agrutle's review
5.0
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Reading all about Dorothy Jarrod, or DJ as she is called in the book, was like watching one of those movies on Hallmark. I say Hallmark because they seem to be more about real life than those movies on Lifetime. Anyway, this book was like one of those movies where you root for the girl to find the guy and fall in love with him and make babies.
The author makes it easy for you to like DJ. She's sweet, caring and wants to find her place, you know that place where you can settle down and have a life, be apart of a community. So DJ moves to Verdant, Kansas, a hole in the wall town, to become the new librarian. The first person she meets isn't so nice but then she meets Viv Sanderson, a whirlwind of a person that you just can't help but love. Settling in to her life here was easy and then she meets Viv's son Scott, and its a flash from her past that she wasn't expecting. He doesn't know her and she's grateful and irked.
Scott is a hard working guy. He's the pharmacist in town and all around nice guy. He was married to a woman but she broke his heart. Now Viv keeps pushing him together with the new librarian, whom he's pretty certain wants nothing to do with him and really she's kind of stodgy for his tastes. One thing that bothers him is she looks like the sparkly girl from his past and he knows that shes not her.
Watching Scott and DJ dance around each other was highly entertaining. DJ wanted to forget the past but she couldn't get past her attraction to Scott. Then Scott couldn't stop thinking about sparkly girl from his past enough to see past the boring librarian front that DJ had going on. When he finally sees her for who she is and she stops fighting him getting close its cute to watch how effortlessly they click. This book is for sure a winner and a must read.
Reading all about Dorothy Jarrod, or DJ as she is called in the book, was like watching one of those movies on Hallmark. I say Hallmark because they seem to be more about real life than those movies on Lifetime. Anyway, this book was like one of those movies where you root for the girl to find the guy and fall in love with him and make babies.
The author makes it easy for you to like DJ. She's sweet, caring and wants to find her place, you know that place where you can settle down and have a life, be apart of a community. So DJ moves to Verdant, Kansas, a hole in the wall town, to become the new librarian. The first person she meets isn't so nice but then she meets Viv Sanderson, a whirlwind of a person that you just can't help but love. Settling in to her life here was easy and then she meets Viv's son Scott, and its a flash from her past that she wasn't expecting. He doesn't know her and she's grateful and irked.
Scott is a hard working guy. He's the pharmacist in town and all around nice guy. He was married to a woman but she broke his heart. Now Viv keeps pushing him together with the new librarian, whom he's pretty certain wants nothing to do with him and really she's kind of stodgy for his tastes. One thing that bothers him is she looks like the sparkly girl from his past and he knows that shes not her.
Watching Scott and DJ dance around each other was highly entertaining. DJ wanted to forget the past but she couldn't get past her attraction to Scott. Then Scott couldn't stop thinking about sparkly girl from his past enough to see past the boring librarian front that DJ had going on. When he finally sees her for who she is and she stops fighting him getting close its cute to watch how effortlessly they click. This book is for sure a winner and a must read.
roniquereads's review against another edition
3.0
For a while I really wanted to be a librarian. I wanted to be a librarian for pretty much the same reasons DJ, the main character in this book, became one. It seems like a quiet life. Everyone overlooks the librarian. It seems like an easy way to lead a peaceful life. As a bookseller, your main focus is sales. You have to bring in a certain amount of dollars to keep your business afloat and secure your job. As a librarian, you need to bring in patrons and be of use to the community so that your funding stays stable. Quite similar. When DJ moves to a rural town in Kansas to become their head librarian, finding ways to bring patrons into her new library is her main focus. Her intention is to lead a quiet life with her puppy Dewey, alone in Kansas.
Sad, sort of right?
What DJ is actually trying to do is hide. She's not on the run from anyone, she's just trying to fit into the stereotype of the spinster librarian so that the townspeople don't go rooting through her past and find out she's a single child of parents who didn't want her. There was that one Spring Break a while ago where she let her hair down, literally, and fell into abandoned passion with a stranger. She didn't even catch his name. Perhaps if she did, she would have known that he was the son of the woman who hired her for her new job.
Oops.
Watching that storyline untangle is entertaining. That story mixed with the storyline of Mrs. Sanderson and the other townspeople, made the book overall heart-warming. For a Romance novel, this does not unfold exactly like the stories that have become "traditional" Romance of late. It's more of a Contemporary novel with romantic overtones. Think Nicholas Sparks. The ending needed something. Like, an ending. Possibly an epilogue. We do like our happily-ever-afters, us romance readers.
Sad, sort of right?
What DJ is actually trying to do is hide. She's not on the run from anyone, she's just trying to fit into the stereotype of the spinster librarian so that the townspeople don't go rooting through her past and find out she's a single child of parents who didn't want her. There was that one Spring Break a while ago where she let her hair down, literally, and fell into abandoned passion with a stranger. She didn't even catch his name. Perhaps if she did, she would have known that he was the son of the woman who hired her for her new job.
Oops.
Watching that storyline untangle is entertaining. That story mixed with the storyline of Mrs. Sanderson and the other townspeople, made the book overall heart-warming. For a Romance novel, this does not unfold exactly like the stories that have become "traditional" Romance of late. It's more of a Contemporary novel with romantic overtones. Think Nicholas Sparks. The ending needed something. Like, an ending. Possibly an epilogue. We do like our happily-ever-afters, us romance readers.
kbranfield's review
4.0
4.5 stars. Pamela Morsi’s Love Overdue is an absolutely fabulous novel and I savored every word of this entertaining and engaging story. This captivating romance is full of charming and quirky characters that are incredibly life-life and likable. The small town setting gives the story a warm, cozy feeling and adds to the story’s appeal.
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srah's review
3.0
She seemed like a relatively realistic portrayal of a librarian, which can be a sticking point for some people I know.
Viv would be a nightmare as a mother-in-law. You can tell she would meddle way too much and disregard the family’s rules.
I felt like it left too much unresolved and unsaid. It bothered me that we never got to see
Also, why did this romance novel have to have so much in it?!?!
Viv would be a nightmare as a mother-in-law. You can tell she would meddle way too much and disregard the family’s rules.
I felt like it left too much unresolved and unsaid. It bothered me that we never got to see
Spoiler
Scott’s reaction to finding out who she was. It felt like that was going to be a point of conflict and then it was just -*BAM* - suddenly the “8 years later” epilogue. Also I thought we’d get more insight into her childhood. It was presented that she was unwanted and spent a lot of time escaping to the library as a kid, but I thought she would unpack that or discuss it more.Also, why did this romance novel have to have so much
Spoiler
suicide
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Abandonment
nickym96's review against another edition
4.0
So good ... until the end. I'm all about the happily ever after, but I really would like more information on how they got there. I spent the whole book waiting on what would happen when Scott finally realized that DJ was his never forgotten ONS ... and we never got to see it. I feel kind of ripped off. Other than that, I liked the book a lot.
tasha_fullybooked's review against another edition
2.0
The premise of the book is what drew me in. It sounded like such a fun read, but sadly it was not. It had some great moments, but they were few and far between with a whole lot of dull for the in-between. Most of the book I ended up skimming. I enjoyed DJ and Scott and all the townspeople, but it was a bit too bland.
The story took entirely to long to get off the ground. Scott and DJ had very little interaction in the start. When the did start to interact, the book was almost over. And the ending was horrendous. It was so abrupt that I literally was scrolling back pages (I read this on my iPad) to make sure I hadn't skipped any pages. I figured maybe the digital arc accidently omitted the end pages, but no that's just how the book ends. I must say, it was a good way to go out.
Maybe if the book had spent more time on the relationship building of DJ and Scott and less of the townspeople, I would have enjoyed it more. But with the way it ended, Love Overdue lost even more points with me.
The story took entirely to long to get off the ground. Scott and DJ had very little interaction in the start. When the did start to interact, the book was almost over. And the ending was horrendous. It was so abrupt that I literally was scrolling back pages (I read this on my iPad) to make sure I hadn't skipped any pages. I figured maybe the digital arc accidently omitted the end pages, but no that's just how the book ends. I must say, it was a good way to go out.
Maybe if the book had spent more time on the relationship building of DJ and Scott and less of the townspeople, I would have enjoyed it more. But with the way it ended, Love Overdue lost even more points with me.
connieholladay's review against another edition
2.0
I wanted to like this book but it was not my thing. I love a good romance but this was just not my thing. Not worth reading.
haewilya's review against another edition
3.0
I didn’t really liked it. But I didn’t hate it either. I was more interested with the grandma and the dog and the weird library employee than the main protagonists. It was still fun reading about small town life though.
romancebibliophile's review against another edition
3.0
I enjoyed the book as a whole, but found the ending frustrating. There was one major question I wanted answered, that we didn't get see play out.