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Wedding Dress Promise Series Book 1\nBy Ronnie Roberts
\n\u00a9 October 21, 2014, Pajama Therapy Books
\nASIN: B00ORVTM2U
\nKindle Version, file size 2329 KB\n
<\/p>Wedding Dress Promise Series Book 1
\nBy Ronnie Roberts
\n\u00a9 October 21, 2014, Pajama Therapy Books
\nASIN: B00ORVTM2U
\nKindle Version, file size 2329 KB\n
I don\u2019t usually read romances. They just aren\u2019t my thing. But this one caught my eye while searching for a light, humorous read, so I decided to give it a try.<\/p>\n
Wow am I glad I did! No Regrets is definitely a light, fun read, but there is substance there beneath the softness, bones beneath the flesh, shadows behind the sunshine, and it gave the story that much more depth. I could not stop turning the pages.<\/p>\n
Told from the point of view of two main characters, Darby and Joe (a.k.a. Mac), this is a sweet story of redemption\u2014not just for Darby, who\u2019s had a rough life and grown thick skin to save herself, but for Joe, who\u2019s been covering ever since the death of his wife, and for his step-son, Andrew, who has his own secrets I won\u2019t reveal here. But the road to redemption isn\u2019t always straight, nor is it smooth. The bumps and curves and potholes along the way make life more challenging, and there are plenty of those in these pages. I loved every minute and couldn\u2019t wait to see how these characters\u2014to whom I was deeply connected within the first few chapters\u2014would resolve their issues. I was not disappointed.<\/p>\n
Author Ronnie Roberts does a masterful job of scene description and character introspection without getting too sappy or infodumping on her readers. In fact, these details (which I often skip in books that overdo them) added to the story for me, and I drank them in. Her character backgrounds aren\u2019t dropped in our laps all at once but are parsed out over the course of the narrative, with some of the final details being revealed late in the story so I got that \u201cAHA\u201d moment that made the resolution that much more meaningful.<\/p>\n
There are tender moments scattered throughout, but they aren\u2019t overdone, or I\u2019d have put the book down. And while there is some sexuality and sensuality (hey, it\u2019s a romance, right?), there is no explicit sex on the page (another thing that will make me put a book down). Roberts kept a good balance there, giving us just enough, but leaving the rest behind closed doors.<\/p>\n
Again, I don\u2019t read much romance. Haven\u2019t read one in years, actually. But this? Yeah, I\u2019d read more of this and will be looking for the other books in the series. If you love romance, even if you aren\u2019t a romance fan, but want something with humor, softness, hope, and redemption, check out No Regrets. Most highly recommended.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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