Review: Enjoyable, great story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
I found this short story to be delightful. The author kept you interested without packing it full of angst. There was just enough, but not so much as to prevent it from being labeled a light, easy read. It was a nice change from the usual. Enjoyable characters, creative story and well-written with less mistakes than you usually find in a book of this price range. This is basically a temporary girlfriend for hire type of story where the hired is straight & the hirer lesbian. Being a romance you obviously know the outcome, but the straight girl chooses love without the reader having to deal with a ton of angst in the process. The author handles it in such a way that it is touched on, then the rest of the thought process is implied to go on behind the scenes through phone calls with her mom etc..., but without it having to be displayed in front of you, and yet the average reader won't feel cheated. Some readers would say it perhaps wasn't deep enough, but then it would have to change classification from a light and enjoyable short to something more in depth and that's not what this story was meant to be. It's an afternoon read, simple as that and it's not so holiday oriented that you can't enjoy it at any time of the year. This is one I will keep in my library and read again at some point. It has also given me interest in looking into other works by this author, which I consider a compliment from reviewer to author.