Reviewer: Rowena The Girl Most Likely To... by Susan Donovan
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication Date: December 30, 2008
Point-of-View: Third
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Pages: 340
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Kat Cavanaugh was sixteen when she hitchhiked out of Persuasion, West Virginia and vowed never to return. Who could blame her? She'd just stumbled upon her father's adulterous affair, found out she was pregnant, got dumped by her boyfriend, and kicked out of her house and school . . . all in a single afternoon. Twenty years have gone by and Kat's back—gorgeous, rich, and looking for an apology from everyone who'd turned their backs on her. First on that list is Riley Bohland, the boy who broke her heart before she could tell him about the baby.
But Kat didn't count on Riley having his own axe to grind, or that he'd be just as delicious as he was at sixteen. She also didn't count on her heart opening at the sight of him. When their anger ignites a passion intense enough to burn through two decades of secrets and lies, Kat must question everything she thought she knew about her past. And what about her future? The only place to find the answers may be in Riley's arms…
First off, big ups to Holly for forcing me to read this book. I have so many books to read right now that I was going to save this book for a rainy day but for the past couple of days, Holly kept on bugging me to read it and I’m glad that I finally listened to her and picked it up.
I really enjoyed it.
Susan Donovan did a great job at telling this story because at first, I wasn’t sure how to react to the kind of storyline that it was. The secret baby plot. This kind of storyline never fails to make my stomach twist in knots because I knew it was going to blow up in her face and I knew that there was going to be plenty of drama and I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about it but I’m happy to say that Susan Donovan did a fantastic and realistic job of writing out this secret baby story.
Kat was a good heroine. She was normal and I say normal because she reacted the way that normal people react to everything. Her boyfriend breaks up with her, she gets good and pissed and runs away, her Mom tells her to run away to her aunt’s house and she gets good and pissed and runs away. She holds on to her mad attitude for 20 years and believe it or not, I know people that have held grudges for that long. It’s pretty crazy but it was a believable storyline, at least for me. I enjoyed getting to know Kat, I enjoyed getting to know the people in her life and seeing her rekindle her relationship with Riley knocked me on my ass in the sweet category because it was too cute.
Riley was a fine ass hero. He was a doctor and he had a crazy psycho ex but he was still oh so hot. I really enjoyed getting to know him and I loved seeing him get to know his son, Aidan and I loved seeing him interact with his brother Matt and I loved seeing him as a teenager, in love with Kat. I loved the little sayings they used to say to each other when they were holding each other and I loved seeing them reunited and feeling so good. It was too cute for words.
The villain made me roll my eyes. I didn’t see the villain as scary or anything, she was just so damn annoying. She made me roll my eyes down the street more than once and I thought I knew where the story was going to go with that but SD didn’t take the usual route that most romance novels usually take which I’m happy with.
One of my favorite things about this book was the way that SD handled the whole secret coming out all these many years later. I loved the way that everyone reacted to it and I loved that SD didn’t skim over everyone’s reaction. I’m glad with the way that it was handled.
Overall, the story was good. It was one of those ooh what’s going to happen next books that keeps you turning the pages and hoping that good things will happen to the characters. I’m happy with the way that it ended and I’m glad that everything ended in a neatly tied bow because that’s how all romances should be. I definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to read a well written contemporary novel.
This book is available from St. Martin’s Press. You can buy it here.
Thank you Rowena. Both you and Holly’s reviews have made me realise I definitely want to read this book 🙂 And I like that the characters have a history but are further along in their lives.