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Favorite Quotes:

‘Well you know, the old Mrs Miles meeting the new Mrs Miles.’ Rebecca stared at the phone. He made it sound like a relay race where she would hand over the baton to her successor.

She was just starting to relax in his company when he produced several travel brochures featuring exotic and very expensive locations and said that it was Rebecca’s turn to pay for their next date and why didn’t they make it a fortnight in St Lucia.

Old girl? Had her ex just called her old girl? Still standing on the doorstep was a tiny creature, only an inch or so shorter than Rebecca but with an incredibly petite frame, a narrow waist that made Rebecca instinctively pull in her stomach and tiny sparrow hands that fluttered in the air, showing off an immaculate manicure and a large diamond ring.

Rebecca remembered reading somewhere that in Nature it was always the males who had the extravagant display of plumage and they would sway and wriggle and show off everything they had to the chosen female. The whole room seemed to be waiting for Charles to fluff up his feathers and perform the mating dance thought Rebecca wildly.

My Review:

I’ve gotten a big kick out of this series and book two was as cunningly humorous and sharply written as the first. I smirked and chuckled my through this delightfully comical and lushly appointed story. Julie Butterfield has a keen sense of humor yet she cleverly hovers her story on a well-honed edge between levity and tension with uncommon agility and enviable craft. This wily author tapped all the feels from gleeful joy to crushing heartbreak with insightful observations, rueful inner musings, and pained second-guessing being par for the course. The engaging storylines were enjoyably amusing and highly entertaining while the writing was lushly detailed and briskly paced.

Two years after their divorce Rebecca’s over-bearing ex-husband alerts her to his upcoming marriage, to an obvious gold-digger, although it is Rebecca’s gold that Annabelle is aiming to mine. Her obnoxious ex-husband has managed to attract a fiancé who more than rivaled his insufferable and demanding nature. Rebecca was again having difficulty locating her spine, although, to her credit, a few vertebrae did make an occasional appearance.   However, it appeared nearly impossible to stop the steamroller of expectations and expenses that the manipulative Annabelle shrewdly kept in motion.