But can I really justify four stars when I'm skipping a whole quarter of a book because the author bungled the story? My heart says yes. Even the lawyer stuff wouldn't have set that back much if it hadn't had that double-dose of author manipulation. If it were just the relationship and families coming together this would be a contender for five stars.
HEARTS IN MOTION HOW TO
So we're at author manipulation squared.Īnd now I have to figure how to rate this. And she setup a villain to be borderline evil and that never sits well, either. I mean, the author engineered three timely interruptions preventing it from defusing.
And I hate pretty much everything about that, frankly. So I love where they are and I'm completely uninterested in the landmine that has been set to explode. And I liked seeing Hadley's humanity emerge as her tight emotional control slips and she begins to see all the things she has missed by being "married to her job" (her previous lifestyle framework). She's an artist yeah, but an independent business owner and half a dozen other things that don't align with the stereotype. Yes, over their nephew Owen, but also independently and together.Īnd I love how MacLeod has crafted the opposites attract narrative by making it distinct. I love their relationship and the bond they've formed. At this point, they're pretty much together. Except for the bit that's going to happen in this last twenty-five percent. The thing is, I like just about everything to do with this story. I'm going to do something pretty unusual in that I'm going to give the last quarter a pass on a book I was mostly enjoying. She’s really good with comedic timing, but the scene that actually made me love her in this book is a very emotional one, in which every nuance of what the character was feeling could be heard in her voice.
Lori Prince is the perfect narrator for these stories, this mix of emotions and funny scenes. MacLeod succeeds in bringing humour to a story about grief, and I have to admit I’m impressed. What I did enjoy, however, is the fact that they’re forced to acknowledge it, and do better. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a huge lack of communication between Hadley and Tyne, and that’s where most of the conflict comes from. I know I keep complaining about miscommunication in lesfic, or at least about the way it’s often used with no reason other than to create some angst, when the characters don’t really have any reason to hide anything. Hearts in Motion is an age-gap opposites-attract romance, with a touch of small-town/big city trope as well.
Grief brings them together, but the battle for the child’s custody threatens everything. Tyne Briggs is the baby’s other aunt, and she’s had a crush on Hadley for the longest time. When she finds herself on the other side, after her sister and her brother-in-law die in a car accident, leaving their baby behind, Hadley realises there’s more to life than her job, even if she loves it. Hadley Moore’s whole life is her job as an emergency room doctor. Without a will to guide them, and with the two aunts unable to reach a compromise, a lengthy custody battle looms.Ĭooperation and a common purpose could lead to true love and the creation of a new family together, but not if impulsive decisions and unsavory lawyers tear them apart first.īest-selling lesbian fiction author Miranda MacLeod has written a heartwarming and emotionally gripping medical age-gap romance that will convince you love conquers all. But they are soon at odds when each decides she is the best choice to give baby Owen a permanent home. Shared grief and mutual attraction bring the two women together, where they find solace and passion in equal measure. When she loses her brother and sister-in-law in a car accident, her top priority is to make sure her baby nephew has the happy childhood she was denied. After being saved from a hostile foster home as a queer pre-teen, the young artist dotes on her large and boisterous adoptive family. Reeling from guilt over letting her family take a back seat to her career, Hadley seizes the opportunity to make things right by returning to her hometown to raise the infant son her sister left behind.Īt 29, Tyne Briggs knows firsthand how hard it is to grow up without a loving family. But when her younger sister and brother-in-law die tragically, the pain of loss is too great to ignore. After tragedy strikes, can love blossom out of grief?Īs an emergency room doctor, 41-year-old Hadley Moore has spent a decade perfecting the art of shutting down her emotions to focus on saving lives.
0 kommentar(er)
