Reviewed by Karin from Savvy Thinker
I really enjoyed this book.
The story: Carrie’s life has changed dramatically.
She had been in the midst of planning her fast upcoming wedding to the fellow she’s known since college and lived with for about 10 years. Meantime she had put some of her own dreams on hold to help him with his family farm. Then he tells her he just can’t go through with it.
And to top it off, four months later he is marrying someone else.
And all her friends have kept the news from her.
When she finds out on the very day of his wedding, she goes a little bit crazy, a mixture of grief and anger -- and how she finds out is as funny, as life sometimes can be, as what she ends up doing.
I’m not sure it is supposed to be funny, maybe more ironic, and it is certainly has an equal amount of pathos.
And intersecting with her story is the story of Matt Landon, MD, newly back from his charity post overseas, to get over an accident.
They end up in a camper, an old VW van, along the English countryside – not quite what Carrie thought, when she expected to go with her friend Rowena through the Continent.
My take: This book is well written, easy to read, with romance, love, laughter, good friends, and some mishaps along the way. What more could we want in a read? Even Carrie’s ex is not as bad as he seems, and gets a bit of a comeuppance along the way – and is even willing to buy out Carrie’s part of the family farm, as well he should, and fairly.
And along the way, she finds a new love and accomplishes her dream.
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Karin – who has written 19 posts on Love Romance Passion.
Karin likes solidly written romances that are heavy on the romantic suspense. She loves it when the good guy triumphs over the bad guy. She's not a fan of historical period romances in general, a duke in tight breeches makes her grimace. That said, she will read one every now and then to shake things up so long as she can immediately return to the land of contemporary crime solving heroes and heroines.
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Karin – thank you for the review.
Phillipa