Review: Waterfront Café by Mia Malone

Waterfront Café by Mia Malone
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Moving To Maine

Marie’s husband died days before their divorce was finalised. Her children are at college and her job as an account manager leaves her feeling dry and hollow. She decides to finally take a risk, hands in her notice, puts her house up for sale and travels hundreds of miles to move to Maine, over the objections of her family and friends.

When Marie arrives in her wonderful pink house with a mermaid painted on it she discovers a new life, new friends, new career and a really hot man who happens to live next door.

Brody has worked all over the world in restaurants, achieving Michelin Stars and rave reviews, even publishing a book. What he has to show for it is an empty place in his soul, two ex-wives and two kids that he doesn’t really know. What he does have is a home town waiting to welcome him back and a cafe that his uncle is willing to sell to him, the same cafe where he first learnt to cook as a child. He still feels hollow inside until a lovely woman with a warm smile and mouth that runs away with her sometimes walks into his cafe and announces she is the new tenant in the house next door to his.

This is lovely gently paced book that allows the characters to grow and develop with each turn of the page. We see how both Marie and Brody become more open and happier in their lives, not just with their romance. They are both in their fifties and are still learning about themselves. I love Marie’s sense of adventure and curiosity, her sense of fun and sweet gentleness. Brody is someone who has lived a very hard paced and demanding life and it’s cost him his marriages and children and it has mellowed him. He is not the man he was at 20 and he prefers the man he is now. All the other characters are fun and well rounded and I’m sure that this series will be as good as the other ones this author has written. I know that I will always pick up a new one by Mia Malone, her writing is sweet, sexy and believable. I can’t wait for the next book.

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