Review: Good for when you need a low-drama romance.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 09 18, 2013
I enjoyed reading This Time Around.  It was a short, easy and sweet read.  It was predictable and light on heart-wrenching drama which is both good and bad.  It was good because I didn't feel jerked around emotionally which is pretty much what I was looking for from this book (quick, easy and romantically indulgent).  If I had expected anything more (and I usually do), I would have been pretty disappointed.  Another review had mentioned it was "too perfect" and I thought that was a pretty spot-on description.  Usually that would bother me.  This time it didn't.  The one thing that did bother me a little was how Jake dotes on Nora and she doesn't really do much for him.  It wasn't exactly a story killer but it would have been nice if she had planned something special for him at least once. I guess she sort of does that at one point but it was sullied (in my book) by her doing something almost unforgivably inconsiderate to set it up.  Still, I would recommend it to anyone who is a fan of light, low-drama romances with a few juicy sex scenes and a happy ending.On another note, the sequel/companion novel that is set up at the end, Break Away, sounds pretty good.  It is going to be about Nora's college roommate.  I'll have to keep my eye out for it.