Review: Meet Me in River’s Edge (The Weaver Sisters Book 2) by Nan Reinhardt

 

He ticks every one of her “never again” boxes…

Jo Weaver loves her job as a boat mechanic for her family’s marina in River’s Edge, Indiana. But when she’s pulled away from her high school reunion with her sisters to fix a stranded yacht, she can’t restrain her irritation. Jo doesn’t like wealthy men who think they can have whatever they want, and she has no intention of falling for rich and charming again.

Born into the international Briggs Hotels empire, Alex Briggs has never felt comfortable with his life of privilege. Abandoning his family’s business to pursue medical research, he’s far more at home in his lab. When the yacht he restored himself breaks down on the way to an important conference, Alex begrudgingly goes in search of a boat mechanic and falls, literally, into Jo Weaver’s arms. The fireworks he feels are impossible to ignore.

Jo does her best to keep Alex in the business zone, but he keeps slipping into something more. Can she trust her fragile heart, especially when Alex and his life-altering research are so far from River’s Edge?

 

My Review:

An emotional opposites attract romance.

I always enjoy returning to River’s Edge.  The characters in these books seem so real, like people I want to know and hang out with. 

In the second installment of the Weaver Sisters series, we meet Jo, the boat mechanic of the family, who is leery of what she calls “river rats”, the entitled rich people who cruise the river where her family’s marina is located.  But then Alex’s yacht breaks down, while on his way to New Orleans, and needs it to be repaired before he can continue his journey.  Jo wants to keep their relationship professional, but Alex wants more.  He sets out to prove he is not like the other men Jo has met in the past. 

This book took me through all of the emotions.  I highly recommend it.  It is my favorite, so far, of this series.  It also has one of the best meet-cutes I have read in a long time.  And the ending is one you won’t forget either. 

 

 

Review: The Remarkable Rise of Amanda Appleby (With Love, Cornwall Book 2) by Trish Morey

 

Before Amanda Appleby’s rise comes the fall...

When Amanda Appleby catches her husband messing with the belly dancer hired for his fiftieth birthday party, her once-perfectly curated life crashes down. With her marriage in ruins and little money from the property settlement, Amanda finds herself fifty, divorced, and broke.

Amanda retreats to her family’s charming cottage in Cornwall to regroup and hits on a way to make money. She writes a book about how to renovate and sell a house. Peppered with cynical tips from Amanda’s own failed marriage, the book goes viral. Hailed as the “Marie Kondo for the Unhappily Married Woman,” Amanda is thrust into stardom. Invited as a contestant on a dating show, she meets Jack Walker, the show’s crabby—but surprisingly kind-hearted—scriptwriter and Amanda discovers that maybe romance isn’t dead after all.

But when she’s enlisted as the public face of a man-hating site, suddenly Amanda’s success turns toxic, threatening to derail both her career and her newfound relationship. But Amanda is no longer the dutiful wife she once was. Can the woman Amanda has become find it in herself to keep her star rising?

 

My Review:

Starting over later in life.

After Amanda’s marriage hits rock bottom, she claws her way back to the top by moving to her parent’s cottage in St. Ives, Cornwall, where she makes new friends and rediscovers who she is.  She even finds love along the way in the most unexpected place. 

I enjoyed seeing Amanda’s transition from the glamorous life of a wife of a popular cosmetic surgeon, to starting over with pretty much nothing.  She has quite the adventure along the way.  The story is set in Cornwall and Santorini and the author was quite descriptive of each location adding something extra to the story.  There was some fun and witty dialogue along with the sad parts where Amanda learns of her husband’s infidelity.  There is an amazing happily ever after too.  This is an all-around great book and I truly enjoyed it. 

 

 

Review: Once Upon a Beast (Bourbon Falls, #1) by Kyra Jacobs

It’s a fairy tale as old as time…

Everyone in Bourbon Falls knows Delaney Brooks doesn’t need a man—including Delaney. So when a storm sends her niece’s car hydroplaning into the town hermit’s bushes, it’s nothing Del can’t handle herself. But the winds also cause costly damage to the roof of her family’s beloved bookstore, and Del accepts it’s time to seek help.

Isaac Manning never intended to be the bad guy. But a slanderous post went viral, and he’s forced to take cover in Bourbon Falls, Indiana, hiding to protect his tech company until the online storm blows over. The strategy goes smoothly until a teenage girl destroys his lawn. Now two locals have seen his face, and one is tugging at his heartstrings.

Del’s fundraiser can save her family’s bookstore but she’ll need an amazing website built to draw the crowds in. Isaac, wanting a break from his loneliness, is happy to trade his skills for Del’s landscape panache. But can the two truly work together to support the town’s biggest event of the year without jeopardizing their hearts and reputations too?

 

My Review:

A great start to a new series.

I fell in love with Bourbon Falls and its residents in this book and can’t wait to read more as this series continues.  In this book we meet Del, a landscaper, who loves the town she grew up in as much as she loves the little book store her mother opened many years ago.  Del will do anything to keep the book store open, after a storm damages the roof, including teaming up with the town’s newcomer, Isaac, who everyone refers to as a hermit.  Del learns there is much more to Isaac, then meets the eye.  Soon, she finds herself falling for him.  But will their relationship survive the rumors and speculation and the fact that Isaac might not even be staying in town? 

I loved everything about this book.  The setting, the interesting characters and the storyline.  I had a hard time putting it down. 

 

 

 

Review: A Baby for the Billionaire Cowboy (The Accidental Billionaire Cowboys, #4) by Kris Bock

This runaway bride needs a fresh start.

After falling unexpectedly pregnant, Daisy Taylor barely had a moment to think. The baby’s father proposed, her parents rushed the wedding, and Daisy fled the altar. She runs away to Last Stand, Texas, to stay with her aunt and arrives in time for a fundraising ball—where her wedding dress blends in—and dances with a handsome stranger. He seems sweet and kind, and when Daisy later secures employment as an assistant at a nearby ranch, she’s pleased to see the man again. But she’s humiliated that he doesn’t recognize her.

The youngest of his siblings, Xander Tomlinson is still uncomfortable with his family’s unexpected lottery win. He prefers a quiet and peaceful life on the ranch caring for creatures in need. When his mother hires an office assistant, Xander is immediately protective of Daisy and her ever-growing belly.

Daisy won’t take charity and Xander struggles to fight his attraction to Daisy who, as an employee, is off-limits. As their friendship teeters on the edge of becoming more and the baby’s father starts making demands, will Xander learn that some things are worth fighting for?

 

My Review: 

I was hooked form the start.

This book series just keeps getting better.  I really enjoyed Daisy and Xander’s story and couldn’t get enough of them.  I liked how neither of them was looking for romance, but they found it in the end.  There were so many sweet scenes in this book, along with some family drama and some major drama when it came to Daisy’s baby’s father.  I enjoyed seeing the bond between Daisy and Xander grow and how her family accepted her as one of their own from the start.  Even though this book is part of a series, I think you can still read each book as a stand-alone.