Book title: About Face

Series: Love in the Suburbs, #1

Genre: Romantic Comedy, Romance, Humor, Small town romance

Published: August 29,2019

Word count: 56,000 approximately 234 pages

Synopsis

My grandma is trying to hook me up.

To be painfully specific, my seventy-five-year-old grandmother thinks a little hanky-panky would cheer me up. Direct quote. Since I’m currently living with her, I can’t escape the endless line of grandchildren of friends who keep ‘dropping by’ for dinner. Literally, I can’t escape. I can barely manage the trek to the dining room at this point.

While Grandma’s determined to find me a husband, I’m determined to learn how to walk again so I can walk away from her matchmaking skills. Spoiler alert: She has no matchmaking skills.

But then I get a brilliant idea. I can fake date my physical therapist. Only he wants a real date. Gulp. A real date with me? Is he for real? I’m no longer the stylish girl with the glamorous job. Now, I’m a woman with a shattered leg and a scarred face.

If I’m going to learn to live with my new reality and give love a chance, my attitude needs to do an about-face. Easier said than done.

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Review

If I could give this more than 5 stars I would. I started this book and could not put it down until I finished the last word. This book had me laughing so hard I was crying, misty over some touching moments, and frustration with Frankie over her self-pity act.

There are so many quirky characters that you can’t help but love. Grandma likes to set Frankie up with her friend’s sons but let’s just say they are no real winners. Shelby who Frankie meets her first day of PT and they become fast friends. Jackson who has the ultimate belief in Frankie’s event planning talents even if she can’t see it for herself. And of course, Brodie, the smoking hot physical therapist that falls for Frankie from the first moment.

This story is reflective of what someone might endure after a tragic accident. While the details of the accident are never revealed, Frankie was in a cast and now has some major scars on her leg and one on her cheek. Living a somewhat superficial life has brought on a feeling of inadequacy no matter what anyone else tells her. Over the course of the book, she learns to let go a little bit and learn to love who she has become since the accident. It takes a long time because she is self-absorbed and more concerned about how she looks rather than being thankful for just being alive.

At times, Frankie’s attitude does get to be a bit much and thankfully she has a friend or two that set her straight and open her eyes to life.

I loved this book and highly recommend that you add it to your list to read soon.

About the Author

I grew up reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom’s Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn’t flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could even begin. A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after returning to the law. But practicing law really wasn’t my thing, so I quit (again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out running a B&B wasn’t my thing either. I polished off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The Hague where I’m currently working on my next book. I hope I’ll always be working on my next book.

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