Review: A wonderful and refreshing story about love that is not always perfect.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
This book was given to Book Worms as an Arc for an honest review.We awarded this book 4 stars.A review was left by Hazel Hill a Book Worms Reviewer.Thank you Hazel.A review of Favorite places,  A trouble maker novel by Kelly Gendron.I read A LOT of romance novels and they can all be a bit the same so it wasrefreshing to find a book with such an unusual premise. As the beginning of thestory is a little confusing I have had to explain it, this may act as a spoilerto some but it really doesn't spoil the story to know these things. They arerevealed early on in the book anyway.Jessina Landi is working in a diner and living in a dive when she flies backfrom the funeral of her great aunt, carrying a 10th of her ashes. This isn't howher life is meant to be, she is a trained accountant but trusting a man tookeverything away from her, her career, her heart, the small amount of trust shehad mustered and her integrity. On the trolley at the airport she meets ChaseLennox. ( a note to English readers, the trolley is what we call the ShuttleBus, not knowing this caused me to imagine them having some kind of bizarrebumper car ride on the luggage trolleys at first but maybe that's just me)As Jess and Chase bump into each other on the bus, sexual sparks fly but neitherof them could predict the journey could have such far reaching effects.In a bizarre twist of fate, Jess reaches down to put her wallet away, placing itinto. Chase's identical luggage. She then departs the bus taking her own luggagewith her, Chase isn't thinking straight that day as he has a very important dealto complete and on seeing Jess take what he believes to be his luggage he chasesafter her, and some what aggressively demands the case back causing Jess to dropthe ashes. It transpires that  Jess has the correct case but no wallet and Chasehas lost his case with Jess's wallet inside. The pair part on bad terms thinkingthey will never meet again.The twist really comes when Chase's stolen case with Jess's wallet inside fallsinto the hands of pranksters who decide to use the pairs ID's to get married,leaving the two temporarily unaware that they are married to each other. Thiscomes to light when Jess has to deal with her inheritance from her aunt.Jess approaches Chase for an annulment but after a sexually charged meeting Jessis involved in an accident and Chase takes it upon himself to  care for her. Heclaims this is because he has a business deal he needs her help with but can'tdeny the attraction he feels for her.Chase needs Jess, he needs to come across as a family man for a business deal.Having a wife at his side will be the perfect cover. But he wants her too, hewants it to be for just sex but his heart isn't listening. Chase has some majortrust issues and sees all woman as money grabbing gold diggers. When someinformation about Jess's past comes to light it breaks Chase's heart to thinkthat she isn't as good as she seems and he was right to mistrust her all along.Jess needs Chase, she needs the money he is offering to play his wife for alittle while longer, but she needs him for something more too, she has somemajor issues with intimacy stemming from a traumatic event as a child and shefeels so good when in Chases arms she feels Chase can help her overcome this butshe gets more than she bargained for when it isn't just her body he soothes buther heart too.The couple have so many misunderstandings and miss so many opportunities to seethe good in each other. They are both good people who want the best for peoplethey care about, it just takes a little while to see that in each other but it'sso sweet when they do.I really likes this book, so many romance novels are a little to perfect, thingshappen to easily for my liking. I felt this book was more real for the setbacksthe couple suffered. The attraction between them was so much more Intense forbeing denied.It was a good, easy read with a lovely feel good ending and I award it fourstars.Thank you for your amazing book and I look forward to reading more from you in the future. :)