After her bosses call once too often during what’s supposed to be her time off, she abruptly resigns by tossing her phone into the laundry wenches’ tub.

Corporate lawyer Louisa “Lulu” Malone heads to the Ren Faire to soak up some precious relaxation time. Read my posts to learn more about me, but mostly to hear my thoughts about romance novels new and old.DeLuca returns to the Renaissance Faire circuit a fourth time (after Well Matched) in this charming contemporary romance. My #1 romance novel of all time forever and ever amen is “Dreaming of You” by Queen Lisa Kleypas. I take grave exception to people calling romance novels “smut” or “trash”. I probably read 5-7 romance novels a week. My “real” job involves a grab bag of communications and community relations for a large nonprofit in the DC area. Hi Romance Peeps! My name is Teresa and I am a self-proclaimed romance aficionado with a BA in English and PR. **I received a free copy of this book in order to provide an honest review** I keep waiting for the magic of WELL MET, and it hasn’t happened yet. I think I will give her one more chance then move on from her books because these last two were frustrating. Overall, I like Jen DeLuca’s writing style, and this book was better than the last one, but this is the second big miss for me. I also didn’t like that the hero felt like a secondary character in his own romance. But instead of having a mature conversation, she just made lots and lots of assumptions and constantly pushed the hero away.

She was SO caught up on her age, and I get it she was seemingly at a different life phase, which can be a big deal. She did a terrible job expressing her inner turmoil, and the hero, who never gave her any reason to doubt him, suffered for it. What really took away from my enjoyment of the book was the heroine’s emotional immaturity at the expense of her partner. I also loved the hero – he had golden retriever energy and was just such a great guy, which made the heroine’s shortcomings extremely glaring in my mind while reading. Honestly, there is nothing hotter than a man offering to help you fix up your house. The situations the hero and heroine got into were adorable. The hero is a younger man and teacher at her daughter’s school. In this book, the heroine is a mature forty-year-old single mother about to be an empty nester – a difficult time in any parent’s life, I’m sure. When I don’t like a heroine in a romance novel, I always try to take a step back and figure out why she bothered me within the context of her own romance. I hate writing a review when my main problem with the book is the heroine.

Jen deluca well matched