Monday, September 5, 2011

#50 and #51: Only Mine and Only Yours by Susan Mallery

I have said it before and I will say it again, Susan Mallery's books are just so good!  I have yet to read one that disappointed me.  

Last year (I think it was last year as I couldn't find record of it in this year's 52 in 52) I read Susan Mallery's Finding Perfect and loved it!  As it turns out, it was the beginning of a series of books about The Hendrix Family.  Only Mine, Only Yours, and Only His were recently released and are a trilogy of books about The Hendrix Identical Triplets, all women.  Finding Perfect centered around their friend, Pia, and it gave us a brief introduction to each sister.  Now, with this new trilogy we get to know each sister in detail.  Only Mine is Dakota's book, Only Yours is Montana's, and Only His (which has not yet been released, but I have already downloaded it to my Nook and will just be sure it's on on September 27th so the actual book can land on my Nook!) is all about the last triplet, Nevada.  Don't you love their names?  They were named by their three older brothers and as you can read in the books what they got was way better than the alternatives!  

Dakota and Montana (and even Nevada, although I haven't yet learned much about her character) are women whose stories are true page turners.  I read Only Yours in one sitting yesterday.  It was a story I could see in my head, like a movie, and I just wanted to know how it all turned out.  At 11:00 pm last night, I closed the book after seeing how her story ended (and being mad that I couldn't read the final installment today!). 

Now I have to be honest and admit that the setting of these books is a little far-fetched, but it makes for a great story.  These stories take place in a fictional town called Fool's Gold, in California.  It's a town dominated by women and sorrily lacking in men.  Needless to say, when one appears, women jump (and the great stories begin!).  Despite this, the actual stories (and yes there is a story line in each book that is about more than just love and sex) about the women are believable.  In fact, these women are the sort of women I think many of us would like to be: resilient, strong, capable of taking care of themselves without men.  Yet, as in any good romance story, they succumb every time!   Both Dakota's and Montana's stories brought me to tears.  Dakota's hit too close to home, and Montana's love story was just so touching I think you'd have to be dead not to be moved by it. 

I also can't help but admit that these are the sort of books that I wish I had at the beach with me.  They can be read in one sitting and that's usually what happens when I am in my beach chair with the water at my feet--I don't get up and can devour a book in a day, easily.  But, I was not in control of when these books were released.  But, if you haven't yet bought them and want to file away a couple of titles for good beach reads, I have just given you three!  

September 27th can get here fast enough!  Happy reading!

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