Review: A really great read!!!!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2013
This was really great book about lovers who part and meet up again 7 years later.Tam and Conner were together less than a year but were deeply in love with each other, they just didn't express it verbally. With fears of being abandoned Tam leaves Conner after he proposes a business and personal partnership. She soon becomes ill and finds out she is pregnant but due to Conner's conniving and incompetent assistant, Tam never contacts Conner again.Fast forward 7 years and they meet up at a conference. Conner is an extremely successful businessman and Tam is successful in her own right. They accidentally get put in the same hotel room and without anywhere else to stay have to put up with each other. The attraction is still very much apparent and they have never gotten over each other, but with Tam's secret about their child and her fears and with Conner being territorial and obsessive, they still can't express their feelings for each other.When they give into their desires, Tam freaks out and leaves Conner again but this time he hunts her down only to find out he has a 6 year old daughter Susannah. Conner falls immediately in love with Susannah who has been asking her mommy for a new daddy and he ends up staying with Tam and Susa for a month. Conner wants marriage and his family together but with Tam still holding back because she doesn't believe he loves her, it takes up a rejected proposal and Conner about to leave for the two lovers to finally after over 7 years to declare their love for each other.These two really enjoyed getting intimate in unconventional places. Whether it was a tram shed on a mountain, up against a wall, as the sun set on another mountain or in a hay loft, Tam and Con's passion for each other was always hot, frantic and playful... I think they only made it to an actual bed once, and I loved this about them.My favourite quote in the book was from Conner after he makes a chilli dish for dinner that Tam had taught him to cook 7 years earlier. Tam is shocked that he would actually remember the recipe and Conner's reply to her was...."I remember everything about you."For me it just proved the fact that he never got over her.With two stubborn but passionate characters this was an easy story to read and enjoy, and when you get to the end and all that was stopping them were the words I love you, you realise that sometimes we as humans make life much more complicated than it needs to be.Susannah was a completely adorable little girl. So many times throughout the story she would say such innocent and simplistic things, you just wish that the adults would take her advise. The scene that I loved the most with Susannah was literally the last two paragraphs of the book and it so perfectly wrapped everything up....Unnoticed, Susannah stared at her parents. Then she nodded. "Good, now I can have a dog and a baby brother."With the wisdom of the innocent, she left the room picking her doll up from the floor as she went. "You should learn a lesson from my parents, Florie. Always say I love you."This was an easy enjoyable read that flowed well and ended with a lovely happily ever after.