Review: Looking for the Perfect Lover (House Husbands Need Not Apply)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 31, 2014
Ella Grace Emerson’s father is fed up.  Ella works too hard, never travels, and nowhere near close to giving him grandkids.  So he decides to take an ad out on Ella’s behalf:  for a house husband.  Furious at his interference, Ella responds with an ad of her own:  for the perfect lover.When Cameron Sawyer first sees Ella walk into Grey’s Saloon he definitely likes what he sees.  When he discovers that she is the subject of the ad that is making waves in town, and that she has just posted another, he sees nothing but warning signs.Can the two of them work around Sawyer’s nomadic lifestyle and shady past, as well as Ella’s tendency to shy away from relationships?I think many people would want to stand up and cheer for Ella’s response to her father, but I cheered for her father.  He totally knew what he was doing.  Samuel T provides a definite comedic element that is needed to lighten the heavier topics.I enjoyed the family-centric theme to this story more than anything else.  Between Ella’s love for her father despite her frustrations with him, both Ella and her father still mourning the loss of her mother, and Sawyer’s apparent feelings of betrayal toward his own family, the family-induced emotions run the gamut here.I was not a big fan of Ella’s friend Jo, so I hope she becomes more likeable (less annoying) in future books.  However, I am looking forward to both Mardie’s and Reese’s respective stories.Overall this story was a great read.  Very quick, to the point where I think it could have been longer, but still very well told.