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1 of 2 members found this review helpful“Gracie C. McKeever (c) February 2010
Gracie wrote this review Monday, February 15, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Simone Porter is a social worker employed as director at an inner city youth center. She's got a big compassionate heart which holds her in good stead when it comes to her kids, but not so much when it comes to her controlling domineering mother who goes so far as to prepare special "dietetic" meals for Simone when the family gets together for dinner. Humiliated, Simone puts up with her mother's treatement because she thinks her mother's right and that she's overweight. Despite it all, Simone retains her father's romantic nature and open heart and refuses to let her mother control that out of her.
Matt Turner is getting over a divorce with the woman he thought he would grow old with. He imagines himself still in love with Wendy, but Wendy has moved on to the man she was having the affair with on Matt.
Driving home one evening, Matt is in a near fatal accident that leaves him in a coma for four months. Simone was a witness to the accident and her call to 911 probably saves Matt's life. However, Simone doesn't stop there. She visits the hospital daily to talk and read to Matt, and grows close to his mother. His father is another story.
Matt and Simone become friends despite Matt's racist father's disapproval and Simone's mother who wants to fix her up with the "perfect" man for her, one who is successful and is going places, unlike Matt.
There were some awkward transitions between scenes and chapters that just seemed cut-off mid-thought. The constant head-hopping was disorienting and there were also some story-threads and character arcs that didn't seem to come to a natural and complete conclusion and left this reader hanging. The sizzling cover, too, was a little misleading as the story inside is not nearly as sexy or sizzling.
I did, however, care about the characters and admired their growth. Overall, this was an enjoyable but simple boy-meets-girl romance, nothing novel or complex. ”
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