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Julia London (Charmer in Chaps)
has written more than 30 romance novels in
various subgenres. In You Lucky Dog, she tackles her very first
romantic comedy and packs it with fun, over-the-top complications. The story
begins when a professional dog walker in Austin, Tex.--who is also a covert
pot-dealer while on the job--mistakenly sells to an undercover cop. When he
gets busted, the dog walker enlists a friend to return each dog to their
rightful digs--accidentally mixing up two lovable basset hounds who couldn't be
more different in personality and temperament.
Hazel--a friendly, skinny female who
likes macaroni and cheese and basks on furniture--belongs to Dr. Tobias Maxwell
Sheffington III. Max, in his early 30s, is a bookish professor of neuroscience,
working toward tenure at the University of Texas. He's devoted to his widowed
father, who cares for his brother, a talented visual artist plagued with
limitations from Autism Spectrum Disorder. The other hound, Baxter, an
overweight male, belongs to driven 20-something Carly Kennedy, who reluctantly
inherits the rescued dog from her sister. Carly--exasperated by her divorced
parents and struggling to launch her own PR firm after a layoff--toes a strict
disciplinary line with the skittish, sullen Baxter. Setting right the mixed-up
hounds brings Max and Carly together in a crafty, opposites-attract love story.
London's first novel in the projected Lucky Dog series is comedic and fast paced. It is filled with an offbeat cast, zany coincidences and romantic moments and mishaps that will leave readers giggling in amusement.
Berkley, $16.00 Paperback, 9780593100387, 328 pages
Publication Date: August 25, 2020
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NOTE: This review is a reprint and is being posted with the permission of Shelf Awareness. To read this review on Shelf Awareness: Reader's Edition (August 28, 2020), link HERE