Kissing Games of the World
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings2
Average rating4.5
"A classic romance. . . . It's been done countless times, but rarely as engagingly as Shelton does it in this novel." -"Boston Globe" Jamie is a free-spirited artist and devoted single mom with a slightly unorthodox living situation: in exchange for free rent, she looks after the grandson of her much older landlord. But when Harris Goddard dies of a heart attack-naked and splayed out in Jamie's bed-nobody believes that he and Jamie were just roommates. With the rumor mill buzzing and two small children to care for, Jamie's life is further upended when Harris's handsome son, Nate, a charismatic jet-setting salesman, shows up unannounced at his childhood home to settle the estate and reclaim the five-year-old son he left behind. As Jamie's and Nate's highly guarded worlds collide, can these two damaged souls manage to see the good in each other . . . and maybe more? "Shelton's warm, sentimental love story is told with a tenderness of heart and a nurturing eye." -"Romantic Times" "Quite wonderful. . . . Like Anne Tyler, Shelton seems to possess a nearly boundless capacity for empathy. She has the ability to make us love her characters for their faults, not in spite of them." -"Connecticut Post"
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Read this one because I really liked Matchmaking for Beginners, but this one–not so much. This one had situations that would have been quirky and interesting but all the people populating them (exception possibly the main female character and the kids, who weren't 3-d characters but rather props for adult drama) were people I didn't want to spend time with, who, in fact, I found not just not sympathetic but verging on poisonously dysfunctional. The developing romance made me cringe and think “No! no! he's a creepy looser! run away!”By 4/5 through I ditched it. Not for me.
