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Dex Putnam and Grace Standish are
best friends. Dex has been in love with Grace forever, but Grace is straight.
However, Grace likes to have Dex jumping to her bidding and Dex has been in
that zone for too long to change it even after Grace gets married to Brent.
Emma Lawson is Grace’s husband’s best friend. Burnt in love once, she has been
single for almost a year.
After her marriage, Grace sets
about trying to get Dex hooked up. Her attempts fail and that is when Brent
suggests introducing Dex and Emma. His matchmaking skills are better than
Grace’s and there is immediate attraction between Dex and Emma. However, Grace
is unwilling to be less than the most important person to Dex and pretty much
gets in the way of the new relationship in every way possible.
Blake writes an engaging book
around these and certain tertiary characters. Interestingly, though she does
try to paint Grace fairly black, the spoilt, manipulative Grace is still fairly
likeable. Dex’s dithering over getting Grace completely out of her life is
annoying, frustrating, but maybe understandable on some level. Emma is
sweet…too sweet, in fact. Her niceness to Dex is the single most
annoying thing in the book. She deserved much better and certainly shouldn’t
have been the one making all the effort in the relationship. There are some
rather simplistic solutions to the issues between Dex and Emma and Dex never
really makes an effort in the relationship.
With the title, we expected Dex and
Grace to end up together, but that would have been colossally unjust to a woman
as sweet as Emma.
This is a nice, easy fun read
without too much angst. There is not much emotional churning and fairly good
sex. Go for it for a little drop of happiness on a lazy Sunday.
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