Publisher: Ylva Publishing
What
do you do when you decide to play a joke on someone else and the joke turns out
to be on you?
Annie
and Jake Prideaux have a typical sibling relationship, she’s an adult and he’s
a perpetual kid. One of Jake’s favorite
things is to play practical jokes on his long suffering and “unconnected”
sister. He tells Annie that he’s going
to set her up on a date with a close friend that he just knows she’ll
like. Jake neglects to tell Annie that
his friend Drew Corbin is a woman. Drew
is totally focused on her vineyard, but has begun to realize that she needs
more in her life. She’s seen Annie
before and is happy to have the date, but not when she discovers what Jake has
done to them. Instead of the explosion
that Jake expects, the women decide to turn the tables on Jake and act like
they have actually fallen in love. This
includes attending Prideaux family events where Jake discovers that he’s very
uncomfortable with the situation and accuses Drew of confusing his sister.
Annie
and Drew are both confused by the middle of the book. Annie has never experienced feelings for a
woman before, not that she took seriously anyway, and Drew knows that getting
involved with a straight woman is disappointment waiting to happen.
Jae
is becoming a young legend in the field of lesbian fiction. Her books are longer than most romances and
full of details and plot that have made her a multiple award winner. What usually amazes her readers however is
that she is a native German and writes better in English than a lot of her
contemporaries. Her books are amazingly
free of mistakes, which means the reader isn’t distracted by errors that interrupt
the story.
Something in the Wine is a coming-out
romance about a slighter older character than is usually found in those stories
and the typical already burned lesbian.
Though it isn’t Jae’s strongest book, it’s still an enjoyable story and
entertaining. If you like lesbian
literature, it’s difficult to go wrong with this author.
