Monday, February 27, 2023

As Good As the First Time


 Shirley J.            Adult Fiction Romance                             Family, Lost & Found Loves
As Good as the First Time: A Sugar Lake Novel by K. M. Jackson     406 pages

Olivia Gale had it all, a great man, a great job until she didn't.   All in one day her boyfriend leaves her and she loses her job.  What was she going to do?  New York was great but how would she survive now?  Then as fate would have it, her mother received a call from her Aunt who fell off her roof and broke her hip.  Her Aunt runs the family bakery, "Goode N' Sweet" and isn't able to do the baking and carrying now.  Well, fortuitous timing wins out and Olivia "Livie" goes to Sugar Creek to help her Aunt.  Her younger sister tags along to lend a hand and it is like going "home" again.   They remember the fun summers they spent in Sugar Creek and Livie remembers falling in love and going away to school only to return to the love of her life to find out he didn't wait for her as promised.  He married someone else!  Now joy of joys, who does she run into when she returns the firechief, the man she had fallen so desperately in love with all those years ago and who broke her to the bone.   She has all kinds of attitude for this dude.   I would recommend this one to middle schoolers on up.  There is a lot of good natured sisterly rivalry, a lot of teen angst carried into adulthood and good natured family teasing and support along with some fence mending.


 

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