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May 7, 2013 · 5:00 am

Top Ten Tuesday: Fluffy Reads

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Happy Tuesday book lovers! It’s time for Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by the lovely gals over at The Broke and The Bookish. This topic is so spring-appropriate: Top Ten Books When You Need Something Light and Fun. In other words, brain candy reads! Or fluffy reads! (Yes, admire my cool bookish slang…)

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1. Attachments by Rainbow Rowell - This is such a great book. Adorable big hunk of a guy Lincoln has a job monitoring employee email usage at the local newspaper office, and he ends up falling in love with Beth while reading the emails of her and her friend Jennifer. There are email conversations, and they are hysterical.

bet me jennifer crusie

2. Bet Me by Jennifer Crusie – This is basically the best romance novel ever. There’s misunderstandings, snarky characters, real friendships, real conversations, delicious food, carbs, great shoes, and a grumpy cat. I read this book probably at least once a year.

>Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – If you’re more of a classics lover, then I think Northanger Abbey is a good pick. It kind of mocks the whole Gothic novel craze of the times, and Austen is still young and trying to figure out this whole writing thing. It’s a lot of fun.

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me

4. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling – Famous for her role as Kelly Kapoor on The Office, Mindy talks about her love of comedy and her various musings on life. This was really funny, and Mindy is totally that girl that everyone would love to be friends with. There have been a lot of female comedian books out lately, and I think this one is my favorite.

weird things customers say in bookstores

5. Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores by Jen Campbell – This is really a short, hilarious book that is just amusing tidbits from booksellers and librarians. Good for a laugh.

the fairy godmother

6. The Fairy Godmother by Mercedes Lackey – This is actually the first book of the Tales of the 500 Kingdoms series, and they’re really fun books. Lackey takes a known fairy tale and turns it on it’s head, usually with an element of romance involved. I think there are six out in the series, and I can’t wait till another one comes out.

Chris Wooding

7. Tales of the Ketty Jay series by Chris Wooding – Okay, technically these aren’t exactly fluff or brain candy books, but I love them. There’s a lot of action and witty, sarcastic banter that just makes these books so darn fun to read.

The Pirates book, Gideon Defoe

8. The Pirates! series by Gideon DeFoe – These goofy, tiny little books can straight crack me up. (Can you tell yet that I really value humor in the books I read?) The Pirates! In An Adventure with Scientists was the inspiration for the movie Pirates! Band of Misfits. The books are WAY funnier.

the hero's guide to saving your kingdom

9. The Hero’s Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy – Feel like reading something intended for 11-year olds? Here you go! This book shows the side of the fairy tales that you don’t see – the Princes’ points of view. There’s a lot of silliness, and it’s a quick read.

wishcraft mystery series

10. Wishcraft series by Heather Blake – Are cozy mysteries your jam? Well this series is adorable! Some inhabitants of this little town tend to have a special “craft” or magical power, and the series focuses on one witch who can grant wishes. Of course, murders pop up in town because that’s how these kind of books work, but the stories themselves are so damn cute and sappy.

Now don’t you want to grab one of these and go lay in the sunshine and read? I do. What are your light-hearted book recommendations?

~Sarah

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February 13, 2013 · 11:52 am

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean

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I admit, I’m not really up for reviewing this right now. I just want to review it so I can put it away. I finished it over the weekend, and I don’t really have anything else to review right now, so here we are.

One Good Earl Deserves a Lover (what a lame title) is a historical romance, good for a quick read with some sexy bits. It’s brain candy, which is exactly what I needed at the end of last week.

Pippa is the heroine – she’s a girl in glasses who loves science, and she’s engaged to be married in two weeks to Lord Castleton, and she looks forward to living out her days with her dogs and scientific experiments. But before she gets married, she needs to know exactly how to go about being a wife and no one seems willing to tell her about the more intimate details. So she seeks out Cross, a co-owner for a famous London gaming club with a devilish reputation. Just by asking him for his help in answering her questions about what happens in the marriage bed, she threatens to ruin everything he’s worked for.

And so on and so forth. I’m feeling lazy, so let’s bullet-point this. Things I liked:

  • That Pippa was a nerdy girl. You don’t see that a whole lot in historical romance, but she liked reading and anatomy and horticulture and all that fun stuff. It might have been a bit overdone in spots, but still.
  • There were a couple steamy scenes, for those of you that really care only about those parts.
  • She’s not a jerk to Lord Castleton, the guy she’s engaged to but who she obviously does not end up with.
  • It was overall entertaining, and Pippa has a few really great stand-out moments.
  • I really like the cover… the colors and the wallpaper and just really pretty.

Things I didn’t like:

  • Cross had a bunch of different co-owners of his gaming hell and I could barely keep them all straight. And the whole drama surrounding his past was a bit silly.
  • Well, overall this whole plot was a bit silly…
  • The romance between them didn’t really feel genuine.
  • There was a lot of redundancy. The characters kind of repeated the same lines and sentiments over and over. A little more plot or action would have been nice.

This was a cute fluffy romance, but definitely not the best. Good for a quick mindless read.

Sarah Says: 3 stars

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November 14, 2012 · 11:41 am

Manhunting by Jennifer Crusie

 

Isn’t that cover just hilarious? Oh the early 90′s.

Jennifer Crusie is one of my go-to romance authors, cause she’s fun and hilarious and she wrote Bet Me, which is the Best Romance Ever. Back around the time I first discovered her I went out and hunted down a bunch of her books, even the older ones, which means I still have a couple books of hers that I haven’t read yet. (And thank goodness, because she is taking forever to come out with a new book.) Sooooo, I was in the mood for some romance, and Manhunting it was!

Kate is an attractive, successful businesswoman in her mid-thirties who realizes she’s kind of miserable because she’s not with anybody, and she’s lonely at night. Plans are what she does best, so she comes up with one to get married – go to a Kentucky resort, meet a successful businessman that she can build a business with, and marry him. But when she shows up to The Cabins resort, all of the businessmen are jerks, boring, or boring jerks. The only man there she feels like she can talk to is Jake, the easy-going handyman that just wants to sleep on the lake and some peace and quiet.

Soooooo… not my favorite Crusie. Kate wasn’t quite as annoying as I expected her to be, especially after she stopped being so frigid and stuck-up. In fact at point she stabs a guy with a fork, which is totally my style. But her desire to find a “man to build a business with” was kind of annoying, perhaps because I lack that kind of ambition. Jake was a really fun male lead, though he had some chauvanistic moments. But overall he was laid-back and funny, and him and Kate did have really good chemistry together. I liked that they started off as friends and then slowly fell for each other.

Jake’s main letdown was that he had a mustache. Mustaches are not for romance novels, they’re for porn. (Especially white guys with mustaches, it almost never looks good, unless you’re Burt Reynolds. Otherwise it just makes you look a little creepy.) So yeah, eww. I kind of had to ignore it whenever his mustache was mentioned.

I also feel like you can kind of see Jennifer Crusie sorting through her own feelings on sexism, successful women, etc, and that was interesting. Not something you’d expect to see in a romance novel, but it was fun to see Kate criticize a woman who just wants to be a stay-at-home mom, and then Jake showing her she’s being sexist by judging a woman for that. This stuff was probably more of a hot topic in the 1990′s, but still interesting.

 

The more modern cover, this is what’s in the bookstores now since it got re-released.

Anyways, not the best and not the funniest, but still a good fluffy read overall.

 

Sarah Says: 3 stars

 

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October 19, 2012 · 5:00 am

An Offer From a Gentleman by Julia Quinn

 

This is the third book in Julia Quinn’s Bridgertons series. I read the first two a while back, but then never got around to requesting the next ones from the library. Luckily I have an awesome friend named Jenn who is sending me the books in this series as she reads them, so I finally get to go on with them!

Oh and don’t worry – I read them in order because I’m picky like that, but you don’t really have to worry about reading these in order. Each book focuses on one of the eight Bridgerton siblings finding true love :-)

So, An Offer From a Gentleman! It’s about Sophie, who was the unacknowledged bastard of the Earl of Penwood. He took care of her and everyone knew she was his, but she got pushed aside when he got remarried to Araminta, and her and her two daughters move in. When the Earl dies, Sophie is left with nothing – she grows up as a servant to her stepmother and two stepsisters.  But Sophie is able to sneak out in disguise for one wonderful night, attending Lady Bridgerton’s masquerade ball and meets the man of her dreams when she dances with Benedict Bridgerton.

He is one of the older Bridgerton sons, and he’s never shown much interest in romance or getting married – until he meets a beautiful mystery woman at his mother’s masquerade. She disappears at midnight and he’s left pining for her – until he ends up rescuing a beautiful housemaid that seems so familiar…

See the Cinderella element here? I loved that – it was so fun. Poor Sophie – she’s SO mistreated by her stepfamily and ends up working so hard just to survive. And then when she runs into Benedict again, it seems her dreams have come true – until she realizes that he doesn’t recognize her from that one magical night. But he saves her, and they get all romantic and sweet and awwwww.

This book wasn’t as funny as some of Julia Quinn’s newer books – and I really like funny romance. So that was a bit disappointing. And even though Sophie and Benedict were so cute together and of course I cheered for their happy ending, Benedict isn’t my favorite romantic hero. He was definitely a knight in shining armor at one point in the story, but in another later part he kind of demands that she be his mistress and refuses to consider that he could marry a housemaid, and that was a little weak. Of course this is romance so it all works out in the end, but that irked me about him. Oh and for those that really like the sexy bits – there was only one real sex scene in this book. That was actually preferable for me, but if that’s what you mainly look for in romance you might want to skip this one.

Overall though, this was a fun read and I really like the Bridgerton family. Especially the mama :) I’m looking forward to reading the next one, Romancing Mr. Bridgerton, because I think I’ll like Colin Bridgerton more than Benedict.

 

Sarah Says: 3.5 stars

 

 

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August 18, 2012 · 11:28 am

A Witch Before Dying: A Wishcraft Mystery #2 by Heather Blake

Well, this is the second in this new cozy mystery series by Heather Blake, but I don’t think you need to shy away because of spoilers. After all, the main focus of the story is the mystery! Here’s my review of the first book, It Takes A Witch.

So, Darcy Merriweather is settling into life in the cute little town of Enchanted Village in Salem, Massachusetts. She’s still working for her Aunt Ve’s business, As You Wish, and still learning more about her powers as a Wishcrafter. Aunt Ve’s getting ready to get married, and life is great – until Darcy’s next job cleaning out the house of a hoarder leads to her finding the body of a woman who’s been missing for over a year. Darcy makes a promise to the woman’s daughter to investigate the death, but it’s not easy. There are a lot of suspects and motives, and a mythical wish-granting amulet at the center of it all.

A Witch Before Dying was an adorable sequel, and I hope that this series goes on for a while. As usual, I had no idea who the killer was. But the mystery isn’t my favorite part of these books – it’s the absolutely charming setting, and the slow-growing romance between Darcy & a certain handsome police officer. I also love the quirky twist on magic (Wishcrafters, Curecrafters, Geocrafters, etc).

I do sometimes cringe at the over-cuteness of Darcy’s dialogue sometimes. Come on, “heebie-jeebies”? You can only get away with that once in a book before it starts to sound just silly. And this is a MURDER MYSTERY. Cutesy phrases like that are over-doing it just a tad. I’d also really like to see more of Harper, Darcy’s sister. It’s tough cause she’s doing her own thing, but she’s fun and bookish and there’s a cute romance in the works for her too.

These books are so much fun, perfect for an afternoon of lying around on the couch and drinking coffee. I’m already itching to read the next one, The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy, but it’s not coming out until next year. At least it gives me something to look forward to!

Sarah Says: 3.5 stars

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May 31, 2012 · 9:42 am

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

A Night Like This by Julia Quinn

 

Oh Julia Quinn, you did it again.

A Night Like This is the second book in her Smythe-Smith quartet, and I’m happy to say that it was just as good as the first one (Just Like Heaven).

So, because I’m feeling lazy, here’s the description on the back of the book:

Anne Wynter might not be who she says she is . . .

But she’s managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. Her job can be a challenge—in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, playing an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy—no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman.

Daniel Smythe-Smith Might be in mortal danger . . .

But that’s not going to stop the young earl from falling in love. And when he spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten-year-old who thinks she’s a unicorn. But Daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. And when Anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending . . .

So, SWOON. For some reason, I was totally feeling the romance in A Night Like This than most other romance novels. Julia Quinn does a wonderful job at writing light-hearted books that are also super sweet and romantic. While there were definitely a few really funny moments, the hilarity didn’t seem as obvious as in Just Like Heaven.

Anne Wynter has a secret past that is coming back to haunt her, and she misses being a part of something real, part of a family. She does a great job with teaching the girls and they like her, but her position is quite clear until Daniel notices her and starts blurring the lines between governess and friend. I totally like Anne though – she’s smart, resourceful, and a bit impertinent. And her while her big secret definitely turns out to be a bit scandalous, it made me like her even more.

Daniel is also likable, but maybe not quite as memorable. He has his own demons from his past to face, but nothing dramatic. He is a good male character though – honorable, respectful, and good-natured. He also has good close friends – Marcus (from Just Like Heaven) and Hugh. I was actually thinking while reading this book that Hugh would make an interesting male lead, and I’m happy to say that according to Julia Quinn’s website, he will be the main male character in the next book. Yay!

I really liked that Anne and Daniel had a lot of alone-together time that allowed them to get to know each other, without anything too sexy sexy going on. They shared memories and had a lot of great back-and-forth joking going on. And there were plenty of little super-romantic passages that I underlined in my book so that I could go back to them later.

So basically this book turned me into one great big sap. But I couldn’t help it, it just made me smile and was a great book to read on lazy mornings with my cup of coffee.

Sarah Says: 4 stars

 

 

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March 3, 2012 · 2:46 am

The Hunger Games Companion by Lois Gresh

  • Title: The Hunger Games Companion – The Unauthorized Guide to the Series
  • Author: Lois H. Gresh
  • Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011
  • Pages: 238
  • ISBN: 9780312617936

Less than a month until The Hunger Games movie comes out! Very exciting stuff and because the movie is just around the corner, I thought it was a good time to read The Hunger Games Companion book that I got for Christmas. Sadly, this book was a big letdown.

So I admit that I don’t read a whole lot of companion guides to stuff… mainly to Outlander, and the Charmed and Lost tv shows. But reading those has given me kind of an idea of what a good companion guide should contain, which is why I was expecting cool background info, quotes, maybe a cast of characters guide, unknown facts, insights, author quotes or interviews, etc. What I was NOT expecting was for a book titled “The Hunger Games Companion” to BARELY be about The Hunger Games.

So each chapter is really a theme that the author has derived from the series – war, hunger, torture, weapons, evil, regimes, and so on. The chapter will start out with how she got that theme from the series, and then basically talks said theme to death with little relation to the actual series. The “Tributes” chapter is not about the tributes from THG, it’s about gladiators in ancient Rome. Not only that, but she often throws in her own opinions about controversial topics and it leaves you with the impression that she’s really just using THG as an excuse to get up on her soapbox about any number of issues.  For example, in the “Torture and Execution” chapter she talks about all the different ways to torture and execute people (in gross detail), including today’s electric chair and why it’s inhumane. Whether or not you agree with capital punishment, WHO CARES when electric chairs aren’t even mentioned in THG. She attempts to link the hunger that the people in the Districts feel to today’s unemployment rates. She tries linking Peeta’s hallucinations via tracker jacker poison to reality tv. I mean come on… seriously? She even manages near the end of the book to put in some passages from one of her other books into a chapter about the science in THG. Subtle way to self-promote there, lady. And on top of this, I noticed little errors where she even got some info from THG wrong. I mean, damn.

I’m not saying that some of the information in this book isn’t cool or interesting – I particularly enjoyed the Weapons chapter, in which she (tries, at least) to instruct the reader in how to throw a knife, how to make flaming arrows, etc. But the book should have been called “In Which I Have Opinions on Topics and Loosely Connect Them to The Hunger Games to Sell More Copies of This Book”.

So, I recommend skipping this one – the author should be ashamed of herself. I’m going to keep waiting and hoping that Suzanne Collins puts out a Hunger Games companion guide on her own.

Sarah Says: 1 star*

* But I’m still keeping my copy because it was a gift, and I made notes in the margins, and in case I ever need to look up how to make explosive arrows.

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January 9, 2012 · 7:00 am

It Takes A Witch: A Wishcraft Mystery #1 by Heather Blake

  • Title: It Takes a Witch (A Wishcraft Mystery)
  • Author: Heather Blake
  • Publisher: Obsidian, 2012
  • Pages: 299
  • ISBN: 9780451235527

Yay! Okay so I’ve honestly never really been into cozy mysteries – I’ve never really tried them. However, Heather Blake is actually Heather Webber, the author of that Lucy Valentine series I love so much. And I enjoy those books so much that when I heard she was writing a new magical mystery series, I just knew I had to try it.

So Darcy Merriweather and  her sister Harper have recently learned that they are witches, and have moved to Enchanted Village in Salam, Massachusetts to learn more about their heritage and abilities from their Aunt Ve. They are Wishcrafters – witches with the ability to grant wishes. Learning about magic in this quiant little tourist-y town seems wonderful,  until a local wannabe witch lady is found dead – and Aunt Ve’s boyfriend is the prime suspect. Though she’s reluctant to get involved, Darcy finds herself working hard to find the real murderer while trying to learn the ins and outs of her new magical powers.

This story was SO CUTE. It’s a very unique take on magic – there are different kind of witches – Wishcrafters, Curecrafters, Lawcrafters, etc. Each kind of witchery comes with it’s own set of rules, which makes for a lot of fun and enjoyment jut discovering what they are. It was really interesting to watch Darcy try to muddle her way through all of this new magical information. And the mystery aspect of this story was good – I never saw what was coming. And I particularly enjoyed a little twist revealed at the end.

Darcy herself was an okay character – she’s trying to get over a failed marriage and while I sympathized at first, I quickly just got a little bored with it. Move on, girl! Your ex-husband sounded like a jerk! Darcy was otherwise a good person though – compassionate, funny, and busy. And it’s looking like their may be some romance blooming for her in Enchanted Village anyways. I also liked Harper, even though you don’t see as much of her. She’s a book person, so how I could I not adore her? I also love the idea of Enchanted Village – in order to hide in plain sight, the town’s many magical residents made the town a tourist desination by really playing up the cutesy magical image and I loved it. I would move to a little town like that in a heartbeat.

So, overall this was fun and cute and perfect brain candy. I especially recommend it if you already like cozy mysteries. I’m definitely looking forward to the next in the series, A Witch Before Dying, which is supposed to come out this August.

Sarah Says: 3.5 stars

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January 2, 2012 · 9:03 am

Review: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

  • Title: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
  • Author: Mindy Kaling
  • Publisher: Crown Archetype, 2011
  • Pages: 219
  • ISBN: 9780307886262

Woo-hoo! Starting off the New Year right – I read this in basically one sitting yesterday.  AND it counts as the “biography” pick for the Mixing It Up Challenge! Yay!

Also if you can’t tell, I added some book info underneath the book cover there… I’m going to try to do that for each book. Partly to make myself a little more aware of things like publishers, but also just to give the appearance of neatness and organization here :-)

OK, so if you can’t tell who Mindy Kaling is just from the book cover, then you may not watch The Office and we may not be friends. (Just kidding! Kind of…) Mindy is best known for playing Kelly Kapoor on The Office – that funny, bubbly, totally nuts girl with a high-pitched voice. Well this is her book, all about how she got into tv and some very funny but awesome thoughts, questions, and concerns she has.

Mindy apparently started out as a WRITER for The Office! I had no idea. She actually writes, directs, produces, AND acts on the show. I had no clue that she had started off as one of the shows writers, and that’s she’s like a quadruple-threat, which just makes her too cool. So Mindy talks about her childhood, always being on the chubby side, her first jobs when she came to New York City, how she became a comedy writer, her time on The Office, and a little tiny bit about her romantic life. My favorite chapter is near the end, In Defense of Chest Hair, in which she proclaims her love for a bit of chest hair on a man and says that all of those waxed movie stars look like chihuahuas.

So, I’m not going to go over every funny or interesting thing in this book, cause then you’d have no reason to read it yourself! I do think that if you’re a girl, you should just pick this up and read it – it’ll only take you one afternoon, and it’s a cute memoir. Mindy seems like such a sweet, fun person and her book is funny, light-hearted, and enjoyable. Plus she invents a new word – “pliest”, which is a written piece with a list-y quality. I’m so going to use that word.

Sarah Says: 4 stars

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December 21, 2011 · 6:48 pm

A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas

Hey ya’ll. So, another Christmas romance! Surprised? Probably not. It’s such a busy time of year, and this is all my brain can really handle when I’m so exhausted.

So, if you’re a historical romance fan you’re probably familiar with Lisa Kleypas’ Wallflower series. It’s about four young “wallflower” ladies in England who meet and become friends, and agree to help each other find husbands. They all have some barrier – one girl is super shy, another is kind of poor, and the other two are American (which at that time was I guess a bad thing, cause they were unrefined and not of nobility). And you know, there’s four books in the series (one for each of them) and I read the first one a while back and remember thinking it was cute. I still have the others in the series, just haven’t gotten around to them yet. Anyhoo, this little novella is a cute edition.

American Rafe Bowman (the brother of the two American wallflowers) is in London for the holidays – to visit his newly married sisters, and to get engaged himself. His father has chosen the rich and beautiful Natalie for his son to marry – but first he must meet and impress Hannah, Natalie’s lady in waiting.

So, Rafe is a smart and ambitious young man making his fortune on Wall Street and through manufacturing in America, but he’s also brash, crude, and a womanizer. He’s almost sure he’ll end up marrying Natalie, for her generous inheritance and to please his father and get his piece of the family business. However sweet, proper Hannah is convinced that he is no where good enough for Natalie, and does her best to get in the way. Like the normal rake, Rafe is intrigued by the challenge that Hannah poses, and can’t stop thinking about her. And romance blooms over the Christmas season.

So, as a romance novel it’s no secret where this ends up – Hannah and Rafe fall in love and get married. I’m unsure how I felt about the story though. For one, this is a short little book – only about 200 pages. Rafe is initially kind of unlikable, since he’s kind of rude and a bit of a man-slut. But of course we learn about how he’s really just a sad, mistreated child inside and he’s really a good guy, blah blah blah. Almost no backstory was given for Hannah – we learn that she’s Natalie’s lady in waiting, which is really just an unpaid servant. We never really learn what happened to her family and how she came into her present situation, just that she has the hopes of marrying a respectable man in a good profession. Now as proper and kind of goody-goody Hannah was, and how crass and jerkish Rafe was, I kind of liked them. I liked how relaxed Rafe was, and his sense of humor. I liked that Hannah was intelligent, and that she just kind of got herself into awkward, funny situations.

I guess for me this was a little too insta-love. They meet and fall in love in the matter of a few days to a week – Rafe really just goes on and on about how lusty Hannah makes him, and all of the sudden that translated to love. I guess it all just happened too easily – this would have been better with a little more story and more courting. An extra 100 pages would have made a big difference.

Anywayyys… this was a cute romance novel, and a quick read. And I bet Wallflower fans will definitely enjoy re-visiting some of their favorite characters. And I did enjoy the mentions of Christmas – decorating a giant Christmas tree, reading Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, etc.

Sarah Says: 3 stars

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