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Quickly-Hot Italian comedic hunk, struggles with desire for his life time love (Dr.Wanna Becoldass) who loved someone else and has closed her heart.

Elizabeth- I liked the fact that the female lead was not a ditty blond but an accomplished self-made Dr. She is suffering from a pain so deep her life revolves around the scar. She stays away distant, uses people till they get close then she walks away. She gave herself to Nico, years ago and regrets it and is devastated when she is trapped into working near him treating his ill niece. This begins her amazing rant and crazy ass process of avoiding having a conversation about what happened. Her character lost me for a bit here. She was outspoken honest and blurted out very personal information to co workers and friends but couldn't talk to her "friend". This was a guy she had known her whole life. I found it irritating how she acted and out of character. Okay I must be fair it was explained by her juvenile heartbreak and horrible childhood experience. Meh, it was over played IMHO. I liked her nerdy love of Start Wars and her references to lines form the movies. I loved her knitting club, what a bunch of quirky nutty drunken fun women. I finished the book thinking I may want to learn to knit.
Nico- Italian mega hunk, ex underwear model and current TV star. He was childhood friends with Elizebeth, we he tortured her like any little boy does when he likes a girl. He stood by and watched her fall for another boy, held her when that boy died and loved her for the first time. He has naked gorgeous women throwing themselves at him, and it makes hard to try to reconnect with this girl. She walked out on him like she did all her "men" without another word after one night when they were 17. Now he's taking care of his sick niece, and demands she be their Dr. His mother is all for this, and plays one funny matchmaker. He cooks nearly naked, speaks Italian, successful, is tall dark and handsome, yeh everyone wants him. His mind is set on one girl, but he finds his one may not happen.
Power read last night. This one started out strong, then slowed towards the middle and then raced me through the last quarter of the story. This is not a little short story it is a full length novel. I really liked Nico, he was sucker punched by Elizebeth and still kept his cool. His family were the perfect mix of everything and lots of fun. Elizebeth, was a difficult character to like. She needed therapy years ago to recover from her issues. I really liked her ability to stand up bush her butt off and move on. I just found her constant self questioning and cold as stone attitude to be irritating. It was semi predictable, when is a romance not ? I liked it, not loved it. I would read this authors work again.