Review: Loved it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2012
From the description of the book, this sounds like a light-hearted romance with a twist. You have the boring, shy heroine, Maddie, who decides to pick up the bad boy hero, Scott, at a bar of all places, and hires him to be her date for high school reunion. I figured it would turn out like most other romances with this type of plot. The two have a bunch of strange and slightly embarrassing situations happen to them, but fall in love in the end. Right?Wrong. That wasn't the story at all.Scott isn't much of bad boy to be honest. He has manners and morals and scruples - you know, those things you don't expect bad boys to have. There is also a lot more to him than a motorcycle and a leather jacket. Maddie does seem a tad boring, but once you read about her history and background, you find she is not.The romance happens pretty quickly. At first I thought this would make the rest of the book boring. Once they fall in love, then what? Sandy James does a great job of keeping you in suspense. The book is filled with twists and turns that you don't expect. These twists change the tone of the book from light-hearted to more serious, but this made me appreciate the whole thing even more. Just when I thought the couple had sort of reached a happy ending, something else would happen to complicate the relationship. In the end, love does prevail. You see all the loose ends get tied up, and the book ends with the same light-hearted quality it starts with.I won't go into to details, but I was amazed at how this author was able to take very deep topics and handle them with grace. She addressed things that aren't usually spoken of in romance novels. I was very impressed. The story had depth and the characters were likable because of this.I have to honestly say that I thought this would be one of those books you read and like, but set aside and never read again. It turns out that I loved it. I will definitely be reading it again.