Review: Sweet and Tender in Keeping With the Settings and Series
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2014
This is an unusual love story in that it takes place on a Caribbean cruise--oh, really, a love story on a cruise?  Well, what is different is that quite serendipitously two students of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, who are mere acquaintances on campus find themselves sailing on this Thanksgiving break outing with their respective families--and nothing happens until, well, no spoilers.This is a laid-back, sometimes laconic, addition to Andrew Grey's sweetly developed Chemistry series which has some character references and appearances by characters in the first two books--each of which was more angst and action-driven than this one.  But what settles the satisfaction for me is not just how it ends, but how it logically gets there--cruising along as in a fog like everyone in these situations tend to do on the high seas, and then jettisoned back into almost brutal reality when you return home.Hope Grey continues this series--he lives in the town and he brings it to life with the love lives of his characters.