Title:  Until You
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Author:  Jeannie Moon
Genre:  Contemporary Romance
Published:  March 17, 2015
Publisher:  Tule Publishing
My Rating:  4 stars
Source:  NetGalley

Story Blurb:

When newly divorced Kate Adams is approached on the sunny deck of a California hotel by hockey star David Burke, and he invites her to dinner, she almost says no. He’s obviously younger than her. And charming. And drop dead gorgeous. But there’s also something sweet about David, so Kate—who hasn’t done anything spontaneous in a very long time—accepts his invitation.

It is, after all, her fortieth birthday.

However, a real romance with thirty-year-old David, whose picture is in the gossip pages as often as it’s in the sports pages, is out of the question. No matter how much she wants him, it’s just too risky.

But meeting Kate has been David’s lightning strike. She’s the one for him, and he has no intention of giving up on her.

So while Kate guards her fragile heart, David sets out to win her over with the same determination that drives him on the ice.

And he’ll break every rule in the book if he has to.

Read on for my thoughts on Until You.  No true spoilers, promise.

Love doesn’t care about age.  It matters not whether two people are on the same timeline or a decade apart.  Love does not care.  Love knows only that it exists and it will find a way.

Until You is about love.  How it can take us over, spit us out and change us from who we thought we were to who we can become.  It’s about learning the most important kind of love of all – learning to love ourselves, and if we can’t do that, then working on making ourselves loveable to us  first and the rest later.  It’s about the bad not being so terrible that we cannot get through it.  It’s about choices that all the people in our lives make and how their choices make a difference in our own lives.

It’s not about the age difference between David and Kate.  Sure, it’s a wonderful hook, it is true for so many couples these days as we begin to understand that age is a number, not the person we (or they) truly are.  When I first started reading Until You, I admit, it was the age difference that caught my eye and opened the pages of the book.  But it wasn’t what kept me reading.  It was two people who were falling in love, slowly with great care and misunderstandings and mistakes – but falling no matter what.

I believe you should read this book.  It will touch you on a level beyond the challenge of two people of differing ages – it will show you that no two people fall in love alone, that family and friends, and even strangers make differences in how we see each other.  And,yes, that some people will be arses no matter what and they have to live with that fact, too.

Until You will give you insights into your own relationships.  Oh, it’s not the purpose of the novel, but by reading it you might begin to question how your love for one special person makes a difference in the lives of all the people in your life.

I recommend this book to anyone who is of an age to fall in love.  And who is brave enough to take on all that loving someone will require.  It’s an excellent read, one you should pick up soon.  It launches March 17, 2015 start looking for it then.

*I received an e-ARC of Until You from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. That does not change what I think of this novel.*

A different slanted review of Until You on my Romance is Ageless blog.

You can find this novel available at Amazon for the Kindle.