Review: Light, easy romance
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 31, 2013
"In times of trouble, times where you have to make a big decision, that's when you'll learn who you are." He repeated it so often that it became almost like a prayer for him. "Are you the kind of person who lives with her head or with her heart?"This is the pearls of wisdom Amy's Dad left her with just before he dropped dead of a heart attack.  Her Mom abandoned her and her brother soon after to `find herself' and Amy is left as a young adult raising her younger brother.  We join her some six years later just about to open her own stationery store after her brother has gone to college.She bumps into her Hunter her high school boyfriend who dumped her just before Prom without explanation and left her heartbroken.  He invites her to his family barbeque and she meets Ryan, Hunter's new boss and sexy Brit.  They both show an interest in her and she's attracted to both of them, they're both very sexy and she struggles with her decision - whether to live with her head or her heart.This is a sweet contemporary romance, light and easy to read with lots of great secondary characters.  Amy's had a hard life and she's sweet, if not a little gullible and she deserves to find happiness and I was really rooting for her to make the right decision.  She's faced with the choice of two delicious men - Ryan, the fairly aloof but very sexy Brit who's completely dedicated to his career, having dragged himself up from humble beginnings and Hunter, who she loved and adored in High School but left her sobbing in a designer Prom Dress.I was definitely Team Ryan all the way - Hunter wasn't sorry enough for the hurt he'd caused for my liking and Ryan just oozed sexy Britishness!!  (OK, maybe I am a little biased there!!) but he was the one with greater integrity and I knew that Amy would find happiness with them and would only find heartache with Hunter.  But, who will she choose?This is a light, quick read, fairly low on the steam - the ending was a little rushed after a fairly lengthy build-up but, overall, it's a fun, enjoyable story.3.5 stars