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Seasonal, Contemporary, Romance
All Gloria Falcon wants is to have a nice New Year’s Eve with a nice man. Is that so much to ask? But after seven disastrous New Years in a row, this year she’s trying something different. Committed to spending her New Year’s Eve manning the phones at a suicide crisis phone line, Gloria is sure the karma she earns will break her New Year’s curse. But when a blackout cancels her night of philanthropy, rather than spend the night moping in the dark, she goes on a ride along with the cute electric company lineman who failed to fix the power. Charlie Zhang is not much of a New Year believer either. He’s coasting through life after being discharged from the army and trying not to let his cynicism of pretty much everything define him. When Gloria Falcon climbs into Charlie’s life, and his repair truck, neither of them expect this to be the New Year’s Eve that changes their minds, and their fate, forever.
5 out of 5 (exceptional)
Independent Reviewer for Archaeolibrarian - I Dig Good Books!
Gloria's birthday is New Years Day, and she has had a run of disasterous New Years Eves, so this year, she attempt to have a better one by helping on the local suicide hotline. Selfish, she says so herself, but she thinks this might see her through to a Happy New Years without too much going wrong. Charlie works New Year for the double pay. When called to the local church because their power is out, he has no idea that this year is going to be so different than the rest. My first, and final thought for this book is cute. Darn cute. And I mean that in the nicest possible way! It has a little, well, quite a bit, of drama, passion, funny parts and scary parts. It has humour, and sizzling scenes. It has, quite simply a little bit of everything, and it makes for such a great little read! It IS written from both Charlie and Gloria's POV, in the first person and the present tense. HOWEVER, it makes no difference to my rating here, because, for this book, it was the right way to write it. A perfect example of a great book negating my dislike of that tense. A perfect hangover cure, with some excellent writing and by a new-to-me-author who will be on my authors-to-follow list! There is another book in this series due out soon, and I do hope I get the chance to read it, I really do. I started writing this review with a 4 star at the top of the page. NOW, I'm upgrading that to 5 stars. Even for a short read, the tense/POV its written in, its still warrants all those stars. so, 5 Stars
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* A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read this book, and the comments here are my honest opinion. *
Bibi Rizer is a mom, blogger, teacher and writer living in the Pacific Northwest. While she’s been writing professionally for many years, romance and erotica are relatively new pursuits. Bibi likes writing about strong kinky women and brave willing men living in realistic and imperfect worlds. In her spare time Bibi sings Karaoke and hangs around on film sets with child actors. Having the the firm belief that no one can be too weird or too funny, she happily admits that most of her favorite people and characters are both.