Popcorn Love

this is more a social gap than an age gap but it is a beautiful story of two women on opposite ends of the economic spectrum, with lots of personal trauma finding love is the healing factor. The characters are wonderful and engaging and their journey is an uplifting one.

Although this book has a lot of cliches it is still adorable and humorous.It was just the quick, fun read I needed.I like the plot and the characters in it, although I at times did picture Elena a bit older than twenty seven. I love the relationship she has with Vivian, a teasing and fun friendship, that can also be serious.I expected Nora to give Alli a harder time in the interrogation, but that part still worked with me.I also liked the part with Luca sr, Elena and Lucas at the restaurant, it shows a lot of their relationship and the Spanish in the book due to that is a nice touch.Two of my favorite scenes are the one in the music room and the one in the museum , for various reason.Would like to add that Macy best character ever.Although predictable in a way, I liked the development of Elena and Allison's relationship, I am glad they both found home.I also wish there was a continence where you learned what happened post graduation, if Macy and Viv hooked up and what happened when they went to visit Macy in Australia.

My first question is when is the sequel coming out because this book just begs for more story. I now have to know what happens to Elena and Allison as individuals and as a couple down the road. There is a satisfying ending but not a crumb of information as to what the future holds for them. No usual epilogue which is fine if we get a book two.Elena, a wealthy powerhouse in the fashion business, is back on the dating scene and so she hires a college student to babysit her son while she’s out on these dates. Young Ms. Allison is beautiful, sweet, and sharply intelligent with an already weary heart from her childhood raised in the foster system.I really needed a funny book at this time and Popcorn Love was perfect. It had me belly laughing in the beginning and as the two women found each other, had me oohing and ahhing. There was some steam but it was mixed in nicely with affectionate moments. As for 3 year old Lucas, the cuteness factor zoomed into overload as soon as he entered the picture.This is a happy pill romance with just the tiniest bit of angst. I’m looking forward to reading book 2 (hopefully) and The Art of Us which I also have in my library.

This book is so wonderful. KL Hughes has a way with words that I rarely see. This is no mere rom-com novel; it is very much poetry. Plot set aside for a second, the metaphors and the syntax and the words themselves are just so absolutely beautiful.With lines like "their fingertips were lit candlewicks against taut, waxen flesh, searing, scorching, and melting their bodies further together," this books makes me swoon.The connection between the two ladies is slow, natural, and believable. Their relationship grows properly, and their attraction to each other is very organic, from bad first impressions to friends to crushes to lovers. Both women are very different, but fully fleshed out, and both so damn likeable. I fell in love with their love.And, the secondary relationships in the book feel fully explored and not tacked on. You actually get attached to the best friends, and they are important parts of the lead charecters' lives. Lucas, Elena's son, is just so adorable. His relationship with Elena, and his growing relationship with his new idol "Alson" is so cute and so affable, he will often make you laugh out loud or audibly coo.Everything about this book is so "real". I could hardly put it down. I will definitely be exploring these charecters again in the (probably near) future.You know when you read a book and you can just FEEL that it's special? This is that book.

I actually really enjoyed the beginning of the book. I didn't finish after the sex scene because it felt so unrealistic, in fact much of it is since it's fiction (I get it). I think the build up to the sex scene wasn't enough to keep me wanting more thereafter. The story felt like it was done. On a separate note, I had a hard time fathoming Elena being as well off, with a child, and her job at 27. She spoke a little too eloquently for her age, and I'm not disregarding her educational background. It just was a bit much. The characters came off as an odd pairing. I feel as if the author didn't want to make Elena older, but it would have been a tiny bit more believable. Alternatively, Allison could have been her nanny/ housekeeper and not in college.Overall, the author can write. She's talented. The editors could have done a little better on there end. I noticed some grammatical mishaps and the name Regina slipped in instead of Elena.Rating this 4 out of 5 because of the plot/ characterization. As I said, I didn't make it after the sex scene because it was unbelievable and a little awkward. It's kind of like a fantasy that made it's way onto pages. And that's totally okay, just not for me.

My view is that there are pluses and minuses in this. However, one of the pluses spills over to being a minus for me. I’ll explain: Pluses are that it’s well written without grammatical errors and the sex scenes are reasonably well done. Another plus is that it’s a sweet story; but therein lies my problem. It’s so cutesy-sweet on occasion that it’s like candy floss – light and fluffy and nauseating if you overdo it…I couldn’t believe that Elena’s son Lucas always seemed to be cute and endearing. There was only one reference in the entire book to him ever behaving badly. My own recollection is that the “twos” may be “terrible” but the threes are thermonuclear… I’ve never been a fan of cute American kids in films and he struck me just like one of those.Lucas also seemed to be thoroughly spoiled (e.g. the pre-birthday shopping trip of excess which the family take together). It’s not until about 80% in that we get any kind of ‘back story’ on Allison’s foster care experience, including the fact that she never had any toys or presents as a child. The fact that she seemed to feel no resentment towards Lucas (who gets given everything he ever asks for) given her own experiences in foster care, is hard to believe. I thought Melissa Brayden in “Kiss the Girl” did a better representation of a character (Brooklyn) with foster care abandonment issues.Finally, I found it hard to believe in Elena and Allison as a credible couple. I ‘got’ why Allison would be attracted to Elena, but not the other way round…I liked this more than the author’s previous book “Fracture” but not as much as a number of others I have read (including the aforementioned “Kiss the Girl”). Probably a 3.5 star book for me…P.S And am I alone in wondering: "What about Jonathan's parents?"

This be ok is nicely written, very funny and super-cute. The class-difference issues are dealt with sensitively and realistically and it’s is a joy to see such a loving and cheerful family depicted.However, with my basic knowledge of editing and how a book should be written, I noticed a few things wrong with the book. At times different people talk in the same paragraph, and occasionally I was confused about who in fact was speaking. A couple of the scenes were confusing to me—I wasn’t sure what had happened by the next scene. Some punctuation errors stood out for me too.I can take a few spelling/grammatical errors in a book—even proof readers miss things sometimes. But this book just seemed to have too many errors.The story, like I said, was cute. The characters were well thought out and believable. Hence four stars. However, the editing errors spoiled it a bit for me.

I have never read any books by KL Hughes before but I certainly will do so in future. This book was so well written, I am sure I only came across one typographical error in the whole book, and I half suspect even that was my mistake, not the author's!This was a truly lovely story about two young women who couldn't have been more different or, at the same time, ultimately more right for each other. It had me laughing out loud with tears in my eyes, and subsequently tears in my eyes from the more deeply emotional scenes too.This was that rare thing - a book that I will keep on my kindle and read again (maybe more than once!).Read this book - you will love it, and all the characters within it.

This one was exceedingly cute. I had expected the pining and date / debrief thing to go on a little longer but I think that would have stretched things!The slow descent into mutual adoration was lovely, tender and tentative. The character voices are so distinctive and portray a lovely, feel good novel.If you need something that is just GOOD and HAPPY distilled into a book - this would probably be it.

There's nothing special about this book. It was a nice plot, but maybe a little too predictable. Powerful and attractive young women falling in love with the quirky and rebellious nanny.