Review: Grade: B+ or 4 solid stars...Entertaining Opposites Attract Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 12, 2013
Her Best Worst Mistake has one of my favorite tropes! It's where the uptight hero gets shook up by the free-spirited heroine! Violet sets stuffy Martin's pants on fire!Martin a.k.a. Droopy Drawers shows believable personal growth. His ambition to move up in the world proves more complex than initially presented. Martin is Violet's perfect match. He rocks her world! This hero and heroine have chemistry, and their love scenes were hot, Hot, HOT! (I loved the mango scene.)At times, I worried the usual plot devices (poor communication, big misunderstandings, pregnancy, self-sacrifice) would be used as obstacles. They were not! Yay! The characters understood each other and worked through their issues, except one major issue that could have blown up in their faces, but it was handled well and stayed true to the characters.Sarah Mayberry made me care about the characters. Their actions made me laugh, get angry, fan my heated face, cheer, and cry. Her characterizations remind me of Julie James and Susan Elizabeth Phillips with her humor, witty dialogue, and heartwarming storytelling. I needed a book like this after all the dark stuff I've been reading! Please note this book is a sequel, but it can stand alone. This is my first Mayberry book. I'm looking forward to more of her work!***************************Memorable Quote 1 - Droopy Drawers confronts VioletThere was something about the way he was looking at her that made her feel even more nervous."So? I remembered you like the peach schnapps. It's not a big deal.""Isn't it? I remember that you hate escargot. And that you refuse to see any movie with Kate Beckinsale in it. And that you have every George Michael album ever made."She blinked. "Why would you remember all of that?"I don't know. I used to think it was because you annoyed me." He took a step toward her. "I used to think it was because your perfume would get in my clothes and stay with me for days afterward, even though I'd barely brushed up against you."He took another step toward her and something powerful and undeniable thudded in the pit of her stomach."You hate me," she said, staring at him, knowing she should put some distance between them before this became something it shouldn't."Do I?"****************************Memorable Quote 2"Thank you," she said.He looked bemused. "For what?""For everything. For being amazing in bed and endlessly patient, for sacrificing ... for me and bringing me all the way around the world simply because you were worried about me, even though it meant you were probably going to spend your holidays alone. For the way you always put your hand on the small of my back to guide me across the street and the way you let me be in charge of the television remote control and the way you have never, not once, judged me or mistrusted me or made me feel small or unwanted.""Violet, sweetheart..." He blinked and she realized that he was close to tears.Her Martin. Mr. Uptight. Mr. Repressed.