Review: Unique start to a wonderful Swan Story!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 25, 2013
This for me, was one of those books you are drawn to open out of curiousity, not intending to actually settle into, only soon you find you have done just exactly that.  The cover is beautiful and mysterious, it was calling out to me.  I just meant to take a quick peek...You open up to the first page - a super short half page PREFACE, which is ingeniously used as "bait and catch".  I read alot of books and I have never seen this done before - if I have, I've never seen it done this effectively.  Read the PREFACE, turn to page one, and then try to tell me you are not gonna stick around! Even if I were not interested in the story, I have NEVER experienced a better beginning that I can recall - so just that deserves a little more of my complete attention.In the beginning pages you witness a bunch of ladies in the break room at work talkin' entertainment gossip; dropping familiar actor and movie names all over the place.  Who doesn't love celebrity gossip?  The book is off to a PERFECT start...now, does it keep you reeled in?  Absolutely, YES!I connected to the main character immediately, and I think in different ways, all of us can.  She's in a rut, just livin' life the only way she knows how - when she gets hit with a crazy new neighbor, David.  David is off-putting and odd, yet somehow...you LIKE him.  Maddie doesn't see him quite that way just yet.  She gets forced into spending some time with David and little by little, the intrigue begins.  With the presence of David next door, Maddie's life begins to very slowly open up around her.  A man who seems so plain and simple and flawed has this incredible magnetism and Maddie is drawn to him.Ya gotta read the rest to find out the best stuff for yourself.  It's a fantastic book!I am an American reader, so having this set in the UK gave it a little bit of wonder for me.  It may be a humdrum life, but being set someplace unfamiliar turns the humdrum into something new and special. Everything from language to how they watch the Oscars in Britain with the time difference.I was lucky to run into this as a kindle freebie, but had I paid for this book, I would NOT have felt at ALL jipped!  Very entertaining, characters u will love, a sampling of London life - and if grammar and spelling errors matter to you - this is pretty darn well edited, too.  Not perfect, possibly less perfect than I know what with the British spelling and use of language; but I didn't feel there was anything significant enough to distract from the flow of the read.