She's Just Right For Me

‘She’s Just Right’ by Diane Darcy is a clean contemporary retelling of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Actually, the Goldilocks part of the story is to just the beginning of the story and explains how the main two characters met.

Honey Stevens has come to town to buy some property from the Baron’s. While looking for their house, she finds a house that fits the description but doesn’t have any house number on it. There is a hand carved bear holding a sign that says Baron on it, sitting next to the mailbox. The key to the locked house was under the front mat. She found a note on the table telling her there was dinner in the fridge and to make herself at home. She ate the dinner, sat in some chairs waiting the Baron’s to return home, and then went to bed.

Trevor Baron, the game warden, arrives home to find a strange car in the driveway and assumes it’s his sister Elizabeth’s new car, and she’s come for a visit. He finds that his sister has eaten his dinner. He finds that his sister has broken his chair. He finds his sister sleeping in his bed! But then the lady jerks awake at the sound of him, and he then realizes that it’s not his sister! He calls his parents to find that Honey went to his house, rather than their house which is further down the road. And his parent’s house also has the hand carved bear with the sign that says Baron, which he had carved for his all his family’s houses!

Honey is kind of cute, but Trevor will not stand for her to be here in his house another night! But his parents already extended the invitation to Honey to stay with them for three weeks while she takes the local brokerage class in town. When the parents catch on that Trevor likes her, they invite company to their house, so Honey will have to stay with him! Of course they send Elizabeth to stay at the house so there won’t be any gossip around town.

Trevor is cute, but it doesn’t make any deference to Honey, because she’s already engaged! So she and Christian had a fight before she left came, but they’ve always made up before. And Trevor is so different than Christian, too different! It would never work between them; they live in different towns for one. Besides, why would she want to go for the big, strong, gentle bear type? Sigh. It would never work, so that’s that. Right? Whom will she chose?

This is a good book. I would recommend this for ages 15+. It comes in e-book format only.