WTF Are You Reading?'s Reviews > Flirting with Fifty

Paige Newsome has it all.  A great career as a professor at a college in SoCal.  

A home that she adores.

Three grown daughters that she loves dearly. 

Friends...

What more could a woman on the verge of the big 5-0 ask for?


How about the chance to revisit feelings for the one who got away.

Or...more tongue point...

The one she ran away from.

After one passionate night in Paris.  When she was 20 and he was 25.



Call it fate, kismit, or some cruel cosmic joke.

But there seems to be no where for Paige to run.  When her lost paramour, now a world renowned biologist, is slated to cost each with her for a semester.

Wait... what?


Yep!

Jack King, hot Australian, world traveling conservationist...

Is...going...to...co-teach...for...a...semester...with...Paige!

How complicated could that possibly get?

Oh...the fun of reading to find out.


This book is...

LIFE!

Really!

The scenario is one that is so relatable.

Especially for the intended audience; slated to leaf through these glorious pages.

Both Paige and Jack don't necessarily need each other.

Their livs are literally full to bursting.  But seeing them come to the realization that they want each other. And that the spark that was ignited all those years ago.  Has become a flame that each has carried for the other through time and circumstance.


Juxtapose the romance of it all against Paige's daughter unexpectedly returning home.

A class trip to Tanzania.

And various surprises that won't be mentioned here.

And the question of whether not there can be a second chance for these two.

Becomes a heads or tails toss up between trust issues and the willingness to forgive.

The most impressive thing about this story however.

The story itself.

In a youth driven culture.  It is so refreshing to see that fifty can be sexy, vital, and fulfilled.

With just the right amount of drama, of course.