Review: My fave so far!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 16, 2013
************I was gifted a copy of this in return for an honest review**********Having read the other two Council Fall's books, I had a fairly good idea of what to expect although they were both shorts so I was interested to see if Ms Hendricks could my hold my attention over a longer story.Well, she can. The Council falls stories are all sweet, genuine romances and this is no different. There are hints of steaminess in descriptions of each character's attraction to each other - the mention of a curve of a breast for example - but that's pretty much where the sensuality ends and actually that works perfectly for this story because the barrier between Maggie and Jared is a tricky one to cross, considering Jared is meant to believe she is an 18 year old student. Jared manages to retain his honour whilst still seeming every inch the romantic hero and not at all like an old pervert!Maggie is easy to like and is a fun character although occasionally I felt her bubbly side drowned out the darker side of her life, but I guess this was really the effect of Jared and his daughter's company, so it was understandable.Honestly, there's not much more I can say. If you like honourable, well-crafted heroes and interesting plots along with a sweet, slightly sexy romance then this is for you. I would have liked a few more kisses at the end, but mostly because I wanted to see more of them together - they went very quickly from misunderstanding to HEA, but I loved that Ms Hendricks went against the trend and added an epilogue. As much as these are slated, it was a perfect little ending and rounded it off nicely. Recommended!