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It Started with a Dog (Lucky Dog) Audio CD – Unabridged, September 28, 2021
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- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTantor Audio
- Publication dateSeptember 28, 2021
- ISBN-13979-8200847464
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- ASIN : B09HG4QW1Q
- Publisher : Tantor Audio; Unabridged edition (September 28, 2021)
- Language : English
- ISBN-13 : 979-8200847464
- Item Weight : 8.3 ounces
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,220,712 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Julia London is the New York Times, USA Today, and Publisher's Weekly bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the popular Secrets of Hadley Green series, the Cabot Sisters series and The Highland Grooms historical romance series. She also wrote the Pine River and the Lake Haven contemporary romance series. She is a six time finalist for the prestigious RITA Award for excellence in romantic fiction, and RT Bookclub award recipient for Best Historical Romance for Dangerous Gentleman. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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This book is part of the Lucky Dog series but the two stories do not overlap and this can be read as a standalone. The main character from the first book appears briefly as a consultant to Harper’s company. I did not read the first book but I think the connecting idea is that the dogs come from a rescue organization.
Jonah and Harper meet when they accidentally exchange phones on a ride to the airport. Over the next few days, they are in touch with each other about important messages and phone calls that come into their phones as they are in separate cities. They enjoy texting each other. When they are back in their home city, they meet up to return their phones to each other and are attracted to each other in real life.
When they meet up, the author manipulates the conversation a little so that they do not realize until later that they are competitors at work. Jonah is trying to keep a coffee shop alive started by his grandparents. He is an engineer that took a sabbatical to help his father get through some cancer treatments and finds out that the coffee shop is failing. Harper is trying to open a new coffeehouse across the street that is likely to appeal to the changing neighborhood.
Jonah wants to close the coffee shop and, to be honest, I am not sure why his parents and aunt and uncle fight it. His aunt and uncle are moving to a different city to be closer to their children. His father has cancer. The shop is not making money. They had run the coffeehouse for decades, but do not seem to grasp that it is failing. It is hard to let something go after working there for that long but Jonah is not interested in taking over and he is an only child. His sister, who died from leukemia, did spend time at the restaurant so selling the building would result in the loss of a link to her life. When Jonah tries to run a meeting with them, they do not focus. The problem seemed a little manufactured.
Jonah and Harper basically fall in love quickly so that it is established before they find out about their competing jobs. They then have to deal with it as a couple. The middle stretch of the book felt a little slow.
Harper’s job is a bit crazy. Her boss is odd and it is quite surprising that he is successful. Harper has a co-worker that is in line for the same promotion and who does not tell her about meetings or current developments but later turns out to be a good guy which felt a bit inconsistent. The coffeehouse that Harper is trying to open seems like it would be wildly expensive to open. They plan to have bands, artists, etc, that would add to the overhead of keeping the store open. The egg basket chairs that hang from the ceiling seem quite impractical as they cannot be moved by customers to create social groups.
The dogs add variety and I like the idea of it but felt that the dogs that were in the story were a bit extreme and were added more for humor. Also, I may be over-analyzing this, but Harper has distant parents and always felt unnecessary, so I was a little surprised when she picked a dog that treated her the same way.
There were a few word choices I did not love. For example, at one point Harper thought about the number of men she had “banged”.
I have read this author in the past but have not read any books by her in a while. I liked the story but, it lacks that something needed to get 5 stars.
Once Hannah and Jonah finally meet in person, the sparks really fly as it becomes clear they have major chemistry and a shared love of dogs. They start dating, including a date where they go to a shelter and walk dogs. It’s all sweet and they’re so happy getting to know one another, until a major obstacle appears before them – the Déjà Brew shop that Harper is helping to launch is directly across the street from Jonah’s family business, a mom and pop coffee shop called The Lucky Star. Can their fledging new relationship survive the strain of being rivals?
I adored both Harper and Jonah. Harper is so fierce and determined to land that promotion. I really loved her attitude and her spunk. I loved Jonah too, especially because of the sacrifices he’s willing to make to try to help his family, including passing up an opportunity of a lifetime at his job. My heart broke for both Harper and Jonah when they realized they were rivals and that Harper could actually be the one to cause The Lucky Star to go under and devastate Jonah’s family. I was so invested in them and just really wanted them to find a solution that worked for everyone. The wondering what would happen added a nice layer of suspense to keep me turning the pages. If you like a little drama to balance out your romance, this element of the story should do the trick for you.
I’m enjoying Julia London’s Lucky Dog series so much. I’m a sucker for a book that features dogs anyway, and with this series, I think I have a new favorite romantic trope – dogs serving as the catalyst to bring couples together.