Granted, this is a novella and with all novellas - author's don't have much legroom to get a full fleshed out romance between the to MC's. There were small traces of insta-lust and insta-love. I feel like I'm being unfair when I knock down that last star, because although the pacing was amazing and the romance made my stomach into a zoo. On the record, Janey Martin, there is nothing more important than football.”īut christ on a cracker, did these two melt me. “Off the record: there are more important things in this world than what I want. It was painful to reach the end knowing that it isn't a full length novel.Įnter our Characters: Janey Martin and Adrien Rousseau You're practically giving me a five course meal with a sunset and some tunes.Įven though the story was short, the characterization and the multitudinous thematic elements that were incorporated sang out through the pages. Even though the setting and the cultural context was secondary to the story, it felt like the story was so well connected and it just goes to show that if your characters fit into the time place you put them in. I felt of the time, and of the dread and the constant hope that was lingering to everything that everyone did. I want to start by saying the ambience that this novella adapted itself to was perfect. Never could I have imagined how much this packed in! Hell, I don't give a lot of books anything more than 3 stars -įor a novella with only fifteen chapters and two parts. I have never given a novella anything more than 3 stars. I keep falling for her lyrical writing and beautiful characters, and I don't know how to stop myself. This is my second Emma Scott story to date. What is it in English?” I whispered back. “Médecins Sans Frontières,” Adrien whispered to me. If she wrote the nutritional facts of a granola bar or even the expiry date of a fucking bar of soap. I'm at the point where I can fully acknowledge and let the world know that I will read anything this woman puts out. “Fantastique.” I rose to my feet and flipped a lock of hair over my shoulder.

One Good Man by Emma Scott