Review: Emotional Tour de Force..."It's a Wonderful Feeling Life"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 9, 2013
"Try, Try, Again" is the Ruth Logan Herne story you'd get if you took off the editor's governor.  I've read all the author's other books by Love Inspired and they are all award winning quality reads; however, this book is unmercifully emotional. I don't think there was a time I had a dry eye. It's as if the author selected the most emotional situations possible and combined them into one story.The story opens like "It's a Wonderful Life" and quickly moves into "Miracle on 34th Street" and then makes a run at great inspirational themes like forgiveness and second chances.There is no pretense here. The moment the author foreshadowed an event I knew what was going to happen. But I was like a deer frozen in the headlights as I got smacked with the emotional force of the coming event.Many fans read romances because they like how reading them makes them feel as they are reading the story. "Try, Try, Again" delivers all those wonderful romance feelings - only it does not let up and it shows no mercy. It's the espresso to the normal coffee of romance.I am going to have to read this book again in a month so I can better observe what is going on in the writing rather than be overwhelmed with its emotional tour de force. I loved that the hero and heroine were older and not kids. I also like that the story took place both in NYC and Princeton. I also like the bookstore theme.Yes, I loved it but I do feel a little guilty for liking it so much. Definitely a feel wonderful book!Ruth Logan Herne will make you feel the romance -- feel that it is indeed a wonderful life.