| Title: | Sweets to the Sweet | |
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| Author: | Jennifer Greene | |
| Publication Date: | May 2011 | |
| Publisher's Description | When single mom Laura Anderson rear-ends a vintage Austin-Healey while taking her baby to the doctor, the last thing she expects is to find her Prince Charming behind the wheel. There's nothing quite as sexy to a new mother as a man who has a way with babies and comes bearing gifts of gourmet chocolate! Especially when his kisses inspire feelings she thought were lost forever... Chocolate baron Owen Reesling knows he should stay away from Laura, a woman still obviously wounded by the breakup of her marriage. But he can't help but fall for the beauty-and her baby. He won't push her into a relationship, but he's determined to do whatever it takes to break down the wall she's built around her heart and convince her to take another chance on love. |
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| My rating: | ** | |
This book was far too fairytale-like to be realistic. First, rich, handsome youngish guys don’t just ride around in their soon-to-be-damaged luxury cars looking for distracted single mothers to rescue. They just don’t. Next, babies as young as Mari just don’t do the kinds of things she was supposed to do in this book. My new hypothesis is that Mari is a talented misfit (in the vein of those in Isobelle Carmody’s Obernewtyn series), and her ability is to coerce those around her. She wanted a dad, and presto, there was Owen, completely unaware of the fact that a 12 pound lump had taken away his free will. Otherwise, going on information that was explicitly provided, this book didn’t make any sense at all.
The only element of this book that rang true for me was Peter and Laura’s relationship. It made sense to me that there wasn’t any sort of neat explanation for everything that happened between them, and that full closure wasn’t going to happen.
I generally like Jennifer Greene’s books, but this story didn’t work for me at all.
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