4 Smooches!
Synopsis
Once upon a time there were two cousins:
one golden like the sun,
one dark like midnight,
one a protector,
one a predator,
one a Woodsman
and
one a Wolf…
both owning equal,
but different,
parts of a little girl’s heart.
In this modern retelling of “Little Red Riding Hood,” the woodsman and the wolf are cousins, and Little Red is the girl with whom they both fall in love.
Beautiful Ginger McHuid, daughter of Kentucky’s premiere horse breeder, grows up on her family farm, best friends with Cain Wolfram, the son of her father’s Stallion Manager, and Cain’s cousin, Josiah Woodman, son of a local banker. Throughout their happy childhood, the three are inseparable friends, but as they mature into adults, complicated feelings threaten to destroy their long history of friendship and love.
Ginger’s Heart
*****
This is a standalone novel inspired by Little Red Riding Hood. New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to profanity and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.
(The next standalone a modern fairytale novel, Don’t Speak, inspired by The Little Mermaid, will be released in 2017.)
*****
Ginger’s Heart is part of the a modern fairytale collection, which will include five standalone, unrelated novels:
The Vixen and the Vet (Beauty & the Beast) – available now
Never Let You Go (Hansel & Gretel) – available now
Ginger’s Heart (Little Red Riding Hood) – available March 22, 2016
Don’t Speak (The Little Mermaid) – available 2017
Swan Song (The Ugly Duckling) – available 2018
REVIEW
OK. I have a few things to say about this book but I want to be very clear right now before I get started. I really liked this book. I gave it four stars. Which means I found it very enjoyable. I loved the angst and drama. And man there is a wicked love triangle and those are always my weakness. And gosh, it was ridiculously sexy and there was so much sexual tension that I was on the edge of my seat. All of these are amazing things that I loved about this book. The writing is also third person from three different people’s point of view and this author is one of the few authors that I don’t mind reading even though third person is my least favorite to read. Her writing is sing songy, brilliant, and just gorgeous and this book was no exception. The characters. Well, I loved them all. Which is hard because this is a love triangle after all. A BIG ONE, at that.
“Couldn’t choose between the two of you if my life depended on it! That’d be like choosin’ between my hands and my feet!”
But I loved both Cain and Woodman for Ginger. I mean, there is an obvious winner through out most of the story because you can really tell who Ginger’s heart belongs to but still it is hard won. Their story spans decades really and it was so incredibly hard. So many miscommunications and so many heart breaks. Ugh. It hurt but it was one of those that hurt so good.
“I’ve always known! It’s always been you.”
This story really is fantastic and I loved it. I wanted to make sure I conveyed how awesome this story is before I say this. I had one huge problem for me that really made this book a bit difficult for me to keep reading and that is that it was very repetitive. Basically I got almost every interaction and every conversation from all three characters point of view and this kind of made the book lag for me. It is a very long book and I honestly feel like maybe 30% of it could have been omitted. Which is why I bumped it down one star because otherwise this would have been a 5 star book for me. Bummer but these things happen. Still a great story that is definitely worth the read.
“And for you, darlin’, Id wait until I read out of days. And when I ran out of days, I’d wait for you in heaven. And when you got there, through every eternity, I’d wait for you and your lion’s heart to give me another chance, to choose me again.”
~Amie
