Reviews

Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson

kerryzielke's review

4.0

Three girls who would never normally be friends, are forced to spend the summer together in a peach orchard. I enjoyed the characters and the plot.

ebonygreads's review

2.0

This book is about three girls who wouldn't have normal been found around each other but are pushed together by Peaches...

This is a typical YA read. I did find it took me longer to finish this book that I would have liked. I just couldn't fall in love with the storyline or the characters.

Birdie lives on a peach farm with her two dogs and her dad. The storyline is based around trying to save the peach farm being sold off or taken away from them. However, it seemed that only Birdie was pretty much interested in putting in the hard work to do so.

Leeda and Murphy are two girls who join the peach farm for their own individual reasons and the story watches the three girls friendship blossom. I wasn't even convinced that the girls were friends with each other until the ending of the book. It just seemed a bit all over.

The storyline didn't change anything for me and I didn't particularly connect with any of the characters.

bookgirl4ever's review

2.0

Three very different teenage girls lives intersect at a peach orchard, creating lasting friendships. An okay read.

HS

rfanning97's review

4.0

The sweet juice of a peach rolled off of these pages as I spent the summer with Murphy, Leda, and Bride on an old Georgia peach farm. This book was cute, funny, and an overall fun quick read that left me with a happy uplifting message. If the book was to resemble a fruit it would probably be more of an orange than a peach because like most oranges it was hard to start but once I really bit into it I loved every bit of it! The writing was very sweet and flowed from problem to problem. The plot line was also very good with lots of twists and turns with happy miracles resolving some. Peaches was an overall amazing book and I am planning on reading the sequel!!

trinsreading's review

2.0

“Loyalty was a funny thing. So was love. They both bit you when you least expected it.”

Very disappointed with this book. I thought there would have been more romance and a better storyline than this. I like how each of the three girls have completely different personalities but that was it when it came to them. The storyline wasn't great. This book took me so long to read because it dragged so much. I really wish I could've loved this book but it wasn't my cup of tea.

Birdie had to be my favorite between the three of them. I liked how she was able to stand up for herself and go for what she wanted but I thought when that came it would be a big confrontation. It just happened in a few sentences and boom! Problem solved. If only that was how some cases worked. But Birdie was definitely the best character in this book.

Murphy would be the second best but I had a lot of problems with her. Why go for Rex? I honestly liked him in the beginning but after we get more from him you realize he's a baby. I was so excited for Murphy and Rex at first but then I just wanted him to go away. You love him? Please you don't know anything about him! I felt like Leeda and her were always competing with each other. It got really annoying after awhile.

Leeda is definitely the worst. Since the beginning, I never liked her. I don't know how to explain this correctly, but she was just annoying. I liked how her friendship with Murphy started but it was confusing with how close they got to Birdie. Cause one minute they both just wanna leave and the next second everyone is as close as they can be. It was just hard to see how things happened.

Everything seemed to just happen. I really didn't like this book and I am glad to say that I am finished! I don't think I will be continuing this series anytime soon because I'm done with this. Only reason why I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 was because there were a few things I did like in this. Like the dogs, best dogs ever.

thevalkyriereader's review

3.0

It was a great and fun read. I honestly adored Birdie and her shyness along with Leeda's troubles with finding herself against her mom and coming to an understanding with her sister in some degree. Murphy was the funniest and my favorite. She was the white trash who slept around and her mom was a constant river of men. But she was funny and brutally honest and was loyal even if her pride let a friendship get ruined over the boy anyway. Which turned out that they all made up in the end and my fave part was she got the guy.
The book as a whole was well written if at times a bit slow but I read this because it was recommended to me. So not really my usual cup of tea. Nice little read though.

serinde4books's review

4.0

I read this a filler for the week off between my BOTM books, it was a freebie from Nook I got a few months ago, it looked like some light reading. It was light reading, this is a sort of typical teen book about three girls from very different backgrounds who become the best of friends and stick by each other through the hard times. It is a story that we have read a bunch of times, but thanks to Mrs. Anderson’s writing I didn’t mind. As a kid I loved the “Babysitter Club” series and this book reminded me of it, not storyline wise, but the flow and the writing style.

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sterialm's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

curlyratgirl's review

1.0

As someone who normally finishes every book no matter how bad, I couldn't get passed the first two chapters

amakelly's review

2.0

I read this book a year or two ago and I'm usually pretty good at remembering what happens in a book but this book just didn't stay with me. It was easy to forget after I was done with it.