Review: the kind of nice, cute story that makes you want to just…sigh.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 19, 2014
3.5 starsKory is in town for her best friend’s wedding and is hit on by her childhood nemesis and bully. Lifelong competitors, they team up when tragedy strikes and discover each other in an opposites attract sort of way, except they are not so different.A light-hearted romance, I enjoyed from cover to cover. This was the kind of book I like to read to just lazily pass an afternoon. Of course, I am a slow reader so I would never be able to read a book like this in one afternoon, but I did finish it rather quickly. The story is part of a series but definitely could be a standalone.I loved the characters and the idea of two professionally-driven, competitive, type A personalities getting over themselves enough to fall for each other. Watching them come together was fun and entertaining. Romance is less graphic than other contemporary romance novels, there and sometimes graphic but sometimes told not shown. This is the kind of nice, cute story that makes you want to just…sigh.That is the good news. The bad news is this story is full of plot holes.I am not sure how believable it really is for Kory to fall for her high school bully. It would have been better if Will had simply been an arrogant rival or if Kory had preconceived notions about the “son of a Mitchell”. As it was, he made fun of her and had an entire class making fun of her. And as much of a stretch as it is for a neurologist to want to settle for chronic care in a nursing home, that part is actually realistic in a Doc-Hollywood-Michael-J.-Fox sort of a way. It is the bit about the nursing home that is not. Most of the work in a nursing home is done by CNAs and overseen by an RN. A doctor is merely on-call. The other piece that just doesn’t make sense is the medical directorship in Chicago. There are 80 hospitals in the Chicagoland area and an entire medical district within the city made up of three major hospitals, not to mention the Rehab Institute. There is no way a still wet-behind-the-ears student, no matter how bright, would be offered the position of a medical director. Competition is just way too steep.If you can get past these discrepancies (I did), the story here is pretty good. Really good. In fact, I wholeheartedly recommend this, but for adult readers due to graphic sexual content.Disclaimer: All books reviewed by me have been received via purchase, lending, or given to me by an author or publisher for the purposes of an honest review. No reviews are purchased. They are my own opinion. For more reviews such as this, please visit [...]