I chose this for the color of the cover. It's not my type of book at all. I mean, it's a romance first and foremost, and I don't particularly like romances. It did not help that I thought the main character's silly reluctance about getting involved with the hot hunk in her life just that, silly. Life is too short, lady. Just get on with it already. Anyway, for what it was, it was amusing. I liked Lucy in every other aspect, and it was funny. I solved the mystery a long time before Lucy did, but that wasn't unexpected. A negative is that it's the start of a series, which I didn't know before I picked it up - now I feel compelled to read the rest. 3 stars. In Heather Webber's first novel 'Truly, Madly' in the Valentine series, we join the reluctant, main girl Lucy Valentine as she temporarily runs her father's premier matchmaker business, Valentine Inc. in Massachusetts, while he takes a break away from the media circus surrounding his public affair.From the first pages, you can tell this is going to be a fun, easy page turning novel based on the cheeky banter between Lucy and her parents- Oscar and Judie Valentine. The story is not profound but it is a nice escape from reality as we learn about Lucy's psychic powers in finding lost objects and the reading of auras that makes Valentine Inc. so successful. A highly unique cast of characters such as the hilarious, grandchild-determined grandmother, Dovie, best friends- paediatric doctor Em and vet Marisol and multi-tasking driver Raphael who each contribute their own individual threads of stories towards love. This is underlined by the Valentine family's Cupid's curse where they are unable to find their own true love as well as Lucy's new powers of having visions of the future. Enter Sean, the ex-fire-fighter PI upstairs who helps Lucy navigate difficult waters when she accidentally comes across a buried skeleton while managing a complex client, Michael and his lost love Jennifer.What should be a straightforward client instead brings an element of mystery and propels the need for investigation. Concurrently, she becomes embroiled in scandal with the detectives from both state and local levels while anonymously helping find 'Little Boy Lost' and further so with the devious journalist, Preston who outs her psychic secret. Thought Lucy was a down to earth character that provided a lot of laughs and enjoyed her relationships throughout the story. Definitely an entertaining read and looking forward to seeing the rest of her adventures in the rest of the series.
Do You like book Follement (2014)?
Easy breezy fun read and easy to get through unfortunately was also easy to forget
—oasiis90
