Review: 4.5 stars - Wonderful story!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
I just loved this story!Annabelle just weeks away from her wedding, walks in on her fiancee, Jack, in bed with their neighbor! She is totally overcome in every way and runs off to find herself. She is an supressed writer, a Jane Austen fan, and works as a reader/editor so she ends up renting a room in a quaint B and B in the English countryside. Meet Holden...sigh. What a great hero! Holden can relate to her since he was stood up at the altar and hasn't had the easiest life. Instead of staying for her 2 weeks...she doesn't want to leave. Holden and "Belle" as he calls her, become friends and they chemistry is great but after Belle has a life changing incident happen (don't want to spoil it!), she takes off and simply leaves Holden a note. She runs off to Greece and then finally back home to the USA. Off course, she is forced to deal with her life change and their is major drama. I wanted to smack Belle's mother...wow!Seriously, this is so good. The characters are so well developed and the story line is great. I, of course, wanted Belle and Holden to get together but really wasn't sure how this would all play out. It sure is complicated but yet a very real life situation that I could see play out. Great writing! I was thrilled how the story unfolded and ends....with a great happy ending of course and not cliffhanger...yeh....but with the thought that you might see these characters again in the next book about Kenzie...who by the way, you will adore! She is Annabelle's BFF and everyone should have a BFF like her! I cannot wait to read her story.I became a fan of this author when I read "Stubborn Love"  which I loved...and also the following books. I thoroughly enjoy her writing, characters, and plots.So...why not a full 5 stars for this one? Well, two reasons! I wanted more of the story and while the ending is great, it jumps into an epilogue 8 months later and I just felt that there was so much more that I would have liked to read about the "in between" stuff! And, secondly, while the chemistry, love and romance is strong in this book, it's very clean and there really is only 1-2 'hot' scenes between them that only really involving kissing. I guess I do indeed like more dialogue and heat to make the story a 5 star one for me.