Review: Back on Track
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
This is the second book in the collection of Strangers on a Train. There is no particular order to the novellas, but all center around various train adventures.Allie Whitaker is on a Wine Train traveling through Napa with her best friend. Allie has spent the last several months trying to get her struggling marketing company off the ground. Pretty much all work and no play. Her friend Sandra guilted her into taking the trip today. They had hardly seen each other and there never seemed time for socializing. Allie was in a serious slump. She has a glass of wine, and heads out to try her luck.She spies a man across the room, sitting alone with a baseball cap pulled low over his eyes. He's shy she thinks, and heads over.Matt Kearns was also dragged by his best friend to the Wine Train. He is an all star pitcher with an arm injury and his greatest fear is being sent to triple A for rehab. He doesn't get out much because of the double threat of being recognized, or not being recognized which is almost as bad. Right now he is very concerned because being a pitcher is all he knows, and can he be strong in his return to playing? Allie sits down with Matt, and he is dazzled. " In the next instant a goddess sat down in the chair".This is a sweet story of love at first sight, but I think being a novella, everything felt rushed. I liked the characters, and their stories, but it felt like the plot went from zero to sixty in a heartbeat.The ending is satisfying, and over all a good read. Who wouldn't enjoy a trip on the Wine Train?This novel was given to me for an honest review. No compensation was offered or accepted.