She's my favorite teacher ever and she definitely likes you, I can tell. Everyone in town knows you're this brave firefighter. So why don't you be the hero of Miss Fraser's life? Maybe you could volunteer together at the Chestnut Grove Youth Center. Uncle Alex, I know you're pretty busy as guardian to my brother and me, but you need a girlfriend. So I came up with a plan. It's my secret, but I know it will be the best thing that ever happened to all of us!
This was a quick, sweet read. In most of the Tiny Blessings series, you have 'met' both main characters as minor characters in previous books in the series. While I do remember Dinah slightly from a previous novel, the character of Alex was brand-new to me. While I liked the book in general, I felt as if there was not enough character growth for my liking. And, for the record, it makes me cringe when an author shows 2 characters growing to love each other based on a friendship that blossoms into more (which is as it should be, in my opinion), only to 'ruin' it by having one character declare: I loved you from the moment I met you! While it does make for a grand, dramatic, romantic gesture, it's overly cheesey, and goes against the grain of what has already been shown about NOT loving someone from the first moment, and GROWING to love them over time. Not a deal breaker for me as far as books go, but it does make me roll my eyes a bit. 2.75 stars
i'd read one in this series before, w/out realizing it WAS a series. another lite easy read. don't know that i'd grab any others by this author, but, because i AM now a bit curious as to who's still around that's been trying to keep anyone from finding out who is, and is not, legally adopted correctly ... i just might go track down the rest of the series to see the outcome. it's kind of turned into a mysterious puzzle i want to solve!
The fourth book on A Tiny Blessings Tale series, stories on adoption. This book centers on an adult who just learned that he was adopted. The forgiveness and acceptance of his situation and the longing of his real mother to know him. A great read!