Review: Refreshing Romance with No Bad Language and No Sex Scenes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 21, 2013
Lisa Archer was disappointed when her boyfriend, Bryan Cooper, gave her another charm for her bracelet for Valentine’s Day. She had been hoping for an engagement ring. After all, they’d been dating for over three years. Lisa stumbles and falls on a mall escalator, and her bracelet gets caught and the catch is sucked in. Bryan turns off the escalator, but no one is able to free her, so they call an emergency team. Lisa looks into Steve Rollins warm eyes, as he bends over her to cut the snagged bracelet, and Bryan pales in comparison. With sudden clarity, she sees her relationship with Bryan is going nowhere, and she’s just wasted three years of her life. He is not what she needs. In frustration, she snaps at Steve.Steve is drawn to the pretty woman he rescues, but she seems to hate him, so he pulls back, but he can’t get her out of his mind. He rescues her again from a car accident, which is more serious. He sits beside her hospital bed and holds her hand, but, when she wakes up, she doesn’t seem to want him there. Even when she and Bryan has broken up, she will have nothing to do with Steve. He’d love another chance with her, but he doubts he’ll ever get it. To complicate matters, his sister is Lisa’s best friend, and the two women work together.It was a little hard to believe how quickly Steve and Lisa fell in love with no dating and little interaction. I thought the novella would have been stronger if there were some outside tension and not it all coming from misunderstandings between Lisa and Steve. I would have also liked to have seen them dating more. It was still an interesting read, however. I found no grammatical mistakes, and there was no bad language or sex, and this was refreshing. I gave it a 4.5, which rounded up to a five.