Review ‘What We Do For Love’ by Anne Pfeffer

Title: What We Do for Love

Author: Anne Pfeffer

Genre: Fiction

ISBN: B07PW15FQT

Goodreads Rating: 4.50

Thirty-eight-year-old Nicole Adams has given up on finding love. The single mother focuses instead on a few things that she cherishes--her sixteen-year-old son Justin, her friends, and her art. When she convinces a major museum to show a piece of her work, and she thinks her career has finally turned a corner, her son brings home a girl, Daniela, to spend the night. Daniela's parents have thrown her out of the house: she is pregnant with Justin's child. Shattered, Nicole feels she has no choice but to take the girl in. She finds herself falling in love with Daniela, but increasingly troubled by the behavior of the girl’s icy, tormented mom and hard-drinking, hard-fisted dad. Nicole struggles as fear and deceit enter her formerly peaceful life. Forced to deal with people she doesn't trust or like, fearful for the future of both her son and the grandchild they're expecting, Nicole wonders if she can do what she tells Justin to do: always have faith in yourself and do the right thing. What We Do for Love is a standalone story written by award-winning author Anne Pfeffer.

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Back in 2015 I read ‘Just Pru’ by Anne Pfeffer and I really loved that back. So when I was invited to read ‘What We Do For Love’ I couldn’t say no. After reading a lot of Contemporary Romance novels, which I love, I was excited to read something a little different. And that cover is very pretty too if you ask me.

In ‘What We Do For Love’ we meet single mom Nicole Adams. Nicole has a sixteen year old son Justin who she loves more than anything. Being a single mom can definitely be a little tricky. Especially when Justin comes home with a girl who tells Nicole she is pregnant with her grandchild. Being an artist, money isn’t coming in as much as she would have liked. And now Nicole doesn’t only have her son to take care of, but also a strange girl and her unborn baby. Before Nicole can really think about it, she is taking care of more people than she ever planned. But then the girl’s strange and unkind mother appears and life gets even more interesting.

‘What We Do For Love’ is an interesting read. From the moment I started reading I kept wondering which direction this book would take. There was a lot going on in this book, and I definitely enjoyed getting to know Nicole, and finding out more about her journey as a mother and an artist. The characters where easy to like and I found myself wanting to keep on reading just so I would know what would happen next.

There is romance in this book, but also a lot of moments were a lot of thrilling stuff is happening. And this definitely made for a fun read. But it was also a little confusing at times and in the end I still don’t really know what genre fits this book or what was really the message of this book. It was also a little predictable, but still fun.

But since this book still kept me interested and I find the author’s writing style very entertaining this book is still a 3.5 star read for me.

Award-winning novelist Anne Pfeffer grew up in Phoenix, Arizona reading prodigiously, riding horses, and avoiding rattlesnakes and scorpions. After living in Chicago and New York, she escaped back to the land of sunshine in Los Angeles. She has worked in banking and as a pro bono attorney, representing abandoned children in adoption and guardianship proceedings. Anne has a daughter living in New York and is the author of four books in the YA/New Adult genres. For more information about Anne please visit her website. Or visit her on Twitter.

Maureen Bakker

Maureen is a mom, wife, nurse, and Ravenclaw living in the Netherlands. She spends her days juggling mom-life, reading, blogging, planning date nights with her husband and working as a nurse. Maureen also is a big Anglophile, loves cooking, Gilmore Girls, Bridgerton and Harry Potter.. Always!  Facebook | Instagram