Five Minutes Late

by Rich Amooi

[zooloo1983]

It’s the second time I’ve read this book and it’s the second time I have absolutely adored it! If you don’t know the story with me and this book well I will tell it again!

Foremost it’s Richs’ debut into a full-length book, and I tell you we have a lot to thank his wife for! To me it’s perfect. Yes, there are some slightly cheesy scenes but I LOVE THEM ALL!! I was chuckling and smiling the whole way through this as I remembered falling in love with Ellie and Cedric. Both have issues with falling in love, both have heartbreaks and both need to learn to open themselves to new possibilities again.

With most of Amooi’s books, we do see some stereotypical men and it does make me laugh! Mainly because you know these men really do exist!! I felt for Ellie going on these disastrous dates while all the time pretending she didn’t care for Cedric but she can not bear tardiness. Tardiness stems from a rather sad story for Ellie and I can see why she would think and act the way in which she does. Cedric, he is the king of tardiness but for him, he has closed himself off due to a truly tragic event that happened.

All the while you are rooting for these two and you are shouting for them to make it work and forget the past and just talk to each other!! Plus with the douche ex, Vlad rearing his ugly was you do wonder if love will ever run smoothly for this duo. He is your stereotypical “bad guy” in a romance novel, every time he spoke you feel your eyes rolling and just urgh! But he is such a small part of the novel that we can get past it, he is just the fuel, the spark, to ignite Ellie and Cedric together.

Oh, my days I really do love this book! It’s just too cute and it makes me smile. This is a book I could read over and over and over and I will never get bored. It has so much going for it with the supporting cast who you embrace completely as one of your own. They are all so strong and they all do their best to help propel Ellie and Cedric further into their lives. And anyway, a man who owns a Garlic firm, he’s a winner in my eyes I love garlic!!!!!!

Within these pages, I am in a bubble. It is my safe place and it’s my happy place. Nothing can knock me in here. I don’t care if people think this book might be a bit cheesy or not their cup of tea. For me, it is what love is about. Yeah, I admit I am 110% completely and utterly sappy underneath it all! I believe in Prince Charming, love at first sight etc etc and Amooi’s book reinforces it all for me. Amooi’s books are just so charming and ALWAYS make me smile.

If you want to lose yourself on a cold winters afternoon, or a sunny one, then these books are for you! Despite the book-length, you find that you whizz through the book so quickly, well I did, without even realising it.

Wow, I think that this enough gushing. So far out of the books I have read this is my favourite…but at the time of writing this I have 7 more to read and out of the other 6 I have read, nothing comes close at all!!