Book Review
Title: Dear Mr. Maybe
Author: Dori Lavelle
Genre: Romance
Rating: *****
Review: Dear Mr. Maybe is the fifth book I have read in the Matchmakers series and I have loved every single installment, so I have no doubt that I am going to enjoy this installment too. This installment is going to be following Caleb and Ellie and following the theme in the other novels, Caleb is signed up without his knowledge and only learns of his profile and potential match when he returns from a business trip to find his brothers waiting in his home.
Despite Caleb not being a relationship type of guy he decides to give it a shot with Ellie because she is a very beautiful woman, however, Ellie it turns out has a very complicated life, she has a grandmother with Alzheimer’s who is the person who signed her up for the agency, her husband committed suicide a few years before because he couldn’t cope with the stress of looking after a disabled child. Ellie’s son Justin has type 2 spinal muscular atrophy or SMA and he takes up a lot of her time and she had given up on dating until she received Caleb’s letters. Despite their lives, the pair writes and get to know each other.
When the pair meet for the first time, we see that they actually have a lot in common and get on really well and despite claiming not to be a relationship kind of guy Caleb feels something with Ellie that he has never felt before and Ellie feels something with Caleb that she hasn’t felt since her husband died. Despite their relationship having a few ups and downs the pair eventually find a rhythm that works for them.
By the end of the novel, we can see that Caleb was wrong when he said he wasn’t a relationship type of guy but rather he hadn’t met the right woman yet. He and Ellie have a strong relationship which is only made better by the fact that Justin accepts him, and Caleb is paying for a treatment of Justin’s SMA which is working well. So far, I have loved every entry in this series, and I feel that this will be one of the all-time favourites due to its realistic look on relationship and the fact that Lavelle strays away from the cliché romance plot lines but adding in a single mother with a disabled child and how she fits a relationship into all that when she is so used to being alone. I highly recommend this series.
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Also see: Dear All-Star Player by Tracy Lorraine
I received this review copy from Booksprout.
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