Review: Great romance and so much more!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 16, 2013
Holding Out for a Hero. Amy Andrews.ARC supplied via Netgalley.Well, this author is new to me so I didn't know what to expect. What I got was a decent romance, which I expected, and also a really funny quirky side story involving batty aunts, politics, news media and scandals, a heroic rugby school team - very David and Goliath - and a crew of rescued dogs. That was just great and added so much more to the book than just a simple romance. There was pathos and emotion here form so many angles, along with the Good Guys winning through - I just love that feeling of satisfaction when that happens. Oh - and Rugby, I'm UK and from the terminology I think that the game referred to ? This book is Australian based so as with US book there a UK language divide so apologies now if I've got anything wrong in translation!I loved Ella - though at times wanted to shake some sense into here. I understood exactly about trying to make your own way and not be known purely from your background - its typical small town village gossip we have here in UK. We're always someone's mum, daughter, employee, wife rather than our own person and in Ella case it became a brush she was tarred with that had a huge effect on her. Rosie and the aunts - what great personalities - I'd love to have/to be an aunt like them. The family they created was so full of unjudging support and just what Ella, Rosie and Cam needed. Then there's Simon, someone at opposite end of spectrum and yet also being judged by his familys actions - and the wonderful sexy hot Jake....swoon.This book is so full of things I don't know where to start - the romance - yep, its hot, both Ella's and Rosie's...emotion for the school position, the kids that need help, the ones like Pete that have had it, the dogs that need homes, its an incredible book full of different plots that all tie in together wonderfully - and again, hot, steamy, erotic sex...it gives us the worst and best of human nature and pulls together into a humorous, sweet, HEA romantic novel. Priced at 244 for 264 pages/965kb its excellent value and one to re read when you want tot laugh and cry in the same book.Stars: five.