Review: The Right Book
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2014
I really like Ms. Delaney’s writing. There’s something crisp and no nonsense about it that also deftly manages to be sophisticated and nuanced. The story is about Talia and Tomas.  At first, I had a hard time relating to either of these protagonists.Tomas, a.k.a Senor Hottie McHotpants, was bombastic, pushy, and annoying in that he liked to press the heroine’s buttons gratuitously. Talia on the other hand seemed like someone who not only lacked courage and conviction but often couldn’t seem to get out of her own way emotionally.  I was unsure for the early parts of the book how Ms. Diamond would manage to not only bring these two on track but make me root for them.  That journey was part of what made the book interesting for me. The transformation both characters make is slow but definitive and when they were finally on the same inevitable path it was explosive, carnal, and thoroughly enjoyable.The one character that rang a little too one dimensional for me was the Grandmother, Maybeth Livingstone (great name btw).  I would’ve liked to see Maybeth’s inherent brittleness crumble a little earlier in the book even if only for a short time before she was back to being a mean b.o.w. again. Not sure but maybe an early scene between her and Tomas would have rounded it out more for me and definitely taken a chip off her shoulder. That might’ve made the transformative scene for Talia and Maybeth seem a little less neat too.This story is part of a series and features two of my favorite characters from another book, Shawna and Ryan from The Blind Date.  It was terrific seeing those characters again and having them play key roles in this story.  Looking forward to more from this series and suspect Ms. Delaney will always have something on my TBR list.