The adventures of Charlotte Dodd continue with The Best Worst First Date Ever. Tenley Scott is a single mother and owner of Soup du Jour. She’s full of nervous excitement for her date with Colin, the handsome Brit who’s been hanging around the café.She’s expecting casual conversation over drinks. Maybe dinner. Possibly a second date.Not crazed ex-girlfriends, armed thugs, car crashes and a kidnapping. Worst date ever.And then Tenley finds out about NIAA, the Canadian secret spy organization. Hello, Charlotte Dodd. In a move out of a sci-fi movie, Charlotte’s missing memories are implanted into Tenley’s mind, giving Tenley top secret information about the Agency, dangerous spy missions and Charlotte’s love, Hamilton Short. Now it’s a race to keep Tenley out of the hands of those who want the information and to find a way to get Charlotte out of her head.It’s been a while since Tenley’s been on a date, but this date turns out worse – and better- than she ever expected! AMAZON 5 STARS
I have to say that the short Prologue made an interesting hook. And the rest of the book? What a delight. I enjoyed every minute of it. It was funny, surprising and unexpected. Each chapter had a short quote by different people at the beginning of it. I found myself really looking forward to that part too.
Tenley had some surprising depths to her. She looks like an every day normal busy woman. A divorced woman, a single mother, a businesswoman who is co-owner of a cafe/restaurant. Her young daughter Lucy helps keeps her going in so many ways. Tenley is also a twin sister and although that part of the story doesn't play that deeply at first, it will contain some surprises.
There were plenty of good, interesting people who added to the cast of people. But they were introduced in an easy to follow way.
I did spend a fair amount of time bouncing back and forth trying to figure out Colin (Tenley's date). Is he a good guy, a bad guy or does he fall somewhere in the middle? Is he just someone who shyly admires Tenley and asked her for a date or is there more going on?
Tenley's encounters with Charlotte are just this side of weird in a fun kind of way. After all Tenley has some of Charlotte's memories. She has memories of her brothers, Ham and some of Lottie's missions. It does lead to some embarrassment because the private nature of some of those memories.
There are several surprises that come at the end of the book. Two that I suspected but it was nice to have it confirmed. And the way that it came out was done quite nicely. If you like a good amount of action in a story this book provided that too. It was something I personally enjoyed a lot.
I enjoyed this book so much that I will be looking for more by this author. Especially if it is a continuation of the Charlotte Dodd stories.
It just seemed like I zoomed right through the book and it was over before I knew it.
I received a ARC of this book and this is my honest opinion of it.
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