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of small town romance like Jill Shalvis and Robyn Carr will love this book! Love is Better the Second Time Around

A Forever Kind of Love, by master storyteller Farrah Rochon, is a delightful tale of getting a second chance at your first love.
It takes sassy New Yorker Mya Duboiss grandfather dying to bring her back to her hometown, Gauthier, Louisiana, While it has beenyears since she fled, Mya plans on staying less thanhours to avoid reopening emotional scars, One of which is suave baseball star Corey Anderson who broke her heart, But, Cory has other ideas, as Mya is the only woman he has ever loved and wants to win back her trust and love, Mya postpones returning to New York when her grandmother is suddenly hospitalized, Cory is adamant about wooing Mya, and letting her see he is not the bad boy he once was, but can still make her toes tingle, As Mya realizes the promise of love with a mature Cory, she wonders if her biggest secret will jeopardize their relationship,

The first book in the Bayou Dream series is a perfect blend of Southern charm, the intrigue of small town life and delightful characters, The relationship between Mya and Cory has the right amount of tenderness, sweetness and sensuality to keep readers up all night, The downhome characters are real and endearing and the prose so natural you will feel as you right at home as the storylines play out, The pacing is great and the transition between the past and present is seamless, Rochon does an excellent job of creating the small town ambiance and the economic issues to keep these towns viable,

Utterly charming with deft characterizations and the right touch of humor and wit makes this book a winner for me, I so look forward to reading the next book in the series, I recommend this book to readers who enjoy an oldfashioned, small town romance story with a modern twist,

This book was provided by the author for review purposes,

ed by Beverly
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This is first book I've read by this author, . . it's an OK read just NOT quite what I expected, . . there is TOO much focus on the small madeup town of Gauthier, . . even though I like the WHOLE idea of the small closeknit community, . . I wish the author focused more on the REKINDLED romance between Mya and Corey because it was EXTREMELY slow in developing, . . many times I wanted to skip ahead, . . and the BIG secret Mya kept from Corey is UNEXPECTED, maybe, . . but not so SHOCKING in the whole scheme of things, . . I also felt like the ending was bit RUSHED, . . I ENJOYED most of the cast, . . and DEFINITELY hope to read more about Jamal and Phylicia, This book was a good, solid read, It's the first in Rochon's Bayou Dreams series, and I liked both the characters and the setting, The story centers on Mya Dubois, a woman who grew up in Gauthier, Louisiana, and got out as soon as she possibly could, Having been awayyears, she is now home for the funeral of the grandfather who raised her, Before you roll your eyes, though, I'll point out that this is definitely NOT a "good girl comes back to small town and decides to repent of her big city ways" type of story.


Mya starts to appreciate Gauthier in a whole new way throughout the book, but that doesn't mean she stops loving her life and successful New York career.
It just gets more complicated,

The chief complication Corey Anderson, Mya's high school boyfriend who has experienced success in his own right before returning to teach and coach in Gauthier, Mya and Corey never forgot each other, and given the circumstances laid out in Rochon's novel, I found it believable that they would still be unable to completely move on, despite each of them having had other relationships since becoming adults.
The unfinished business between Mya and Corey provides instant tension, and even though it takes a little time, it does spark into a hot and quite satisfying romance,

I thought Mya was a little quick to forgive Corey given what happened between them and given that there wasn't too much explanation for why he did what he did all those years ago.
However, even with that quibble, I loved this story and have already bought the next in the series, Small town romances can be the sweetest thing or the most painful tragedies ever, depending on how the author approaches it, After all, we need a reason for the city heroine to stay, and often, authors resort to forcing the heroine using all kinds of contrived reasons while, inexplicably, having the rest of the folks in town shame the heroine for having dared to venture outside the borders of the small town even as these people celebrate the hero for making it big in the city.
In other words, small town romances can easily be throwbacks to the more annoying antifeminist notions, and such stories should be approached with caution,

Farrah Rochon is normally an author whose plotting tend to be riddled with gaps in logic, but, to my pleasant surprise, A Forever Kind Of Love is a pretty decent small town romance.
It is only in the last few chapters that the author loses control of her story and resorts to some unimaginative use of clichés that end up sabotaging her story.
I'd be discussing this matter, so this means there would be major spoilers present in this review, You know what to do,

Mya Dubois and Corey Anderson were the classic good girl/bad boy pairing fifteen years ago, until she found him happily enjoying the cavorting of a halfnaked hussy.
In a pretty unusual twist to the usual "it's all a misunderstanding" scenario, this time around, the hero really did cheat on the heroine back then, They were teenage brats back then, so perhaps this can be chalked up to youthful stupidity on his part,

At any rate, she decided to leave Gauthier ASAP, Shortly after, she found out that she was pregnant, but she soon miscarried, Mya never told Corey, and given that he was cheating on her and planning to head out of town on his own, I don't blame her,

That was then, Today, Mya returns to the Louisiana small town after the death of her grandfather, Her grandmother collapses shortly after the funeral, and Mya can't help getting involved in some local small town drama subsequently, so Mya isn't going back to New York City anytime soon.
She also learns that Corey has come home to stay, and even became close to her family in the recent months, Can they have a successful second chance this time around

One thing that really stands out to me here is how well Mya stands out as a welldrawn character in her own right.
Sure, she can be abrasive, but I can understand that, She didn't have many happy memories in Gauthier, and the few happy memories she had with Corey are tainted by the events leading up to the breakup, Mya's reasons for leaving and coming back feel real rather than contrived, I can certainly relate to the poor dear,

What is interesting here is that Mya may have issues, but she also comes off like a normal person, She isn't a case of walking baggage, Her career in the city isn't portrayed as a negative she is not desperately unhappy living there, The people here don't treat her like dirt, In fact, there is a powerful scene where the heroine meets an old friend, who ended up working behind a pharmacy counter because she became pregnant young and ended up unable to make use of the scholarships she was offered.
When

Mya claims that she needed to leave Gauthier, or else she'd end up making compromises that she would regret for the rest of her life, she's not lying.


I like that the author can create scenes like this to make the heroine's issues resonate with me, and I especially appreciate how the author doesn't just pile on the heroine like many authors of small town romances tend to do.
This isn't a "blame the ho for leaving the small town how dare she spurns her duty to be a wife and mother to the hero!" story, that's for sure.


I'm not keen on the hero, however, He knows he was in the wrong back in those days, but instead of being remorseful or super romantic in order to win the heroine back that would be too easy, I guess he just prods and pokes and pushes at her hot buttons.
I guess annoying one's way into the heroine's panties is the way to go if you are a romance hero I don't see any hint of convincing maturity that would make me think of him as a suitable husband material.


And this is where I come to the real problem of this story the part where the author loses the plot, Remember the miscarriage Well, the heroine is conflicted about telling him, and I can understand her fear, By this point, the author has two choices: have the hero behave like a mature fellow and mourn with the heroine of what could have been, or be a colossal asshole and accuse the heroine of being all kinds of whore, putting her city career over her dead baby and other bizarre nonsense.


Perhaps the author believe that the hero behaving this way would create some fireworks for the obligatory conflict moment before the happy ending, Even if this is the case, the hero's behavior isn't just ridiculous, it's also predictable and clichéd, Despite my reservations about Corey up to that point, I thought this book was shaping up to be a pretty good read and it certainly deserved something better than this lame and overused late stage conflict.
The author introduces this conflict shortly before the happy ending, so the hero doesn't even need a good grovel to back into the heroine's panties,

Worse, the author has the heroine's family bludgeoning her with the fact that she "belongs" to the small town, so the heroine ends up staying, her realistic reservations about everything else all swept under the rug for this convenient happy ending.
I don't know why the author took the pains to create a heroine with realistic insecurities if she's just going to have Mya run like Mary Poppins on crack for the happy ending, shrieking that she is finally home or something like that.


At any rate, A Forever Kind Of Love is a pretty unexpected kind of good read, one I never suspected that the author is capable of delivering, until somehow the last dozen or so pages got switched with those from a more clichéaddled "small town is best if you are the heroine BEST, YOU HEAR ME, BECAUSE EVERYTHING ELSE WILL NOT DO SMALL TOWN OR DEATH!" story.
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