Heather Webber

The irrepressible star of Truly, Madly, is back in business. This time, Lucy Valentine will go to the ends of the earth to find true love for her clients...and maybe even herself. Lucy wants to breathe new life into her family's Boston-based matchmaking company. But how? Even though she comes from a long line of ancestors blessed by Cupid with psychic abilities, a freak accident left Lucy with only one special skill: finding things. Car keys, socks in the dryer, needles in haystacks...and now, in a stroke of professional genius, lost loves! It's not long before Lucy's on a winning streak, helping old flames reunite and create new sparks. Business is booming. But when Lucy finds herself involved in a possible case of murder, she realizes she's in too deep. Enter Sean Donahue. Lucy's handsome fire-fighter turned private-eye neighbor, Sean is just the man she needs to help her on the job. Could he also be the man she's been looking for all along? When it comes to Valentine, Inc., falling in love is always serious business...

A Lucy Valentine Novel

Deeply, Desperately

Colleen

3 Stars
 
I enjoyed Truly, Madly when I read it last year. It was cute and fun and different enough to stand out. But while Deeply, Desperately was still entertaining, I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as the first book.
 
Psychic Lucy Valentine is back at it, trying to reunite people with their lost loves, help the police with missing persons, avoid a stalker, figure out what’s going on with her crazy family, and find true love. There certainly was a lot going on in Deeply, Desperately. Maybe to the point where some elements didn’t get the page time they needed in order to strengthen the story.
 
While the romance still had its cute moments, it was also the thing that annoyed me the most in this story. The sort-of love triangle in the first book was annoying but tolerable because they were really still at the flirting level. But in this book they are actually dating and getting serious, but there is still a love triangle issue. It’s a personal hang-up, but it totally pisses me off when people are wishy-washy about moving from one relationship to the next. Make a decision, dude.
 
The other problem was that the mystery element was much weaker. It took a backseat to the personal drama. I would barely even count this as a mystery. And the conclusion of the missing persons case and the stalker plot lines were both underwhelming. One of the other subplots was very heartwarming, and the romance was still cute overall. But I did find this installment a little on the disappointing side. I still plan to read the next book, but I hope it is more like the first book.
 

RATING FACTORS:
Ease of Reading: 5 Stars
Writing Style: 3 Stars
Characters and Character Development: 3 Stars
Plot Structure and Development: 3 Stars
Level of Captivation: 4 Stars
Originality: 3 Stars

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Samantha Armstrong

Amy Medeiros

Angi Cox

Lucy Valentine uses her gift of finding lost things to locate lost loves, until she gets involved in a murder investigation, which leads her straight into the arms of Sean Donahue, her hot firefighter-turned-private eye neighbor.

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Dani C

Deeply, Desperately A Lucy Valentine Novel

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