3.5 stars...ok, 4Spoilers, spoiler, spoilers. Reading this review will take away all the surprise. Just letting you know.
Some of this story I still haven't wrapped my head around. It's strange. I don't know how I feel about it.
If you read the first couple of pages, you'll come up on how the heroine knocks on a random door as part of her job and is greeted by a sexy woman in a man's shirt...the heroine's husband's shirt to be exact. Sooo, she hasn't seen him in three years. It's still his shirt. And yes, they did it. But you know this right out from the gate so you know if you want to flounce or not. Gotta give kudos on that, right? Of course, I continued to read.
The majority of the first half of the story is told as a flashback. Apparently our little miss married the H under false pretenses when she was a innocent 19 to his worldly 32 as part of a revenge plot the H enacted on her father. When she finds out, she splits soon after (after adding insult to injury) and stays gone for three years until that opening scene.
The rest is the fallout of them finding an excuse for getting back together and the trials and tribulations involved with that.
Something really weird about this story? The OW. She plays matchmaker, which is kinda creepy. You can be too close, you know. Yeah, she screwed him but it was just a comforting f**k among friends. Hmm. Makes you wonder what they'll be up to next time they do lunch, right?
To add to the fun, he's also had sex another time or two the last couple of years. Not with the friendly OW, other ones...but it didn't mean anything. Hmm. I do recognize that she left him but, hey, he was using her to get even with her dad and then on top of that she caught him sucking face with some chick on the porch after finding this out. Of course she's gonna leave. I don't know if I'm perversely thrilled or disgusted that he couldn't keep it in his pants, because he was actually a nice guy. A very much in love, forgivable, whoredog of a hero.
So, this was a fabulous angsty, sneaky bastard, cheater/but-it-didn't-mean-anything, payback is a biach, satisfying grovel kind of story. If you like those kind of stories, you'll love this one.
