Review: A Feel Good Story
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
This was a cute little love story about Maggie (who is a pageant competitor) and Garrett ( who is expected to be a firefighter, through a long family line of firefighters) They have been friends since they were kids, but so much more exists in their story. Garrett really longs to tell Maggie how he truly feels about her, and Maggie secretly loves Gsrrett. Neither of them will share their feelings with one another because they are "expected" to be who their families have molded them to be. Fortunately, they eventually realize they don't have to be who they are expected to be, but that they can be their own person and be together. I love that the author had the epilogue in this story. It didn't leave me wondering "where are they now"There are times in our lives where we wonder what we should do and who we should be, and worry about pleasing everyone around us. Everyone but ourselves. It was nice to see that they took the chance on love and on pleasing themselves and ended up happy by doing so. I did feel this story was a bit short (I know it was a novella( but sometimes in writing a novella, the character development gets lost. I know they were always friends, but I think a little more character development would have made this a 5 star read, instead of 4 :-) All in all, this was a good, cute love story, with a nice happy ending ;-) I call these feel good books, because they are short and just leave you feeling good <3 Thanks Cyndi for a job well done!!(less)