Just like I lost count of how many people died in the movie, FARGO, I lost count of the number of obstacles these two actually had to overcome to make this book an HEA.
Which is what starts the story when they meet again years down the road.
What could go wrong, right? Chances are they will never meet again since they live in separate countries, right? Wrong. As they leave each other the next day they draw up a crazy pact that if they meet in the future and the universe means them to be together, they will drop whatever life they have at that moment (marriage kids, mortgage, etc.) and run away together and live out their life happily humping. Aurora (Rory) and Malachy (Mal) meet early in the story and share an unbelievable night together. I think I read somewhere that LJ Shen uses at least 6 story lines to make things interesting and she definitely does that here. It does have an HEA, but you have to work REALLY hard to get there. She says that she prefers when writers make the story more real and don’t pretty it up at the end. I have a girlfriend who prefers movies without an HEA (GASP). Even the hero and heroine are terribly flawed. No one in this novel is without some sort of sin. While in the prose of the story, you discover that every character has jerkish tendencies and makes poor choices with the little information at their disposal. Leigh writes with a kind of beautiful rhythm that sucks you in. Over the Christmas holiday I read, In the Unlikely Event, by LJ Shen.
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