It's never too late
Mike Dalton has secretly loved LilyAnn Bronte since they were all children together in the small town of Blessings, Georgia. But one fateful day T.J. Lachlan roars into town and starts showering LilyAnn with his charm, and Mike feels his dream of them being more than friends slipping away.
To find the love you missed
LilyAnn, as anyone in Blessings will tell you, let herself go after her fiancee was killed in Iraq. The attention of the handsome new guy shocks her into a revelation: she's ready to live again, and maybe the best is yet to come. The thing is, everybody in Blessings is sure it's Mike and LilyAnn who belong together-and they're willing to do whatever it takes to make LilyAnn realize the love of her life has been by her side all along.
(Originally published as The Curl Up and Dye.)
MY REVIEW:
When we’re young and fall in love there
are so many things that can make every moment and event surrounding it earth
shattering. Which is the case for
LilyAnn Bronte. You see she was the girl
that won everything like contest and pageants.
Was the head cheerleader and homecoming queen. You get the point so when she wasn’t it was
odd. Well, when she fell for the
football star Randy Joe who was bragging to all the guys that he was going to
get to first base with her it was killing her best friend Mike Dalton. You see Mike had a crush on Lily since junior
high school. They had lived next door to
each other since before they were born.
Randy Joe did date Lily for a year but he
did brag about everything they did. So,
when 911 hit in New York like a lot of men he enlisted. Lily cried her eyes out. Then, since he was going off to war he got
her to sleep with him finally before he left saying who knew what could
happen. And well it did. Randy Joe came home a fallen soldier. Lily quit college and wore black and visited
the grave every day for a full year.
Everyone said oh she is just the sweet
girl that was left behind and she is grieving but each year it became less and
less that she would visit. But her grief
and depression never lessened and people just started feeling sorry for her
just because she couldn’t shake it and she let herself go. She had gained weight and was dressing not so
good. Mike tried everything as her
friend to snap her out of it. But she
never saw him and he was right in front of her. She didn’t even she how beautiful she herself
was. When he would tell her she would
think he was lying to her. She would refer
to her weight and he didn’t see it even being the owner of a fitness
center. He was in love with her not her
shell. They did everything together. He was to insecure to tell her how he felt so
he just kept it how it was, friends.
Then one day a hot rod truck rolls into
town just like the one that Randy Joe used to have and a spark of memory takes
form. Remembering what lust felt like
then she knew it was time for a change.
But how? Where would she go from
there? She wanted to start dating
again. But Mike saw it differently he
saw it as her want another man…
Totally enjoyed this emotional at times
story that makes your eyes water. There
are some very tense moments with domestic violence/rape scenes so prepare
yourself. But the way the author handled
it and the outcome was very well handled and she not only used your emotions
but humor to get you through. The
characters as a whole are funny as hell being Southern. I just loved it. 5++++ stars.
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