Abandoned by Booklikes

I swear the main reason that this series is called "Fool's Gold" is because many of the women in this series seem to believe that the men they are interested in. despite them being particularly horrible to them,still seem to believe that this is love. I can honestly say I have never turned so fast on a series before in my life. Since I absolutely adore Susan Mallery's other series, "Blackberry Island" I have such a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that the same author wrote these two series. Maybe this series does get better over time. Too bad I have no intention of finding out.

This is book #2 in the "Fool's Gold" series and centers around thriller writer Liz Sutton and Ethan Hendrix. Liz ran away from Fool's Gold when she was 18 after having her heart broken by Ethan. Eleven (or 10 years based on the first few chapters, which then switched to 11) years after she left Fool's Gold, Liz is called back to help her two nieces who are without any adults in their lives and were left to fend for themselves.

Liz left Fool's Gold because Ethan when he was in college started secretly dating her and denied her to his friends. He keeps up with the denying of his interest in her throughout this book, so much so that I wish that Susan Mallery had called him Peter instead of Ethan.

Also Fool's Gold residents are nosy and opinionated. Seriously, several residents come up to Liz throughout this novel and tell her about herself. This also includes Ethan a few times during the course of this book (what a guy).

What makes this book really infuriating is that you still have Liz desiring Peter, I mean Ethan for no good reason that I can think of at all. The character talks all of the time how Ethan can see the real her (yes somehow after not seeing her for 11 years since she was 18 he knows her inside and out) and she finds herself falling back in love with him. The love scenes were by the numbers and I can say that I found absolutely no chemistry existing between these two characters at all.

I seriously wish that the book had ended differently with Liz getting out of Fool's Gold or more groveling or something occurring on Ethan's end. I just wound up feeling dissatisfied when I finished with this book.