Stars: 2 / 5
Recommendation: Though readers who read enjoyed it, the short story did not appeal to me. I wish our heroine was more grounded than being a fake which forces the hero to be the same. Ending was very abrupt but it’s a novella so guess that’s that.
Dear One is the third novella in The Unquiet anthology book in January of 2011 in which Nora published her novella with four of her recurring authors – Mary Blayney, Patricia Gaffney, Ruth Ryan Langan and Mary Kay McComas. This novella is written by Patricia Gaffney.
In this short story the protagonist is one who owns the psychic phone number, Molly McDougall, aka Madame Romanescue. A chance encounter with new caller named Oliver Woth, grandson of her regular caller Charles Worth, leads to a battle of wills. It also shows Molly how much lonely Oliver is; at the same time she is a fake is what Oliver understands. But a strong romance brews between them that no psychic is needed.
The author thanks all the authors who write with them in the opening page.
I am not into psychic people and those who fake or at least act like they know something of yourself. Like Miss Cleo who made tremendous money with the psychic pay-per-call-minute service called Psychic Readers Network. It threw me off that our heroine fakes being a psychic. I believe people have sixth sense and something beyond that. But I don’t believe in people cashing on other’s feelings and humanity.
Though readers who read enjoyed it, the short story did not appeal to me. I wish our heroine was more grounded than being a fake which forces the hero to be the same. Ending was very abrupt but it’s a novella so guess that’s that.
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