When Life Happened by Jewel E. AnnMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Parker Cruse despises cheaters. It might have something to do with her boyfriend sleeping with her twin sister. After a wedding day prank involving a strong laxative, that ends the already severed relationship between the twins, Parker decides to grow up and act twenty-six.
Step One: Move out of her parents' house.
Step Two: Find a job. Opportunity strikes when she meets her new neighbor, Gus Westman. He's an electrician with Iowa farm-boy values and a gift for saying her name like it's a dirty word. He also has a wife. Sabrina Westman, head of a successful engineering firm, hires Parker as her personal assistant. Driven to be the best assistant ever, Parker vows to stay focused, walk the dog, go to the dry cleaners, and not kiss Gus-again.
Step Three: Don't judge.
Step Four: Remember- when life happens, it does it in a heartbeat.
My thoughts of this book are on strike. It started happily, turned tragically and ended achingly beautiful. Parker’s story can be split in her life at its lowest and her life at its fullest. The plot is nicely constructed on the idea that life can change and happen in a blink of the eye.
When everything takes a sharp, ugly turn in Parker’s life and she doesn’t know how to surpass it, she comes to embrace the irony of her life – moving out of her parents’ house, but only just across the road, is her independence; finding a job, but not in her specialty, is better than nothing; hate the cheaters, but in a position not being able to judge, learning to forgive.
I couldn’t erase the dopey smile I had the first part of the book. It could’ve been such a sweet love story between Parker and Gus, despite the events that might’ve led them there, IF not for that major twist that I totally didn’t see coming. I hoped, for awhile, that it was just an intense, suspenseful resurection of a beautiful story to come, but I was left aching. Parker’s first life happening moment was a blow for my love belief.
Part two of the book is like a fast forward through emotions and feelings. Life happens in the company of a loving pet, a shared hurt, a peak at the world, in truth. I’m a dreamer so I enjoyed the insta-love, unrealistic but romantic nonetheless. The humour laced with the aching feelings the plot evoked and the lovely sexy scenes kept a teary smile on my face through the whole book.
Parker is the kind of character that makes your days each a favorite one – funny, energetic, spunky, loving; just like this book is a favorite of mine.
“Today is my favorite day.”
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