FOR THE LOVE OF MARK TWAIN BY KALYN GENSIC Paperback published September 16th 2024
Lucy O’Shields is comfortable. She’s the secretary for the English Department she graduated from, and the quirky circle of professors surrounding her office keep her busy, content, and entertained. Thankfully the Hopeless-crush-at-first-sight she nursed as a student for one of those professors was squelched long ago. Dr. Forrest Graham is uncomfortable. After ending another aimless romantic relationship, he finds his long-suppressed attraction for the department’s secretary and his former student. Lucy, much harder to ignore. Knowing she is out of bounds is doing nothing to dampen his attraction. When tragedy strikes Forrest’s family, Lucy proves once again that her friendship is indispensable. But with the new feelings simmering perilously close to love, Forrest fears losing the most important relationship in his life. At the same time, Lucy wonders if her school-girl crush has evolved into something irresistible. With help from their obtrusive but well-intentioned co-workers and friends, can Lucy and Forrest embrace feelings they’ve so long denied?
MY REVIEW
This book is hailed as a cozy academic friends to lover’s story, and I totally agree with word cozy. I started reading on a Saturday morning with a big smile on my face, loving reading all about Lucy O’shields, and her crush, that I literally couldn’t put this novel down. When I was at school, my English class was my favourite subject, and with loving, reading books, just like the best loved character Lucy. So for me I absolutely loved this whole story, with Lucy who is a student that took an English course, in 19th century American literature, for the love of books. This is Lucy’s story, during her time at school, she had a mad crush on her teacher at school, professor Forrest Graham. The new Professor, Forrest, has just been through a relationship break-up and is please that he has been offered a job as an English professor, at Paducah State University, in Western Kentucky. One of my favourite parts in the book is when, Lucy and her best friend, giggled, saying the new professor Forrest, looks like the dashing, Mr Darcy. The story then skips, forward, where out of the blue, her crush on professor Forrest is about to get even more heart pounding. Star pupil, Lucy gets a job in the office as a secretary, for the English Department, where she graduated, coming into contact with her crush Professor Forrest Graham. Forrest opens up how he enjoyed a good love story by Mark Twain. But can you predict the ending to this rom-com For the Love of Mark Twain? I must admit I didn’t, see any of these things happening. This page-turning romance novel, about Lucy O’Shields crush, to love story, I guarantee you all will deliciously love it all, and be so wrapped-up reading it, that you won’t be able to put this perfect escape novel down.
About author Kalyn Gensic
Librarian by day and crafter of cozy rom-coms by night, author Kalyn Gensic lives surrounded by stories. She resides in Texas with her charmingly grumpy husband, four precocious children, and two dogs who shed quite a lot of fur. https://www.instagram.com/kalyngensicwrites https://www.kalyngensic.com
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