The author's goal was to approach a romance in a realistic way, and most of the time I felt that she achieved that. I don't know much about stroke patients but I got the feeling O'Connor didn't either. Aside from that, the tackled uncomfortable details with great honesty that left me really rootin...
I think I loved this book so much because it's atypical for a romance novel. The hero is a paraplegic who is likely to stay that way. The heroine is dumpy and not exactly a bombshell. Both kind of view each other as settling initially. But somehow they form a love connection, and the bond is intense...