A review by waclements7
A Love to Remember by Bronwen Evans

3.0

This was an enjoyable enough read—it kept me reading to find out what happened, but there were many points at which I almost quit. I was discussing my feelings about it with my boyfriend. He inadvertently got sucked into watching a version of Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right one evening, and he laughed when I was complaining about Philip and named the Trollope title. That pretty much sums it up. Philip thinks he’s right, no matter how many people he makes unhappy, and it takes criminal acts to make him realize otherwise. Maybe for these books I should start rating them by how many boots to the head the hero should get. And it also has one of my second favorite tropes—lack of communication. Although, to give Rose credit, she really does try to have meaningful conversations with Philip. There are enough redeeming qualities to give it three stars, though. It’s well-written and the dialogue and characters are good. Drake is a cute boy, and I think it’s hard to give young kids who are so essential to the plot sort of fun personalities. He’s a regular little boy with a best friend and I thought that was well done.