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A review by ncrabb
About a Dog by Jenn McKinlay
3.0
Mackenzie Harris hasn’t been back in Bluff Point, Maine in seven years. She booked it out of town in a hurry not long after her almost-husband left her at the altar for another woman in a red convertible. Before she left town, she sought sexual comfort from Gavin, the younger brother of her best friend, Emma. Now seven years later, Mac is back in town helping with preparations for Emma’s wedding.
Mac’s on-again off-again boyfriend, Trevor, is in London, and the two called it mostly quits before Mac went to Maine. When she got off the train, it wasn’t Emma who greeted her, but Gavin, a relatively newly minted veterinarian who changed for the better in Mac’s absence. He had never forgotten their one sheet-rumpling experience, comparing Mac to every other woman he had associated with since, and the others all fell short. Naturally, she’s terrified that his big sister will learn of their long-ago lust moment, and she wants to just keep it friendly while she’s in town—well, the logical her wants it that way. The hopeless romantic behind the accountant facade hopes he still remembers and wants to rekindle something long dormant.
Mac first encountered the stray dog on her first day back in Maine. She saw it in a field where she and Gavin stopped to examine a horse patient of his. The two encountered one another again in an alley a few days later, and this time, she can’t help but determine to foster the dog—a dog she names Tulip because she rediscovered it in the alley surrounded by broken flowerpots and wilted tulips.
I’ve largely sworn off romances, and if I have a choice, I’m going to read a McKinlay mystery first. But the book is filled with memorable characters and a romance that wasn’t quite as formulaic and tiresome as most of them. The sex scenes were rather ho-hum in terms of cliché descriptions, but there aren’t many, and they’re short.
Mac’s on-again off-again boyfriend, Trevor, is in London, and the two called it mostly quits before Mac went to Maine. When she got off the train, it wasn’t Emma who greeted her, but Gavin, a relatively newly minted veterinarian who changed for the better in Mac’s absence. He had never forgotten their one sheet-rumpling experience, comparing Mac to every other woman he had associated with since, and the others all fell short. Naturally, she’s terrified that his big sister will learn of their long-ago lust moment, and she wants to just keep it friendly while she’s in town—well, the logical her wants it that way. The hopeless romantic behind the accountant facade hopes he still remembers and wants to rekindle something long dormant.
Mac first encountered the stray dog on her first day back in Maine. She saw it in a field where she and Gavin stopped to examine a horse patient of his. The two encountered one another again in an alley a few days later, and this time, she can’t help but determine to foster the dog—a dog she names Tulip because she rediscovered it in the alley surrounded by broken flowerpots and wilted tulips.
I’ve largely sworn off romances, and if I have a choice, I’m going to read a McKinlay mystery first. But the book is filled with memorable characters and a romance that wasn’t quite as formulaic and tiresome as most of them. The sex scenes were rather ho-hum in terms of cliché descriptions, but there aren’t many, and they’re short.