BOOK REVIEW- LOVE ME TENDER by Mimi Barbour

A young mother’s eight-year-old secret… 

Anne Pichette is an eighteen-year-old exchange student who goes to live in Texas for a year. Rose Walsh, her host mother, treats her like a daughter and Anne believes her life is perfect. Rose’s teasing, devilishly handsome son, Clint, on whom Anne develops a crush, has a lot to do with this belief. One night, Anne shares her tender passion with Clint, but sadly, he’s too inebriated to remember. A week later, she returns to Paris devastated—and pregnant. Anne fully intends to tell him about her condition except her plans are deterred due to a letter arriving announcing his impending marriage to a pregnant woman he loves. Eight years later, Rose appears in Paris to beg Anne to come back to Texas to help her through her final days of cancer. Unable to refuse her dear old friend, Anne accepts. Now she’ll have to divulge that her boy, Max, is Clint’s son.

Clint Walsh might be hardened and embittered but he knows he has a good reason for acting this way. After all, his wife, the slutty woman he believed was his true love, leaves him with their daughter and never looks back. So how’s a man supposed to handle that kind of treachery? Especially after they’d shared one beautiful night of lovemaking he’s never been able to forget. Or, due to his state of intoxication—clearly remember.  AMAZON 4 STAR


I enjoyed this book.  Anne and Clint both made for good main characters.  I liked that it wasn't exactly what you would expect when it came to a "you kept my child from me" story.  

Rose Walsh was a delight and so was the moments that we got to see of Anne's father.   Clint's daughter, Debbie was so shy and kind of fragile until she began to realize how much Clint loved her.  It takes a while and it takes some challenges to get there but they do.  Of course, Anne and her son Max help a lot in that as well.  .  Max was an unusal 8 year old.  All boy but also with two cultures and languages under his belt. His grandfather helped form some of his French manners and way of thinking.  And that was a good thing.

Speaking of challenges there will be more than one.  One of them is the fact that Clint is no longer, the charming, easy going, teasing guy that Anne remembers.  He's closed off, somewhat bitter and not ready to allow others to get all that close to him again.   It also got in his way for a while when it came to relating to Debbie.  It's what he knew though, it was how his father related to him.  He was harsh, rigid and tough on people.  But he also learned from his mother Rose how to be kind and tender.  

I liked how the song figured into becoming the title for this book.
By the way what a beautiful cover for the eBook. 



I received a free copy of this book and this is my honest opinion of it.