Review: An Entertaining Treat
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2013
When I started this book, I really did not expect to like it. It is so different from what I usually read and it is a short story, but I liked it a lot.  Mandy Sharp is a professor and a single mom to her sister's child. Mandy is the consummate professional and lives a very neat and tidy life. No complications. She has a kid, that's complication enough. Except, Mandy has a monthly appointment with a stranger. Once a month, Mandy dresses up and pretends to be a completely different person with a man whose name she does not know.Strange start, right? Yes, but it evolves into an adventure. Mandy is braver than I and I was glad to live her fantasy. To meet a handsome stranger in a place and time that does not truly exsist. To be whoever you want and do whatever you want without consequences. What a life?Of course, since this is a story, things get complicated. Mandy realizes that it doesn't matter that she doesn't  know his name and she doesn't know what he does. She loves her stranger. Now to get him to follow her into the light and into an actual grown up relationship. This is where the fun comes in.I liked Mandy a lot. I liked that even though she was doing this incredibly risky thing, Mandy is never stupid. I liked how easily she took in her sisters child and raised him as her own. I loved how she refused to settle and once she decided what she wanted she went after it.This book is entertaining and a treat. Ruthie Knox somehow manages to tell a unique, interesting and honest love story in 66 pages. She also manages to write sexy scenes, give Mandy a good best friend and the mysterious stranger a very intense back story. This is why I will always read Ruthie's stories. She is fantastic with character and even better and throwing two different people together and giving them chemistry on the page.This book is short, but a lot of fun. Due to my ingrained dislike of short stories, I was not completely satisfied. I wanted to know more, but that is my own issue. Pick up this novella, read it and love it. I highly recommend it.Fans of Ruthie Knox (About Last Night), readers of Contemporary Romance and anyone who likes when two people have lots of baggage, but fall in love anyway.