Dance Away with Me: A Novel

NARRATOR: Nicole Poole I LOVED this book! There were so many things going on, birth, death, marriage, kidnapping, fitting into a new community, all whilst Tess was slowly recovering from the death of her husband a few years ago. I loved both Tess and Ian's character's from the start but they just grew better and better as the book went on. Both characters were no-nonsense sort of characters, and I loved how Tess did what she felt was right, regardless of the consequences and how much she got hassle from some of the community when she was trying to help out the teenagers. And Ian backed her up too, even though Tess drove him mad at times! And then little baby Wren brought them both together and helped them both get over their issues. The epilogue was just perfection, it brought a happy tear to my eye! Fabulous narrating by Nicole Poole too. Really lovely book with SEPs usual stubborn and funny characters, I loved it!

I love SEP’s books, but this felt like a sad mashup of her other work, minus the excellent humor and steamy intimate moments. Even the characters felt under developed. I didn’t love or hate any of them. It is a decent read but doesn’t compare to her earlier books.