Review: Good Book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2014
I found only one thing to wonder about as I read this book.  Both Piper and West are in the midst of a heavy relationship.  Lot of what occurs between them is in the setting/context of the diving business that Piper’s brother is about to lose because of finances.  Nevertheless, it seemed as if all the action concerned the couple, West and Piper with little regard for the paying customers.  I found it difficult to understand and accept that the couple could be cavorting so well while there were paying customers they were neglecting--customers who were paying for services from this financially strapped business. Perhaps I am being too much of a kill joy, but I think the author should have taken this into account during the story.Other than this, the story was quite well done and very enjoyable. Piper returns home to help out her family when her brother breaks his leg and his business suffers because of his inability to dive and/or cater to his customers. It has been many years since Piper left her hometown right after her father’s sudden death in a diving accident as shortly after, in her opinion, she was dumped by her brother’s best friend, West, after a short relationship/affair.  In the intervening years, neither West nor Piper has stopped caring for the other. How their relationship fares during Piper’s visit home is an interesting story to read. I loved that the setting was New Zealand, because that area is largely unknown to e and I am always interested is becoming a bit more familiar with an unknown area. One can learn a lot about a place, its people and its culture just from reading a book like this one. The chemistry between West and Piper was great.  However, I think the author could have gotten them together a bit sooner than she did, and portrayed a bit more of their relationship in the book. It seemed, as I read, that they were never going to get together, but that may have only helped keep my interest. I had the impression that this was only the first part of a series, and I hope so, because I really want to read more about this couple and their friends and family.This is a great chick lit book for anyone into that genre. It moves along smoothly and actually quite quickly, as the Piper-West relationship grows and comes to fruition. I debated whether the fact that they seemed to grow into the relationship at the expense of solid customer care and appreciation in a company in danger of going belly up merited a loss of one star, and decided finally that it really did not. I received this from Library Thing to read and review.