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The Girl I Was Before
- The Falling Series, Volume 3
- Narrated by: Claire White, James Fouhey
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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I'm the selfish one. I suppose that's the nicest thing people say about me. I've heard the other things, too: "Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She's just a good time at a party. She's stupid, heartless, cold, and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?"
Some of those things are true...They're all hurtful.
None of it matters.
I'm ready to make the hard choices. I'm ready to face the consequences.
I'm ready to be the girl I was before, and I'm done being the one who lost her way. I'm ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.
Houston isn't a star athlete. He doesn't play in a band. He's never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn't even funny. He wasn't part of my plan. But I'm starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make...starting now.
Houston is my fairy tale. He's perfectly imperfect. He's poetry and life. He's truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders, and green eyes that lull me into submission. He's nothing I ever thought I wanted but the very thing I need. He's the only guy I've ever really loved, and he thinks I'm a princess. I fell into him, and now I'm holding on.
But sometimes, life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes, things aren't in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.
Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.
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- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
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When 16-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To maximize the time she does have, she vows to spend her final months righting wrongs - however she sees fit. She convinces her friend Harvey, who she knows has always had feelings for her, to help her with a crazy bucket list that's as much about revenge (humiliating her ex-boyfriend and getting back at her archnemesis) as it is about hope (doing something unexpectedly kind for a stranger).
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- By The Reading Date on 05-18-14
By: Julie Murphy
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Beautiful Oblivion
- Maddox Brothers, Book 1
- By: Jamie McGuire
- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
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Trenton Maddox was the king of Eastern State University, dating co-eds before he even graduated high school. His friends wanted to be him, and women wanted to tame him, but after a tragic accident turned his world upside down, Trenton leaves campus to come to grips with the crushing guilt. Eighteen months later, Trenton is living at home with his widower father, and works full-time at a local tattoo parlor to help with the bills. Just when he thinks his life is returning to normal, he notices Cami sitting alone at a table at The Red.
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Boring, Cliched, Annoying
- By Allison on 07-14-14
By: Jamie McGuire
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All Lined Up
- Rusk University, Book 1
- By: Cora Carmack
- Narrated by: Justis Bolding, Dan Bittner
- Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
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Dallas Cole loathes football. That's what happens when you spend your whole childhood coming in second to a sport. College is her time to step out of the bleachers and put the playing field (and the players) in her past. But life doesn't always go as planned. As if going to the same college as her football-star ex wasn't bad enough, her father, a phenom in Texas's world of high school coaching, has decided to make the jump to college ball…as the new head coach at Rusk University. Dallas finds herself in the shadows of her father and football all over again.
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Love me some Friday Night Texas Football!!
- By Lisa M. Filipe on 10-12-14
By: Cora Carmack
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Losing It
- By: Cora Carmack
- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
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Virginity. Bliss Edwards is about to graduate from college and still has hers. Sick of being the only virgin among her friends, she decides the best way to deal with the problem is to lose it as quickly and simply as possible - a one-night stand. But her plan turns out to be anything but simple when she freaks out and leaves a gorgeous guy alone and naked in her bed with an excuse that no one with half a brain would ever believe. And as if that weren't embarrassing enough, when she arrives for her first class of her last college semester, she recognizes her new theater professor....
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Not my thing - what is New Adult?
- By Sash & Em: A Tale of Two Bookies on 09-25-13
By: Cora Carmack
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Cold Hearted
- By: Winter Renshaw
- Narrated by: Yvonne Syn, Douglas Berger
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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Rhett Carson was as cold as the ice on which he skated. He was as calloused as the hands that shot the goals that won world championships. He was also damaged. And broken. And he didn't know it, but I knew all about him...and his unfortunate connection with my estranged older brother. I knew why he was so bitter and angry. I knew why he was so cold hearted. But I didn't know why I let myself fall in love with him. And I didn't know why I couldn't stop - even when he told me to.
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Great story
- By Lori E. on 03-11-18
By: Winter Renshaw
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Blurred Lines
- By: Lauren Layne
- Narrated by: Mason Lloyd, Allison Pike
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
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When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate - and platonic. Six years later, they're still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland's trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker's boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben's no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can't seem to get the hang of casual sex - until she tries it with him.
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Meh...
- By Britney S on 06-12-16
By: Lauren Layne
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- The Academy: The Ghost Bird, Book 1
- By: C. L. Stone
- Narrated by: Natalie Eaton
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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With an agoraphobic mother and a barely-there father, Sang abhors the isolation keeping her in the shadows. The only thing Sang craves is a fresh start and to be accepted as ordinary by her peers, because for her being different meant being cast out alone. When her family moves to a new school district, Sang infiltrates a group of boys nearly perfect in every way.
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Great story, great listen
- By Twinmom on 04-13-18
By: C. L. Stone
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Shut Out
- By: Kody Keplinger
- Narrated by: Kate Reinders
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other Schools. At Hamilton High, it’s a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight or haze a freshman. And on three separate occasions Randy’s car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend’s attention. Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: She and the other players’ girlfriends go on a hookup strike.
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A great read
- By Valerie StuckInBooks on 01-29-12
By: Kody Keplinger
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The Distance Between Us
- By: Kasie West
- Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers learned early that the rich are not to be trusted. And after years of studying them from behind the cash register of her mom's porcelain-doll shop, she has seen nothing to prove otherwise. Enter Xander Spence-he's tall, handsome, and oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and the fact that he seems to be one of the first people who actually gets her, she's smart enough to know that his interest won't last.
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Teen Perfect
- By amy on 03-18-17
By: Kasie West
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Kaleidoscope Hearts
- By: Claire Contreras
- Narrated by: Christy Romano, Vikas Adam
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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He was my older brother's best friend. He was never supposed to be mine. I thought we would get it out of our systems and move on. One of us did. One of us left. Now he's back, looking at me like he wants to devour me. And all those feelings I'd turned into anger are brewing into something else, something that terrifies me. He broke my heart last time. This time he'll obliterate it.
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OMG!!! Yawn!!
- By Jess on 12-22-15
By: Claire Contreras
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Fading
- By: E. K. Blair
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
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Can a guilty conscience keep wounds from healing? Fine arts major, Candace Parker, grew up with a mother who thinks image is everything, and her daughter’s perfection will never be good enough. About to graduate college and pursue her dreams of becoming a professional ballerina, Candace decides it’s time to let go and have a little fun. But fun is short-lived when a brutal attack leaves her completely shattered. The memories that consume and torment Candace are starting to destroy her when she meets Ryan Campbell, a successful bar owner.
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13:41 of Painfully Emotional Perfection!
- By 1-Click Junkie on 12-01-15
By: E. K. Blair
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For You: Complete Collection
- By: Alexa Riley
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Tristan James, Lexi Richmond, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
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Three novellas from Alexa Riley: Stay Close: A former Russian mafia soldier is hired to protect a friend’s daughter, but he knows he’ll do more than keep her safe - he’ll make her his. Forever. Hold Tight: A hotshot consultant hired to streamline Osbourne Corp. meets his match in Pandora Justice. Don’t Go: CEO Henry Osbourne has only ever desired one woman - the one who got away. She ran from a boy, but a man of power and persuasion now stands in his place.
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Okay once past the barely legal and baby focus
- By 🔥 Phx17 🔥 on 04-24-23
By: Alexa Riley
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Ramona Blue
- By: Julie Murphy
- Narrated by: Therese Plummer
- Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
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Ramona was only five years old when Hurricane Katrina changed her life forever. Since then it's been Ramona and her family against the world. Standing over six feet tall, with unmistakable blue hair, Ramona is sure of three things: She likes girls, she's fiercely devoted to her family, and she knows she's destined for something bigger than the trailer she calls home in Eulogy, Mississippi. But juggling multiple jobs, her flaky mom, and her well-meaning but ineffectual dad forces her to be the adult of the family.
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Where was this book ten years ago?
- By S. F. Wilson on 05-08-18
By: Julie Murphy
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Misbehaved
- By: Charleigh Rose
- Narrated by: Ramona Master, Mark Kamish
- Length: 9 hrs
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Remington Stringer has never been like most girls. She's outspoken and brazen and wants nothing more than to escape the Nevadan hell hole she calls home. On the brink of 18, with a deceased mother and a well-meaning, yet absent father, she's been forced to fend for herself. The only person she's ever been able to depend on is her borderline obsessive stepbrother. But even that anchor is quickly becoming a loose cannon. So when she gets the opportunity to attend the best private school in the state during her senior year of high school, she jumps at the chance.
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Not bad but not a repeat read
- By Kaitlyn Worth on 04-28-20
By: Charleigh Rose
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- Samantha
- 02-04-18
Amazing!
I’m so in love with all three of these books so far. I don’t wanna move onto book number four because i know it’s the end and i don’t want these stories to end. Each and every story has drawn me in and made me love every single person told in these stories. I must say that Paige and Houston are my favorites just because i related more. Lots of tears, laughter, and awe moments in these books! A must read!
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- JNF3
- 08-25-16
Family matters and belonging matters more
So, the unlikeable girl finally becomes human by finding her soul mate. She fought it, felt she didn't deserve it, but she was able to achieve redemption and received her reward. I really liked the character of Houston. His family mattered to him more than almost anything and he was able, through perseverance, able to help Paige learn to fit, see what she was missing and could have if only she would let down her guard. Decent story.
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- Jacqueline's Reads
- 10-01-15
Pure Perfection – Couldn't Stop Listening
Would you consider the audio edition of The Girl I Was Before to be better than the print version?
I don’t like to compare the reading and listening of a book because to me it’s two completely different things. I listen to books for a different experience. Usually I feel more emotions when I listen and it’s a wonderful journey. I think this book is perfect reading print or listening. I recommend both because you get two wonderful but different experiences.
What other book might you compare The Girl I Was Before to and why?
This is a tough one because you can’t really compare The Girl I was Before to other books. This book is so unique and wonderful on its own. The best I can do is compare The Girl I was Before to the following books. I don’t want to give anything away, but there’s a common element.
- Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros
- Worth the Fall by Claudia Connor
- Consolation Corinne Michaels
Have you listened to any of Claire White and James Fouhey ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I LOOOOVVVEEEEE the male narrator. I LOVVEEE Him. Did I say that already? I kind of stalked his other books, that’s how much I love him. I usually don’t google narrators because I have a picture of them in my head and I don’t want to ruin the fun, but I am so tempted. He reads at the right pace, his voice is not too deep, but fits Houston. It’s strong, masculine and PERFECT. I kind of imagine Houston as a nerdy guy with glasses.
The female narrator fits Paige perfectly. Paige is a tough character, so the voice is really strong, not too girly, but feminine. She sounds older and wiser (how I picture Paige).
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
The whole book is moving, but the one that stood out the most is listening to Houston’s past. I really liked getting a deeper glimpse to who he is and what kind of man he was. It made me fall in love with him just a tiny bit more.
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5 I’ve got a Crush on you Stars
This is an AUDIO Re-read < --- because its my favorite form of re-reading. The Girl I was Before just became Live on audio. I have been waiting MONTHS for this. I actually wanted to do the audio when I finished reading it. I love this book like mad.
FUN FACT < ---- The female and male audio narrators are a REAL LIFE couple. I know, I have mega heart eyes. It just makes listening to them even better right?!!!!
The Girl I was Before is a standalone and is part of the Falling series. If you are a fan of the series, I highly recommend you read this. If you have not started this series, I highly recommend you read it.
Paige is Cass’ twin sister. Rowe is in the first book and Cass is in the second book. Paige is like Barbie. She’s blonde, pretty and is social. Usually these Heroines make me cringe, but I’ve invested into Paige since the first book and I was super curious to how Paige would redeem herself.
The female narrator fits Paige perfectly. Paige is a tough character, so the voice is really strong, not too girly, but feminine. She sounds older and wiser (how I picture Paige).
The first two books in the series follow the same time-line, HOWEVER The Girl I was Before is after the first two books. I really liked this and I’m glad Ginger went in this direction. Paige is known as the stuck up, self-centered, selfish, spoiled girl. She’s upset with a lot in life, mostly because she has to deal with her sister’s illness. She’s trying to change for the better, but it’s a slow process.
When the story starts, we see Paige the way she was in book one. She’s mean, spiteful and very calculating. She will hurt people to get her way and get ahead. Crazy as it sounds, I loved it. Paige is so complex, I just couldn’t get enough of her. Why is she the way she is? Why is she so mean? Does she have any feelings? To answer your question, yes, she does.
Paige has a lot of feelings. I loved reading her POV and I loved getting into her head. I completely clicked and related with her character. Way to go Ginger!
“I’ll indulge in the fact that I have a crush- a crush on a guy whom I under no circumstances really want to be with – but a crush all the same. “
At first Houston seems like your typical college Hero. He works hard and he lives at home to help support his mother. He’s was slightly flirty when I read the little teaser from the second book. So, I just had to sink my teeth into Houston when I started the book finally. I loved him from day one. He’s a good guy and he has a heart of gold. A complete opposite of Paige. Kind of ironic no?
I LOOOOVVVEEEEE the male narrator. I LOVVEEE Him. Did I say that already? I kind of stalked his other books, that’s how much I love him. I usually don’t google narrators because I have a picture of them in my head and I don’t want to ruin the fun, but I am so tempted. He reads at the right pace, his voice is not too deep, but fits Houston. It’s strong, masculine and PERFECT. I kind of imagine Houston as a nerdy guy with glasses.
Houston needs help with Spanish and Paige happens to be at the library while Houston is studying. She reluctantly helps him. The banter between Houston and Paige is off the charts cute, adorable and funny. I loved how rude Paige was and I love how awkward Houston was.
But not everything is what it seems right? Paige isn’t a nice person and Houston comes with baggage. Houston doesn’t have time for a personal life, he’s too busy working and he’s focusing on school. Paige doesn’t want anything to do with Houston because well, for one, she has a boyfriend and another she has girl drama she has to deal with.
Somehow, they forge this crazy bond and it just worked for me. I enjoyed this book so much because the characters are so complex and Ginger really pulled everything together nicely. I got the issues and I understood both sides (Houston and Paige’s). I felt for them and I was rooting for them both.
”When you want something for someone else more than you want them to be here for you-when you just wish they had more time, rather than more time with you. I’m pretty sure that’s love”
More stuff happens in the book and it was a delicious delight as I uncovered more and more. I wouldn’t say this book is too angsty, which surprised me because that is what Ginger is known for, but it had that enough mild tension to keep you panting for more and happy.
It’s a coming-of-age college romance book that will pull at your heart and make you sigh in a very good way.
I can’t stress enough how much I love Audio reads. It’s great for the first time, second time or even the fifth time. You can listen to this book in one sitting or in breaks. I usually turn on a book as I work in the office. It keeps me happy.
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- R
- 06-25-18
Best out of the series
I really disliked Paige in the first two books but have to say this story was SO good! The plot line was amazing and I just can't say enough about how much I enjoyed this third installment of the series! Highly recommend it!
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- An Amazon Customer
- 11-24-15
I was prepared to hate this book…
Having been introduced to Paige (the heroine) in the first two books in the series, I didn't like her. Then, when I started listening, I wasn't too fond of the woman reading her. (The female reader's accent for the Southern characters was so awful, I had to deduct a star. Fortunately, she (mostly) redeemed herself with the other characters.) How, then, did this become my favorite Ginger Scott book so far? I will chalk it up to skill. Ms. Scott slowly, surely, made me feel compassion for Paige. Made me root for her, cry for her, and fall for her as completely as does Houston. I love this book.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-09-17
loved
I loved this book. I will continue to read more from this Author. I love the story lines
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- jodiod
- 12-27-15
Fun
Very enjoyable series. Loved the anti-heroine and her changes. What a wonderful ending. Really liked Lea too.
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- Hope Jones
- 11-17-15
Great end to a trilogy.
Loved the book, loved Houston and even got to really like Paige about half way through the book. I liked the male reader, perfect intonation and believable voice for the character's age. Unfortunately the female reader was not at his level. So flat, no intonation, no life for this amazing character. sigh.
I read the book, loved it so much I bought the audible version since I like to re-listen books and now can do all three books in one shot. Just buy the book in any form.
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- Amy
- 01-20-18
To my surprise I extremely enjoyed this series!
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I am a big fan of murder/mystery books, but once in awhile I like to try something different. So glad I did and chose the Falling Series!! It was sweet, sad and funny all at the same time. My son would hear me laughing to myself in my room and thought I was crazy when I told him it was my book making me laugh. Also had some great, surprising little twists. My sister and her friend and my co-worker are all reading this series now. If you are trying to decide, I would say go for it. Don't think it will be disappointing.
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- D. Clother
- 07-26-16
Loved this series
Loved hearing the story from Pages point of view. The female narrator was horrible though, wish they would have used the narrator from the fullest two. I could really use a do over on the voice female recording
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