Review: Satisfying love story filled with hope, strength, and hard earned new beginnings.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
This book was received from the author in exchange for an honest review.Take a Chance is the first book in the Running Into Love series. It is also Ms. Nicole's first novel. Another thing it is, is a supremely satisfying love story filled with hope, strength, and hard earned new beginnings.Willow Emery is new in Seattle when she receives devastating news - you have cancer. Great. Just when she feels like she has put her life on track and is heading in a positive direction, now she gets to deal with treatments alone. But she's strong and has been on her own since she left high school, so how tough can this be? Halfway through chemotherapy treatments, that answer becomes crystal clear when she exits the building after a treatment and literally runs into Asher Wellington, who promptly catches her as she suffers from the side effects of treatment. Luck seems to have deserted Willow in her hour of need.Or has it?Even though their meeting could not have been more mortifying, Asher cannot stop thinking about Willow. He has been grieving his wife's passing for three years and never thought he'd find love like that again. But there is something about this woman that has him spellbound and determined to learn more about her. When he decides to listen to the inner voice telling him to take a chance, he discovers that it is possible to have more than one great love in your life, and it is okay to let go and accept what life gives you. Even if it doesn't look or feel like you think it is supposed to.Take a Chance made me happy. And it made me smile. Ms. Nicole did a great job with keeping the illness integral to the story but without bogging it down in clinical minutiae. Willow and Asher are people to cheer for. They're likable. You want them to get their HEA and are anxious to see how the story unfolds for them. I'm glad it turned out the way it did, and I look forward to seeing what she has in store for us with the second book in the series. I would give this 4.25/5 stars, but you are unable to award partial stars on this site.