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February Or Forever (2014)

by Juliet Madison(Favorite Author)

3.93 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Escape Publishing

series

Tarrin's Bay

review 1: FEBRUARY OR FOREVER is the second book in the Tarrin’s Bay series and I really enjoyed it. The house that Chrissie is renovating has sad memories for her as it was where her young sister drowned many years before, leaving Chrissie terrified of water. Despite living next to the beach and avoiding the sea, Chrissie is drawn into the Tarrin’s Bay community as she makes friends and slowly starts to relax after a tough few years that has resulted in her being a divorced single mum. Then she meets Drew. Drew is lovely – a great singer and a really nice person. He is lying low trying to escape the eyes of the paparazzi for a while after some rather nasty character assassination. Drew is local boy and has returned because he loves his home town and his parents and sister... more live in Tarrin’s Bay. What he wasn’t expecting was Chrissie. The romance that follows is beautiful. I love how the two of them put Chrissie’s little boy first and were willing to wait until he was in bad or at his dads before they had dates. This was because Drew was not going to be around forever – just for February. There were plenty of humourous scenes – I just adored little Kai – and Chrissie’s methods for persuading her little boy to do what he didn’t want to do were so smart – I could have done with advice like that when my grown-up children were small. Like all good romances the happily ever after has to arrive after some dramatic twists, turns and misunderstandings, FEBRUARY OR FOREVER certainly has all of that before Drew and Chrissie can throw off the hurts of the past and maybe face a future together. The story is well written and there is a tad more romance in this book than in the first in the series, The January Wish. The story started out a little slowly as the reader got to meet Chrissie, but quickly took off and by the last half I wasn’t putting the book down for anything. OK maybe only to accept a glass of wine from by husband! I can’t wait for the next book to come out - Miracle in March – so I can continue to spend time in Tarrin’s Bay.Rating: B – Great. I really enjoyed reading it and it is a book I will be recommending to all my friends who like this genre.With thanks to Harlequin Enterprises Australia/Escape Publishing and the author via Netgalley.
review 2: 3 1/2 stars. This is the second in a series set at fictional Tarrin's Bay which is loosely based on a coastal town not far from Sydney, Australia.I enjoyed The January Wish and was interested to follow up though I'm not generally a small town romance person. I often find a few books down the track they get awfully cluttered as we run into everyone from the previous books.However, we are only on book two here and it was all good. Drew Williams was adorable, every fangirls dream celebrity. Chrissie I had more trouble warming up to, especially in the early part of the book. It did not capture me right away and I did put it down several times and read probably a dozen other books in between dabbling. What slowed it down for me was the obsessive perfect mother thing Chrissie had going. She didn't even have a single snack food in the house? I don't read books to make me feel like a bad mother. And there seemed to be such a lot of it. Once Drew was on the scene more it picked up and his character was great. I enjoyed the repartee between him and Chrissie as they got to know each other. The Yoga thing occasionally got a little preachy but I guess you have to expect that when so many of the interactions take place in yoga class.The romance itself was generally sweet. Not a lot of sexual tension and the culmination was all closed door but fitted with the general tone of the book.Overall, a nice read and I will probably read the next in the series when it comes. less

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