Review: A well-written nostalgia romance.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
I loved this book. The story of Tim O'Malley, a boy who'd been driven from town for a crime he hadn't committed, and Dorothy Whitaker, the long-lost love of his life, JESSE'S GIRL is basically a nostalgia romance. Set in the early 1960s, Chaffin takes the reader through the heartbreak, the longing of a lost first love, and uses the time period to truly set the tone of the book.The setting in this book is exquisite, and the characters sing from the page. I rooted for Tim and Dorothy from the moment from the first page to the last, and they truly came alive for me. They were real people with real flaws, and I loved them both.Well done, Ms. Chaffin. This is a book I read in a day, and simply couldn't put down.