Chris and Mitch and Stacey are all super fun, lovely people, in stark contrast to my mainĬon: Simon. Even as an urban-loving suburbanite, I loved the portrayal of small town life as well as its charming inhabitants. April and Caitlin are both terrific and realistic (disclaimer: I myself am a bit of an April, a reluctant joiner who prefers city life,) as are the friends Emily makes on moving to Willow Creek. Pro: How delightfully the family relationships are portrayed outside of Emily’s strange head. Given the cost of home health care + driver services, April should be paying her to stay with them! But the presence of April herself is another I literally had no idea why she was being crazy about her sister April not charging her rent, when her entire reason for being in Willow Creek was to help her niece Caitlin and April after a horrific car crash temporarily immobilized the latter. I get it, she’s 24 and just got out of her first serious relationship with a guy who was, unfortunately, a complete asshole, but that should only mean that she’s gun-shy about romantic relationships, not every relationship.

Which, unfortunately, leads to the firstĬon: Emily is kind of a ninny. You feel like you’re really in Emily’s head as she navigates her new life in Willow Creek, Maryland. Pro: the writing is really terrific! The book flows so smoothly, the events and timeline make sense and the prose is both modern and pretty. The stresses of her old lifestyle fade away as she learns to trust her intuition and follow her heart instead of her head.I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to Pro and Con a book more than this one, at least in recent memory! But when Lulu proves indifferent to his many plaid charms and a shake-up threatens the fate of the band, Dex must confront something he never has before: his future.įorced to spend days and nights together on the road, Lulu’s interest in the kilted bad boy grows as he shows her a side of himself no one else has seen.

The only drawback? Dex MacLean: a guitarist with a killer smile, the Casanova of the Faire… and her traveling companion for the summer.ĭex has never had to work for much in his life, and why should he? Touring with his brothers as The Dueling Kilts is going great, and he always finds a woman at every Faire. Lulu’s cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Renaissance Faires, and when she spies one at a time just when she needs an escape, she leaps into the welcoming environment of turkey legs, taverns, and tarot readers. The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca.Ī high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa “Lulu” Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it’s all wrong. One of Amazon’s Best Romances of December

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