Magnolia Parks (The Magnolia Parks Universe)

“How many loves do you get in a lifetime?”

She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved, and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain’s most photographed bad boy who broke her heart.


Magnolia Parks and BJ Ballentine are meant to be, and everyone knows it.

She dates other people to keep him at bay; he sleeps with other girls to get back at her for it. But at the end of every sad endeavor to get over one another, it’s still each other they crawl back to.

But now their dysfunction is catching up with them, pulling at their seams and fraying the world they’ve built; a world where neither has ever let the other go completely.

As the cracks start to show and secrets begin to surface, Magnolia and BJ are finally forced to face the formidable question they’ve been avoiding all their lives: How many loves do you really get in a lifetime?

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Published Aug 8, 2023

448 pages

Average rating: 6.1

366 RATINGS

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Readers say *Magnolia Parks* elicits strong emotions with its portrayal of a toxic, complex relationship. Many praise Jessa Hastings’ compelling chara...

ashmegusta
Aug 15, 2025
1/10 star
If I could give it a zero I would
sheisxlove
Jan 20, 2025
10/10 stars
I have not read a book in so long that encapsulates me the way this one did from the very beginning! I was so aggravated, and excited reading about Parks and BJ that it reminded me of how well of a job Jenna did developing the characters. I eagerly await the next book in Magnolia’s series.
Lexie.zaugg
Aug 08, 2025
10/10 stars
Obsessed with this book!
miss_kayluchi
Jul 07, 2025
8/10 stars
4.5 ⭐️
Jessica.Page
Jun 26, 2025
6/10 stars
Ummm this is the most toxic thing I've ever read. This is like, in Vanderpump Rules, if Stassi had stayed with Jax in Season 1 but Jax got with every other server at Sur (and did hard drugs).

Magnolia literally was gaslit for about 300 pages. Her drug, alcohol and sex addicted boyfriend, BJ, cheated on her with an undisclosed woman. They broke up and she started dating other people. BJ didn't like that so he slept with 3/4th of the London population and then has the audacity to tell Magnolia that she's the problem. Magnolia is too good for him and I don't know why she was so blindly in love with him.

That being said, if this was a Hulu/FX series, I would watch it immediately.

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