Author: Shannon Richard
Series: Country Roads - Book #1
Publisher: Forever (Grand Central Publishing)
Release Date: July 2nd 2013
ISBN 13: 978-1-4555-4723-4
Source: NetGalley
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Synopsis
Things Paige Morrison will never understand about Mirabelle, Florida:
Why wearing red shoes makes a girl harlot
Why a shop would ever sell something called "buck urine"
Why everywhere she goes, she runs into sexy and infuriating-Brendan King
After losing her job, her apartment, and her boyfriend, Paige has no choice but to leave Philadelphia and move in with her retired parents. For an artsy outsider like Paige, finding her place in a tightly knit town isn't easy-until she meets Brendan, the hot mechanic who's interested in much more than Paige's car. In no time at all, Brendan helps Paige find a new job, new friends, and a happiness she wasn't sure she'd ever feel again. With Brendan by her side, Paige finally feels like she can call Mirabelle home. But when a new bombshell drops, will the couple survive or will their love come undone?
My Thoughts
What a lovely feel-good novel this was. I don't exactly know where to begin with my thoughts. The whole novel was like a movie playing in my head, for one because you can picture yourself in the setting of Mirabelle and place yourself in Paige's shoes as being an outsider in a small town. The novel was humorous in most spots, so much so that I was told to stop "cackling" roughly around midnight. But it was also sad in others like with the death of her father. It was tear jerker both happy tears and sad tears.
The main characters were your typical - girl meets boy, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back and they live happily ever after - couple. < This most of the time isn't a bad thing and wasn't in this case. Paige and Brendan had their share of flaws and skeletons in their closet and were easily relateable as I mentioned above. I could place myself in Paige's shoes.
In the beginning I never would have guessed that Brendan would get her a job working in a funeral home, that had been a twist I wasn't expecting at all. It did end up working out for her in the end and she actually enjoyed working with what she did. I also didn't expect her father to pass away with cancer. That plot twist was a blinding, mostly because of how the author introduced it into the plot was subtle but out of the blue - like all of the sudden he wasn't feeling well and had pain and the only one who noticed had been Brendan. I don't know about Pancreatic cancer from personal expierence and each instance could be different but when a family member of mine had cancer you could tell there was something wrong, it slowly got more noticeable. They should of been able to notice but in the defense of Paige and her mum, they probably didn't know the signs that started to show he had cancer.
All in all it was a very good read and I'm excited to read all about Jax and Grace's relationship...hopefully in the second book.
My Rating: 4.5/5
Goodreads: Undone
Author's Website: Shannon Richard
Amazon: Undone by Shannon Richard
