Friday 25 October 2019

Book Review: LOVE IN DUE TIME by L.B. Dunbar

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LOVE IN DUE TIME, an all-new second chance romantic comedy from L.B. Dunbar is available now!


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Naomi Winters will be forty—soon-ish—and she’s only been with one man. One night. One time. Long ago. She believes everything happens for a reason, and the universe spoke about Nathan Ryder.

Nathan Ryder isn’t the same man who hightailed his bike out of Green Valley eighteen years ago. As a rule breaker, women are one area he acts a fool. Case in point…the local librarian. He can’t get a read on her, but she’s one risk he’s willing to take. Again.

What do an eccentric librarian and a sexy silver biker have in common? More than you think.
The due date on their love might not be expired after all.


'Love in Due Time' is a full-length, contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Green Valley Library series.


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*****
MY THOUGHTS

I am a fan of L.B. Dunbar’s romances featuring main characters in their 40s, so there was no way I was going to miss out on reading LOVE IN DUE TIME. It’s part of Penny Reid’s Smartypants Romance world and is set in Green Valley, the place where we first met Penny Reid’s Winston Brothers.

This book can definitely be read as a standalone but I urge Penny Reid fans who are familiar with Green Valley and its inhabitants to read this as soon as you can get your mitts on it. The revelations will BLOW. YOUR. MIND!!! That’s all I am saying, because it’s back to the main feature.

LOVE IN DUE TIME is a second chance romance for Naomi Winters and Nathan Ryder. These star-crossed lovers meet again after 18 years. They’re somewhat greyer but the embers of attraction are still warm and it doesn’t take much for these two to catch fire. Their continued attraction is undeniable, but it’s paired with the excitement and awkwardness of a new love. And the at-times awkwardness between these two is delightful. I had a good laugh at some of the unintended scrapes they got themselves into.

This romance does not come without troubles, though. Nathan’s decision to return to Green Valley causes friction with members of the Iron Wraiths Motorcycle Club. There are reasons for his departure all those years ago and those reasons remain. Naomi may have stayed in Green Valley but she’s been battling her own demons as she carries the guilt of an event that split her family apart many years ago. Her salvation has been her long-standing job at the local library but even this is under threat as government budgetary cuts may signal the end of the library altogether. And if that’s not enough, as a long-practising Wiccan, she’s been the ideal target for intimidation by the town’s less accepting residents.

I am not familiar with Wiccan practises, and its inclusion in the storyline was informative rather than irritating to me; I typically avoid romance books where established religions and belief systems are a running theme. On a lighter note, as important as Wicca is to Naomi, she’s able to joke about it, especially when it involves her cauldron and Nathan’s wand. *snort*

LOVE IN DUE TIME is romantic, funny, informative and entertaining. Highly recommended.


*****

About L.B. Dunbar
L.B. Dunbar loves the sweeter things in life: cookies, Coca-Cola, and romance. Her reading journey began with a deep love of fairy tales, medieval knights, Regency debauchery, and alpha males. She loves a deep belly laugh and a strong hug. Occasionally, she has the energy of a Jack Russell terrier. 

Accused—yes, that’s the correct word—of having an overactive imagination, to her benefit, such an imagination works well. Author of over two dozen novels, she’s created sweet, small town worlds; rock star mayhem; MMA chaos; sexy rom-coms for the over 40; and intrigue on an island of redemption. In addition, she is earning a title as the “myth and legend lady” for her modernizations of mythology as elda lore. 

Her other duties in life include mother to four children and wife to the one and only.


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