
In this story, she befriends the shallow and vapid Prudence Mercer, apparently because she’s a kind person. No, not special in the same sense that the gold medal winner of a Special Olympics event is special, but special because she loves animals and she loves whining about how she doesn’t fit in even more. If you have read the previous books, or the first quarter of this story, you will surely be aware that Beatrix Hathaway is special. After reading this book, I can say that a more accurate title for this depth-free throwaway fluff of a story is Asinine in the Afternoon. Aww, Love in the Afternoon breaks the pattern of titles in Lisa Kleypas’s Hathaway family series.
