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Reviewed by Natasha Jackson for Readers' Favorite
Mike Lund is the kind of guy that you don’t really notice at first. He’s quiet and shy, and because he spent much of his young life overweight, he doesn’t have the confidence he should. But thanks to his skills under the hood, he skirts on the fringe of the popular crowd. Only the Lonely is the story of Mike and his friend Diane, one of the many female friends for which he has carried a torch at one point. Diane takes a job at Foxx Body Shop, where Mike works, after she finds out her boyfriend and boss is someone else’s husband and father. Karen Wiesner does a good job illustrating the emotions both Mike and Diane feel about her previous relationship, as well as the attraction they both refuse to acknowledge.
What is so great about Only the Lonely is that while Mike is helping Diane stay strong and stay away from her lying cheating ex, Robert, he is slowly showing her what it feels like to have a solid relationship with a faithful man. Seemingly out of the blue, Diane starts to see Mike as more than a quiet, overweight guy who drinks a little too much. But Mike thinks it’s too much to hope that Diane sees him any differently than she always has. Karen Wiesner did a great job with this story, but I have to say that Diane was slightly annoying, even if you give her latitude for finding out the so-called love of her life was married with children. I just wished she could have been stronger and I think Mike deserved that version of her, the version he’d fallen in love with all those years ago. Only the Lonely offers a good time with great characters and I look forward to reading more from Wiesner.
