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Title: For Grandmas
Review: There are 390 pages in this book and the main couple only gets 'romantic' on page 345. I hardly call that a romance, yet that is how this book is classified - as "contemporary romance." This book is very far from being contemporary, and I'm not really sure it's all that appealing to women in the younger set (a.k.a. 20s and 30s). This book reads as though my grandmother was telling it to me - it's a grandma romance. One of the main romantic characters in the book is a curmudgenly old guy age 87. Not romantic, not sexy, not something very appealing to read about. The characters are sedate, the action is slim to none, the characters are boring, the plot is weak, and the writing is drab and just... oldish. This book has no staying power - it doesn't involve you or make you want to remember the characters afterwards. I wouldn't recommend this book or any others by Woods, especially if you're a younger woman. The book doesn't capture the spirit of romance at all.
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