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Annie May's Black Book

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We've all heard of the saying, "Forgive and forget." The best thing to do is to let go once of the pain once someone's hurt you and to move on, but we're human, and sometimes we can't. Annie May is 37. She's a drama teacher. Annie has been keeping a black book full of all the times someone has said or done something mean to her since she was a little girl. She never forgets, and mostly she never forgives.

Ben is the biggest villain in her black book. He stood her up at the altar when she was 20. She found out once she reached the church from a phone call from his mother. It threw her into a tailspin because she had really loved him.

Annie runs into Ben at a dinner party at her best friends house and is thrown for a loop, because he is the last person she expected to see ever again. She has barely managed to get over him and get on with her life. Unfortunately for her, he's just as attractive now as he was back then, and he wants back in her life, throwing her into a conundrum. Does she or doesn't she?

I think Debby Holt did a great job with Annie's character. Annie has had her fingers burned and so now is extremely cautious about letting herself feel anything for Ben again or anyone else for that matter. The idea of a black book full of people who wronged you, was a but much, but then again most people remember who wronged them in their heads anyways. It was the fact she started when she was little bothered me. My main gripe is the story was predictable. I also had problems remembering Annie's friends and family. It was hard to keep up with who was whom and what was going on, etc. Of course there was a HEA ending, but that was to be expected. I just wasn't left with a last impression once I finished this book beyond. It wasn't my cup of tea, but maybe someone else's. Happy reading! :)