Zebra
Featuring: Ketch Kincaid; Benjamin Monroe
336 pages ISBN: 1420151355 EAN: 9781420151350 Kindle: B08VF9PFJY Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
After finishing reading another novel Jodi Thomas, I was reminded of how much I love her writing. I was pleased to find DINNER ON PRIMROSE HILL waiting to be read on my Kindle--lucky me. As always, I was immediately captivated by the new friends I was going to meet. Characters are Jodi Thomas’s forte--love, family, community, and trust are the building blocks for the relationships featured in her novels. All of Jodi Thomas's characters are richly real and flawed. But they seem to be unaware that there is something missing in their lives: love and belonging. They are smart, caring folks whose lives have been held ransom by circumstances and responsibilities. Now, in DINNER ON PRIMROSE HILL, Jodi Thomas is hell-bent on giving them life, and dare we hope, love.
As in all tales by Jodi Thomas, get ready to smile, laugh out loud, and sigh with wonder as the storyline unfolds page by page, chapter by chapter. Each chapter continues a story starring one of the three central couples. By the way, none of them consider themselves couples, just two people whose lives have been inexplicably connected by recent events. Pure charm.
Take Ketch Kincaid, for example. He's never settled down in any place--a child of the system, as he likes to say. He was left with a note telling anyone that found him that his name is Ketch Kincaid and that his parents weren’t born with roots. Ketch is now in Clifton Bend finishing up his graduate work after years afloat. And he meets Tuesday Raine. Guess what day of the week she was born? After spending time with Tuesday, Ketch realizes how alone he has been. Tuesday has been disrespected by many in their small community that had failed to see this lovely person with a painful past, left to fend for herself.
DINNER ON PRIMROSE HILL has several characters who are learning how limited their lives have become. Their pasts have created blockades to searching for a more rewarding, fulfilling life. Jodi Thomas carefully describes these intelligent folks with respect. There is an innate sadness about their solitude even in a crowd. They seem to share the thought that they are almost invisible. But we learn so much about these terrific characters that we hope for something more for them. Jodi Thomas is the ultimate romantic. This author believes in love. On a humorous note two professors join forces to win a grant based on a research paper about what people find attractive. This project becomes a catalyst for some pretty terrific dialog.
A heartwarming Honey Creek novel from beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jodi Thomas, featuring loveable characters and tender romance in a small-town Texas setting that has quickly become a reader favorite.
Benjamin Monroe is pretty sure how his life will play out. He’ll continue teaching chemistry in his small college, and spend his free time biking through the valley. Eventually, he’ll retire to putter around in his garden and greenhouse.His colleague, Virginia Clark, is not one for routines. She’s chatty, spontaneous, and bubbly, and before Benjamin realizes what happened, she’s talked him into collaborating on a research project—studying the mating habits of college students.
Ketch Kincaid, one of Benjamin’s star students, returned to college after serving in the army. He needs something to get his mind off his recent breakup and collecting research data might do it. And there’s another distraction on the horizon—a woman who looks like she, too, knows about heartache.Soon enough, their project, “The Chemistry of Mating,” is gaining notoriety. Friends, neighbors . . . the whole town has become involved. But no matter what the data determines, one conclusion seems inescapable: love follows its own rules . . .
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