Review: A romantic page-turner -- without the typical mystery/suspense
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 27, 2013
"Her Favorite Temptation" is a sweet and heart-warming tale of two people who meet and fall in love under the threat of a terminal illness.  Leah, the main character, is a thirty-year-old physician who has lived her entire life trying to please her controlling parents.  Will is a musician who has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.  While waiting for the scheduled surgery, Will has fled his family and leased an apartment alone in the city, where he's trying to deal with his own mortality and the uncertainty of his future.  Leah is his next-door neighbor.  Let the fun begin.The secondary characters in the novel are well-drawn (Leah's less-than-perfect sister, Audrey, will get her own story), and the struggles the characters face are realistic and compelling, unlike some of the silly misunderstandings that keep too many heroes and heroines apart."Her Favorite Temptation"isn't literary fiction -- the writing is easy and breezy, but there are no sentences to linger over.  As well, this story doesn't hold a candle to Jojo Moyes' contemporary novel on a similar theme ("Me Before You" was an extraordinary book).  Yet this is a story that is perfect for a lazy afternoon, a contemporary romance with heart that will keep most readers eagerly turning the pages.