Review: START THE COUNTDOWN!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2013
One of the best things that has come from getting my Kindle has been finding new authors that I probably would have NEVER run across (even though our public library is pretty darn progressive and contemporary!).  I've made some cool book friends (Linda!) and some cool author friends (Nikki, aka Jim BOB!)... and I've run across some other really cool review sites.  I had run across a Book Club / Contest at >> [...] << and was fortunate to win a copy of the book, "She's The One" by Erin Nicholas.  I'd just found out about Erin Nicholas a few months back when I read about the Promise Harbor Wedding series - four books, all written by different authors, but all tied together.  Erin Nicholas wrote "Hitched (Promise Harbor Wedding)", which was the final book in the series.  Tonight I do the "Book Club" and my geeky self is all excited, because I think that Erin Nicholas is going to be participating, too - yayyyyy!!Apparently Erin Nicholas has another series about the Bradfords that links into this "Counting On Love" series.  I've not read any (yet), but on her website there is a freebie story that links the two series called "Just Count On Me".  Personally, I wish I'd read it BEFORE I read "She's the One", because quite frankly, for the first big bit of the book, all I kept wondering was what in the world these people actually did as work!  When you're introduced to them, the guys are coming in from winning a football game - so I was thinking this was a sports-themed romance.  Then they were throwing in talk about hospitals and staff and I got REALLY confused.  That's about the only thing I think Erin Nicholas could have improved with this book...because otherwise it rocked the countdown!  (So learn from my "mistake" - read the short story first - just 28 pages but it really helps to set everything up -- I wish it had been a preface to the book itself!!)Amanda is the "responsible" sister - even though she doesn't always want to be - and in the course of trying to let down a guy gently, tells a "story" about not getting over an one-night stand - which actually never happened!  Word gets back to Ryan, her supposed one-night stand... and he asks for "the night".  What follows is a touching story about two people learning how, and when, you need to take responsibility for yourself &/or others... and when you don't... and how to balance a sense of responsibility with a sense of self-interest.  Ryan also needs to reconcile the experiences his mother gave him of love and relationships with more traditional relationships.You know I don't like to get heavily into plot outlines; after all, the point is for YOU to read the book.  The point is for me to let you know that you will NOT waste your time if you pick up this book!  And this IS a great book to go read... and I think I'll probably be checking out the series about the Bradfords now, too!  Lucky (us) readers, too - Erin Nicholas has a very aggressive publishing schedule for this series, and plans to release the following books every couple of months - so no waiting years between releases!  YAY!!!Counting On Love SeriesIt Takes Two--September 2013Best of Three--November 2013Going for Four--February 2014Up By Five--April 2014I look forward to the remainder of this "Counting On Love" series!  (Is it September yet??)