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All Grown Up
by Vi Keeland
Valentina isn't ready to get back into the dating scene. At 37 and even 2 years after her divorce she doesn't know where to start until her best friend Eve takes the first step by setting up an outrageous Match.com profile for her. That's where she strikes up a playful conversation with a 25 year old Donovan. It's easy to talk to him, he's smart and witty, that's until on their first date she realizes he's not just any Donovan, he's Ford Donovan, the neighbor boy from her beach house who played with her son.
I'm going to say the snarky thing to get it out of the way by saying I knew how unrealistic this was based on Ford being the president at a Real Estate company at 25. He inherited the position from his father and it seems like Valentina is also fairly rich from her alimony since she can afford to take college classes and chill at a summer house. Maybe it's their financial situations that makes the 12 year age gap a little less of an issue.
That said I really did enjoy the story. I'm not quite Valentina's age, but still after reading stories about 20-something girls finding their happily ever after it's good to see someone in their 30's getting that as well. I have the same issues that she does when it came to dating someone younger than me and thought it was really interesting to see it play out.
Ford is really mature for his age and while at the beginning of the book he was just ending his wild days, you could see they were still there under everything. It was good to see that he matured over the course of the book even though a certain passage early on suggested that there would be some serious relationship at the end of it. I didn't pay much attention to it.
The story was really believable, aside from the things that I touched on earlier on in my review. I can see how it would happen. Valentina and Ford had both grown up way too early and they complimented each other. It showed the obvious issues of the age gap, like how people would judge you in public, but it was really cute. I think this was my second Vi Keeland book and I'm going to be picking up more from her in the future.
I'm going to say the snarky thing to get it out of the way by saying I knew how unrealistic this was based on Ford being the president at a Real Estate company at 25. He inherited the position from his father and it seems like Valentina is also fairly rich from her alimony since she can afford to take college classes and chill at a summer house. Maybe it's their financial situations that makes the 12 year age gap a little less of an issue.
That said I really did enjoy the story. I'm not quite Valentina's age, but still after reading stories about 20-something girls finding their happily ever after it's good to see someone in their 30's getting that as well. I have the same issues that she does when it came to dating someone younger than me and thought it was really interesting to see it play out.
Ford is really mature for his age and while at the beginning of the book he was just ending his wild days, you could see they were still there under everything. It was good to see that he matured over the course of the book even though a certain passage early on suggested that there would be some serious relationship at the end of it. I didn't pay much attention to it.
The story was really believable, aside from the things that I touched on earlier on in my review. I can see how it would happen. Valentina and Ford had both grown up way too early and they complimented each other. It showed the obvious issues of the age gap, like how people would judge you in public, but it was really cute. I think this was my second Vi Keeland book and I'm going to be picking up more from her in the future.