Review: Nocturne Reads: Enjoyable Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 21, 2013
I really enjoyed this story with its band of zany extras, shameful pasts and family dinners!  Ella left her home town in shame and never looked back.  She never was anything like what the gossip mongers and rumour mill believed her to be, but then again, she never had a chance.  While she loved her mother dearly, she loathed her mother's choices in life.  Sadly, soon after she left home for good, her mother had a son that Ella knew anything about until her mother's death.  Her brother Cam is big, bitter and bullish.  At the age of 13, he met his long lost sister and nothing is as he planned it to be.  I enjoyed the angst and the tension between Ella and her brother.  Their relationship was real and the time to build a solid foundation just had not been established, even during the past two years.Two years ago, Ella walked into Jake's family bar and set out to prove she was the kind of woman the whole town believed her to be-but instead she proved to be the one woman that Jake Prince cannot forget!  I loved that bit.  Then, as these two meet up again, work together through the footy training and then hook up, sweet!  They really connect on so many levels.  That was why, for me, it hurt so badly when Ella kept saying that Jake was going backwards/going back to Huntley/going back to the past.  I loved when she finally forgave her mother, herself and came to terms with her past and her role in making the future all that it could be truly.Of course, the footy action is good, the friends are very funny and the smexying is hot and fun.  A great read, enjoy!