written by Harriet Klausner on 04/01/2004
Life According to Lucy
Cindi Myers
Harlequin Flipside, Feb 2004, $4.50, 218 pp.
ISBN: 0373441843
Tired of his tenant's checks bouncing "all the way to San Antonio", Mr. Kepetsky evicts Lucy Lake. Though a bit embarrassed to see her worldly possession curbside, Lucy refuses to take the blame as it was not her fault she lost her job when the software company shut down and she spent more than she should shopping at the mall to cure her unemployment blues. Gardener Greg "bronzed muscles" Polhemus volunteers to help her move her stuff, but Lucy rejects his offer that leads her to reminiscences about her deceased mom always providing her advice. Her dad comes by and asks Lucy to come home and live with him.
At her father's home, two things quickly add to Lucy's feel of failure. Her dad's social life is so much greater than hers and her mom's garden is withering away. Lucy decides to get expert advice on the garden that she plans to save. She goes to Polhemus Gardens where she meets the owner Greg. He works in the dirt with her to save her mother's beloved rose garden and solves her other problem as they begin to fall in love.
Though Lucy is a flit, chick lit fans will enjoy this amusing contemporary romance as the heroine is likable and the hero is a knight in shining armor promising his beloved a rose garden. The lighthearted romp never quite takes itself seriously so that the audience will chuckle at Lucy's lament and value her remembrances of her cherished mom. Dad adds depth to a fun facetious farce.
Harriet Klausner
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