Review: Very gentle, relaxing story
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2013
This story is so comforting.  Three elderly parents are given starring roles in this story too, which is quite unusual today in our youth-obsessed culture.  This story moves at a very relaxing pace, and you can be sure that no incident will jump out of the pages and alarm you.  Even the ghost in the story is more collegial than scary.The author's credentials are amazing.  Wow, writing romance novels for sixteen years at Harlequin Books.  Very hard to beat that!Ultimately, for me, not much happens in this story.  It's basically a story about a woman who had been abandoned by her husband during her marriage, and is starting over with two middle school children and their two squabbling widowed grandmothers, all living together in their new enormous house out in the country.  Due to the bad memories of her marriage, that woman initially resists the amorous advances of her next door neighbour, a single male of similar age who lives with his widowed elderly father.  I do get it that the grandmothers like to argue with everyone; it seemed to be repeated over and over.  Charming, yet perhaps too much of it.  The hunk that lives next door is gentlemanly, but not a very interesting character.Yes, excellent writing, but I felt if I didn't get this book, I wouldn't have missed a great deal.  Yes, overall it was worth my time.  I enjoyed it.