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This book lacks drama.
The beginning was quick to engage my curiosity but I was disappointed. Molly Chamberlain, pregnant and abandoned by her husband of 10 years for another woman, is left with little income to pay rent and living expenses. Molly lacks depth. Rafe Garrick, whose story was never adequately developed, appears and instantly falls for her. He continues to appear out of thin air throughout the book and rescue her. I kept thinking this will be a great story when it gets going - and then it was over. Jessy and Spencer add some diversion but their story is just too simple as well.

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Great Love Story!
Once Around is the first Barbara Bretton novel I have read and it won't be the last! Contrary to other reviewers, I found Molly to be an evolving character, gaining strength and becoming powerful and self-assured. Bretton does a great job on character development, which enables the reader to easily embrace and relate to all of the characters. You are drawn into Molly's tragedy and can feel her pain and heartache. I found Rafe to be a strong and compassionate character and you genuinely cheer for both he and Molly and a life of happiness together.

Bretton is another one of those authors expounding upon the power of love in the midst of tragedy.

This story was nicely written, tender and compassionate and a story you want to savor for a long time. It is a story of hope and joy and I thoroughly recommend it!

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Sweet, Simple Story
This is not the type of romantic blockbuster that Nora Roberts often turns out, but it is sweet and sensitive nevertheless, and a nice, soothing read for one of those days when you've simply had enough of everything around you.

The story opens as pregnant Molly Chamberlain, pregnant and married to a Princeton lawyer, is coping with the fact that her so-called perfect husband has left her and his unborn child for a judge's daughter. Not only that, he has stripped their house bare of every stick of furniture, every knicknack, even a broken lamp. As Molly literally bends over from the shock and emits a long, heartbroken wail, she is overheard by Rafe Garrick, a handyman who just happens to be in the neighborhood. And so the scene is set.

Can Molly, unaccountably attracted to the gorgeous, hunky Rafe, overcome her own prejudices, pain, and outrage over being dumped by her husband to find new love? Can Rafe, who has fallen in love with Molly on first sight, trust his heart when the secret he carries is so full of hurt? Each of these people is more than they seem...but neither will let the other one see what is inside.

It's a typical romance, a typical plot, but it all comes together so sweetly that it is just the thing for a night in a warm bathrobe and fuzzy slippers, with hot cocoa and the lights down low. Barbara Bretton's books are always like that--nothing spectacular, but wonderful nonetheless.