Rick has purchased his deceased grandmother's old Victorian home and is having it remodeled. Unhappy with the progress, he goes to confront the job foreman, only to discover some teenage boy. Except it's not a teenage boy, it's a young woman.
Jamie thinks Rick is a snob who looks down on her for being a woman. Once he sees her work, he's convinced. Jamie feels drawn to him, but isn't sure he'd ever consider her as anything more than a friend. Since he clearly has a girlfriend, she doesn't feel she has a chance, even though her mother insists that Rick and his girlfriend aren't right for each other.
This is what I term a "diet" book, coming in at around 260 pages. It's labeled as book 1 of a series, so there's probably more on the horizon, though I couldn't find any evidence of the next one at the time of this review.
The author has a lot of detail in there, mostly information about food and house restoration. They were in-depth descriptions. There were times when I was reading about some of the food and my stomach would growl.
Unfortunately, all this detail wasn't so good when characters were having a conversation. I'd be stuck in their heads for long paragraphs, leaving me to believe these people either think super fast or there's long pauses every time they talk. It wasn't as noticeable toward the end, so that was good. The problem is, when I have issues with the dialogue and interaction of the characters, I have an issue with the book.
The end also didn't grab me. Without giving spoilers, I can't really get into it, but Jamie's reactions to certain things made no sense. For being a diet book, it felt much longer. Maybe it's because I don't like cats. Maybe it was the author's writing style. I don't think the book was terrible, it just wasn't for me.
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