Review: Hooked from the beginning
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
The book starts out with Allie leaving her last therapy session and driving to her husband’s gravesite to say goodbye to him, not necessarily a final goodbye, but goodbye to loving and hating him almost equally. From that point on I was hooked. I had to know about Allie and Ben’s love story and what he did to make her hate him. I had to know how she could not only move on with her life, but how she could move on with her husband’s best friend and one of her closest friends. I just had to know everything. I thought this was such a great story.Allie was a likeable character; she loved her family and friends. She worked hard after her husband died to make life great for her son and even with what she found out about her husband she didn’t tell her son so that he would have those great memories of his father. Jake was great. He was sweet and sexy and he loved Allie with all his heart, but he didn’t pressure her into a relationship after Ben’s death. He just helped her in any way she needed help, whether it was buying a truck for her son or teaching her how to operate the sprinklers in her lawn. He was there for her when she was having trouble raising a teenage boy by herself. When they finally decided to change their relationship it seems right, not rushed or too soon or just out of loneliness but because they both want more out of their friendship and their lives. This book had just the right amount of fun, of emotion, of drama and sexiness. It was a really good book that I thoroughly enjoyed and would recommend  to others.