Review: Doris Debuts
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2011
I like authors who know animals and don't just stick to cats and dogs.  Cats and dogs are easy to write, but other critters take a bit of knowledge, handling and familiarization.  BTW, I have a boy if Doris needs a date ;)I'll admit I started this book with a teensy bit of trepidation....what!?! What if I don't get my Toleffson fix!  No worry, they're still here, in the right amount, the right way and it makes sense.  They support that Tom and Deidre are likeable and that means a lot in a genre' full of unbearable H/h's that we're supposed to somehow understand and cheer for.Instead you have two characters cut from the same cloth, both wanting to make their own way in the world.  Yet with Tom and Deidre, you are totally on their side from page one.  The romance is just right, sweet, hot, funny and building at the right pace. And you have them doing it in a familiar setting, with the same mixed cast of characters you love, villains you love to hate--- though I do think Deidre really let her Father off way way too easy.  And as one reader put it, one set of villains were more comical than actually scary.Highly recommended at five stars!