Review: I fell in love with the couple
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 16, 2011
I really loved this story!!! It was one of those rare first person stories that worked out nicely.Tia Jackson is the middle child of 5 girls. Instead to dreaming of marriage and babies, she enjoys her highly successful career and her single yet cautious life style. Tia's main fear is disappointing her oldest sister who had to raise all of them when their mother passed away. Her sister wants her to settle down and get married and have babies so she can be happy but goes about voicing her opinion in a rather harsh manner. To stop all of the confusion, Tia started inventing boyfriends who conveniently either dumps or catches cheating when it's time to meet her rather large rather rowdy family. After her most recent ghostman bites the dust, her sister confesses that she has set her up with a date for their baby sisters wedding which is being held on Valentines day.Tia panics and in her haste to get out of the date notices Melvin, a florist who delivers flowers to their families restaurant. She tells her sister that she and Melvin have been dating he will  be taking her to the wedding.Melvin is surprised but goes along because he has been attracted to Tia for years but she never gave him the time of day. Later, Tia tries to get out of it but Melvin won't let her. They fall in love but things in his past nearly drown this couples new romance.I licked this story because every one talks the way average people do. They are able to pull this off in such a way that it is not only funny but genuine. The Jackson family is large, loud and lovable but it's Melvin, the white guy who was adopted and raise by a black family, who steals this show. He is the poster child for the emotionally tortured, alpha male. Haunted by his past, he not only doesn't feel as if Tia's love is attainable but he doesn't feel as if  he deserves it because of his past.I really loved Tia and Melvin. They were so perfect for each other. I liked that the story does not draw out the drama between them with her turning he back on him when he was already low. Tia fell and she fell hard for Melvin. The chemistry was off the charts and it truly left me wanting more. Now that's the kinda story I like!