Goodreads Summary:
1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here.
Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the "Unexpectedly Alone" to become his roommates. Fifteen years later the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving.
2004. Please tell me how I can convince you to move out.
Toby Dobbs has met Leah Pilgrim from across the road, and they're falling in love. But before they can begin a new life together, Toby and Leah must help Toby's house of sweet slackers and lovelorn misfits grow up, solve their problems, and set themselves free. But can their new relationship survive the test?
My thoughts:
I would like to say that I found the description above a little misleading but at the same time accurate. I went into this book thinking it was going to be a love story that would start somewhere in the beginning. The lovebirds don't get together until nearly the end of this book. I liked the slow pace of most of the book. Each character had development and I felt invested in all of them. Then the last twenty or so pages felt really rushed, as if the author suddenly realized she was already over 400 pages. I think the rushed ending did an injustice to a sweet book. I feel that in some ways the rushed ending has ruined my view of the book over all. I am hoping after a few days of thinking on it I go back to really liking this book. I loved that none of these characters were normal in anyway. I loved that each chapter unfolded a little more of the story without being overly predictable, that is until the end.
Over all I would say I liked this book but I didn't love it like I thought I would. I would recommend it to those who like Brit writers.
While writing this review I was listening to my dog run around the apartment after her bath.
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