Book Review: Who Rescued Who? by Victoria Schade

Who Rescued Who?

by Victoria Schade (Schade)

 

I’ll have to admit — the main reason I picked up this contemporary romance novel was because of the adorable puppy on the cover. That dog, Georgina, does become one of the best characters is this light-weight piece of romantic fluff.

 

Elizabeth Barnes is a Silicon Valley software designer for an up-and-coming gaming company, who finds herself unceremoniously canned by her boss, over something that wasn’t really even her own fault. Reeling from that career/life setback, when Elizabeth receives word from Rowan, a man claiming to be her Uncle (though her late father never told her of any other family members). Rowan tells her she’s inherited a parcel of land in the English countryside that was supposed to have been her father's, but he refused to claim it. Now that he’s passed on, the land has become hers. Elizabeth decides a quick trip to England to meet relatives she never knew about -- and to sell land she doesn’t intend to keep -- will help her pass the time while she tries to figure out how to regain a foothold in the tech industry and reveal her former boss’s duplicitous nature.

 

But all good plans come to naught, as her new-found relatives, including a reclusive but famous painter, welcome her with open arms, and she quickly makes friends with several of her acquaintances in the village of Fargrove, making it more and more difficult for her to leave and exact her revenge on her former employer. And…most importantly…she rescues a little abandoned puppy, and is coerced into fostering it (after she names it Georgina) while she’s in England.

 

Who Rescued Who? was well-written and I fell for all of the characters, except for Elizabeth, who had such a tunnel-vision issue over her unjustified firing and how to fix that situation, that she was blind to all the interesting stuff surrounding her in her new locale, particularly her new beau, James. None-the-less, the relationship between Elizabeth (newly nicknamed Bess) and her uncle Rowan, and all the scenes with the dog(s) made up for Elizabeth’s own failings. A light, fun read…

 

(If you enjoy this, you may also wish to try the “Rescue Me” series by Debbie Burns.)

 

( publisher’s official Who Rescued Who? web page ) | ( author Victoria Schade‘s Twitter feed )

 

Recommended by Scott C.
Bennett Martin Public Library — Public Service

 

Have you read or listened to this one? What did you think? Did you find this review helpful?

New reviews appear every month on the Staff Recommendations page of the BookGuide website. You can visit that page to see them all, or watch them appear here in the BookGuide Blog individually over the course of the entire month. Click the tag for the reviewer's name to see more of this reviewer’s recommendations!