Review: Enjoyable
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2012
Posted on Romancing the Book's blogReviewed by MariaReview Copy Provided by the AuthorYou'll get two for the price of one here - a lovely romance and a trip to Ireland. As an expat Irish woman who misses the `ould sod', I found this book quite a treat. I enjoyed reading about people with surnames like Quinn and Byrne - I grew up among people with surnames like that! But even if you're not Irish, there's no need to feel left out. Love, as we know, is a universal emotion. The love scenes are written in romantic language. The heroine is an assertive character who will not be pushed around - fantastic! The hero? I could almost see him. In fact I probably know him. An Irish lad all right. I enjoyed the humour too. This romance has a lot of humour. Another Irish trait.It's hard to get a respectable reputation back when you've had a brush with notoriety in your teens. Irish people have long memories and over there, ten years is not a long time. But Cara Byrne did it. She crawled back from a near scandal and got a job as a teacher in a secondary school run by the Church. When a series of slightly tragic-comic events land her name up again in scandalous lights, such as being photographed in the tabloids in the arms of a Hollywood bad boy (in her underwear!) it's time to leave town for a while. But out in Hollywood, her relationship with her old pal Ethan Quinn takes a different turn. Ethan is a tough guy with a reputation to match, a hero in the Sly Stallone mold. Is this love? Or friendship carried away? Can they make it as a couple? I'm not telling, you're going to have to read the book to find out. And enjoy every word.Favorite Quote: `He'd always been her friend. Strong, reliable and caring, rather than sexy, dangerous and available.'`He was too valuable a friend to fall in love with.'