Review: fun.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 24, 2013
. . .With some laugh out loud, cringe moments.  Why I laugh at a darling young woman's nervous pratfalls -- I shouldn't but I did.  Violet is 17 and home from her summer on Oahu, where she worked in a bakery.  She learns that while she was away, her mother has met a quiet, successful inventor and plans to marry him.  The inventor has a son, Zane, and she meets him at a fancy dinner.  He's so handsome she can hardly look up from her plate.  She and her mother both lose control of their words -- the sentences end with ridiculous, embarrassing nonsense.  But Violet and Zane manage to break the ice, and he gives her his phone number in case she needs to reach him.  I loved Violet's busy southern California life -- writing children's books, working at a nursing home, helping her best friend babysit younger siblings.  The sunny climate seems part of every page and makes the story warm and friendly.