Dear Ms. Halliday:
When I saw the blurb for your book, I had to have it. Jake Sims was a retired baseball star who was trying to make a new life for himself and his thirteen year old daughter in the suburbs of Chicago. Alicia Greene was a woman who had suffered a bad divorce, took the husband to the cleaners, and lived her happy life child and animal free. The start of the book made me think that this would be a different, fresh take on a straight contemporary romance.
While there were moments of likeability with the atypical heroine, the romance felt contrived and the characters lacked depth.
Alicia Greene grew up in Chicago and formed an unhealthy attachment to a baseball star by the name of Jake “The Rake” Sims. Early on in his career, he had an interview with Barbara Walters wherein he dashed Alicia’s crush to shreds by coming off as a macho jerk. Fast forward several years and Alicia finds herself living across the street from her former dream man. Determined not to be a number on …
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