Review: 3.5 Sweet Love Story Stars
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2014
After reading Annalisa Nicole’s debut novel, Take A Chance, and finding that for a book that dealt with some pretty serious and life changing events it was pleasantly sweet and heartwarming, I was expecting another upbeat and amusing love story from its follow up, I’ll Take a Chance, and that’s just what I got.This series isn’t called running into love for no reason.  Amelia Wellington literally crashes into Dr. Kyle Peters while rushing to visit Willow, from book one, in the hospital.  This accidental encounter is cute, sweet, and comical and sets off a whole chain of events leading to Kyle and Amelia taking a chance on each other.Amelia has sworn off men since her last and only serious boyfriend left her with some deep emotional scars and some pretty serious insecurities.  I’ll Take A Chance takes an unexaggerated and realistic look into Amelia’s bedroom activities and unlike most contemporary romances these days illustrates a steamy and immensely satisfying love life without four plus orgasms on demand with every encounter which seems to the norm in most stories these days.  I think there will be a lot of women who will be able to relate to Amelia and I applaud Annalisa Nicole for addressing what may be a concern for many women and showing that there is still plenty of romance and fulfillment to be had.  Kyle also has some lingering issues in his past that come back to haunt the couple in a mysterious turn of events that was a bit surprising and lent a dose of suspense to the story.Unfortunately I found that I was unable to make any sort of significant attachment to either character.  Amelia was sweet and relatable but while her constant clumsiness and bouts of verbal diarrhea should have been endearing I couldn’t help but find it slightly irritating.  Kyle was charming and understanding but with him there just seemed to be something missing that made it him hard to really connect with and honestly I think that was probably a lack of any strong emotion emanating from this story.  Even during the “intense” moments, I just wasn’t feeling the emotion in it.Along those same lines their relationship was definitely a whirlwind and maybe because things happened so fast or maybe because I wasn’t connecting with the feelings in the events, I feel like there was no falling.  It seemed like the butterflies and the passion was sort of skipped over and we were thrown right into the forever.All in all, I’ll Take A Chance was a delightful, enjoyable love story that is a great continuation of Willow and Asher’s story and leads right into the third Wellington sibling’s story.  Adrian’s story sounds intriguing with a mystery woman from his past and I can’t wait to find out more.