Review: It's a matter of Perception
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2012
This is my first story by this author and found that she writes an intellectual romance that interesting and thought provoking.  Her characters are spunky and humorous, while also smart and stubborn.  There is sex, but not of the kind the Taylor's ad was offering.Taylor needed a date for the Homecoming Dance.  No, she was not in high school, but she was impersonating a school librarian for her Master's research and she had told her co-worker that she had a fiancé.  That qualified her for chaperone duty and now she needed to tell the truth or find a man.  The ad she places with the bumbling, yet cute editor of the newspaper causes her to need protection and Max, the editor, steps in.Max and Taylor don't really seem suited for each other and their relationship is not all that romantic, but they learn something about themselves as they fend off the men at her door.  Taylor is a twin and identifies herself as the smart one while her sister is the beautiful one.  She wants to be a professor and her studies involve dressing for the job.  As a librarian, she dresses in boring clothes to ad to her intellectual acceptability while as a waitress at a pub she dresses more flamboyantly and sexy.  She thinks that how you dress is how people will perceive you.  Max, on the other hand believes that how you dress influences how you behave and vice versa.  So not only does the act of what you wear affect others, but it affects the behavior of the one wearing the outfit also.Both Max and Taylor discover they have both been deceitful with each other and to themselves on who they are.  As they "come clean" and accept who they are, they find they can't live without each other and love the other for who they are and not what they do.This was a romance with substance as it made a statement about prejudices and finding your own true identity.  With that philosophical slant, it was also humorous and endearing.  Both characters are very likeable and the family dynamics realistic.  It was a fun afternoon read that got me thinking.Would I/Did I buy it? Free DownloadWould I read it again? YesWould I recommend it to friends? Yes