Review: Sweet story, frustrating heroine...
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 6, 2012
2.5 StarsKit Conner is a successful writer and is back in town to be the maid of honor in her best best friend's wedding. Kit's outward appearance of donning herself in outrageous attire, even being mistaken for a stripper and finding it humorous, is seemingly quite capable of handling anything. Thick skinned or not, once she settles back into that small town, all the damaging images of her past come crashing to the surface. Including her secret and ridiculous attraction she still feels for Ben Matthews.Benjamin Mathews is a man who lives his life in a slow, steady, and safe way. He might even be a little boring, but he's happy with his life and adores the horse ranch he runs with his brother. His only concern at the moment is surviving the role of Best Man for his brother's wedding. He is about to meet Kit, a woman who is a stranger to him, but eventually realizes he actually knew her all those years ago. Kit was very different back then; shy, withdrawn and several pounds heavier.As the wedding nears, Kit has trouble coping with her demons and proceeds to over-drink at every function. Ben, ever the chivalrous man, continuously rescues Kit from her over indulgence, never failing to see her safely home. That's where the good times, if you can call them that, end for the couple. They fight, they bicker and Kit has a way of blaming "Mr. Rescue" for just about everything. (Yes, she was quite the bratty heroine for most of the book and I found myself becoming frustrated with her dramas and unnecssary tantrums.)The hero, Ben was lovely and quite honestly he had the patience of a saint and the maturity of a man who knew what he wanted. I would have liked to have seen Kit understand what she had in Ben long before she did because the intimacy scenes were nice and steamy! This story had some fun elements, though it was slow for me throughout. It's third person narrative had a tendency to mention who was speaking or physically doing something everytime, which was also making the story lose it's flow. Once I got past that, I was happy and relieved when Kit finally came to her senses and realized that only she possessed the key to her happiness.