Review: A Bliss book with that little bit more...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
Her Summer with the Marine is a fun, enemies to lovers romance with endearing characters, humour and some heartfelt touching moments.Finn Donovan and Ellie McDermott spent most of their high school years competing against one another. The only time they didn’t was the time they ended up in his truck, horizontal. Nine years on, Ellie has returned home to take over the family funeral business due to her father’s rapidly decreasing health. Only she discovers she has a competitor in the same town. Finn.These two are peas-in-a-pod. Both are fighting to keep their business afloat, both are determined and both are stubborn. But away from work, both have suffered difficult teenage years, both are fun and both are very attracted in each other. And all this makes for an endearing loveable couple.Their journey made me laugh, smile, cringe and was touching. However, this book is slightly different to previous Bliss offerings as their intimate time…it’s not kept behind closed doors. It’s tastefully written but it gives you that little bit of an extra insight as to how tender Finn can be and this I loved. I must confess though, I did shake my head at a couple of the off-the-hook comments on death; I'm certain they were meant to be light and portray the whole 'when you deal with it every day' viewpoint, but some were a just bordering on OTT.All in all a good start to the series and to Bliss' Red Hot offshoot and with two more Donovan siblings on the radar, I look forward to their stories.I received a copy of this as an ARC courtesy of Entangled Publishing for an honest & unbiased opinion