UndoneShannon Richard
Series: Country Roads #1
ISBN-13: 978-1-4555-4723-4
Publisher: Forever Yours
Release Date: July 2 2013
Genre/s: Contemporary Romance, Chick-Lit
Format: E-book; 368 pages
Source: NetGalley - in exchange for an honest review
My Rating: 4.5/5
Things Paige Morrison will never understand about Mirabelle, Florida:
Why wearing red shoes makes a girl a harlot
Why a shop would ever sell something called "buck urine"
Why everywhere she goes, she runs into sexy and infuriating-Brendan King
After losing her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend, Paige has no choice but to leave Philadelphia and move in with her retired parents. For an artsy outsider like Paige, finding her place in a tightly knit town isn't easy - until she meets Brendan, the hot mechanic who's interested in much more than Paige's car. In no time at all, Brendan helps Paige find a new job, new friends and a happiness she wasn't sure she'd ever feel again. With Brendan by her side, Paige finally feels like she can call Mirabelle home. But when a new bombshell drops, will the couple survive or will their love come undone?
Why wearing red shoes makes a girl a harlot
Why a shop would ever sell something called "buck urine"
Why everywhere she goes, she runs into sexy and infuriating-Brendan King
After losing her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend, Paige has no choice but to leave Philadelphia and move in with her retired parents. For an artsy outsider like Paige, finding her place in a tightly knit town isn't easy - until she meets Brendan, the hot mechanic who's interested in much more than Paige's car. In no time at all, Brendan helps Paige find a new job, new friends and a happiness she wasn't sure she'd ever feel again. With Brendan by her side, Paige finally feels like she can call Mirabelle home. But when a new bombshell drops, will the couple survive or will their love come undone?
Review
What a lovely feel-good novel this was. I don't exactly know where to begin with my thoughts. The whole novel was like a movie playing in my head, for one because you can picture yourself in the setting of Mirabelle and place yourself in Paige's shoes as being an outsider in a small town. The novel was humorous in spots, so much so that I was told to stop "cackling" roughly around midnight. But it was also sad in other. It was a tear jerker both happy and sad tears.
The main characters were your typical - girl meets boy, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back and they live happily ever after - couple. This most of the time isn't a bad thing and wasn't in this case. Paige and Brendan had their share of flaws and skeletons in their closets and were easily relate-able as I mentioned above. I could place myself in Paige's shoes.
In the beginning I would never have guessed that Brendan would have gotten her a job where he did, that had been a twist I wasn't expecting at all. It did end up working out for her in the end and she actually enjoyed working with what she did. I also didn't expect her father to end up the way he did. That plot twist was blinding, mostly because of how the author introduced it into the plot, it was subtle and out of the blue - like all of the sudden he wasn't feeling well and had pain and the only one who noticed was Brendan. I don't know about cancer from personal experience and each instance could be different but when a family member of mine had cancer you could tell there was something wrong, it slowly got more noticeable. They should of been able to notice but in the defense of Paige and her mum, they probably didn't know the signs that started to show he was sick.
All in all it was a very good read and I'm excited to read all about Jax and Grace's relationship...hopefully in the second book.
The main characters were your typical - girl meets boy, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back and they live happily ever after - couple. This most of the time isn't a bad thing and wasn't in this case. Paige and Brendan had their share of flaws and skeletons in their closets and were easily relate-able as I mentioned above. I could place myself in Paige's shoes.
In the beginning I would never have guessed that Brendan would have gotten her a job where he did, that had been a twist I wasn't expecting at all. It did end up working out for her in the end and she actually enjoyed working with what she did. I also didn't expect her father to end up the way he did. That plot twist was blinding, mostly because of how the author introduced it into the plot, it was subtle and out of the blue - like all of the sudden he wasn't feeling well and had pain and the only one who noticed was Brendan. I don't know about cancer from personal experience and each instance could be different but when a family member of mine had cancer you could tell there was something wrong, it slowly got more noticeable. They should of been able to notice but in the defense of Paige and her mum, they probably didn't know the signs that started to show he was sick.
All in all it was a very good read and I'm excited to read all about Jax and Grace's relationship...hopefully in the second book.
Shannon Richard grew up in the Panhandle of Florida as the baby sister of two overly protective but loving brothers. She was raised by a more than somewhat eccentric mother, a self-proclaimed vocabularist who showed her how to get lost in a book, and a father who passed his love for coffee and really loud music. She graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor's in English Literature and still lives in Tallahasse, where she battles everyday life with writing, reading, and a rant every once in a while. Okay, so the rants might happen on a regular basis. She's still waiting for her Southern, scruffy Mr. Darcy, and in the meantime writes love stories to indulge her overactive imagination. oh, and she's a pretty big fan of the whimsy.
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