Review: for me, an okay story, nice but not really special or memorable
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2012
I love the friends-to-lovers thing a lot in romance, I also enjoy an older h and H, and I even liked the sentiment behind this story: the idea of a husband loving his wife enough to want her to find love again after he has passed away. But, as far as this series goes, this freebie isn't a favorite of mine. It is predictable from early on, but I'm not holding that against it. I think it's just that I've been reading several of these 1NS stories recently, and this story didn't have the appeal of those others I read. The words that come to mind for this story are mildly pleasant, even sweet, but largely, forgettable.The writing is fairly tight, nothing about it horrible or bad, but nothing about it truly engaged me or made me really care about the characters, either. I just didn't feel the emotion the other reviewers felt from the story. True, the sentiment is sweet, but overall, it's only a nice story for me personally: The sex is nice, the romance is nice, and the characters are nice. And for romance, I want to feel something more than nice, but maybe you will find it more satisfying than I did.