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Seeking #3
The Nerd and the Marine
What does a to-the-core, orphaned Marine have in common with an introverted electronics expert with too much family? A dog named Bentley. Her sister talks Lainy Morrison, self-proclaimed nerd, into caring for Captain Mitch Monahan's dog while he's deployed. The pair get to know one another through e-mails, family DVDs, and pictures. Can love overcome old fears and sustain a relationship formed an ocean apart?
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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August 13, 2016
This was a cute read. I felt that how military was explained was a little OTT.. IE everyone that goes into it is amazing, good people that want to do right by the world etc etc. While I agree we should be grateful for our fellow Americans that choose to serve.. Preaching about it to me in a book is not needed and negates what is trying to be said due to annoyance after awhile.. at least more than once or twice is just way to much.
Otherwise I enjoyed it because the book was mostly around emails back and forth...
Otherwise I enjoyed it because the book was mostly around emails back and forth...
February 27, 2024
Loved it!!!
October 29, 2013
Cute story idea with lots of promise but way to squeaky clean for me. Half of the time I felt like I was reading about a relationship between 14 year olds. The other half, a relationship between 70 year olds. (What 30 year olds need a group of chaperons?)
I am the wife of someone in the military...maybe because his military career is a job to us and not a lifestyle, it was impossible to not roll my eyes when talking about his life as a marine. Also, when a group of men get together in the desert, it's very, very unlikely that they would bond over home videos of 30year old women preventing their family members from the risqué act of kissing...
I really wish the story would have been more age appropriate for the characters.
I am the wife of someone in the military...maybe because his military career is a job to us and not a lifestyle, it was impossible to not roll my eyes when talking about his life as a marine. Also, when a group of men get together in the desert, it's very, very unlikely that they would bond over home videos of 30year old women preventing their family members from the risqué act of kissing...
I really wish the story would have been more age appropriate for the characters.
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September 10, 2016The beginning of this book was super cute. The first third put a big cheesy smile on my face. It was headed into possible 5 start territory. Then the story ran into pacing issues and stalled out a little. The story has a big cast of characters and I'm guessing is part of a large companion series. Maybe if I'd read all of them I'd have been more engaged with the details about all of them and their day to day activities. However, since this was my first book there was just too much about too many other family members and it felt a little overwhelming as well as bogging down the plot.
Meanwhile, the romance pairing began to devolve into updates about day to day activities. Some of that would have been okay since they were writing via emails after all but it was too much. I think a good editor could have shaved down this book nicely and retained the super cute fun factor while keeping the pace at a better clip. There was an attempt to add some random suspense in a side plot. However, it felt kind of thrown in rather than well integrated as if a beta reader advised there was a pacing issue and this was the attempt to help with some suspense. It ended up feeling tacked on and pointless and I never actually felt suspense from it.
Now, don't get the wrong impression that I didn't enjoy this book. I did. A fellow Goodreads friend Erika promised a super cute, sweet read with a wonderful caring (probably) virgin hero and this was just that. The first third of the book flew by the whole time with me wearing a goofy grin. I did skim the last two thirds a bit (some parts more than others) but it ended on a good note. If you are looking for a light, cute, mostly angst free book then you might consider this one. Just be aware that most of the romance is long distance through letters and that there are a lot of pages describing day to day activities and ruminating thoughts.
Meanwhile, the romance pairing began to devolve into updates about day to day activities. Some of that would have been okay since they were writing via emails after all but it was too much. I think a good editor could have shaved down this book nicely and retained the super cute fun factor while keeping the pace at a better clip. There was an attempt to add some random suspense in a side plot. However, it felt kind of thrown in rather than well integrated as if a beta reader advised there was a pacing issue and this was the attempt to help with some suspense. It ended up feeling tacked on and pointless and I never actually felt suspense from it.
Now, don't get the wrong impression that I didn't enjoy this book. I did. A fellow Goodreads friend Erika promised a super cute, sweet read with a wonderful caring (probably) virgin hero and this was just that. The first third of the book flew by the whole time with me wearing a goofy grin. I did skim the last two thirds a bit (some parts more than others) but it ended on a good note. If you are looking for a light, cute, mostly angst free book then you might consider this one. Just be aware that most of the romance is long distance through letters and that there are a lot of pages describing day to day activities and ruminating thoughts.
April 9, 2020
Marine Mitch Monahan has no one to take care of his dog while he's deployed overseas for a year, so he tearfully takes Bentley to the shelter to find a new home. Luckily, the woman at the shelter has sympathy for his plight, and convinces her sister (nerdy genius engineer Lainy Morrison) to not only watch the dog while Mitch is deployed, but send him letters about how Bentley's doing. Since this is a romance novel, Mitch and Lainy naturally fall in love while writing each other letters.
I'm a sucker for military romances and romances with pet dogs, so this should have been perfect for me. And parts of it are great. The letter-writing relationship between Mitch and Lainy is wonderful, and her family's enthusiastic support for the military (they all end up baking cookies and sending care packages) is heartwarming.
However, there is a lot of extraneous stuff in this book. A lot. Lainy has a huge family, and we're kind of vaguely introduced to a few of them, but not in any real meaningful way. Mostly all you learn is that she has a lot of brothers and sisters with great relationships and a million kids and their success in relationships and parenting leaves her wondering what she's doing wrong. Most of that could have been eliminated. It was unnecessary and at times, confusing. I assume that since this is Morrison Family #1 it's trying to set up sequels, but isn't doing it well. The book seriously sags in the middle, and then speeds through Lainy and Mitch's first in-person meeting and the start of their in-person relationship (to go right to a marriage proposal). Why was their a subplot about people trying to steal her patents? It was poorly developed and confusing. This book would have been a lot better if it had been around 250-275 pages and solely concentrated on Lainy and Match, because then it would have better pacing and a streamlined story.
I'm a sucker for military romances and romances with pet dogs, so this should have been perfect for me. And parts of it are great. The letter-writing relationship between Mitch and Lainy is wonderful, and her family's enthusiastic support for the military (they all end up baking cookies and sending care packages) is heartwarming.
However, there is a lot of extraneous stuff in this book. A lot. Lainy has a huge family, and we're kind of vaguely introduced to a few of them, but not in any real meaningful way. Mostly all you learn is that she has a lot of brothers and sisters with great relationships and a million kids and their success in relationships and parenting leaves her wondering what she's doing wrong. Most of that could have been eliminated. It was unnecessary and at times, confusing. I assume that since this is Morrison Family #1 it's trying to set up sequels, but isn't doing it well. The book seriously sags in the middle, and then speeds through Lainy and Mitch's first in-person meeting and the start of their in-person relationship (to go right to a marriage proposal). Why was their a subplot about people trying to steal her patents? It was poorly developed and confusing. This book would have been a lot better if it had been around 250-275 pages and solely concentrated on Lainy and Match, because then it would have better pacing and a streamlined story.
September 2, 2014
Ok, this is one of those books.
You know the one I'm talking about. Looks good, sounds sweet, has a cute cover, but you get it as a gift from a friend and thanks her while putting it on your library and on your almost - close - to - infinite - but- somehow- yet- lacking- to - be -read list. And you put it off. Again and again. Because there are so much more interesting looking and sounding books, right? And you've got so little time, so much stuff going on. You'll get around it sometime, you tell yourself.
OMG. Let me tell you, I got around to it.
Best. Book. Ever.
It isn't the plot. The plot is actually something rather common, something it totally could happen. I think the cool thing about this book, what makes it so fantastic is, besides D.R.Grady's amazing writing skills obviously, it's characters. I identified with them and felt welcomed by the big and lovely Morrison family (and Bentley. OMG, Bentley. I always wanted a dog. Better yet - a Bentley. Even my fantasy dog - who I am going to get someday, I tell myself - was in this book. Down to the breed. OMG. This book was written to me. It HAS to have been.
As I said, there's nothing particularly outstanding about this book, outside that, as readers, we've all got those sweet spots - or how I call my favourite clichés. - if we get a writer who can write, well, those spots, the books raises to bronze. Then silver.
But this is the first time in a long while - as in, since 2010 and we're 2014 as I'm writing this - that a book managed to hit ALL my sweet spots - so I think you can imagine how big I'm smiling right now. I've got this silly big grin that got me into reading this same book twice in a row - as in, I finished and went right back into the beggining again. I don't think this has EVER happened to me.
Is this book for you? Well, truly, I don't know. If you enjoy steamy sexy scenes, it probably isn't (since there aren't one of those). But if you enjoy a good, cute, clichéd(but in a really good way) and sweet romance, with a funny dog, a funny herd of kids, a cool heroine, a cute hero, this may be the book for you. Either way, I hope you guys have half the fun I had while reading this.
Thank you D. R. Grady for writing this.
You know the one I'm talking about. Looks good, sounds sweet, has a cute cover, but you get it as a gift from a friend and thanks her while putting it on your library and on your almost - close - to - infinite - but- somehow- yet- lacking- to - be -read list. And you put it off. Again and again. Because there are so much more interesting looking and sounding books, right? And you've got so little time, so much stuff going on. You'll get around it sometime, you tell yourself.
OMG. Let me tell you, I got around to it.
Best. Book. Ever.
It isn't the plot. The plot is actually something rather common, something it totally could happen. I think the cool thing about this book, what makes it so fantastic is, besides D.R.Grady's amazing writing skills obviously, it's characters. I identified with them and felt welcomed by the big and lovely Morrison family (and Bentley. OMG, Bentley. I always wanted a dog. Better yet - a Bentley. Even my fantasy dog - who I am going to get someday, I tell myself - was in this book. Down to the breed. OMG. This book was written to me. It HAS to have been.
As I said, there's nothing particularly outstanding about this book, outside that, as readers, we've all got those sweet spots - or how I call my favourite clichés. - if we get a writer who can write, well, those spots, the books raises to bronze. Then silver.
But this is the first time in a long while - as in, since 2010 and we're 2014 as I'm writing this - that a book managed to hit ALL my sweet spots - so I think you can imagine how big I'm smiling right now. I've got this silly big grin that got me into reading this same book twice in a row - as in, I finished and went right back into the beggining again. I don't think this has EVER happened to me.
Is this book for you? Well, truly, I don't know. If you enjoy steamy sexy scenes, it probably isn't (since there aren't one of those). But if you enjoy a good, cute, clichéd(but in a really good way) and sweet romance, with a funny dog, a funny herd of kids, a cool heroine, a cute hero, this may be the book for you. Either way, I hope you guys have half the fun I had while reading this.
Thank you D. R. Grady for writing this.
November 26, 2015
This book is lovely and warm. It is feels like an early book for a writing beginning to get her fully voice and craft. It is longer than it needs to be, has a side plot that could not have existed and been replaced with more emotional depth. or been intensified to create rounder characters. It has great character development but the physicality of the characters seems off.
The writer writes the book in a combination of emails, videos, and live action. The balance could be better between these elements and there might be some kindle conversation issues.
All that being said... It is great start and worth the price to check it out. Its innovative and tender. The dog is great and as is the family and the h and the heroine. Check it out!
The writer writes the book in a combination of emails, videos, and live action. The balance could be better between these elements and there might be some kindle conversation issues.
All that being said... It is great start and worth the price to check it out. Its innovative and tender. The dog is great and as is the family and the h and the heroine. Check it out!
May 25, 2014
Usually I don't go for books that are sweet. This is sickeningly sweet!! But I loved it. The characters got to know each other through a series of letters and photos. As a pet owner I think the hardest thing to do would be to drop your dog off at a shelter. That's how the two meet. Through the dog!! This book was only .99 cent so it was worth the price. The authors book get progressively higher with each installment into this family. I think I will eventually buy them as well.
July 27, 2017
Another solider to civilian letter correspondence story, but this one was unlike the others in so many ways. This story was a seriously slow romance wise, there was absolutely zero sex or sexual talk in any way. There wasn't insta anything, they silently acknowledged their attraction to each other but there wasn't any exaggerated lust when seeing a photo of the other for the first time.
The hero was sweet and sensible, he felt very grown up and masculine. Compared to a lot of heroes I read, he was very subdued.
The heroine was extremely intelligent, independent and at times a little witty. She had a lot of insecurities due to past relationships, I found her deep insecurities a little.. off with how they came about, I was expecting something more than just the two incidents that happened to be the cause of such deep rooted issues, with that said maybe it was a play on her high IQ resulting in lower social understanding?? Idk.
The gigantic family and Al were a hoot and fun to read about, although I did find it hard to keep track of who's who. They were a good addition to a fictional story, keeping things entertaining when otherwise the story would have just been messages from the hero to the heroine.
It was completely clean and safe, the clean part was a first for me, I've seen more action in a YA book, but I don't think it negatively affected the story, it was just different for me. I would recommend to someone who was looking for a slow moving type of book, something that maybe you could read whilst reading other stories too if that's your thing. I read all at once and I didn't skim once which I thought was quite impressive because I do get bored easily.
The cover needs to be changed! (Laughs) it's the only reason I've passed this book and not even stopped to read the blurb, although one of the main characters is a dog, it's not even the right breed and makes it appear as more of a dog instruction manual than a sweet modern romance story!
Last of all, I did spot a couple of small mistakes, wrong words, spelling etc. Not bad enough to take away from the story but just things that would improve the quality if corrected.
The hero was sweet and sensible, he felt very grown up and masculine. Compared to a lot of heroes I read, he was very subdued.
The heroine was extremely intelligent, independent and at times a little witty. She had a lot of insecurities due to past relationships, I found her deep insecurities a little.. off with how they came about, I was expecting something more than just the two incidents that happened to be the cause of such deep rooted issues, with that said maybe it was a play on her high IQ resulting in lower social understanding?? Idk.
The gigantic family and Al were a hoot and fun to read about, although I did find it hard to keep track of who's who. They were a good addition to a fictional story, keeping things entertaining when otherwise the story would have just been messages from the hero to the heroine.
It was completely clean and safe, the clean part was a first for me, I've seen more action in a YA book, but I don't think it negatively affected the story, it was just different for me. I would recommend to someone who was looking for a slow moving type of book, something that maybe you could read whilst reading other stories too if that's your thing. I read all at once and I didn't skim once which I thought was quite impressive because I do get bored easily.
The cover needs to be changed! (Laughs) it's the only reason I've passed this book and not even stopped to read the blurb, although one of the main characters is a dog, it's not even the right breed and makes it appear as more of a dog instruction manual than a sweet modern romance story!
Last of all, I did spot a couple of small mistakes, wrong words, spelling etc. Not bad enough to take away from the story but just things that would improve the quality if corrected.
February 3, 2019
I stumbled across this book accidentally and oh my god I'm so glad I did. I've not read a book quite like this one. Mitch is overseas and has left his dog at a shelter. The volunteer calls her sister and asks her to take the dog and email the marine. And there starts a beautiful relationship. I laughed and cried through this story. My heart ached for both Lainy and Mitch. I rooted for them. I felt like I was part of the Morrison family and it made me homesick for my family who live in a different country to me. I could relate to both Lainy and Mitch on so many levels and I cannot wait to bury myself in the rest of the series!
March 30, 2022
DNF 54% I'm bored. The hero is so blah and wishy washy he has no personality. The living and working in war zone feels completely glossed over. Nothing about his troop really apart from the rare pop in from his friend. Too much focus on the family outings I mean get that would interest the mmc but I want to read about the romance, see the connection building between them. Maybe I'm in a bad mood but just not feeling this one.
July 3, 2017
So sweet. a bit too clean for me (i mainly read paranormal erotica heh). def deserving of 5 stars
February 5, 2020
Long sweet book about lonely marine Mitch and Lainy, a brilliant inventor, with a big family who “adopts” Mitch after Lainy adopts Mitch’s dog Bentley.
July 1, 2015
I gave this book a four, because it made me laugh out loud, and I'll probably read it again. It's definitely worth picking up.
HOWEVER, I really should've rated it more like three stars, because... it has some issues. First is the abrupt ending. For another thing, there were too many things that were 'easy'... for example, he sends her a picture of his company, asks her to circle which one he is, and she gets it RIGHT without ever having seen him before. Um.... not thinking so.
I also have issues with Marines ALL being honorable, polite, generous, wonderful people. It's a personal problem, I know, but every Marine I've ever met was foul-mouthed, rude, pushy, belligerent, and had an entitlement thing going on... because they're MARINES. It's hard to believe they're all so dear and kind.
The nerd? Wasn't a nerd. She was so hot, his whole company was drooling over her. Her nephew's college friends were all drooling over her. It's like the author was afraid to let her be a REAL nerd. We're not hot. We don't run miles when we get up in the morning in the sports bra we wore to bed the night before. It was... hard to believe. And as a nerd with relationship issues, I can tell you... I wouldn't hurry up and wrap my arms around a stranger I've never met. I'd be all shades of nervous and stand-offish, even if behind a screen he was my BFF. Sorry.
I also don't understand how the family could be THAT close. Walking into each others houses, TWENTY kids jumping on her bed to wake her up, in spite of a security system she sets every night? And every single one of them is a saint - baking for the poor, volunteering in shelters, buying toiletries for soldiers, taking in military pets while owners are deployed? We should canonize the Morrison clan. I... had some issues with the characterizations.
There's also a secondary storyline of burglary and theft that... never goes anywhere. It's not someone we know (they're all saints) and it's resolved too easily - or so we're told. The author doesn't actually write the climax to that storyline, she just summarizes it. Which... wasn't right.
But as for the main story? I loved it. LOVED it... just the same. For this book? I can overlook about anything. Because I'm very much about correspondence novels, and this one was *STELLAR*. It was really, really good.
HOWEVER, I really should've rated it more like three stars, because... it has some issues. First is the abrupt ending. For another thing, there were too many things that were 'easy'... for example, he sends her a picture of his company, asks her to circle which one he is, and she gets it RIGHT without ever having seen him before. Um.... not thinking so.
I also have issues with Marines ALL being honorable, polite, generous, wonderful people. It's a personal problem, I know, but every Marine I've ever met was foul-mouthed, rude, pushy, belligerent, and had an entitlement thing going on... because they're MARINES. It's hard to believe they're all so dear and kind.
The nerd? Wasn't a nerd. She was so hot, his whole company was drooling over her. Her nephew's college friends were all drooling over her. It's like the author was afraid to let her be a REAL nerd. We're not hot. We don't run miles when we get up in the morning in the sports bra we wore to bed the night before. It was... hard to believe. And as a nerd with relationship issues, I can tell you... I wouldn't hurry up and wrap my arms around a stranger I've never met. I'd be all shades of nervous and stand-offish, even if behind a screen he was my BFF. Sorry.
I also don't understand how the family could be THAT close. Walking into each others houses, TWENTY kids jumping on her bed to wake her up, in spite of a security system she sets every night? And every single one of them is a saint - baking for the poor, volunteering in shelters, buying toiletries for soldiers, taking in military pets while owners are deployed? We should canonize the Morrison clan. I... had some issues with the characterizations.
There's also a secondary storyline of burglary and theft that... never goes anywhere. It's not someone we know (they're all saints) and it's resolved too easily - or so we're told. The author doesn't actually write the climax to that storyline, she just summarizes it. Which... wasn't right.
But as for the main story? I loved it. LOVED it... just the same. For this book? I can overlook about anything. Because I'm very much about correspondence novels, and this one was *STELLAR*. It was really, really good.
July 3, 2019
Cute, sweet, and easy to read. You will find yourself cheering for the nerd in one chapter and then for the marine in the next.
December 29, 2014
synopsis:
mitch has been sent on deployment to iraq and has to leave his dog behind. the woman at the shelter that he leaves him with talks her sister into taking the dog, and lainy starts communicating back and forth with mitch, talking about bentley to start with. lainy has a large, troublesome family whom she loves dearly and as she and mitch get to know one another better, they all get in the action with sending mitch things, such as cookies, video games, dvds of lainy. as mitch slowly falls in love with lainy through her letters, emails and her family, he hopes that she is doing the same with him.
what i liked: that they actually communicated. i also liked that lainy sent mitch a computer that she designed for him. i liked the relationship with the dog, and that her family completely accepted mitch as part of the crowd. i liked that, although lainy was always thought to be the quiet one, she was usually the one stirring up trouble and letting her siblings or cousins get blamed for it.
what i didn't like: the attack on lainy just felt like it didn't need to be there; there was really no point in it.
mitch has been sent on deployment to iraq and has to leave his dog behind. the woman at the shelter that he leaves him with talks her sister into taking the dog, and lainy starts communicating back and forth with mitch, talking about bentley to start with. lainy has a large, troublesome family whom she loves dearly and as she and mitch get to know one another better, they all get in the action with sending mitch things, such as cookies, video games, dvds of lainy. as mitch slowly falls in love with lainy through her letters, emails and her family, he hopes that she is doing the same with him.
what i liked: that they actually communicated. i also liked that lainy sent mitch a computer that she designed for him. i liked the relationship with the dog, and that her family completely accepted mitch as part of the crowd. i liked that, although lainy was always thought to be the quiet one, she was usually the one stirring up trouble and letting her siblings or cousins get blamed for it.
what i didn't like: the attack on lainy just felt like it didn't need to be there; there was really no point in it.
April 22, 2016
Cute and sweet
This was a really cute romance book, very clean (too clean for me I'm afraid). Sometimes I forgot how old the main characters were as they acted very young for their supposed age. This book felt almost like a YA book.
Lainy was this nerd but hot girl, sorry woman, who isn't really aware she is hot. I didn't buy her character completely, she was too clueless to be real. Furthermore, she had two relationships that went bad both of which were in her early years and because of those she closed off. I get it, you don't want to get hurt but she was in her thirties! You mean to tell me since her teens and young adult years she has not been in a relationship because of those two relationship? Not buying it.
On the other hand, I really loved how both characters got to know each other through emails. It was interesting as I had never read a book in this format. The talk about Mitch's life as a Marine in the monologues got a bit repetitive and you couldn't help but roll your eyes after a while.
This is a very cute book and I would recommend it as a clean summer beach read.
This was a really cute romance book, very clean (too clean for me I'm afraid). Sometimes I forgot how old the main characters were as they acted very young for their supposed age. This book felt almost like a YA book.
Lainy was this nerd but hot girl, sorry woman, who isn't really aware she is hot. I didn't buy her character completely, she was too clueless to be real. Furthermore, she had two relationships that went bad both of which were in her early years and because of those she closed off. I get it, you don't want to get hurt but she was in her thirties! You mean to tell me since her teens and young adult years she has not been in a relationship because of those two relationship? Not buying it.
On the other hand, I really loved how both characters got to know each other through emails. It was interesting as I had never read a book in this format. The talk about Mitch's life as a Marine in the monologues got a bit repetitive and you couldn't help but roll your eyes after a while.
This is a very cute book and I would recommend it as a clean summer beach read.
April 1, 2020
Ari is a rare female Aasguard warrior who has live to an age that she's lost her dragon. She's thinking of her brothers who just recently married which is unusual with dragons. She's rethinking her life. She meets Kellen another dragon who also succumbed to old age and is struggling just like Ari. Ari and Kellen were great characters and both are struggling with their emotions and as they get together they unleash a great evil that they will need to battle before it ends their union together and the Aasguard warriors unions. Read this story to find out what happens and will they really get their HEA> I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.
May 15, 2013
I really enjoyed the premise of this story, a nerd falls for a marine through long distance emails. The addition of the large close knit family was entertaining, but this really should have been a novella at most. There is a lot of redundancy and as much as I wanted to finish it and find out how things resolved with the hero and heroine I would get frustrated after three minutes because I had read so many emails and references to cookies!
June 21, 2014
This has to be one of the sweetest stories I have ever read! Don't panic, by sweet, I don't mean boring and sugary-gaggingly yucky. I was drawn in from the first page and only stopped reading to sleep when I couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. Mitch and Lainy belong together, out at the lake, with a carton of root beer and Bentleyby their side. I enjoyed when they became 'your's' just as the emails had proclaimed.
March 27, 2020
Book three in The Seeking Series a well written short story that kept me turning pages. This is a new Author to me. I found I could enjoy this book without having read the other two books in this series. I want to read the next book. There is suspense, drama, danger, portals, twists, turns, and romance between Ari and Kellen. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
October 21, 2012
I absolutely loved this book. I loved the characters and how smart Laney is. Mitch was awesome too. I have to admit coming from a big family that I'm glad Mitch was adopted. After reading this book I have to read the #2 book :) and bake some cookies lol. you'll understand once you read this book why i reference eating sugar cookies.
November 29, 2022
Loved it! Liked that they grew to know and love each other through emails, photos and video's. Lainey was an awesome character as well as mitch (I want a mitch:) ). really liked it and it made me read all the rest so far:) Even though i usually like a little nookie with my romance it was still a really good read even though it was PG!
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March 6, 2015
This story has a great premise but I am sorry to say that the relationship between the main characters seemed very adolescent. Some of the things the main male character would think and write were just way too unbelievable. The male perspective was not represented well in my opinion. The story was sweet but a bit too cheesy for me.
April 23, 2014
totally adored this book, it didn't rely in sex to sell the romance. it was beautiful how two people got to know each other through emails and came to care and then love each other a throughly good read.
June 27, 2017
I LOVED this book. This is exactly what I wanted to read.
You know what? It was clean. There was no foul language. There was no smexy times, but the UST was definitely there.
That flirty feeling of falling in love. It has that and more.
4.5 stars from me.
You know what? It was clean. There was no foul language. There was no smexy times, but the UST was definitely there.
That flirty feeling of falling in love. It has that and more.
4.5 stars from me.
June 27, 2012
Absolutely loves this book! It was so sweet. I loves how the two main characters fell slowly in love. It really touched me. Highly recommend this one!
October 15, 2013
A very unique book. I really wish they had shared more of their time in person but honestly the foreshadowed them getting married asap from the beginning.
June 27, 2014
I LOVE this book! I have read it several times and will read it many more. Definitely in my top 20 !
November 15, 2014
If your looking for a nice, clean, sweet read, this is the book for you.
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