Review: Ow!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2013
Tom is a great guy. He loves being a teacher and a soccer coach. Unfortunately, he's in a terrible car accident and loses the lower half of his left leg. Life over, right? Well, not if his friends have anything to say about it. Now I would have said two things to him:Oscar Pistoius (Olympian) andAlex Minsky (Afghanistan vet and on his way to becoming a supermodel)Things in common? Missing parts of their legs.Talia, a friend, and a nurse, decides to stay home with Tom for a few weeks to help him get back on his feet (or "foot" as he prefers to say). They are both wildly attracted to each other. Great, right?Except Tom needs to have a pity party and drive Talia away because he's now broken and not good enough for her. Mutual misery ensues.Did anyone at the hospital ever bother to tell Tom he was going to need psychological therapy on top of physical? Nope. But then there might not have been a book.It's a short read, but it's good. It's told from dual viewpoints and I like that a lot. All of the characters are likeable (even when a certain someone is being a schmuck) and of course in books like these you know there will be an HEA, because otherwise, what's the point?My only complaints:There were commas inexplicably tossed in to random sentences that had absolutely no reason for their existence (the commas, not the sentences)e.These people do not speak using contractions (like I just didn't!). Americans use contractions. People who live in big cities (here Philadelphia) especially use them because we just don't have the time for excess words.But all in all, a fun read, and I do recommend it.