Review: A very readable contemporary romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
This story started off sounding like a typical romance:  Boy loves girl, boy leaves girl for what he thinks is a good reason, but returns after fifteen years expecting to pick up where he left off.Wrong.The hero and the heroine have a serious problem with communication. They never seem to understand what the other person really meant, and why they did what they did.When Nate finished his stint in the Marines and returned, it was to find that Lauren was involved with someone else. He, of course, assumed that once he talked to her they could get back together. Wrong again. She was not in a mood to forgive him and this is how the story proceeds.He kept trying to make her understand why he had done what he had done by leaving her, and of course, it made absolutely no sense to her. This conflict was really fascinating. It showed how differently men and women think. This author really wrote it correctly. I enjoyed watching them try, unsuccessfully, to make the other person understand their position.Finally, when they did get together, Nate assumed it was all okay, and things were just like they had been fifteen years before. Wrong again.I felt like shaking him when he made all kinds of decisions without consulting Lauren. Why do men think that this what women want? I really enjoyed reading this book. It was fascinating to go into the minds of each of them.