Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home: Book 3 (Original Cover Collection) (Magnolia Parks Universe)

please check triggers🫶the ending, my heart. shattered. i was a sobbing mess. jessa, why did you hurt us like this? incredibly addictive—i ate up this extraordinary thick book, a little over 500 pages and i inhaled in just over 24 hours. i could not put this book down.one of my comfort series, the character feel so real. i’m so emotionally invested in this universe! absolutely living for the drama this friendship group brings, what an absolute cliff hangover of an ending as well a super emotional one. very excited to dive into the next book, daisy haites: the great undoing!tropes:* childhood friends* soulmates x toxic relationships* love triangles* lots of drama / tension

You know after the last book I said I was unwell… Well now I’m destroyed!!! I categorically refuse to accept that ending; how can things finally be so good, finally I can breathe with these two idiots and then THAT! Yes hello officer I’d like to sue for emotional damage. <b>Spoilers ahead</b>This might be the fastest I have ever read a 500 page book but I just had to know what happened. I had to stop tabbing because it was taking too long lol. Is this series still slightly unhinged and so drama filled yes, but I also can’t look away.Bridget is my bloody favourite !!! She carries Magnolia’s book entirely, she’s so funny and witty and carefree and sure of herself and just a ray of sunshine. I love her and I will accept nothing but her happiness (I don’t care if I’m delusional). There’s so much I want to know about her, this cannot be what happens. It just can’t.Julian remains my king, he is first and foremost the best. I need a book about him like we all need air and water. Lowkey hate him being another man in Magnolia’s trap but damn was he good with her, he can’t be someone’s boyfriend but he would be the very best! He can do no wrong (he can and he has, but he’s trying ok) and his tiny vulnerable moments- are you kidding me I can’t love him more ok.Now for the elephant in the room. How do you go to therapy and still act the way you do? I mean it’s a lot better but really… it’s just this never ending cycle of reacting and hurting each other, pointing fingers and this entirely childish game of you do it first. I was just tired of them, and getting my hopes up that things will finally be working out. There were so many moments were it really seemed like they had both grown and could work things out. But no! Right back into the toxic doom spiral we go.I love that BJ calls Magnolia out on her part on all this because despite how she acts all innocent and the victim, she’s not completely. It is so annoying the way all the boys flock to her and one sad face literally erases all their logic or anger. She’s so unlikeable for the most part. Thank god he stood up for himself. Also the way his trauma is very much pushed to the side in favour of her, time and time again? The man is in no way perfect but I just don’t see a way to support her at all. Also just in general, there were two huge revelations about their history and then it just moves on??The relief I felt in the last 5% when they finally act like adults and are actively trying to be good together !!! Ahh finally. And yeah of course I liked BJ’s big gesture, about time that they sort things out and stop messing each other and everyone else around. It was definitely cute.Daisy and Christian in the background had my full attention, I’m so happy that it seems at least in part like they work things out. As Magnolia says they’re the cutest couple. And though she isn’t my favourite, I will be happy if she does become a quasi friend to Daisy bc my girl really needs some female friendships.I’m so worried for what’s to come and the next cliffhanger. Can the Haites and Christian and Bridget just be ok! The last chapters had me stressed for them and then that one page after the end. Very much scared and not prepared for what’s to come.

I wanted to was lyrical about Julian in my review but then that ending!! Like, what??? Why??? In fact, both endings! I do did not see that coming. The end end bit maybe but not the end bit just before! Haha, that's so cryptic. Hi read the book.

This was definitely my favourite book so far in the series, I’m not particularly sure the exact reason but I was just so much more invested.We got to see such a different side to Magnolia and BJ and also a lot more into their history which I loved. This book was honestly such a rollercoaster of emotions. The friendships in this book were also so much more solid.I also have such conflicted feelings about who I wanted to end up with who for all the characters in this story.

definitely by far better than the first magnolia love her love him LOVE julian x x x x x x

The media could not be loaded.  I am in the US but ordered from the UK so I could have the complete set. Unfortunately they all came damaged. I’m bummed bc it won’t allow me to replace them 👎🏻

I have never finished a book and instantly wanted to dive into the next one but I seriously considered sacking off my next planned reads for the next Magnolia book because F***I am obsessed with this series and specifically Magnolia and BJ because they're utterly obsessed with each other and I love it. I could binge read/watch their love for each other forever. I'm a romantic, what can I say 🤷🏼‍♀️If you haven't read this series yet, I can describe it to you as like a trashy reality TV combined with all the great upper class young adult TV shows. As soon as I pick any of the books up, I don't want to put them down, they're so addictive. I'm not a big Daisy and Julian fan because ganglords don't do it for me but Magnolia and BJ are utter toxic perfection.I don't know how Jessa Hastings does it but these books are phenomenal.

Amei como a história se desenvolveu depois do final do primeiro livro, conseguimos ver uma maior responsabilidade afetiva do BJ. E como não sofrer com eles... Cansei de tanto torcer por eles, mas também entendi as inseguranças deles. Super recomendo e ansiosa demais pro último!!!

She and I, we’re forever waiting for green. It’s always the red man.i couldn't stand them in the first book.i much preferred daisy & christian in book 2.but i can't believe it, i really enjoyed this one 😂to be fair, i always enjoyed jessa hasting's writing. i was just incredibly frustrated with their back and forth - not that that doesn't change in this book (in fact, it only increases in occurrence and severity), but this time the curtains are pulled back on the masterpiece that is bj and magnolia, and we learn more and more of their shared history, fully seeing just how intertwined the two are, heart and soul.“Do you think I’m crazy?” she asked, quietly.“No.” I shook my head. “I think you’re the best.”“Even though you know the worst parts of me?”“I don’t know the worst parts of you.”I ran my thumb over her scar. “I just know you, Parks.”There’s a hole in the bottom of the cup where I broke her and all the ways I want her fall through it.this time around, i learned to just enjoy the ride. these two make chuck and blaire feel like a chill carousel compared to their emotional rollercoaster. buckle up and have fun. you're never sure if anyone else they pull into their tangled web is just collateral damage or a real threat to their happy ending.“In another life I reckon I could have loved you.”I tilt my head, looking up at him.“In another life I would have let you."“That’s Julian Haites. I couldn’t break his heart if I hit it with a sledgehammer.”“Baby girl—” Gus gives me a look. “You are the sledgehammer.”“You love him. I love no one. Yeah?”I shrug, a bit confused. “Okay?”“Okay.” He nods and drops his weight on me.And the thought rattles through my mind only for a second, but I wonder whether perhaps I’ve had more loves than I knew of in this lifetime.i do love magnolia's (and, i'm assuming, hastings's) fashion obsession (i have 129 highlights of clothing descriptions alone), and i really appreciate the dry humor that manages to sneak in some comedic relief to this modern-day, upper echelon-centered soap opera.“About as subtle as a brick in the face, you are.”“You know,” I hear Bridget say as I leave the room, “she can’t spell ‘parallel’ either.”“I’ll have you know that I am a breeze to live with.”“She told me you put all her vegetables she just bought into the dishwasher.”“I was trying to clean them!”“What the [redacted] happens to you and I in the next fifteen years that we devolve so heavily that we’re forced to buy our own milk?”frankly, i was more emotionally devastated by the first ~30% or so than the ending. i don't know how to feel about it... i feel like i've had the rug ripped out from under me. i don't like the decision personally, though i can see why hastings made it storytelling-wise.i guess i have to see in the next book what comes of it...

Why did I think this book was gonna be happy ending for Parks & BJ. Lol who was I kidding.“He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I’m ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in” swoon.My mental stability went out the door, to the airport and off to NYC with Magnolia and I’m now stuck in the middle of a thunderstorm of emotions ⛈️I am a book masochist. I love getting my heart broken by books

Book quality was excellent,thanks to Amazon for selling original copy of the book

I'm so attracted to the character, they grew up more and THIS BOOK REALLY HURTS I need more!!!!!!!