Review: R. L. Mathewson stole my heart again, this time with the way it all began!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
This book is kind of a beginning of all beginnings for the Neighbor from Hell series. It's a little of the infamous Bradford history and it's great. I was a little weary of the historical aspect, historically people have been known to be a little stuck up and dry about their feelings in certain areas of time but I should have known better with a Bradford involved :) Truce gives all the fun playfulness of the others with a little twist of drama brought about by the change in time period.Synopsis: Jason's being tortured by his family yet again and forced to listen to a tale about his ancestors and the beginning of the... unusual? Bradford ways. The Bradford ways started with one man, unlike the rest of his high society family in so many ways, hardworking and more interested in the actual world then the perceived one dedicated to niceties and social graces. He eats more than he should and he gasp works when he doesn't have to and if he really thought about it'd he'd have one particular person to thank for his hardworking drive, a girl whom he used to torment and unlike most girls, she did the same. She retaliated vengefully and after one day of teasing that went a step too far, he was forced to toughen up. He became a tough and successful man, one that many girls want even if he doesn't want them. He wants a girl with a brain in her head who can keep him on his toes and when he finds her one night he thinks its going to be a one time thing, never to see her again. To top of losing the enchanting mystery he has to see his childhood nemesis only the two are one and the same and they are suddenly forced to spend a lot more time together but they have to be careful first because if anyone found out what happened both their lives could be ruined, forced into marriage by the rules of the society they both detest, and then because while they still have a knack for driving each other mad, it seems to be more mad with desire than anything else.