Review: Beautiful Writing & Romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 4, 2014
The Story Guy was a beautifully written, wistful romance in 120 short pages.Carrie is in her middle thirties and mostly happy with her life with nice parents and friends and a job at the library she loves, but she’s a little lonely.  Carrie’s struck out with the professional dating websites that matched her up men that seem more like stylized versions of real people. But she hasn’t been actively looking for a relationship.  Surfing the MetroLink personals is an late night addiction full of a wide range of very different ads, nothing like you would see on a professional dating site, more gritty, honest, what “men might really be thinking and never say” and this is where she’s sees Brian’s ad and photo. She’s immediately intrigued:“I will meet you on Wednesdays at noon in Celebration Park. Kissing only. I won’t touch you below the shoulders. You can touch me anywhere. No dating, no hookups.”Carrie meets up with Brian and has the most incredible, passionate, lusty kisses she has ever had, and they get along well, too. They seem to just click, but anytime Carrie tries dig or ask for more, Brian immediately shuts down.As a reader I had a pretty good general idea of what was going on with Brian and when I found out the story, I couldn’t really blame him for trying to keeping things simple and unattached.  Still, Carrie is in a tricky situation, because if you really care about someone how can you stand it if they won’t let you in? Not to worry though, this is a romance after all.This story was emotional and moving with a dose of sad reality, but it was also very steamy. Mary Ann Rivers’ writing was sensual and beautiful, and I look forward to picking up more of her work soon.