Perfect for You

Fire and Icing #4

By Jessie Evans

ISBN#  9781940848143

Author’s Website: http://www.jessieevansauthor.com/

Brought to you by OBS reviewer Andra

Synopsis:

Nothing is sweeter than a second chance…

When art teacher Dawn Fuller signed up for “Speed Dating with Doughnuts” in her new hometown of Atlanta, the most she hoped for was a night away from her empty apartment and a maple cruller—anything to distract her from the loneliness she has felt since her kids left for their first summer visitation with their father. But when the night arrives and Trent Baron, her former college nemesis, sits down across the Speed Dating table, Dawn realizes she may be getting more of a distraction than she bargained for.

Trent Baron has come a long way from the backwards, small-minded college football player who used to argue with Dawn in Freshman Sociology. Now a devoted father and the owner of Atlanta’s most successful bike shop, divorced Trent is the kind of honest, supportive man that women dream about. But does he have what it takes to win the heart of his college crush?

Trent is determined to show Dawn that people can change, and that sometimes the perfect match comes along in an unexpected package.

Review:

A fast paced novella involving two people and love.  A lovely, romantic read.

I got a big chuckle out of Dawn describing the men she was meeting at Speed Dating with Doughnuts.  If you have ever partaken in speed dating….this so hits close to home 🙂 :

“Weirdo Number One had wiped his nose on his sleeve ten times in the five minutes they were allotted, Weirdo Number Two spent the entire time bragging about how much money he made, Weirdo Number Three smelled like sour milk and green onions and barely said a word except to ask Dawn if she was going to finish her slice of bear claw, and— after the server delivered cinnamon and chili pepper doughnut holes to table four— Weirdo Number Four had gone on and on about how cinnamon gave him a yeast infection in his mouth.”

 

And Weirdo Number Five turns out to be Trent Baron, a chap Dawn knew in college!  They start to reconnect and much to Dawn’s surprise…maybe he isn’t the irritating meat head anymore that he was in college?  And then:

 

“Honk! Honk! Honk! The horn blared, cutting Trent off before he could finish, leaving Dawn with an odd, deflated feeling. For the first time all night she wasn’t ready to move tables. She wanted to stay and find out how old Trent’s little girl was, and what else they might have in common.”

 

The romance continues to blossom.  Dawn perfectly described the perfect guy…to her (and I totally agree!):

 

“She’d never been one to geek out about big muscles or a ripped body, but when that ripped body was inhabited by a man who loved his daughter fiercely, could carry on an intelligent conversation, and read at least a book a week, she was as helpless against the stud factor as any other woman.”

 

I loved how the relationship progressed, from reconnecting, to a few dates over dinner (ever being mindful of Trent’s parenting duties) to bike rides.  The pace was good and I could feel the relationship maturing.  The way in which both parties respected the other’s children and how to introduce each other was really well done.

 

This was a great Sunday afternoon read!  Thank you Jessie Evans for sharing this wonderful novella.