Priscilla Alexander can no longer take the stress of her job as an advertising executive in San Francisco. In addition, her soon-to-be-divorced mother has permanently moved into Priscilla’s small condo. To make matters worse, Priscilla recently split from her dead-end boyfriend. So, after eating a to-die-for hot-fudge sundae at Ghirardelli Square, she decides to get away. Her destination? She’ll fly to Australia and venture into the Outback, alone. As Priscilla has come to realize, sometimes escape is the only option.
WARNING: “Jetting Away” is a short story prequel to “Outback Love.” It can be read as a stand-alone, but I’m sure you’ll enjoy Priscilla’s further adventures in my contemporary romance novel, “Outback Love.” “Jetting Away” is approximately 5,680 words in length. It’s a short, fun read with a touch of romance. You may feel compelled to drink coffee, eat donuts, savor hot fudge sundaes and jet away. Best of all, it’s Free!!!
"Normally prequels can add something to the story, but this one ends very abruptly"
Reviewer: Reader for Bookangel.
The plot of Jetting Away is simple: exec bored of job decides to go to Australia, told among pages and pages of shopping, salons, designer clothes etc. and this is very much a "Life in the Day of" style feature rather than a story.
This is because it is a short story prequel to a novel "Outback Love". Not much actually happens in Jetting Away - she does not even reach Australia as it ends when she gets on the aircraft.
Normally prequels can add something to the story, but this one ends very abruptly, with the story going directly into a bracketed paragraph telling you that her adventures continue in the novel. It reads more like a dropped prologue than a standalone story. For anyone who has read "Outback Love" and wants to know more about the heroine and her background, this would probably be a good read. For those who haven't, like me, it falls a bit flat.
If this were free bonus content it might get three stars. As a standalone story that I am expected to pay for? I'd have to give it two.
