One Hundred Reflections
(An Aspen Cove Romance Book 19)
by Kelly Collins
Never-married, retired librarian Elsa Buchanan isn’t known for subtlety; she’s known for getting her way. Aging and in questionable health, she’s worried her time for falling in love is overdue. Always up for a challenge, she sets her eyes on irascible Trenton Van der Veen, who is like a first-edition hardback book—quality through and through but showing a lifetime of wear and tear. Can she crack through his binding to enter his heart, or will she have to return him for a newer edition?
Real estate mogul Trenton Van der Veen isn’t looking for love. After a long loveless marriage, he’s happy to sit back and see what pops up. In Aspen Cove to sell several languishing properties, he’s there for big bucks and quick sales, but what he finds is Elsa Buchanan, who’s offered him a deal he can’t refuse.
She’s a high-end upgrade. He’s a standard offering. Can they put aside their lifelong hurts for love, or will this be another relationship destined for the archives?
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
He wasn’t really her type, but she was his. She was breathing and had a checkbook.
“Elsa, I’m not asking to ravage your body. I’m offering to help you while you’re handicapped.” He nodded toward her cast. “A cast isn’t a handicap, and why don’t you want to ravage my body? What’s wrong with it?”
I need to move forward with my life. I’ve spent it living on the corner of anger and regret. It was a busy intersection.
She exaggerated the sway of her hips and hoped it looked sexy. For all she knew, it looked like she was working an arthritis pain out of her joint.
Elsa whipped out her lipstick and slicked on a layer. She had two rules for when she got old. Never be seen without her hair done and lipstick on, and if her kids found her incapacitated, they were supposed to call 911 and fix her up before anyone got there.
My Review:
Written in my favorite dual POV, this was a fun and breezy read that kept a delighted smirk on my face throughout perusal. Ms. Collin’s classic snark was in full flow and I was pained in having to remove many of her clever quips from my listing of Favorite Quotes, otherwise, there wouldn’t have been room for a review.
Being a more… umm… mature woman, I sank right into this tale of two over 50’s and lapped up their story like a starving dieter at an all you can eat buffet. The heroine was a sassy, vivacious, and independent woman who knew her mind, and I could completely relate to her – inside, outside, and upside down. I adored this couple and couldn’t help but root for them. I always enjoy my excursions to the quirky little town of Aspen Cove, or for that matter, anywhere Ms. Collins cares to sojourn.
ABOUT KELLY COLLINS
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International bestselling author of over 30 novels, Kelly Collins writes with the intention of keeping the love alive. Always a romantic, she blends real-life events with her vivid imagination to create characters and stories that lovers of contemporary romance, new adult, and romantic suspense will return to again and again.
Like a starving dieter at an all you can eat buffet. I can see that this was indeed a delightful offering.