Review: Delightful story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2014
The trouble with these triplets is that they want a mother, but not just any mother. Their hearts are set on the egg donor who made their family possible. Brick, Caitlyn, and Aaron set out to bring passionate, dedicated teacher, Robin Lindstrom, into their home, despite all efforts by their disciplined, safety-oriented, structural engineer Dad, Flint Harris. The precious trio of eight-year-olds, though, are quite well versed in how to handle Dad, and they know more about Robin than she ever dreamed possible. Can this unlikely pairing, who can't come to an agreement without arguing, ever make it as a couple?Jacqueline Diamond draws the reader immediately into the story, creating conflict, with practiced ease. The children aren't only precocious, they're also crafty, definitely eight-year-olds at their finest. It's easy to get lost in this tale of an impossible love match between a woman whose mother runs a fortune telling business, and a man who fears abandonment and loss so much that he creates a sternly ordered world, where everything is safe, structured, a place no one disappears from, because they only have time for what he has deemed correct.From the setting, a community on the beach, aptly named Beachside, to the spark producing conflict between Robin and Flint, the reader cheers when they can't ignore their attraction, and gasps in horror when the unplanned topples their lives. The addition of an adorable set of triplets, who have their own issues, Diamond has created a wonderful world to lose oneself in for a day, or two, as they travel from two souls meant to be together, but who must also make decisions based on their realities – that they are like oil and water, never to be mixed. Or is that completely wrong?I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to all lovers of a great romance between total opposites.