Inn at Last Chance

Inn at Last Chance
by Hope Ramsey

This is the 7th full length book in the last chance series.

I received an ARC of this book from the Publisher, via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.

Jenny Carpenter, pie baker extraordinaire and spinster, purchased Jonquil House to set up a bed and breakfast when she realized her dreams of a husband and family were not going to happen. Gabriel Raintree is the former owner of Jonquil House and a famous writer. He's currently suffering from writer's block and heartache from a past he can't quite remember. When he decides that his former home is the best place to hide out from his editor and rabid fans he finds that a spinster can be a heck of a lot more stubborn than he'd thought.

This is an odd book. The prose is florid, and the dialogue is stilted. There's also a ton of internal monologue. It takes telling instead of showing to an extreme. It's also odd in that it has heavy Christian themes of the typical inspirational type, but it's also got a supernatural element in the form of a ghost, and there is premarital sex. There's also a fairly nice plot twist but due to the heavy foreshadowing some readers may find it easy to see ahead of time.

While I can't say that this is my particular cup of tea, it's oddly readable for all that the story is very slow until about the last 50 pages.