Make Me a Match

During Cecilia Burns' engagement party, her sister Amy unexpectedly shows up. Cecilia has not seen her sister in ten years. Cecilia belongs to a family of gypsy's. Amy embraces it and Cecilia does not, she prefers to lead a more sedate life. Amy has the psychic ability to know anyone's one and only true love and she has arrived to tell Cecilia that Jack is not her true love, that Finn Concord is, and he is dying, so she needs to find him ASAP. Fin arrives in Baltimore with his eight year old daughter Maya. They are visiting granny Trudy. Fin continues to work as a carpenter renovating an old house while Maya gets to spend time with her grandmother. Finn's wife Sally died, leaving him to raise Maya alone and Maya is desperate for female companionship so she found an ad in a magazine for a rent- a-granny. Finn and Cecilia are not hitting it off and Amy has more at stake than Cecilia's true love, so she has enlisted Trudy and Maya to help her. As the craziness gets crazier Fin and Cecilia grow closer, but if Finn is really dying they don't have a future anyway. What is Amy up to and can Cecilia stop her before it's too late for all of them? Make Me a Match is a funny, sexy, out of this world romp. There were several times when I thought it might not work and that made me a wee bit frustrated, but thankfully things do work out in the end. Ms. Holquist kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Everyone who reads Make Me A Match will wonder if knowing your One True Love is good or bad, but I don't think most of us really want the answer to that question! Pick up Make Me A Match for an outrageous and amusing read. Nannette Reviewed for Joyfully Reviewed

Make Me A Match is certainly fun to read and entertaining. I love the idea of knowing your one true love and how that might turn out. Ms. Holquist is a remarkably accomplished writer for this to be her first novel. As another reviewer commented, what I liked best were all the interesting "ah-has" about gypsies, about life, about love and the tangled relationships we often have to unravel or reweave while still draming of true connection, affection and devotion.

The main character, Cecelia, is a successful physician who is forced to confront her less-than-distinguished past (and her true self) when her sister, Amy, suddenly reappears, up-ending her life with the possibility of True Love. Make Me A Match engages from page one. Ms. Holquist treats readers to a delicious romance that unfolds amidst vivid scenes of Baltimore and insights into a diverse cast of characters from wine-sipping society docs to beer-swilling construction workers. The book is funny, romantic, sexy. Highly recommended.

"Make Me a Match" is funny, romantic, interesting--a great read. This new author is definitely on my keeper shelf. I'm looking forward to her next book. One of the great things about this book is the dialogue. The characters are real people with real thoughts--they're sweet, loving, smart, and funny. "Make Me a Match" is a great find for any romance lover.

I totally enjoyed this book! It was funny, and moved along briskly, with a page turning and surprising plot. And educational - insight into gypsy psychology, as well as that of various ordinary people. The book taps into the universal fantasy that there is one person, in all the world, who is your soul mate, your one true love. And he may be dying. But he doesn't know who the heck you are, and you have to find him fast, and save him, and not scare him away becuase you might appear to be a psycho. The romantic scenes were original, to say the least. Slowly building and culminating with a tryst in the cosy dwarf house of a mineature golf course - I would bet the farm that's never been written before. A satisfying read - I would recommend it.