Book Spotlight | September 2024

Summary: Carly Kennedy’s life is in a spiral. She is drowning in work, her divorced parents are going through their midlife crises, and somehow Carly’s sister convinces her to foster Baxter–a basset hound rescue with a bad case of the blues. When Carly comes home late from work one day to discover that the dog walker has accidentally switched out Baxter for another perkier, friendlier basset hound, she has reached the end of her leash.

When Max Sheffington finds a depressed male basset hound in place of his cheerful Hazel, he is bewildered. But when cute, fiery Carly arrives on his doorstep, he is intrigued. He was expecting the dog walker, not a pretty woman with firm ideas about dog discipline. And Carly was not expecting a handsome, bespectacled man to be feeding her dog mac and cheese. Baxter is besotted with Hazel, and Carly realizes she may have found the key to her puppy’s happiness. For his sake, she starts to spend more time with Hazel and Max, until she begins to understand the appeal of falling for your polar opposite.

My Thoughts: This book was a quick and fun romance read. I finished it in one day. I really liked how the dogs are the reason Carly and Max met. They were little matchmakers. I also loved how Baxter and Hazel were with each other.

Carly was annoying. She came off as selfish a lot of times. Other times she seemed completely clueless simply because she wouldn’t communicate. Max was a good male MC for Carly, though. They went together well and their relationship development throughout the book was fun to read.

I am excited to see what happens in the next book, It Started With A Dog. It’s about a different couple and different dogs!