Ruthie Midona has worked the front desk at the Providence Luxury Retirement Villa for six years, dedicating her entire adult life to caring for the Villa’s residents, maintaining the property (with an assist from DIY YouTube tutorials), and guarding the endangered tortoises that live in the Villa’s gardens. Get SECOND FIRST IMPRESSIONS from The Ripped Bodice | Bookshop.From the USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game and 99 Percent Mine comes the clever, funny, and unforgettable story of a muscular, tattooed man hired as an assistant to two old women-under the watchful eye of a beautiful retirement home manager.ĭistraction (n): an extreme agitation of the mind or emotions.
Sally is keeping up her usual thing where a setting really isn’t specified, though Ruthie eats tins of soup and we know the villa is near some body of water, but also provides habitat for tortoises. People need things to work out right now! We get the HEA we want, and if some of the other threads wind themselves up a little too conveniently, whatever. Oh, to be a 90-year-old who can say and do whatever she wants!! I usually roll my eyes when reviews say a book has real heart, but dang it, this one does. It’s a book with some great lines, a lot of very funny internal dialogue, and plenty of laughs thanks to the Parlonis.
But what’s going on in Second First Impressions is more interesting and nuanced and complex. Teddy is a ridiculously charming cool dude who takes and takes and takes and will just break her heart. On the surface, Ruthie looks like the inexperienced heroine who doesn’t know just how great she is. I loved how Sally Thorne took what looks like a typical pairing and gave it real emotional resonance. And oh, Ruthie has just the job for him, personal assistant to Agnes and Renata Parloni, two of the villas most notorious residents. His dad assigns him to whatever job, any job, at the villa.
Then, she meets Teddy Prescott, son of the property developer who owns the retirement villa. She barely leaves the property, has few friends under the age of 75 and her last boyfriend was…her prom date. She fell into the job, but likes it fine gets along great with the residents and yet, half her 20s have passed her by. Ruthie Midona has worked at Providence Retirement Villas for the last six years. If you love when a hero first looks like a slick charmer, but actually turns out to be a vulnerable, squishy cinnamon roll, Second First Impressions is for you.
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