1: Tyler Revisited
Like the original series, all three stories are well worth reading but not all are equally excellent. My favorite Made For Each Other is about reluctantly reunited lovers. I did have a couple of minor complaints. My first is a disappointment in the reason provided for the pairs' initial falling out. A second, a quibble really lies in the fact that the cover says the break-up took place eight years ago, making Gina at that time much younger than the text states. The current conflict and reconciliation is a fun read.I confess however I bought the book in hopes of finding out about the future of Tyler high school football player, Rick Travis and wonder of wonders, The Bride's Surprise, gives me just that. A nice write up of Rick's short-lived pro career and his subsequent life and loves culminating in his marriage to a long-time friend. The girl, a non-Tylerite asks him to be her 'man of honor,' - a nice twist - at her wedding which happily doesn't come off and the story takes off from there. The third story suffers slightly only by way of comparison. Behind Closed Doors details the meeting between a millionaire businessman identified in a magazine as the sexiest man in America and the Tyler children's librarian. The story is slow moving, the women in it including unfortunately the librarian rather unpleasant in their pursuit of the visitor from out of town. I found it hard to accept that the pair falls in love after spending only a few hours talking about books while locked in a basement. And I am a librarian. The plot didn't require the fantasy ending it got for the story is a fantasy indeed. All in all though there are many excellent secondary characters in the ten part Tyler series whose stories I would like to read. Here's hoping we get more of them. Overall I gave this book five stars because it was such a pleasure to revisit the younger Tyler characters.
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