Review: Good fun
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 17, 2014
I'm like Leslie. I pay no attention to Valentine's Day and consider it a completely useless day to celebrate. I, also, would have been really angry with Brad, Leslie's best friend, if he'd woken me up at the butt crack of dawn demanding my help and making me leave the comfort of my lover's arms. Brad is a bit of a drama queen, looking for Mr. Right and definitely not interested in Mr. Right Now. Living on his fantasies of the perfect man. Which makes him a bit of an anomaly on a college campus. So when Brad tells her that he met the "one" the night before and even lost his virginity to him, but can't remember anything more than the necklace the man wore, well Leslie gets over her mad in order to help Brad find Mr. Mysterious.Brad and Leslie begin their search with Ian, a classmate of theirs, and the guy whose party Brad was at the night before. Apparently Ian was able to get his group of friends into a club downtown, even though they're all under twenty-one, and Brad is sure that's where he met him. Ian doesn't remember seeing Brad with anyone and the necklace Brad recalls is one Ian wears and is an antique passed down in his family. Now the story is just getting more mysterious and a little freaky, and Ian knows a lot more than he's telling.At this point I can't say any more because I would ruin the book with some serious spoilers. Considering that 'Holding on to Hope' is Sid Love's first published book, in my opinion, the author did a good job. It was a little disconcerting to realize the entire book was written from Leslie's point of view, but I suppose because of some of the circumstances (I can't say due to spoilers), it made more sense that way. Congratulations to the author on his first release!NOTE: This book was provided by Dreamspinner Press for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews