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Prejudice Meets Pride (Meet Your Match) by [Rachael Anderson]

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After years of pinching pennies and struggling to get through art school, Emma Makie’s hard work finally pays off with the offer of a dream job. But when tragedy strikes, she has no choice but to make a cross-country move to Colorado Springs to take temporary custody of her two nieces. She has no money, no job prospects, and no idea how to be a mother to two little girls, but she isn’t about to let that stop her. Nor is she about to accept the help of Kevin Grantham, her handsome neighbor, who seems to think she’s incapable of doing anything on her own.Prejudice Meets Pride is the story of a guy who thinks he has it all figured out and a girl who isn't afraid to show him that he doesn't. It’s about learning what it means to trust, figuring out how to give and to take, and realizing that not everyone gets to pick the person they fall in love with. Sometimes, love picks them.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JW6ZW6U
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HEA Publishing (April 23, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 23, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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A USA Today bestselling author, Rachael Anderson is the mother of four and is pretty good at breaking up fights, or at least sending guilty parties to their rooms. She can't sing, doesn't dance, and despises tragedies. But she recently figured out how yeast works and can now make homemade bread, which she is really good at eating. You can read more about her and her books online at rachaelreneeanderson.com.

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Julie C

<3 Another favorite from Rachel Anderson. <3

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 15, 2016

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I loved the storyline for this book. Emma is just amazing! A little prideful at times but absolutely amazing. Her life story is slowly revealed and once it is, wow! Definitely explains why the pride and why it is hard for her to accept help. It didn't stop me though from wanting to tell her to wake up and just accept it already for heaven's sake! I love that she would drop everything because of her love for her brother and his family. She shows up in a new town in Colorado in her clunker car, moving into a nice neighborhood but of course I think you can guess it, the most run down house and yard and has two little girls in tow. To any outsider not knowing anything about her she would look like a young single mother who can't catch a break in life.

That is pretty much exactly what her new neighbor Kevin thinks. He definitely harbors some prejudice against everyone in general until he gets hit upside the head over and over again realizing that not everything is as it seems and not everything is all horrible. There is a lot of good that he glances over to see the bad. One of his shortcomings and challenges from his childhood. Which of course will be explained all in good time as you read the book. How lucky can he be to have a new neighbor who has the most horrific car and is a single mother with two children who's father is probably a deadbeat. To top that all off they'll probably leave junk and toys and who knows what else all over the yard and front of the run down little house. Welcome to the neighborhood.

Luckily to balance Emma and Kevin out, across the street we have Becky and her awesome hubby Justin and their super awesome teenage daughter Sam. Becky sees past all the outward appearances and sees Emma, a loving and amazing woman who isn't afraid to give everything she has and work very hard to take care of those she loves. Phew, so glad Becky is there otherwise Kevin might be in a bigger mess than he already is. ;-)

First meetings can most often go awry. It's just the way it is. It's not like we are always able to put our best selves forward and be on guard to do that every second and every interaction. Just not possible, so sometimes we flub up big time and give others lots to (hopefully) laugh about or (not hopefully) scrutinize. Well unfortunately for Emma, her first meeting with Kevin is the latter...a big flub up. Oh but it was humorous and witty and one of those said moments that I wanted to shake her and say wake up and don't let your pride get in the way. It's ok! I'm still smiling and chuckling about that scene and the ensuing scenes as well because honestly it was funny. How many times have I had similar crazy introductions to people that I wish I could rewind and redo. Oh way too many to count and more time than I have to expound upon here. Luckily I have a good sense of humor and can laugh it off and just chalk it up to having a new friend who knows I have a goofy side too! Ha!

Honestly I just loved this book lots. I loved Emma, I loved Kevin. They were so good and it took some time for them to see that goodness in each other, or to accept that goodness. Emma ends up with a job she feels she earned but soon feels was a hand out. So it definitely doesn't end well when she discovers the said handout. Poor Kevin, he got a little bit of a tongue lashing there. Oh and the tongue lashing he got over his mom, and the pie. Lol. Oh Emma, she isn't afraid to say it like it is or show her trued emotions. There's nothing fake or hidden about her, she is just herself for all to see.

The description of art(Emma's an artist and art teacher) is just so cool. It really made me want to brush off my art supplies and take some more classes so that I could paint some cool murals! You'll understand when you read it. Oh and can I order one fairy room for my house please? ;-)

I loved it! I've really enjoyed the books I've read of Rachel's. I actually just finished Rough around the edges(book 2 in this series) and wrote my review for that first since it was fresh in my mind. I really enjoyed it and recommend it as a follow up for several of the characters in book one. It is a completely different storyline but still great characters. If I was putting them in order of which I like better this one would win hands down. I can't wait to read the third book. I know I say this in several reviews, if you've read others of mine but I loved Rachel's book The Reluctant Bachelorette. Read it if you like a fun hometown bachelorette story.

This is a great clean read. There's some kissing but no sex or violence. I would let YA and older read it.

I downloaded this free from Amazon(sorry it's not free right now).

Happy Reading!!!

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very well written

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2023

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I've had this book on my kindle for the longest time. And I'm so glad I finally got to pick this up.

The beginning was a bit slow for me but quite necessary. It just a matter of learning the why the characters are doing the things that they do. It does have a feeling of enemies-to-lovers troupe but not really a lot. The way the author used pride and prejudice was very well done. The discovering of personalities of the characters was really nice.

Overall, the book was really good. No regrets picking this book up for sure.

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Ashley Evans

Almost ruined by an annoying main character

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 17, 2014

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The thing that prevented Prejudice Meets Pride from being a 4-star (or higher) read was Emma. For 90% of the book, Emma was soooo annoying! …but only around Kevin. Around everyone else, she was fine. But for some reason she was a total, annoying b*tch around Kevin.

Incident #1: The grocery store

Emma goes to the grocery store. But when it comes time to pay, she realizes she doesn’t have her credit card because her nieces had been “playing shop” with her wallet and removed the credit card. So she can’t pay for her groceries! She’s really holding up the line and people are annoyed, so Kevin reaches over to pay for it. He’s late for work and doesn’t mind paying; he just wants to be able to pay and leave. But she runs away, insisting that he can’t pay.

Kevin buys them anyway because he recognizes Emma as his neighbour. Then he drops them off at her house

He nudged one of the bags with his foot. “You’re welcome.”
“Those aren’t mine.”
[..] “Of course they’re yours. Why would I buy diapers and fruit snacks?”
“I have no idea, but apparently you did. So feel free to do whatever you want with them.”

Emma REFUSED to take them! But he’d already bought them, couldn’t return them, and if she didn’t take them they’d just go to waste. I know this book is called “Prejudice Meets Pride“, but honestly… sometimes you just say “thank you” and move on with your life.

Incident #2: The job

Emma doesn’t have a job and she’s trying to raise two girls. In other words: she’s kind of screwed. Bills are piling up and she has groceries to buy. Kevin is nothing but nice, offering to help her out:

“What kind of job are you looking for? Maybe I can help.”
She waved his offer away. “Thanks, but uh, I think you’ve done enough helping for one day.” The way she said it made it sound like he’d done the opposite of help.

All Kevin ever does is try to help her… very nicely. And she just constantly acts like a b*tch.

Incident #3: Appreciating everyone except Kevin

Apparently it’s only Kevin who isn’t allowed to help her with anything. He buys her groceries, she gets pissed. He offers to help her fix her sprinklers on the lawn, she gets pissed. He tries to help her find a job, she gets pissed. But the other neighbours are allowed to help!

Her other neighbour, Becky, brings over dinner, cookies, then offers to help her find a job (sound familiar?). Here’s how Emma reacts:

“Thank you. I’d really appreciate [you helping me find a job].” First dinner and cookies, and now this. Why couldn’t all her neighbors be this nice? If Kevin had showed up with a plate of cookies and a welcoming smile, things would have gone down a whole lot differently. Instead, he’d felt the need to patronize her.

The problem is, I never felt like Kevin patronized her. Yes, he kind of patronized her in his head. He thought she was an irresponsible single mother who was paying the price for getting pregnant really early on, with no husband and no job. BUT, he never said any of that to her face. To her, he was always very nice. So ignoring the fact that I was privvy to his inner thoughts, I felt like Emma had no reason to think he was patronizing her. She was just embarrassed about the stupid grocery shopping incident.

It just annoyed me that she could accept help from Becky, but thought Kevin was a horrible jerk.

Incident #4: She thinks she isn’t stupid, but she kind of is

When she gets a new job, the manager starts training her. All Emma has to do is simple data input. But she’s horrible at it. Here’s a snippet between the manager and Emma:

“Remember how the receptionists initially create the patient files when parents call for the appointment?”
Emma refrained from rolling her eyes—barely. Of course she remembered. She wasn’t stupid.

The thing is, Emma was TOTALLY stupid. It took her all day to learn the difference between “tab” and “enter” on the keyboard.. which resulted in her inputting the same patient file like 5 times (because she kept pressing “enter” to go to the next line, but “enter” submits the form instead… as is the case on any internet form).

"With a shrug, Emma picked up the first patient file, and after trying a few different things, finally found the Add a new patient option. She typed the last name of Carson in the appropriate field and hit Enter, but instead of moving the cursor to the next line, it took her to a page she didn’t recognize. Huh?"

Fair enough, not everyone has computer experience. But these are BASICS. But fine, I’ll cut her some slack. But if she’s so horrible at computers, she shouldn’t roll her eyes at the manager and be like, “God, I’m not stupid!” because with computers, she obviously is.

Then there’s this as well:

"[Emma] still had no idea how to set an alarm on her phone"

The least she could do is realize that she’s horrible with computers, and not get all pissy when people dumb it down for her. She obviously needs it dumbed down.

The book wasn’t all bad.. it was actually quite good!

I’ve had A LOT to complain about. But I didn’t hate this book. There were highs and lows. I’d be loving the book, then Emma would say something completely stupid that would piss me off and I’d highlight it. Then the book would go back to being good.. rinse and repeat.

If you ignore the parts that annoyed me, I actually really liked the story. It was quite addicting! I read through the night until 3am because I didn’t want to stop. Mostly I ADORED Kevin. He was such a sweet guy and I felt like he had some great character development. Yes he was prejudiced at the beginning, but at least the author made me relate to him (unlike Emma). The one good thing about Emma was that I loved her artistic side. That was a lot of fun to read about and I loved seeing her in her element!

I get that this book is supposed to be about first impressions not being right, and getting over your pride/prejudice. But I think the problem with this book was that the author never got me on the same page as Emma. In Pride and Prejudice, I feel like I can relate to Elizabeth at the beginning, but then we grow and change our opinions together. This didn’t happen in Prejudice Meets Pride. I immediately felt like Emma was out of line and just being stupid and petty. I think it didn’t help that we could read from Kevin’s point of view and see that he was just trying to be a nice guy. That made me even more annoyed at Emma.

If Emma hadn’t been so darn annoying, this could have easily been a 4 or 4.5 star read.

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Sisi

Heartwarming, lovely and good

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 1, 2020

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Are you tired of characters that are sociopathic but presented as romantic? Abusive but presented as protective? I could go on, but you get the point. This work was a wonderful oasis in the desert. The characters were just right, with people that could be real, with backstories that are relatable— even down to their jobs. Neither main characters left you feeling distanced because they were just so deluded and out-of-normal range. It was lovely. I even highlighted a couple of times- books don't often get me to do that. This book is a keeper, it going on my special list.

MsMerylB

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 20, 2019

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A really sweet read. Emma is looking after her neices for her brother, money is short and she is independent and full of pride. Kevin is her next door neighbour that makes assumptions on her character before meeting her. Lovely to watch how their relationship changes.
Kajsa and Adelyn are adorable.

Pat McCulloch

A real surprise

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 30, 2020

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I only downloaded this book because I was looking for something easy to read after a bad week and I read it over 3 days. It surprised me just how much I enjoyed it because it's normally not my kind of thing but it was great to read a story that was realistic, with appealing characters and no over explicit sex. I might even read another one soon

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 27, 2020

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Not to my taste. Emma was a bit irritating. I understood that she wanted to be independent and not a charity case but she took this to an extreme and always assumed Kevin was patronising her- sometimes he was. Kevin got annoying with his obsession with what his Mother would think.
It all ended predictably.

Maymac

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 12, 2021

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Prejudice meets pride is one of the loveliest books I've read in a long time and I read many books...I'll be looking out for Rachael Anderson in future...thank you Rachael...x

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