GRR Reviews Meant For Love (Gansett Island) by Marie Force

Meant for Love by Marie Force continues to Gansett Island series by focusing on a different character each book. Those who read the series in order will probably get a bit more out of it, but each book can definitely be read standalone. It's just that the main character is a little flat. It's the extra characters and the interactions that made the novel really worth reading.

Jenny is the lighthouse keeper of Gansett Island and has been for years. She needed to get away after losing her soulmate in 9/11 and the current job/residence gives her peace and new friends. But she's feeling a bit lonely, except her blind dates turned out to be disasters. Until one morning, when she was awakened at 5:45 AM by a huge lawnmower... and the delectable and oh-so-frustrating Alex Martinez, who's cutting the grass since it had been neglected for a while. She's so mad, she threw tomatoes at him. // Alex Martinez gave up his horticulture job in the US Botanic Gardens in DC to move back to the island to care for his mother with dementia and mow lawns as his family company did for a generation. But just as his life and family seem overwhelming, Jenny showed him perhaps there is more to life than just caring for others...

Alex came across as an "overwhelmed" good guy, leaving Jenny as the more sympathetic character. But as explained before, the large cast of characters on the island and their continuing adventures is what made this novel, and indeed, the series, worth reading.

Category: Contemporary

Overall Rating: 4/5

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