Review: Been there, done that  and don't care to have the "blooming" t-shirt again!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 23, 2014
On occasion ,I'm lucky enough to stumble across a writer like Laurie Ralston who "gets it" ,who does understand what real women like me have gone through and what characters like Jill have put up with. It's a fictional tale and doesn't have to read like a biography but the psychological abuse or battering she endured from Scott ring true. Jill's struggle to hold on to her core self stuck a chord with me and her deciding to take a chance and go on this sudden  trip to Ireland and the new life she unexpectedly finds there raised the same hope in me. Yes, in real life, once one leaves, it doesn't go as easy as it does in this delightful story of Jill and Coyle finding each other but that's what we have fictional romance for, to remind us all that real love is out there, one just has to be brave and take a chance.  This one made me long for yet another "new start"  and most definitely another book from Laurie. Minor errors here and there but nothing that takes away from the good feeling I had when I finished this story so try it out. Keep writing Laurie, I've been reading for since I was 5 and I'm over fifty now so I do think I know talent when I read it!