I love this series and this particular book brought perfect closure. The characters felt so real ! Amazing work by the author here.

Great book, love this author and how they can keep my attention to the end! The plot is well developed, characters are believable and they obviously paid attention to detail to make the story worth your time to read.

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for an e-ARC of this title in exchange for my honest opinion. This is the first time I've read anything from this author, and now I get the opportunity to get backward and read the series from book #1 (this is book #6). This book is about 3 women getting ready to bring babies into the world, and what that entails. I really enjoyed the characters. I felt they were well developed and I can't wait to read some of the back story I'd missed in the past.

I really enjoy this series, it's not really a cozy mystery series it's more about friendship and small town living. Maura has been busy getting the new library up and running, dragging the small Mississippi town into the 21st century. People are either thrilled or upset about the changes so Maura gets the book club involved with a program called Expecting Great things. A play on words as several members, including Maura are expecting babies. Good story, good characters, great setting. Perfect read with a cup of hot tea and a cold winter day.

While I have not read the other books in this series, I now want to. I fell in love with this community and it's sweet residents!

This story centers on three Mamas to be and their support networks as they prepare to bring their babies into the world. It also explored the bond and deeper friendship that forms between them as they walk through this transition and new life stage together.

if you want to read a book that will make you smile and want to be friends with the characters, check this one out!

This is a delightful cozy series. This is book six in "The Cherry Cola Book Club" series. This book can stand alone and I do recommend the entire series. The setting in a Southern town adds to the enjoyment of this series. The author beautifully describes the location, culture and mannerisms of the South.
Maura Beth is the director of the new library. She and several of her friends in her small Mississippi town are expecting. Soon they develop a support group for pregnancy that is a strong support for all their friends . As the group continues to grow each lady attending learns lessons in friendship and compassion.
I love this series as its non violent, no cursing , very sweet and centers on friendships and the importance of family. Each book in the series has life lessons and all are a enjoyable read.

I did not like the book, but it is no fault of the author's or the book itself. I just did not realize that it was going to focus almost completely on pregnancy and babies. Neither of these holds my interest.

Cherico, Mississippi is the setting for this lovely series centering around the newly built public library and it’s director Maura Beth. While not having read the earlier books in this series, I was easily able to dive into this story and meet the characters as they shared their story and changes to come with us all. Maura Beth and her English teacher husband are expecting their first child – but they aren’t alone. Her sister in law Elise, visiting Cherico while on sabbatical from her professorship in a nearby university, is also pregnant, as well as a friend from town, Periwinkle, the owner of the Twinkle Café. Instantly, above and beyond a friendship, these women have something in common, and Maura Beth, with her knack of bringing together people to support, uphold and befriend one another has a brainstorm. A support group to share concerns, get information and generally spend their pregnancy together. A wonderful idea that is wholeheartedly supported by all the community – already close knit and supportive from their time spent together in the Cherry Cola Book Clun – that provided care, prayers, concern and community through deaths, health scares, marriages and the monumental and not so moments of life.

Quickly Ashton Lee sucked me into the series – from Jeremy’s ‘pregnancy mirroring’ to Elise’s utter fish out of water utterances, even in supporting Peri and her issues with her mother’s racist views of her husband and her child: the story was full of moments that every group of friends have: ups, downs and just being and existing in the same space. Wonderfully able to address real issues of acceptance, fears, health and even family strife – the story managed to provide a great escape sort of read that kept brining moments of “oh I remember that” or “oh I wish I had” – easily accessible to readers everywhere in every phase of life. Adding to the wonderful characters and ideas brought forward, lovely little bits of literary and wordplay entered the story – hard to miss with a librarian and an English teacher, and when you add a budding romance for Jeremy’s friend Alex, a history teacher, and his affection for the uber-feminist Elise, the sweetness of the story amps up a few more notches. As the conclusion to the series, it was lovely – bringing a sense of closure to this moment, leaving a few questions unanswered, and providing the new generation of members for this book club and community.

I received an eArc copy of the title from the publisher via NetGalley for purpose of honest review. I was not compensated for this review: all conclusions are my own responsibility.

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Book Club Babies is a good book. I enjoyed the Mississippi setting and the plot. I have not read previous books in this series but after reading this book I just might check them out.

This is a great book; this is the sixth book in the Cherry Cola Book Club Mystery Series written by Ashton Lee. This book can be read as a standalone, but once you read it you will defiantly want to go back and catch up with the other book in this series. This is a great book with a wonderful story and well developed characters. This book will keep you reading long into the night. If you are looking for a great book, then you need to read this book. I am looking forward to reading the next book by this great author. I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader’s copy of this book. The free book held no determination on my personal review.

How can I start my final review on one of my favorite fiction series? Perhaps with the idea that Mr. Lee may revisit Cherico, MS in the future through the eyes of the second generation. I like to believe that as I am not ready to say goodbye. Each installment of the Cherry Cola Book Club has brought me comfort and joy as I read them. I became friends with Maura Beth, Periwinkle, Voncile and etc.

Book Club Babies takes us through the pregnancies of Maura Beth, Periwinkle and Elise. Each pregnancy has its own ups and downs with outside influences but each finds a way to overcome with the love and support of one another. I don't want to go into too much detail because I would like you to pick up this series and be as surprised, sadden and happy as I was through each chapter. The ending is a sweet way to introduce the second generation of the book club. It gives one hope that brick and mortar libraries and reading is not becoming lost in this world of technology.

I love the fact that Mr. Lee put the recipes from all the books at the end of Book Club Babies instead of creating a separate book. It made me think he gifted us readers with a treat for reading his series and talking about it to all our friends. I cannot wait to try a few at my next family gathering.

If you have not read this series I suggest you do as soon as you can. You will not be disappointed. To help you get started let me give you the books in order:

1. The Cherry Cola Book Club
2. The Reading Circle
3. The Wedding Circle
4. A Cherry Cola Christmas
5. Queen of the Cookbook
6. Book Club Babies

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington for an advanced copy to read and review in my own honest words.

Ashton Lee has created and takes the reader to a very real life world in Cherico, MS. The characters are believable and seem like people you'd want to know. The only problem with this installment of the series is there just wasn't enough going on besides babies. Though I blame some of my dissapoint on myself as the author let us know upfront in the title what it was about.
I like the writer's style and have really enjoyed some of the previous books in the series. I look forward to see what she writes next.
I received an Advance reader copy from Netgalley.

Set in small town Mississippi, this ensemble novel tracks the lives of a group of women in a book club. This time around Maura Beth is pregnant and most of the novel focuses on pregnancy and babies. As others have noted, some of this is outdated. I struggled with this one because I hadn't read the earlier books and there were a number of characters to sort out. That's not to say, btw, that you won't enjoy it if you've read the earlier books as I suspect these are well loved people full of quirks and personality. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.

In the Cherry Cola Bookclub, Maura Beth and Elise, both pregnant and sisters in law, come up with new ideas to get the community more involved with everyone and the newly pregnant and new parents, so they can share their experiences ad new parents and learn from each other.
My first cherry cola story and really enjoyed it.
Not actually a pridictable story for once.
I am very appreciative to Netgalley to offer a copy for review.
I am definitely going to look into more books by Ashton Lee.

Book Club Babies
Ashton Lee
Available: November 28, 2017

Thank you to NetGalley.com for the opportunity to read this book through an advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

The sixth entry into the Cherry Cola Book Club is….. dull. Now that Maura Beth isn’t fighting to save her library or get a new one built, life in Cherico, MS is rather boring. Even though this installment is about wonderful, adorable pregnancies and babies, you can tell it was written by a man. A man who has never been around anyone who was ever pregnant. Even the most eagerly anticipated pregnancy will have its moments where the mother-to-be cries her eyes out over a piece of clothing that no longer fits, ankles that are horribly swollen, and moments of both self-doubt and absolute terror. Or maybe that was just me.

What I loved: Its nice to see Twinkle and Parker have a larger role in the book, but Twinkle doesn’t seem like the Twink of previous stories. It’s like her personality has disappeared. While she does go through some rather difficult times in the novel (her momma sounds like a real piece of work); she just doesn’t seem like herself. My favorite part had to be all of the favorite recipes in the back from the entire series – all of that amazing Southern food is just waiting to be made in my kitchen (but hopefully not by me if its meant to be edible.)

What I didn’t love: Hmmmmm – where do I begin? Do I start with how General Anesthesia C-sections are rare nowadays? Or the fact that Jeremy is one of the most annoying characters ever written? Seriously – there’s already a “Fatherhood for Dummies” book out there – google it. Or is the final thing that so many of the other well-loved characters from previous books barely get a passing mention in this one? I’ll probably have to go with Jeremy – maybe he’ll grow a spine and some other things by the time the next book is written.

What I learned: I guess all pregnancies are practically perfect in so many ways in Cherico.
Overall Grade: C