Pleasantly Popped

“Everyone needs more Ruthie”

While Ruthie may not be everyone's cup of tea, she sure is an entertaining heroine, and there is never a dull moment when she's around.

“I'm very good at offending people, even though that's not always my intention.”
With her take-no-prisoners approach to life, the universe, and everything, Ruthie is a force to be reckoned with! And while I found it not always easy to like her - in a way, I can relate to Trev's initial prickly reaction to her - my heart was breaking for her, and I fouond myself enthusiastically rooting for her to go and get her man.

Predictable, routine-loving me found Trev to be a lot more relatable - though he sure had his judgmental and jerky moments, and his own share of hang-ups to overcome.
“Ruthie is a whirlwind; moving at tornado speed and sucking up everything in her path. But I'm not a storm chaser. I don't even like high winds.”

I loved watching these two squabble and banter while they were slowly falling in like (and more) with each other - against their better judgment - and it was fun to reconnect with the usual suspects (Flora and Dean, M.K. and Clay, Adam and Patrick, and, of course, Reuben).

4.5/5