Change of Heart

This one just didn't work for me. Having known people close to me that ended up in a divorce situation from the same reason (infidelity), their psychologists were all agreed that one should have at least a year after a divorce is finalized before moving on and forming a new relationship which has any promise of becoming romantic. From the beginning, there is an undercurrent of attraction between Whit and Evie. Instead of it being 100% a story of how she learns to blaze her new path in life without her husband, it's very quickly given an underpinning of emotional attraction. Yes, they work as a couple. No, it wasn't wise to jump into a relationship so quickly (yet they call it “slow.”)

I didn't like the Valentine Volunteers much in this one, after loving them in the first book. They keep sticking their noses where they don't belong, especially when it comes to getting Evelyn involved in their efforts before her divorce is fully final. They even ask a man if he is gay because he hasn't married—which gets my dander up to no end, because I've known nice church guys that people gossiped about, simply because they waited past 30 to marry, as Whit has. It's a hurtful and wrong to question whether someone is gay simply because they are single. Always makes me wonder....hasn't anyone read Paul's writings about the benefits of the single life????

Anyway, two stars simply because the writing itself is so well done and the ending is really sweet. The story arc to get there simply has issues and I couldn't get past that.