Review: Review: Rescue My Heart by Jean C. Joachim
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
This is the first book in a new series call the Manhattan Dinner Club by new to me author Jean C. Joachim. I saw this book on Netgalley and thought it sounded interesting. I don't personally have a pug, but my sister-in-law does and I know they are cute inquisitive creatures, so I requested it.The book starts off with Rory Sampson walking her dog in Central Park.  She is almost knocked down by a bicyclist, and ends up bruised and shaken but mainly okay, after diving out of its path.  When a good samaritan gives her a snapshot of the biker who almost hit her, I thought this might be the Dr. Roberts in blurb.  Nope, just a set up to apparently show how rude the bikers are in the area. Then Rory does a bit of drooling on the nice gentleman who stopped, and she is busy being attracted and telling herself to stay loyal to her boyfriend.  Okay, I get that this turns out to be a foreshadowing of how she really isn't committed to him, but it just left a bad taste in my mouth.Next Rory meets the members of what will become the series namesake, the Manhattan Dinner Club;  4 other women pug owners who get start getting together once a week to eat and discuss their pugs and their lives. The other 4 women seem very nice, but I did wish that they had a larger role in the book than they did.We finally meet Dr. Hack Roberts in chapter 3 when he crashes into Rory, breaking both her arm and her pug's leg.  Luckily he is a veterinarian and offers to see to her dog while she goes to the hospital to be treated. At first Dr. Hack is an ass.  I mean a seriously unlikable ass. And I am not liking Rory all that much either. Here I am reading a book about 2 characters that I don't particularly like.  Yet the storyline itself was interesting enough that I kept reading wanting to know what was going to happen next.I will be honest and say that I never really warmed up to Rory. I just couldn't connect with her and spent much of the book wanting to smack her upside the head and get her a cranial rectal inversion.  Hack on the other hand ended up redeeming himself with me. Overall, I gave this book 3 stars and look forward to the next book in the series.