The Best Kept Secret In Fiction

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Is Marisa de los Santos. Hands down. I picked up Love Walked In from Small Liberal University library during my 50 books in year event. I wasn’t expected much. I’m not usually one for any type of romantic fiction, anything even remotely chick-litish. And reading the back cover of the novel I thought I’d breeze through the novel, write it down as number 35 on the list and quickly forget I ever read it.

Little did I know de los Santos would have me in hysterics, tears, and plain old love with her story.

The basic run down is thus: Cornelia works at a coffee shop. She dropped out off a Ph.D. program in English literature because she did not want to spend her time dissecting and destroying the books she loved. She meets a Cary Grant look alike, and begins a romantic, seemingly perfect relationship. Then, CG’s daughter, Clare shows up.

That’s as much as you get.

Read. The. Book.

De los Santos has a wonderful way with words, a published poet she’s penned some of the most beautiful lines of prose I’ve ever read. As a student of literature I found myself laughing out loud at some of her allusions to great works.

Love Walked In is one of those books that demands you reread it. As I finished the last sentence on the last page, I sighed. I clutched the book to my heart in the best attempt to hug it as I could manage.

Imagine my joy when I found out that de los Santos second book, Belong to Me, was not only on the shelves but was in fact the sequal to Love Walked In.

I inhaled it.

I loved it.

I’ll be reading it again.

So, dear readers, do yourself a favor and pick up Love Walked In and Belong to Me.

You’ll thank me.

I promise.

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