Showing posts with label Pamela Morsi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pamela Morsi. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi

Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi - 427 pages

Librarian DJ has just accepted the job of her dreams - running a library in a small Kansas town.  Hopefully she'll be able to put down some roots, find a "family", and make a difference with the library.  Unfortunately, she soon discovers that her landlord and chair of the library board is the mother of the guy she had a one-night stand with in college.  She's mortified to see him again.  It's made worse by the fact that he doesn't even remember her. 
I saw this book several months ago at the store and wanted to pick it up.  I decided to wait and see if the library got a copy - and they did.  It's not often you find a romance with a librarian as the main character.  I enjoyed the book although the story was a little slow at the start.  I found the characters interesting.  While there were the stereotypical library employees there was also a nice variety of other librarians in the story.  (Just a nitpicky detail - the author calls all library employees "librarians" whether they have a degree or not.  I'm used to that, but I know it bothers some readers.)  I also liked that several of the side characters had their own stories.  It wasn't just a one-dimensional romance.

Monday, December 9, 2013

Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi

Love Overdue by Pamela Morsi - 427 pages
In Love Overdue the main character, Dorothy Jarrow, is a librarian who just landed a directorship in a rural Kansas farm town.  However, since her job offer was out-of-the-blue, is the need of a librarian the only reason?  One of the board members, Viv Sanderson, is meddling and bringing D.J. to Verdant is part of it.  Viv's son, Scott, is the town's sole pharmacist and the other person Viv is using in her meddling. Unbeknownst to Scott, her has met D.J. in the past, so D.J.'s reaction to him leads him to think she is standoffish.  What this leads to is a set of interesting reactions between the pair while D.J. also learns about the town, library, and wheat harvesting and implements changes to make the library more useful to the community.

I found the storyline to be both interesting and believable.  I also enjoyed how the relationship aspect was well-balanced by the many friendships also covered, the issues at the library, and typical farming community life.