Title: Fix You
Author: Beck Anderson
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Adult (Pg-13 on the steam and language)
Publication Date: September 17, 2013
Publisher: Omnific Publishing
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.When Kelly Reynolds’s husband died, he left her—the awkward, cautious one—to raise their two young boys. She’s pieced herself back together, barely. Now she takes refuge in her routine: running her kids around and running the trails near her Idaho home.
Two years after her husband’s death, a chance encounter on a run brings Andrew into her life. But Andrew is Andy Pettigrew, the Andy Pettigrew, famous actor. Kelly hates risk, and a love affair with Andrew is certainly tempting fate. She doesn’t fit into his Hollywood world. She doesn’t own a pair of Louboutins, and she couldn’t walk five paces in them if she did. Andrew oozes cool. She reeks of dork.
But despite this, they click. It may be inexplicable, but it works. However, it’s also becoming clear that Andrew struggles with the pressures of his fame. Kelly’s hold on a so-called normal life is already tenuous, and as much as she might want to indulge the fantasy, she doesn’t know how either of them is supposed to cope with stalkerazzi and tweet-happy fans with camera phones. She and Andrew both have secrets that seem impossible to keep.
Beck Anderson’s witty, engaging writing yields an emotional tale of love, loss, and all the little things that make up a life. In the end, what is it that really holds us together? Kelly must decide if love can fix two people who might be broken beyond repair.
Fix You was a sweet love story, with a good element of angst and sadness. It was a story about love and loss, and trying to find you way back to normal. The story is about Kelly a widowed mother of two boys and Andrew a famous actor. Both are dealing with the grief they have experienced with their past, but at times it seems that the grief controls them. Can the learn to live with the grief or will their relationship suffer because of it? I thought this book was okay, but would've liked to have had more interaction between the characters. I know this is a cleaner book, but I just didn't feel the chemistry between the characters. I did like the fact that Andrew didn't balk at the fact that Kelly had children. Overall it was a entertaining with a good ending!
Beck Anderson believes in the power of perfectly imperfect women and in the healing power of love. Her new novel, Fix You, grew out of those beliefs and the time to write afforded by the worst Thanksgiving blizzard she’s ever witnessed in West Yellowstone.
For Beck, the path to published novelist has taken lots of twists and turns, including a degree in anthropology, a stint as a ticket seller at a ski resort, a much-loved career as a high school English teacher, and a long tenure as a member of the best writing group ever, hands down.
Beck balances (clumsily at best) writing novels and screenplays, working full-time as an educator, mothering two pre-teen males, loving one post-40 husband, and making time to walk the foothills of Boise, Idaho, with Stefano DiMera Delfino Anderson, the suavest Chihuahua north of the border.
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2 comments:
I really like love stories where two people who are hurting find each other and fall in love. Thank you!
I'm about to start this one--I think the premise is great!
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