Some Sort of Love, by Melanie Harlow
On the surface,
I have it all—a career I adore, a loving family, the Nixon metabolism but not
the Nixon ears, and a salary that supports my lavish taste in designer shoes,
fine wine, and lacy lingerie…but I have no one to share it with. Until the day I
run into him—my one night stand from college with the cocky smile,
let’s-get-out-of-here eyes, and dirty, dirty mouth.
Levi Brooks is
six feet four inches of hot bearded fantasy. A sexy single dad with broad
shoulders, strong hands, and a fantastically big…heart. (I mean, it’s massive.
And generous. And it pumps so hard… um. Sorry. Lost my place.)
But he lives for his son, and he's keeping me at a distance because he thinks I deserve someone better—a man who can give me more time, more attention, more of himself. He doesn’t believe he could ever be enough.
But he's wrong.
He’s
everything.
My Review:
This is a really fun
series, and the last book didn’t disappoint. Jillian, the third of the Nixon
sisters is successful, has a pediatric practice and until recently, felt
perfectly fine with her life. Then, she has to attend her sister’s wedding, and
deal with all the family and issues about being the last sister standing!
“No date tonight? Must
be hard to find a man once you’re past a certain age”
“So why aren’t you
married yet, Jillian? That clock is ticking!”
“You’re not one of
those lesbians, are you?”
*side note: been there, heard that!*
She’s feeling a
bit like the “old maid of honor” and despite reassurances from her siblings, she’s
feeling the impact of putting her career above all else.
"I’m not young: I’m
thirty. That’s like ninety in judgey years”
She’s happy with
her life, but lonely and wants a good relationship just like her sisters. In
all honesty, she’s a bit jealous of what they have but she’d never say that out
loud.
“Ah, wine. Wine
was my friend. Wine understood me. Wine knew that it was entirely possible to
be one hundred percent happy for your sisters and also ten percent jealous because
wine does not care about mathematics.”
She finds herself
being dragged around an evil aunt trying to get Jillian introduced to any
single man in the room. While trying to hide and dodge from another comment
about her singleness, she rushes off to the bar and runs smack into the one
wild thing that she did in college: Levi. They’ve, um, met before, and after ditching
the meddling aunt, she finds that Levi is friends with her sister’s new
husband.
Although they both
were willing to get, ahem, reacquainted, their evening is cut short with an interruption
from Levi’s son. The two continue to talk and have some Friday night flings,
but that’s all it seems to be and Jillian isn’t happy being a girl-Friday.
Levi is a single
dad, trying to manage his career as an architect and a son that has autism. It’s
not been easy. His family thinks he’s just giving in too much to his son’s
quirks and doesn’t understand why Levi is putting his life on hold for his son.
Levi feels guilty about everything! Every change in routine, every meltdown,
every bad thought he as about being a parent to a child with special needs. So
much so, that he pushes away Jillian.
I liked the entire
series, and really enjoyed this book. My only issue is that Levi was a bit too
much of a martyr! Dude could have lightened up a bit, but I get it. He’s a
dude. Stubborn and needs his behind kicked before he realizes his issues.
Melanie Harlow has
taken some chances with this series and introduced some issues that many
struggle with: Sebastian in book 1 has OCD. In this book, Levi’s son has
Autism. Harlow has done her homework and handles the descriptions and behaviors
of these disorders with sensitivity and accuracy. So much so that she even
points out that no two conditions are the same, behaviors vary, and those
around them need extreme patience, support, and understanding. All this without
being preachy. Kudos!
PURCHASE
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ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE
HAPPY CRAZY LOVE SERIES
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Happy
#2 Some Sort of Crazy
AUTHOR BIO
Melanie
is the author of the HAPPY CRAZY LOVE series, the FRENCHED series, and the sexy
historical SPEAK EASY duet, set in the 1920s. She lifts her glass to romance
readers and writers from her home near Detroit, MI, where she lives with her
husband, two daughters, and pet rabbit.
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