Review: Great Debut Novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2013
I loved this first novel by Rachel Dove. As someone who doesn't normally read 'romance', this book held me from start to finish. I couldn't put it down, reading until the early hours as I had to know what happened next. The death of her cheating husband leaves the heroine with a mixture of emotions, made worse by a shocking discovery when she attends a medical clinic to ensure that her unfaithful mate left her with no nasty goodbye present. Her mother-in-law adds to her woes, but luckily her good friend Georgina gives her much needed support. Add into the mix the arrival on the scene of not one, but two would-be suitors, plus the woman for whom her late husband was leaving her and you have a perfect pot-pourri to keep any reader intrigued. For me, the measure of a good writer is whether he or she can make me cry. Needless to say, Rachel succeeded. I hope her second novel is not too long in coming.