 4/5
      Snow and a cosy house in a small town and the word ‘Cookie’ on the cover. That gives you a fair idea of what to expect from this book. You have to be in a particular (as in, hugely festive) mood to get the most out of it! It turned out I was feeling rather festive, so I enjoyed the book quite a bit; though I did some skim reading when we got to the scenes with the interfering old biddies and the magical baking! The First Love Cookie Club opens with one of the most painful, embarrassing scenes I’ve ever come across in a book – with an awkward adolescent Sarah declaring her love for Travis at his wedding to another woman. She makes a bigger fool of herself in front of the entire town than I could ever believe it possible for one person to do. There’re actually a few scenes like that throughout the book; I was covering my eyes in embarrassment for her a few times! Luckily Travis sees things differently, and though he screws up once or twice, he comes through in the end. It’s nice when the man wants the relationship and is the one putting his heart on the line. Usually it’s the woman who has to convince the man they should be together. As with all of these small town stories that are so popular these days, this one’s all about ‘I didn’t realise how much I hated my evil city life until I moved back to my cosy little hometown’. Now, good for you if that’s what you want, but I can’t stand the way the two lifestyles are presented: two ridiculous extremes. The city is a hotbed of depravity and isolation, while back in the land of Betty Crocker everyone is living a 1940s lifestyle and loving the business out of their cookie baking parties. Unlike many of these books, however, this one was balanced with some more serious and interesting issues. Travis’ daughter is extremely ill – it’s not known if she’ll survive. Sarah has scars of her own – emotional scars, but also a serious injury we learn more about as the story unfolds. I was worried at the start; a cute little sick kid with a Christmas wish was bound to give us those Hallmark moments. I should have had more faith in the author because she didn’t go that route. For the most part I enjoyed the book. What I liked best was the immediate connection I felt with Sarah – she was a character I understood and sympathised with. Though I’m generally no fan of children in books, Travis and his relationship with his daughter Jasmine worked for me just fine. Every so often I became annoyed by the dialogue. Travis and Sarah would converse for a page or two at a time with one-liners, and I lost track of which person was saying what. I also didn’t like the way Sarah’s face was continually described as having ‘salmon-coloured lips’. Weirder still was the love scene. There’re things I don’t appreciate in scenes like this – such as references to beds banging walls or lines like, “He was totally into her”. I also don’t like references to body parts being discoloured or the hero saying ‘whoops’ in the middle of it all. It made for some very awkward reading! This was definitely one of the better Christmas-themed books I have read. It’s always nice to read about some snowy little town when Christmas where I am is hot and sticky. Entertaining with a bit of depth, and an author I intend to read more from in the future.