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Riley and His Girls

de Janis Hudson

Sèrie: Tribute, Texas (book 3)

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When her best friend was nominated for a Bronze Star one year after her death, Amy Galloway went to Tribute, Texas, to support her friend's widower--and children. Never one to put down roots, Amy was surprised by the warm welcome she received from builder Riley Sinclair and his adorable daughters. But Amy hadn't expected to be attracted to handsome Riley. Nor had she expected the girls to treat her almost like...well, like a mom. And as the Sinclairs drew her further into their circle of love, Amy began to realize that Tribute might just be the home she'd been searching for all her life....… (més)
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This had the potential for plenty of emotion and drama, however, every issue resolved too easily and falling in love happened so so quickly in circumstances that should have overflowed with reluctance.

Amy shows up on the doorstep of her deceased best friend’s husband to tell him how his wife died as a member of the national guard the previous year and she’s also there to deliver some Christmas gifts the wife prepped for their three daughters.

Riley and his daughters welcome Amy into their lives with open arms, which felt a little off to me, not one of the girls questioned this woman basically taking their mom’s place, and Riley had been in love with his wife since childhood, he hadn’t been with any other woman, I just felt like embarking on a new relationship should have been much more fraught and hesitant for him.

The only person who doesn’t welcome Amy is Riley’s caricature of a mother-in-law who has antiquated notions of femininity and unfortunately the friction between her and Amy is ironed out in a way that I found disappointing and contrary to the person Amy professed to be, and unfortunately, it underscored the overall feeling that Amy was squeezing herself into every aspect of her best friend’s old life.

I also could not get into the romance between Amy and Riley. I don’t know whether it was the chemistry feeling forced with so much emphasis on prolonged stares they share or the fact that they barely know each other before their “happily ever after” (for example, they go on exactly one date, and the Christmas gift Riley gives Amy, much like the resolution to Amy’s issues with the mother-in-law, doesn’t remotely jibe with the woman the author has described Amy as). There’s also the problem that Amy has moved to her best friend’s home town, taken a job with her best friend’s husband, bonded with the best friend’s kids and the best friend’s mom. Amy isn’t a stalker, it’s clear she’s genuine, yet there’s still something very uncomfortable in the way that she inserts herself into her deceased friend’s world.

I can’t help wondering if the book had explored who Amy is more, gone deeper with the story of her unstable childhood, gone deeper with how it felt to have survived that firefight while witnessing her best friend give up her life for her, gone deeper as far as her post military life is concerned, rather than her easily landing a job with Riley, show her struggling, show her trying to figure out what to do, so that maybe her immediately clinging to someone else’s family might have felt a bit more worthy of empathy rather than like she was violating the friend code. ( )
  SJGirl | Dec 11, 2019 |
Sargeant Amy's best friend was killed in Iraq, and a year after the fact she comes to Tribute, Texas with Christmas packages from her friend for the widowed Dad and his three girls. They take to her…and she winds up marrying Dad. ( )
  nancynova | Apr 27, 2017 |
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When her best friend was nominated for a Bronze Star one year after her death, Amy Galloway went to Tribute, Texas, to support her friend's widower--and children. Never one to put down roots, Amy was surprised by the warm welcome she received from builder Riley Sinclair and his adorable daughters. But Amy hadn't expected to be attracted to handsome Riley. Nor had she expected the girls to treat her almost like...well, like a mom. And as the Sinclairs drew her further into their circle of love, Amy began to realize that Tribute might just be the home she'd been searching for all her life....

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