Claire is (suddenly?) single, in her thirties, having married her high school sweetheart Ron, and never really dated ever. She's also mourning the loss of her fertility after one too many miscarriages. Except Ron won't sign the divorce papers. Almost twenty years after her last date, she's back out into the wild, finding frogs all over the place, and not a prince in sight. It seems her friends keep finding losers for her to blind date... So why is her ex Ron trying to get back into her good graces, after nearly destroying her during her time of grief? And is adopting a hyperactive wiener dog puppy, Dixie, a solution to her problems?
Definitely LOL at times, if also a bit teary-eyed, as this is more sitcom than romcom, with super uncomfortable situations. Like meeting Jed, Abel, and Cain at a church speed-dating event, each of whom wants to talk about the Bible or proper role of a wife. Then Christian came along and asked her to get the heck out of there... Only to try to seduce her into bed, with some VERY unholy words. Funny! 4.5/5 for the laughs, not too much romance here though.
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GRR Reviews There Are No Men (Rom-Com on the Edg by Carol Maloney Scott
There Are No Men is about choices in life and compromises made, in a rom-com format.
To recap... Divorcee Claire tried so many times to get pregnant and miscarried she had to get a hysterectomy, and divorced her insensitive husband. However, she can't seem to find anyone real to date, as her dates are one disaster after another. She just wants a thirty-something man worthy of a second date! And she does have some prospects... Justin was only 20-something, with looks that can melt panties, and has a cougar fetish. Dr. Nathan is charming and handsome but has his cardiology practice that he barely stole time from... Then there's the writer who lived across from her place, who also has a hard rock night gig, and is handsome as sin. So who should Claire go after?
For someone who's infertile, Claire seems to dwell on that... way too much, as if she had PTSD, which is... not good. The push-pull about the choices life throws at her was fine, if a bit embarrassing. But the ending was a bit on the meh side.
Category: Rom-com / contemporary
Primary Plot: Woman can't find someone decent to date... Or perhaps she's just looking at the wrong places?
Tropes: triangle, everyone but you
Overall Rating: 3/5
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