Down London Road: Extra Scenes (2)

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Synopsis

These extra scenes include the pivotal birthday party scene from Down London Road, rewritten from Cam's POV, in which Cam and Jo share a steamy moment in the bathroom and begin to think about a possible future together. There is also a prologue that was cut from the book, written from Jo's perspective that shows her watching over her little brother, Cole, in the hospital after he's born. 

Review

Down London Road was written entirely from Johanna's first-person POV, but in the first of these two extra scenes, we get Cam's perspective during the pivotal birthday party moment where they get a little hot and heavy in the bathroom and start to make decisions about breaking up with their respective significant others in order to be together. I enjoyed getting Cam's POV, because it shows just how crazy he is about Jo and how desperately he wants them to become a couple.

The second scene is a prologue in Johanna's perspective that was deleted from the finished book. It shows Jo as a young girl at the hospital right after her beloved brother, Cole, was born. This moment was well-done in that it showed her adoration of Cole started from the minute he came into the world. She made a vow to love and protect him that carried over into the main part of the story. Given that these are just two short scenes and not an entire story, it's a little hard to rate them, but I very much enjoyed them, equally as well as the novel, so five stars seemed appropriate. These scenes can be found in the anthologies On Dublin Street: The Bonus Material and On Dublin Street: The Novellas.

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