3.75 stars

The story was flowing smoothly. In fact, too smooth that my interesr start to waver about halfway through. They were just bickering and snapping (and kissing) without much progress. I thought that they will just end that. The H/h realized their love for each other and got their HEA.

The real conflict only began about 85% into the book and this is what saved the story. I think it would be much better is the conflict started earlier so the end won't be rushed in only a few explanations from the H. And I think he have to be taught a few lessons (or even better grovel for his negligence) before forgiveness was given.leigh-michaels light-reading older-contemporary5 s Claire220

Unresolved issues stemming from a one-night stand when they were in college. She was the nerdy math, frumpy freshman and he was the popular senior she was tutoring. They meet again 6 six years later. He’s now a successful business owner of an LLBean/Eddie Bauer chain of stores and she’s finishing up with her college degree.

As expected of any Leigh Michaels’ books, the dialogue is snappy and the heroine is able. She can jab as well as the guy. Although there’s an obvious wealth disparity between them, she’s not afraid to poke fun at his math skills, disprove his supercilious contentions, and knock him down a notch or two. She’s not tripping over herself to win him back. What I don’t however is that, because she’s such a decent girl at heart, she took him back right away.

The guy has three strikes against him already: 1) for that long time ago incident to which he admitted he indiscreetly talked to buddies about wanting to “score” with her. Yeah! he said tried to squash the rumors after the fact, but he couldn't have tried hard enough to defend her reputation if she had to drop out of her class because of all the bad attention she was getting. 2) accusing her now of aborting their child then when he himself didn’t do anything to check on her situation. Hello?? If he cared so much about the possibility of a child from that one-night-encounter, shouldn’t he have tried harder to get in touch with her back then? 3) walking out again because of his anger and disgust of her. Yeaah, he said he got over his anger a month later when he realized that she could have miscarried (which she did) but he didn’t establish contact till after graduation – on the purported reason that he wanted focused now on her studies. Really! If I thought I had gravely wronged someone, I'd immediately make restitution give her (anonymously) scholarship money so she didn't have to live in the squalid quarters.

What is missing in the story is the critical part of “winning-her-back.” The hero was so good with excuses to exculpate himself. But he was lacking in actions.

There’s this part in the 2nd to the last page of the story when he had asked her to marry him and she replied, “I don’t know, Kurt. I love you, I honestly do – but I’m scared.” He acutely felt the pain then of not listening to her and not believing in her so he begged her to just give him the chance to convince her. The story could have been memorable had this scene happened midway of the plot and the rest of the book showed how he redeemed himself.

I'm on a Leigh Michaels binge so I'll keep on reading till I find another one of her good ones....one-night-stand-pregnancy rekindled-love4 s Nightwitch2,222 19

The heroes keep getting worse and worse in these, Jesus. The hero and heroine had a hookup in college and lost touch afterwards; the heroine had to drop out of school for a couple reasons at various points and is now struggling to make ends meet. The hero’s grandmother decides to hire her to help clear out the family house. In the meantime, the hero wonders if the heroine had his secret baby; she assures him she didn’t. But it doesn’t stop there: he later decides she must have had an abortion, and she’s so pissed at this that she agrees she did. He proceeds to be a complete jackass about her “killing [his] baby.” Screw you, jerkface. Words cannot describe how much I hate this. And of course the heroine had a miscarriage which accounts for her "guilty face" with the abortion accusation. SO MUCH HATRED FOR THIS.. The earlier misunderstanding - that the hero slept with the heroine on a bet - is never resolved satisfactorily, by the way; the hero admits that a friend said something along the lines of “I bet you can’t sleep with her” and the hero postured in response, but after all the heroine barely gave him the time of day after their hook-up so he just assumed it hadn’t been as transcendent for her as it had been for him. Come on. A popular senior sleeps with a shy, awkward freshman, gossip descends on them both, and it doesn’t occur to him that this might be a bad thing for her? I'd be willing to give him some leeway because he was all of twenty-two, I guess, but... no, actually, I'm not. He's terrible and she's making some really bad choices giving him the time of day. I hope once she's built up a nest egg she divorces him and takes him to the cleaners. romance-contemp-category1 Thato Billa3

The book is really good enjoyed reading it!!! Wendy Augustus1 review

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