A Year With Geno. Annette Drake. Baskethound
Books. June 2014. 415 pp. E-Book. ASIN #:
B00L5XKU92.
Caroline Taylor has enough
troubles with her unreliable ex-husband coming and going when he pleases,
constantly disappointing her sons who sense he really doesn’t want to be with
them. His girlfriend makes things even
worse. Now Caroline finds out she’s
going to be evicted because her landlord wants to move back into the
house. During her many dead-end attempts
to find a decent place to visit she meets Air Force Sgt. Geno who seems to
always show up just when she desperately needs help! Eventually she agrees to rent his basement,
with very clear rules so that neither encroaches upon the other’s space. That’s
when the subtle passion rings and misunderstandings as well!
Geno’s ex-wife is living
with a beer-slugging, crude boar. While she
has glimmers of his true personality, she seems blind or perhaps it’s the old
story that she has nowhere else to go and no one else to take care of her. Her treatment
of the children she had with Geno is also severely lacking.
No spoilers here. Suffice to say that Caroline’s bully
ex-husband is about to pose a serious challenge to her custody of their boys
and Geno’s ex-wife gets dumped by her loser boyfriend only to reappear as a
challenge to Caroline’s presence in Geno’s home. Caroline will survive the bumps in her quest
for a peaceful, loving home for her boys in the middle of this Eagle River, Alaskan
community.
This is a simple story with
a romantic edge constantly being thwarted by misunderstandings and ex-spouses
whose sensitivity skills seem primitive, to say the least.
It’s worthy of note to see
how the author writes in the voice of a male so well. Geno is masculine but with an edgy
sensitivity that entrances and frustrates Caroline. It takes a fine balance to
achieve that mix which adds to the intrigue of this slowly sparking friendship
and more.
A
Year With Geno is a nice romantic read that will
satisfy those who love a good old-fashioned passionately growing fire spiced
with some credible family drama!
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