no offense by Meg Cabot

Sixty-ninth book of 2020

Reading period: Aug 31st 2020 – Aug 02nd 2020

Summary

Molly Montgomery couldn’t be more thrilled about starting her new life as head of Children’s Services at Little Bridge Island’s brand-new public library. Happy to have left her problematic ex behind on the mainland, her new life feels like heaven . . . at least until she finds a newborn baby in the library’s public restroom. Then suddenly she begins to wonder if life in Little Bridge isn’t exactly paradise.

But when Sheriff John Hartwell answers Molly’s 911 call, things begin to look up. He couldn’t be kinder (or better looking) and handles the baby—and the hunt for its missing mother—with far more sensitivity and understanding than Molly would have expected from someone who never reads fiction. Maybe there’s more to this tall, taciturn sheriff than meets the eye.

Recently divorced John Hartwell has been having trouble adjusting to single life as well as single parenthood. It doesn’t help that his teenaged daughter, Katie, hates Little Bridge Island and wants to move to the mainland to live with her mom.
But something in the sympathetic, smiling eyes of Molly Montgomery gives John hope that things on Little Bridge might be looking up after all—for both himself and, maybe, Katie. But can two such different people ever find happiness together?

Rating

Review

I can definitely say that this series is my guilty pleasure.

I like this story, but less than the previous one. I am happy to be back with characters that I encounter (and love) in the last book.

I was quite startled at the beginning as I didn’t read the summary. But, there is one thing that I was sure to love: the characters, especially the old ladies.

At some point, I was kind of fed up by the investigation and the obsession with the cases. I read this kind of short and accessible book for a quick and easy romance, not for a long and tiring investigation.

Liz.