Review: Sweet little romance for the dancer and the soldier!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 15, 2014
******3.5 stars******I loved the idea of a romance where swooning pen pals turned into a face-to-face love story, and knowing that the gorgeous guy was also a soldier? Yep, I was sold! Charlie “Big Game Hunter” Johansson was once the player and now the reformed good guy falling for his email message companion. He was lusting and starry-eyed like a teen boy in a girl’s locker room, but Ellie was not going to be an easy sell!Ellie was completely resistant to everything Hunter’s reputation represented. She’d been there done that with the guys who’d string her along then break her heart, and Hunter was just like one of them, or so her brother said. But Charlie, the man who opened up to her and connected with her across the globe, was nothing like that, or so she thought. He struggled a lot with how other people saw him, how his reputation pretty much preceded him wherever he went in town. He was trying to change and Ellie was inspiring him to keep up with it, but at every turn someone cut him down. Between his guilt over hiding the truth about the emails and his frustration about people always assuming the worst, my heart definitely went out to him.So yeah, everyone around knows that “Hunter” is actually Charlie except Ellie, and she doesn’t find out until nearly the end of the story. I couldn’t wait for her to find out that her Charlie had been there all along, given that she clearly wanted to have them both in her life. I wished that it didn’t take quite so long for her to figure it out so we could have had more time seeing them together as a couple, but Charlie was so adorable when he tried to make up for lying to her. He may have been a player, but his devoted sweet side was definitely hot!Ellie’s ‘man-less year’ was a bit frustrating after awhile, because she kept bringing it up as if it was so vital to her. I just didn’t get it, I mean she’d found a great guy so why did the 24 days left really matter? It kind of stalled the chemistry for me a bit, but we at least get the time-span epilogue to move past all of that. This was definitely an enjoyable read and I’d recommend it to anyone looking for a softer love story to curl up to!