Paramedic Vanessa Hollister has
put her adolescence behind her, including the unwanted label of being the new
kid in town over and over again, thanks to her father’s military career. She’s
overcome what her mother called “the biggest mistake of her life” and is
planning an elegant destination wedding in Destin, Florida, with her new
fiancé. But will the reappearance of her first husband from her
what-were-you-thinking teenage elopement disrupt her dream of an idyllic beach
wedding?
As a professional storm chaser,
Logan Hollister is used to taking risks. However, a reckless decision during
the last tornado season has him questioning the future of his team, the
Stormmeisters. Coming face to face with his ex-wife eight years after their
divorce compels him to confront his greatest regret: losing Vanessa. Does their
past give him the right to interfere with her future?
A fast-moving, powerful
hurricane throws Vanessa and Logan together as they evacuate to a storm shelter
along with other residents of the Florida Gulf Coast. Forced to spend time
together, the pair battles unexpected renewed feelings for each other.
Vanessa and Logan are faced with
a choice: should they accept, once and for all, their teenage marital mistake?
Or is God offering them a second chance at happily ever after?
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
is the first book in Beth K. Vogt’s Destination
Wedding series, and was also the first novel I had ever read by her. I wasn’t
entirely sure what to expect going in, but the storyline sounded like something
I would enjoy, so I was pretty excited to read this book. However, it didn’t
exactly live up to all of my expectations. Although it was a sweet story with
interesting twists and turns, some of it felt a little forced, and some of the
conversations were a bit stilted. I did still like this story and the
characters but unfortunately, I just didn’t love it.
I felt
for Vanessa Hollister throughout the entire course of this book. She suffered
so much from the constant moving she faced as a child, from her lack of
long-term relationships, and from the mistakes she and Logan made back when
they were first married. Now, eight years later as she’s moving on and getting
married again, she still faces the same fears of being unable to connect with
people, as she’s constantly expecting the relationships are just going to end. As
someone who struggles with some of the issues with retaining long-term
relationships, my heart hurt for Vanessa the whole time I read about her.
Logan
Hollister was a bit harder for me to relate to. Honestly, I was angry at him
for a good amount of this book because of the way he just let Vanessa go. He wasn’t
the husband he should have been to her all those years ago—now granted, she
wasn’t the perfect wife either—but I really felt like he didn’t try half as
hard as Vanessa did to make things work. He did grow on me eventually, however,
and I was able to forgive him, maybe even a little sooner than Vanessa did. In his
heart, he is a good guy, he just doesn’t always use his head when making
decisions.
All in
all, this was a good book, but I just didn’t love it, and that gives me no
choice but to award it only four out of five bookshelves. I did enjoy it, and I
would definitely recommend it, there were just some stylistic things that as a
writer, I just couldn’t get over. But, it still is a good story, and I’m still
looking forward to reading more books in the series!
Happy
reading!
To see where I’m linking up, check out my Where I Party
page.
All credit for the italicized synopsis goes to Beth K. Vogt
and Howard Books.
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