Review: Finding contentment
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2014
'Just Like in the Movies' is a novella length story about changing lives and relationships.  Ava and Marcus have been together for a while and have become settled into a routine but the relationship has lost its sparkle and magic.  Ava starts to feel as though she is settling for a mundane life rather than the one she wants to live.A short holiday with her best friend Erica to the gloriously scenic Isle of Wight, gives Ava the time she needs to reflect on her life and her relationship with Marcus.  When she meets Morgan in a bookshop and he makes some assumptions about her that are wrong.  It gets her back up and they end up butting heads again and again.  Her reaction to Morgan may seem to be an over-reaction, but is systemic of the way she is thinking and feeling about herself at that time.  She fights her attraction for him by fighting him.Morgan is equally attracted to Ava and can read her like a book. Unfortunately Ava's sharp words cause Morgan to fight back as she consistently gets under his skin.  With Ava's holiday over before they have a chance to move forward, it seems that their potential relationship is over before it has got going.The return to everyday life brings the realisation that it is not enough anymore.  She wants a life where she is happy and content.  The situation with Marcus resolves itself and forces her to make some tough decisions. Each of us holds our own futures in our own hands and it is up to us to make the choices that make us happy and fulfilled.This was a story that I could completely relate to, taking the opportunity away and using it to re-evaluate your life.  It is what makes M.B Feeney's writing so good.  The story is rooted in a situation that everyone can relate to, with characters that are down to earth and you can empathise with.  M.B Feeney has created a romance story that is just like the movies.