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Written on Mar 25, 2019
My rating is 3.5 stars
It is always interesting reading a new genre from an author you are familiar with. I read A Pirate at Pembroke, by Danielle Thorne last year.
Valentine Gold is a contemporary romance, set in the beautiful North Georgia mountains. I really enjoyed the author’s descriptions of the beauty of the area, with the mountains, streams and even waterfalls. It made me want to pack up immediately and go for a visit!
Jonathan was such a kind and forgiving man. I loved his compassion for his mom’s cat, Griselda, which he inherited when his mom moved into town. I cracked up at the way he introduced her and described her multiple litters of kittens. And as a cat lover, it was fun to have Griselda and her granite-colored kitten as secondary characters.
I confess that I wasn’t a fan of Natalie’s, at least not at first. While I felt compassion for her rough divorce and understood her distrust of men (sorta), she was just so unkind. Angry, belligerent. Even after she had gotten to know Jonathan a bit, she listened to gossips rather than to what she knew about him. . .
So, gossips. All small towns seem to have them. (Yeah, big towns, too, though they never seem to play as prominent a role in stories that take place in them.) One of the lessons of the story is certainly to not listen to gossip, even when the source is your dear aunt’s friend!
If you enjoy small town romances, Valentine Gold was a fun story to while away a lazy afternoon.
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I was given a copy of this book. I was not required to give a favorable review nor was any money received for this review. All comments and opinions are my own.