![]() ![]() The fantasy includes a hunky handyman who keeps dropping strong hints that he desires the heroine (substitute yourself, lady readers) and conveniently lives in the carriage house nearby (you're his landlady, ladies, and he drops by whenever you need help or attention but sensibly makes himself scarce before he becomes irritating). I don't mean porn in a sexual sense, but for them the fantasy lure of just moving to a scenic island where you run a cute and quaint inn, where you bake fattening snacks and desserts constantly and everybody loves you for it. ![]() It made me think of that old commercial catch phrase: "Calgon, take me away!" I say that because this is, if you will excuse the analogy, soft porn for women. I am definitely not the target audience for this book, but once I started reading it the setting soothed me and I became interested in seeing what sort of fantasy escapism it offered mature women, whom I am guessing are the target demographic. ![]() ![]() This is the first book in a cozy mystery series built around the life of the heroine, Natalie, running an idyllic bed n' breakfast, The Gray Whale Inn, on fictional Cranberry Island off the coast of Maine. ![]()
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