Silence is golden.
Honesty...not so much.
Gwen Palmer's saucy
mouth gets in the way of her heart's desire...again. Just when she is about to
trade her baker's hat for a nun's habit, she comes face to face with her idol,
Ethan Reynolds.
Ethan isn't immune to
Gwen's loose lips. Nor her quirkiness. And something about her smile tugs at
his heart. Will he look beyond her outrageous remarks and see the truth inside?
Or will Gwen lose her one chance at true love?
(Amazon product description)
Oh, I sooooo identify with this main character! I have a tendency to blurt out things that
sound fine in my head, but somehow the words completely change when they fall
out of my mouth. Gwen is a normal,
intelligent woman, but somehow, when she is in the presence of a single man her
brain malfunctions and her mouth operates like it has a mind of its own. In the scenes where Gwen and Ethan meet, her
humiliation just builds and builds with every word. It is
so funny!
While most men are turned off by Gwen’s running mouth and
biting honesty, Ethan finds it refreshing.
As a famous celebrity chef, Ethan is fed up with disingenuous people who
want to ride his coat tails. At least
with Gwen, he knows where he stands. The
romance that builds between the two felt realistic. It was quick, but no insta-love. The pacing was perfect for a novella length
story.
I really liked the elements of magic in this story. In a novella, it is hard to build an
elaborate paranormal world. The hints of
magic reminded me a little of an Alice Hoffman novel. Just perfect.
The writing quality in this book was strong. (There is nothing worse than downloading an e-book
that is riddled with errors.) Ms. Gray’s
use of dialog was brilliant, and the book was well edited. This was a fun, short read.
Overall, I give Sweet
Serendipity...
Plot - 5 bookmarks
Character development - 4 bookmarks (Probably would have
been 5 if it had been a full length novel and the characters had more time to
grow.)
Paranormal elements - 5 bookmarks
Dream cast (otherwise known as who I pictured while reading)
- Curtis Stone (Ethan - I know his coloring doesn’t match the character, but
when I think of hot celebrity chef, my mind goes straight to Curtis), Carey
Mulligan (Gwen), Carol Kane (Eliza)
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