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morethanmylupus's review
3.0
3.5 stars.
NOTE: I won this book in ebook format through the Early Reviewers program.
This is a very cute book. I read it in one sitting. Maya is a lovable character. She remembers experiencing love during her childhood as a foster child and believes that every child should know love. To that end, she's fostering her sister's young child while her sister is in prison, is close to term on her own pregnancy ... oh yeah, and she's running a program for children in a building that the mayor wants to tear down in favor of parking space for a mall. She does all this with subtle sass and a whole lot of charm. Axell, meanwhile, is trying to raise a young daughter who refuses to speak since her mother's death, runs a local bar/restaurant and sits on the city council. Where Maya is all about being in touch with her emotions and all that lovey dovey, touchey feeley kind of stuff, Axell is all about emotion-less suppressed living. Of course, as is the case in most of these books, they are thrown together as Axell's daughter has only one happiness in her life: Maya's program (of course). Unfortunately, it isn't only the mayor who is out to get these two out of the way of the construction project. This leaves them in some dire straits which they fix by Axell's suggestion of a This was probably the best part of the book where Axell learns to get in touch with his emotions and also manages to calm the flighty Maya. The children are adorable, and do factor into a lot of the situations these two get into. They aren't as well developed as I would have liked considering how important they are to the story. Moreover, the secondary characters that keep popping up like a whack-a-mole game are barely fleshed out enough to count as characters. That could definitely have used some work. Still, an all around very cute read.
NOTE: I won this book in ebook format through the
This is a very cute book. I read it in one sitting. Maya is a lovable character. She remembers experiencing love during her childhood as a foster child and believes that every child should know love. To that end, she's fostering her sister's young child while her sister is in prison, is close to term on her own pregnancy ... oh yeah, and she's running a program for children in a building that the mayor wants to tear down in favor of parking space for a mall. She does all this with subtle sass and a whole lot of charm. Axell, meanwhile, is trying to raise a young daughter who refuses to speak since her mother's death, runs a local bar/restaurant and sits on the city council. Where Maya is all about being in touch with her emotions and all that lovey dovey, touchey feeley kind of stuff, Axell is all about emotion-less suppressed living. Of course, as is the case in most of these books, they are thrown together as Axell's daughter has only one happiness in her life: Maya's program (of course). Unfortunately, it isn't only the mayor who is out to get these two out of the way of the construction project. This leaves them in some dire straits which they fix by Axell's suggestion of a
Spoiler
marriage of convenience which Maya rather reluctantly agrees to. This leads to an odd couple sort of situation while Maya tries to find her One True Love and Axell continues to believe in an emotionally dead life.
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