Review: ...she was honey and sunshine
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 13, 2013
Thirty four year old Dean Jacobs is a womanizing player.  Women flock to him without any work on his part.  He's a womanizing legend among his guy pals.  He's also lonely and lost....he never feels like he belongs anywhere.  Then he see's Evy Burnett and set's out to finagle a meeting.  She shuts him down!  He keeps trying and finally she relents and it's as if the planets have suddenly aligned themselves.  He feels as if he's come home.  As if he and Evy were fated to be.Evy Burnett is still healing from a break-up from her fiance' whom she's been with for twelve years.  She's moved from Des Moines to Milwaukee, to help her sister and brother-in-law start a new business...a Dessert Lounge (Bakery).  The very last thing Evy needs or wants is a relationship.  But Dean Jacobs see's something surreal in Evy and pursues her until she relents and goes out with him.This story is very fast paced and at times predictable.  I must admit when I first began reading this story I thought the plot was weak and written possibly by someone in High School.  The dialogue was very amateurish and adolescent.  But by chapter five, the dialogue and narration got better although at times, it's still cheesy and full of outdated, cliche'd one liners.  Enough to make me roll my eyes and groan.  Yet I persisted and was rewarded.This is a simple story of a guy finally getting his life on track and his past rises up and bites him in the butt.  This story sorta "pitter-pats" along until the big break-up...and then it SIZZLES!  Full of nail biting drama and a lot of political intrigue...and of course romance.  I thoroughly enjoyed reading this story.  I found the secondary characters (Ben and Brooke) actually more entertaining than the main characters at times.  They just about stole the entire show.Hats off to Ms. Cross.  Job well done!