Review: A true "opposites attract" page turner!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2014
Becky Lower continues to thrill me with the characters she develops in each of her novels.  The Road to Comfort was a breath of fresh air as the heroine, Juliette St. James, a college professor and single mother from Ohio, gets into her car and drives to anywhere, without a map, without a plan, only to take a trip after her 23 year old son's wedding.  Lo and behold she finds herself stranded because of car trouble on a country road  lined with corn stalks and dark clouds on the horizon. Then a cowboy on a horse comes to her rescue and Juliette only gets on the horse because Cyclone Kelley, an ex-rodeo star, cowboy, and now farmer and garage mechanic, warns her of the dangerous storm approaching.  They ride into Comfort, Nebraska, a small town that has secondary characters which lift off the pages of this book, almost in 3-D.  Cy makes a mental note of getting Juliette into his bed.  Juliette is an uptight, proper professor who has raised her son alone since she was 18 years old and knows who she is and is determined not to let this gorgeous hunk send her romantic emotions spiraling.  However, this book is a page turner to be read several times over.As a woman reader, I could understand why the heroine was acting so prim and proper.  But I rooted for Cyclone to win because when he looked at Juliette, touched her hand, called her, "Darlin", I heard his voice.This is a beautiful love story in which the author has taken the phrase, opposites attract, to a culmination of love between two people who had sex but realize that this is like no sex they've ever had before.  Like magic, Becky Lower has blended two different people into a novel that this reader could not put down.I highly recommend reading it, smiling, laughing, feeling emotions that stir body and soul.  With every one of her books, Becky Lower shares her love of words, her imagination, and herself with each of her readers.  Sharon Lee Fernberg