But it just lacked that spark of excitement, that feeling of chemistry. Comforting her seemed like hard work to him – not exactly a sign of true love! This is a very well written book, as I would expect from this writer, and the narration was great. Whereas he more or less disliked the h for most of the book, was uncomfortable spending time with her family and felt “awkward” when trying to console her when she was upset. The H admitted he wanted to sleep with her the first time they met, was thinking marriage and kids three days later, and was devastated when she left. Then there was the ex-wife, conveniently dismissed at the end, but to me that seemed the stronger romance. I can live with a decent prologue but here we have so many flashbacks it felt like the first half of the book was more flashback than current day. We also had two teenagers constantly exposed to their parent’s attempts to spice up their sex life – that just made me cringe. Their behaviour at a party the h arranged for them was supposed to be funny but I thought they were ungrateful, rude and selfish. The two grandparents sounded bitter and unhappy as they constantly bickered. The H constantly obsessed about h’s “rack”, but then noted his ex-wife’s bottom was just as great. Frequent attempts at humour fell a bit flat for me. But it was less a romance and more a “slice of life” story, and the romance ended up feeling like a convenient hook-up between two single people rather than anything particularly special.
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