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The book started out fine, but soon into the book, Candice's ex boyfriend from 10 years ago became a client at her company. Her husband having gone out of town for a monthlong work assignment, she spent that month mooning over said ex - who dumped her because he had tried a smart girlfriend, and now wanted a pretty girlfriend instead. Well, who wouldn't want such an upstanding specimen of man back after 10 years? And while this book is the first of the Toronto Series, it is a story by itself, so I feel no compunction to read any of the sequels.


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Life Love and a Polar Bear Tattoo Toronto Collection Book 1 eBook Heather Wardell Reviews

Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo by Heather Wardell Review

Candice's marriage hasn't been the same since her in-laws died in a car accident coming back from buying her Christmas present. With her marriage on shaky ground and her husband leaving for six weeks to build houses out of the country Candice thinks she'll have plenty of time to decide what she wants to do about her crumbling marriage. Instead she's given a blast from the past, former lover Kegan shows up at the interior design firm Candice works for and she's forced not only to work with the man who broke her heart, but to relive all those feelings that made her fall in love with him in the first place. Candice is forced to decide what she wants out of her life, to come to terms with her in-laws' tragic deaths, and why she hasn't gotten out of life what she expected to. As the newness has worn off her marriage and husband Ian seems farther away than ever before it only makes sense that she be drawn to Kegan the man she was with in college, the man she was with when she had all the possibilities in the world.

The question is...which man will she chose?

While the plot of "Life, Love, and a Polar Bear Tattoo" seems spongey at best, there's more to this book than just a woman trying to decide between two lovers. Wardell actually takes us deeper into out main character Candice's mind than who she wants to sleep with. What, at first, appears to be a woman trying to decide between two men turns in to a story about a woman trying to find herself. A woman who is becoming disillusioned with who she's become and realizing it's never too late to reinvent yourself. As Candice discovers, just because she might not be a "tattoo person" doesn't mean she doesn't want to be.

Overall I was much more impressed with this book than I thought I'd be. Wardell has an excellent writing style that keeps you turning pages and wondering what will happen next while creating a main character you can really feel for. Unfortunately she doesn't take quite as much time to let you love the rest of the characters. We see Ian mostly through emails he and Candice send back and forth, yet not all of his emails actually appear in the book. While some of them do others, the ones which seem to have the biggest impact on Candice, Wardell hasn't bothered to write. Meaning we see Candice's reaction without Ian's words and are unable to decide what kind of man Ian really is. Kegan too, remains a little undeveloped. Wardell makes a big deal about him listening to Jazz music only in his car while hiding 80s cds in the glove compartment but then she drops the idea and never really ties it together with anything else. Candice's friends fall a bit flat as well and it's hard to tell whether she's a thirty-something careerwoman or a twenty-something reliving the glory days of college with the typical hyper-emotional friend on one hand and the slutty go with the flow friend on the other.

I enjoyed the book and the emotion and honesty Wardell has put into Candice's character made me glad to have picked it up. That being said if Wardell had given a little more attention to the other characters in her book she would have taken it to the next level. As far as short reads go it's worth a try, and as it is available free as an ebook it's worth downloading just in case.
How can a reader, especially one who went to a university whose mascot is a polar bear, not enjoy a book with a title like this? Rhetorical question or not, this was a different sort of romance. Real life issues (fear of cancer, fear of a failing marriage, fear of separation, and fear of making bad decisions) fill the pages.

Candice and Ian have been married two years. The first year was magical, the second scarred by the loss of his parents in a car accident. Words of blame, quiet remorse, and more all lead to questions of whether the marriage is worth saving. Especially when Ian leaves for a month in Bangladesh, and Candice is obligated to work with her old love Kegan. Time and distance, and too much drama fuels intimate moments.

Will the marriage last, or will Candice choose Kegan? Tears galore throughout as life changing decisions are made. Including to tattoo or not to tattoo.

Go Bears!
I liked the cover, which is why I downloaded it. And the first few pages were easy reading--like junk food is easy eating. But after a while, I began to really dislike the protagonist. She's 31 and sits at home playing with her cat, crocheting and bemoaning that her husband of less than three years (who sounds like a pretty nice guy) has gone away for a month to do some charity work and what (aside from getting drunk with her friends and co-workers and getting manicures) will she do with herself? She really doesn't have much of an education so she's working in a job where while she's finally getting to do something with any substance and her employment status is threatened every time the boss is unhappy. I grew really tired of the description of everything she wears and eats (sort of like FB postings), and I almost wretched every time she found herself needing to be held and comforted on the shoulder of some man, especially the narcissistic ex who shows up at her office and tries to win her back, regardless of the fact that she's married. Her lack of spine, inability to make decisions aside from the colors of paint, and because her husband in a time of grief and pain said something hurtful to her, willingness to even consider going back to a man who didn't ever look for her and apologize for the pain he caused her, but waited until he just happened to choose the design firm she works at, now swoops in for a conquest--really left me disliking her. Won't spoil it for anyone with the ending, but if you get halfway through the book and still like the protagonist or any of her airhead friends, you will be among the minority. That said, the cover of the book is sweet. I gave it two stars because I respect anyone who can start writing a story and get to the end. But this is a story best marketed to teenage girls. Grown up women will become bored with it.
The book started out fine, but soon into the book, Candice's ex boyfriend from 10 years ago became a client at her company. Her husband having gone out of town for a monthlong work assignment, she spent that month mooning over said ex - who dumped her because he had tried a smart girlfriend, and now wanted a pretty girlfriend instead. Well, who wouldn't want such an upstanding specimen of man back after 10 years? And while this book is the first of the Toronto Series, it is a story by itself, so I feel no compunction to read any of the sequels.