Iron Canuck Reviews & More: Review Tour: Snowfall by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe with an excerpt, a giveaway, and my review

SNOWFALL

by Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe

GENRE: RomCom

BLURB:

Melody is a simple woman with simple needs that include good clean books, safe and intelligible television, and a job that she loves. As far as she’s concerned, she has everything she needs, including a beloved gig as the assistant librarian of her local public library. When a Winter Reads program turns chaotic and Melody is caught in the crossfires of a massive child-induced food fight, her dream job becomes a nightmare – a nightmare that continues into a snow-covered, accident-prone next day. After waking up to a sudden massive snowfall covering her town, she becomes the unwilling victim of a snowball fight between two identical twin brothers. Melody must then decide if she has met her very own Mister Right, or if her perfect life can handle an imperfect interruption. Lighthearted laughs and endearing moments fill this modern romantic comedy by humorist Jennifer Patricia O’Keeffe

EXCERPT:

As she walked, she read. While there were a lot of people around, it wasn’t very crowded. She didn’t worry about bumping into anybody or tripping over anything as long as she stayed on the paved pathways that circled around and wound through the city park. The pathways had plenty of snow covering them, but the people who had arrived before her did good work in trampling through and stomping down the snow that covered them.

Soon, all thoughts of her surroundings faded away into the background as Sally and her tale of love and life took over. Melody was at a really great part too. Sally, the protagonist, was single and twenty-five – close enough to Melody’s own age to make her very relatable. And there was this guy named Eric who worked at the same clothing store as Sally. Sally had found him attractive, and she hoped the same from him. At the start of the current chapter, Sally received a dozen red roses with an unsigned note card attached that says, “You look beautiful today.”

Melody gushed and paused in her step to just take in the moment. And, in that very moment, she heard a man shout, “I got it! I got it, bro!”

Looking up just in time to see a snowball nearing her face and a man leaping in front of it to try and catch it, Melody squealed. The snowball splattered against the man’s hand. The man lost his footing on the snow and fell backward. This caused him to impact with a startled Melody, plunging into her and knocking her down to the ground. Her bottom plopped down into the deep snow, and her elbows helped prevent her from landing flat and making it worse. Had she not been holding on to Roses for Sally for dear life, she surely would have damaged the book in the snow.

The man who collided into her landed just a foot or so in front of her and was pushing himself out of the snow while laughing. She watched him as he wiped the snow off himself, oblivious to her existence on the ground behind him. More than a bit insulted by the moment, she glared up at him.

“I told you I got it!” he shouted and laughed again. “Dude, did you see that block?”

“Yeah, bro,” yelled another voice. “But did you see what else you hit?”

“Huh?” the man asked. “What’d I hit?”

Melody watched him look over his shoulder and finally see her there on the ground behind him.

“Oh…” he muttered, looked blank for a moment, and then smiled and said, “Hi!”

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Jennifer Patricia O’Keeffe is a humorist fiction author whose works include the stories My Name is Not Cupid, The Scent of a Man, and the beautifully reviewed thriller about a mother who would stop at nothing to save her child, Hot Chocolate on a Cold Winter’s Night, among others. Known for her quirky romantic comedies that feature realistic women of various ages and races and the trials and tribulations of adulting and dating, Jennifer’s writings allow real women to see themselves in her characters. Jennifer is also a proud LGBTQ+ ally and often features gay characters in her stories, including the tale All I Want is to be Happy, which features a wonderful gay protagonist. Jennifer, herself, is a single straight woman, still looking for love, and living with her cats in an apartment in Nashville, Tennessee.

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/authorjpokeeffe

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/authorjpokeeffe

Blog: https://singlegirlsguidetohappiness.blogspot.com/

Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F1F2NWF8

Barnes and Noble Link: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/snowfall-jennifer-patricia-okeeffe/1147137020

Smashwords Link: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1728222

Kobo Link: http://store.kobobooks.com/en-us/Search?Query=9798990303539

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GIVEAWAY

Jennifer Patricia O'Keeffe will be awarding a $10 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner.

http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/28e4345f5128/

My Review - 4 of 5 stars -

One woman, Melody, had a couple rough days. What could go wrong did. I felt for those bad moments. Then she met Jerry. There were ups and downs, unsure feelings and such. Jerry was very nice and caring, making her smile when she needed it the most. Melody was a bit hesitant at first but decided to take a chance. This was a relatively quick read, a little slow to start, but a touching finish.