I have to admit that age-gap stories will probably never be my favorite thing to read, and a 20+ years gap is a bit much for me but…having said that, if C F White writes it, I’m going to read it and I’m so glad that I did.
I love it when a story gets all of my emotions involved and this one surely did that. I wasn’t sure how C F White was going to handle a story written in the US (use American English/vs British, etc.) and I love how she did it. I’m not going to say how because it might be a bit of a spoiler. I’ll just say that I think it was the perfect solution for a British author who doesn’t normally write books set in the US.
American Dream contains a lot of romance tropes and I was pleasantly surprised that slow-burn was one of them (I love slow-burn!). The first kiss between Eddie and Lee doesn’t happen until around 44% into the story and the first sexy time doesn’t’ happen until around 57%.
Once again, Piers Ryman did a fantastic job performing this story. I can’t remember if I’ve ever heard him do an American accent before or not but he did a great job with the American voices in this story.