Purple Orchids (The Mitchell Family Series)

This is by far my most favorite read of any book and I have a few that I have fallen in love with over time. Baylor (beautiful name btw) and Gavin are the most amazing couple and amazing individuals. Normally I try to get through a book to move on to the next one. However, this author wrote 434 pages that sucked me in and I didn't want it to end. I actually had deleted two books prior to this one after only reading less than half because I didn't find them interesting enough to continue. Then along came Purple Orchids. I am so in love with all of the characters in this book. Everyone played a pivotal role in making Baylor and Gavin's love story beautiful, charming, sad at times and humorous at times. There are two more in this series about Baylor's sisters. I would normally wait until they go on sale, but I'm so addicted to this author's writing that I'm snatching those two up immediately. Yeah, yeah...I know they're only $3.99, but when you have as many digital books in my queue as I do, you don't need to spend full price. The next two are also rated at an average of 5 stars and I have no doubt after reading Purple Orchids that those ratings are not from friends and family or paid reviewers. This author's writing is that good! Is the story unique, some of it yes and some of it no. Man whore falls in love with beautiful girl because she's different, but the way Samantha Christy brings these two together along with the many other parts that are different than other romance novels is well developed and just beautiful. I highly recommended this novel!

I really like Samantha Christy’s writing style and skills. Purple Orchids is a great example of her work. In it there is lots of angst offset by lots of humor. It has a good HEA ending.

In ‘Purple Orchids’ we read the story of Gavin and Baylor. Gavin and Baylor meet in college. They are totally opposites. Gavin the athlete with the rich family. A real-life playboy with another girl on his arm every single day. And then there’s Baylor. She works hard for everything she’s got. She isn’t into dating, and she definitely isn’t interested in parties. From the moment Gavin and Baylor meet, there is a connection between them. And soon they fall hard for each other. Things seemed perfect, but then something changes everything. And they never see each other again. Now years later they accidentally meet again. And there is a lot of hurt and anger between them. They soon learn that people in their lives haven’t been honest with them. And there lives could have been very different. Now they get a second chance to talk things out. But eight years is a very long time, and nothing is the same anymore. When I first read the book description, I didn’t expect this book to be in different parts but I definitely enjoyed it. In the first part we meet Gavin and Baylor in college. They meet and fall hard for each other. We get to read moments from both Gavin and Baylor’s point of view, and it was perfect. Gavin sure made me swoon at times. The next part in this book is eight years later. We still read the story through both their eyes, and I loved every moment of it. The chemistry between Gavin and Baylor was flying of the pages, and I was really rooting for them right from the start. The romance was amazing, and there where some great sexy moments as well. The one thing that I didn’t love, was the evilness of Gavin’s ex. It just felt a bit far reached. But it didn’t bother me to much since I loved both these characters so much. Overall ‘Purple Orchids’ was an amazing read. And I’m definitely curious to read more books by this author.

This is a new to me, author. This was wonderfully written. I can’t wait for my book besties to read it. Romance sweet romance.

Let me just start by saying that I really enjoyed the last half of this book. There were twists and turns that I didn't see coming that genuinely made me gasp, however, the first half of the book dragged on and on. I felt like it was very repetitive and if I had to read one more sex scene or hear Gavin profess his love one more time I was going to scream. There was no substance to their 3 month relationship other than the fact that they liked to run, eat french fries, and have sex every 5 seconds. Now, the 2nd half of the book is where she actually started a decent story line that had me intrigued. I think she needed elaborate more on the stalker situation bc that part still makes no sense. Anyways, not a bad read, but I won't be continuing the series. I don't love the characters enough to know what's going to happen next.

This book was a slow burn but what twist and turns. I had all the emotions a book can produce great read.

This has to be real story .. like it's to real .. the details .. the characters development.. I've just witness live growing like flower in front of my eyes and it was beautiful! They has such a chemistry .. like no one can come up with all this right?? It's like to be the recounting of real event . Anyway.. amazing book . Very emotional.

I enjoyed reading this book. I thoroughly recommend it, as it is not only an excellently crafted story that keeps you engaged throughout the complete story, but also well written and very well edited. The story flows and doesn’t feel forced just to make the story longer, or padded out with sex scenes that are repeated, its just a really good fun, exciting read

Well I'm not exactly sure where to start but this book was amazing , I read a review before I bought it and one reader was saying that the beginning was a little bit boring , so I was a bit sceptical at first , but after I started to read I thought how could she say that because the way I c it is that if u don't read wot Gavin tells u at the beginning then u won't get or understand the whole story , which was amazing by the way although near the end I nearly had a heart attack until I read on , so if ur reading my review and ur thinking that ur not sure about this book then let me say that when I bought this book I also bought the next two at the very same time as I knew I would want to find out wot happens in her sisters lives too and I am so very glad that I did , so now I'm off to read how skylar gets on in her book enjoy reading gals x

Spanish & English Opinion 🇲🇽 Me gustó mucho el inicio. Los personajes también, pero de repente hubo exceso de drama y eso ya se me hizo demasiado. Las tretas de Karen en la parte 2 y 3 eran absurdas, pero entretenidas. Baylor me cae bien aunque a veces quería golpearla. Gavin también me desesperaba con su “inocencia” con respecto a Karen… pero me gustó su arrastre. Callie y Maddox están increíbles. 🇺🇸 I liked the beginning a lot. The characters were also cool but suddenly the drama was too much. Karen’s tricks on part 2 and 3 were absurd. I liked Baylor but I was wishing I could punch her a couple of moments. Gavin was not naive but dumb towards Karen’s attitudes, but I liked his groveling. Callie and Maddox were the best!

This story is so good. Baylor is strong, feisty and independent. Gavin is the typical jock player. Until he accidentally knocks over Baylor. This story with its past and present sections was written so well. A great second chance with a HEA.