Book #3: "A Walk in the Park" ... Finished!!

Book #3 "A Walk in the Park" by Jill Mansell: "She'd learned her lesson; life was here to be lived and risks needed to be taken. It was the only way." page 430
   Jill Mansell's "A Walk in the Park" mainly follows the life of Lara. Lara left her home, her boyfriend, and seemingly everything else behind 18 years ago and no one seems to know why but now she is back and it is one thing after the other. She comes face to face once again with her old boyfriend Flynn, and gives him the surprise of his life. Between the drama with Flynn, her best friend Evie, and trying to move back into her old family home that is now her's Lara stays pretty busy.    
   "A Walk in the Park" was, once again, one of those easy predictable romance novels that I occasionally will pick up just as something dependable to read. One can almost always can have the plot predicted by the end of the first chapter but for some reason that doesn't stop us slightly hopeless romantics/bored people from picking these kinds of books up and enjoying them none the less.
    The only thing that I personally didn't really care for was the unnecessary gay relationships that Manell thought would be a good idea to throw into the story when honestly it would have been just fine without it. I just hate that everywhere I go, everything I watch, or read it is there. Constantly. If you are a supporter or you have made the choice to be in a gay relationship yourself I have nothing against it but it doesn't mean that I want to read all about it in the books that I read or the shows that I watch. That is all on the topic.
    I will say this however, even though Mansell's novel was at first glance going to be like all the others, and in the end let's be honest it was, but I will give credit where credit is due at times while reading it I honestly had no idea how it was going to work out to get the final classic result that I figured she was going for or even why somethings were being mentioned to begin with. But in the end it did all work out, as always, and all the strange sidetracked stories did end up making sense. 390 
   Overall good read, don't know if I will be reading anything else anytime soon by Mansell but I guess you never know. On to book #4 we have "The American Heiress" by Daisy Goodwin. I have heard some good things about this book and I splurged and bought it for myself for Christmas so hopefully it will be worth it. 
     Page Count: 1109 pages
  
    That's all for now,
       Michaela Jane