Hearts in the City

by Sherilyn Banks

Olivia Putnam is a fiercely independent, twenty-nine year old career woman. Having survived her mother's untimely death eight years ago, she's managed to raise her younger sister all on her own along with fulfilling her dream of becoming successful corporate attorney. She has lots of money, designer clothes, and the other luxuries of life.

Two things stand in the way of Olivia finding lasting happiness: her reservations about commitment and her obsessive work habits. She's torn between finding time for her relationship and devoting time to growing her career. But when she meets successful realtor, thirty-one year old Alistair Davenport, at her best friend's wedding, her ideas about love and commitment are about to change. Although falling in love is the last thing on both their minds, Alistair's chance business proposal to Olivia proves to be the catalyst that ignites their passion for each other...

Kindle Edition

First published March 29, 2013

About the author

Hailing from the beautiful province of Nova Scotia, Sherilyn Banks has always had a thing for writing stories. Writing since the tender age of seven, using her vivid imagination to create characters and dreaming up worlds the worlds they live is one her favourite things about writing fiction.

Hard at work on her next romance series and other stand alone novels, Sherilyn looks forward to sharing her stories with her readers for a long time to come.

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Reviews

[Lady Raven RAVE! · Rating 2 out of 5]

Length: 3959 kindle
Style: African American Romance
Story: FAIR
Intimacy level: FAIRLY GOOD
Enjoyment: FAIR
Series: N/A
Price: $4.99


I do commend authors that write to entertain us. Writing a story from start to finish isn't something I personally can not do. With that being said, I really struggle with this story, and here is why.

The main characters, Olivia and Alistair seem like a great match, however, I think the author in the beginning stayed too focus on their lives separately, that it made the reader uninterested. Within the first chapter, Olivia meets Alistair at her best friends wedding. They started a conversation, seem attracted to each other , but after the wedding nothing. At this time, the author is laying out to us, the reader, both their lives as Olivia is in a relationship and Alistair is living his life. The book's length is 3959 kindle format, Olivia and Alistair, meet in chapter one, they didn't connect or talk to each other again until 1126, that is 28% of the book, they weren't even thinking about each other during this time. By that time I lost interest and that attraction sizzled out for me.

I think its important that when you start an attraction between the characters, its good to keep that momentum going. It is that attraction that is driving the reader to want to read more. I thought their romance was put on the back burner and everything else as well as the other story lines were put in its place. Simone, Olivia's best friend , she had a interesting story line that was a little trifling , but I knew more about Simone's situation and relationship more than Olivia.

Overall, I read a few more pages, but still did not feel my interest coming back. I tried sticking it out but I got lost. This could be another reader's pace, but for me it wasn't.

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