Here is my full review of Forever and a Day (Lucky Harbor) - Jill Shalvis . I fear I am going to come off as too fangirly. I should also disclaim that at least a small part of my love for this book comes from relief that the series is back on track after At Last.  

There are elements in this book that could have wrecked it - a kid, a puppy and an angry young woman in a wheelchair all of whom could have individually or in combination overtaken the main couple.  I found Josh and Grace and their growing romance so engaging that there was never any chance they'd lose my attention.  I was captivated from the beginning. It's the first book I've read in a while that I didn't want to put down and most of my difficulty choosing my next book is because I didn't want Forever and a Day to be over.

Spoiler-filled details behind the pagebreak.

This book turned out to be a mixed bag for me.  There are 4 or 5 stories I thought were very funny or interesting and I mentioned two of those (the owl and the eels) in a previous post. There were a handful that made me want to reach into the book and smack the chefs who wrote them. The majority were just kind of blah and repetitive.  It seemed as though these celebrity chefs' agents or publicists called them up and asked for an innocuous story that could be added to this book to "get their name out there."  Most of them aren't catastrophes, they're just bad nights at work. They're not badly written but they are also not very interesting.

As for those that stood out...

Run the Risk (Hqn) - Lori Foster is so-so romantic suspense at its so-soist.  It had all the problems romantic suspense can have though it still managed to be somewhat entertaining. It was at least entertaining enough that I would call it barely okay but not good.  I'm not sure it merits a long review but I am in the mood to write about the things that can make romantic suspense not really work for me, so...

(Big spoilers behind the pagebreak!)