I think I've just lost my heart. It takes a truly exquisite story to make it's way under your skin. Mommy Loves the Doggy Doctor was that story for me. Deb Kastner found beauty in a heartbreaking situation. Tragedy cost Ashley the love of her life, but hope gave her the courage to face the challenges life left behind. With a disabled daughter and a broken heart, life may not be easy, but love always finds a way to heal the cracks that pain has left behind. In this case, all it takes is a special little girl and her irresistible puppy to have this mother changing her tune.

I actually didn't realize this was a sequel and it definitely does not affect the book or understanding of it without reading the first one. The characters are quirky and fun. Anyone who loves a good children's mystery will enjoy this one. Its great for dog lovers too!

This is adorable. Dog pleads with dad for forgiveness. 

Someone on Youtube was kind enough to translate: 

"Mi stai chiedendo scusa?" (Are you apologising to me?). "Non capisco, non capisco proprio" (I don't understand, I really don't understand). "Cosa, cos'è che vuoi?" (What? What is it that you want?). "No, non funziona così" (No, that's not the way it works). "Stai sbagliando, stai sbagliando Ettore" (You are making a mistake, Ettore). "Hai capito cos'hai sbagliato?" (Have you understood what you did wrong?). "Non mi sembra che tu abbia capito" (I don't think you have understood). "Cosa? Cosa? Mi fai male" (What? What? You are hurting me). "Va bene, facciamo pace" (Alright. Let's make peace). "Pace, abbiamo fatto pace" (Peace. We have made peace).

Erotica ~ Mature 18+

Spike/Buffy get down and dirty in the naughty way.

Keenan is a celebrity, a charismatic TV talk show host and a writer of an extremely popular sex series. He also leads a weekly lunch for women, helping different women at a crossroad in their love life with his ‘male’ input. He wants to help all the women in the world to understand men better. He thinks women complicate matters. He wants to write a book about it.

Tory is a failing psychologist. She is not good with interpersonal communications, dismal with clients, but her educational credentials are excellent. She wants to write a book too. Unfortunately, their publisher only wants one book, Keenan’s, and he suggests Tory co-writes it with him.

Tory is aghast. She considers Keenan a charlatan, a TV-star/conman who rides his fame but doesn’t know anything about psychology. His advices to women are phony, of course. She decides to join his weekly lunches under a false name to prove her point. Maybe then, the publisher would publish her book instead of his.

The premise of this story is extremely silly, but like many of this author’s novels, the book raises interesting and serious questions, and not all the answers are obvious from the beginning. I read it and contemplated my own relationships and those of my friends and family. What makes a relationship work and what doesn’t? How are men and women different? Which mistakes could be avoided and which are almost inevitable?

Like many women in the book, I fancied Keenan a lot. And I happen to agree with his point of view about men, women, and relationship. Sometimes, he makes mistakes, but they only prove he is human and lives down below, among us, despite his ‘starry’ status.

I didn’t like Tory. She seems too dense, too stubborn and inflexible for a woman with psychological education. She is full of insecurities and uncertainties and camouflages them with false bravado and bluster. She criticizes Keenan loudly and publicly, and it takes her the entire book to admit even to herself that she might’ve been wrong about Keenan and many other issues. That it doesn’t take a psychology degree to have insights.

All the while, the story is rolling, the readers are enjoying themselves and laugh occasionally, and Keenan performs as only a star could.

A charming light romance, this book is bound to appeal to anyone for a bit of fluffy fun.