Review: “Discovering Lucy” and Laura Dunaway delivered on all levels
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 21, 2014
Ok… sometimes I can be just the biggest sucker for the sweet & sexy “damsel in distress” romances, when it’s done well.  What that means, specifically for me… is if you’re gonna go the route of “broken heroine” with a total douche in her past that’s responsible for some of the broke and have “gallant hero” swoop in for the rescue… well, stay true to those characters.  “Broken Heroine”, Lucy, put all the angst on display, have epiphany where....maybe I’m not so completely broken that I can’t remove myself from angst and start to heal and highlight inner strength that was there all along but needed acknowledgement from heroine to bring it to surface (check).  “Total Douche” can have really no redeeming qualities… I mean just a nightmare of a human being, Drake, never shows remorse or an iota of compassion for their victim (check).  “Gallant Hero”, Knox, waaaay at the other end of the spectrum from “douche”, completely perfect, handsome, and protector of all innocents (check).I really am trying to be complimentary of “Discovering Lucy”, because I did enjoy it and the author, Laura Dunaway, realized and committed to the standard cast of characters personalities and she did it very well.  You’re supposed to want to root for Lucy and Knox and want to totally take a blunt object upside the head of Drake, and I certainly did… on all accounts.  So, “Discovering Lucy” and Laura Dunaway delivered on all levels… I ended the book a little happier that I had read it.  And really, don’t we all have those times where we want just a nice sweet book to read where everyone gets exactly what they deserve in the end?  The extra bonus is when we find that kind of book that also happens to be written extremely well too.4 Stars  ~Kathy