Book Blurb:
A Gilmore Girls meets Schitt’s Creek redemption romcom.
Hazel Hart was a successful romance novelist until a breakup drives her straight into writer’s block. Having failed (and failed some more) to deliver her new manuscript, she’s hiding from the world behind a wall of old takeout containers until her publisher lays down the law. If she misses her next deadline it’s The End.
Desperate for inspiration, Hazel impulse-buys a historic home online and flees Manhattan to tiny Story Lake, PA. Upon her dramatic arrival—involving an incident with a bald eagle—she discovers the charm of her new home may have been slightly exaggerated.
The house is a wreck and the town is struggling after their biggest employer shut down. Also, since her raccoon-infested home came with a seat on the town council our introverted heroine is stuck with a front row seat to all the small-town shenanigans.
But Hazel isn’t worried. Not since all six-feet-three inches of grouchy contractor Campbell Bishop slapped a bandage on her forehead and unintentionally inspired the heck out of her. There’s only one thing to do: Hire Cam and his equally gorgeous brothers to renovate her new spider museum…er…house.
Okay two things. A fake date for “research purposes” will really put her work-in-progress on track. Before Hazel knows it, she’s writing a romance novel and living one. At least until the drywall dust settles, the town she’s falling in love with faces bankruptcy, and growly Cam remembers why he can’t live happily ever after.
Tropes:
*Small Town *Grumpy/sunshine *Author FMC x blue collar MMC *Brooding MMC
*Rom-Com *fun animal side kicks *close family *Small town drama *Drama with exes
*found family *banter *spice *State Challenge Pennsylvania (Repeat) *over 500 pages
*cozy read *Feel good *hallmark vibes *quirky small town neighbors
*Teddy bear MMC for those he loves *Situationship --> more *city girl moving to a small town
*quirky FMC
Thoughts:
While this was somewhere on my TBR (and probably has been for awhile... anyone reading this probably knows by now that I tend to have an arc/alc/ & TBR list a mile long) it wasn't at the top of my list but I joined a team reading challenge this month (for the first time) and occasionally we are thrown some extra challenges this week being a bingo board where the team we are going against picks books for us to read and we do the same for the other group... this was a blind pick and I at first was wary since this book is over 500 pages...
With all that being said I made a free spot for this book on my KU and used my audible credit for the month... I was not upset about any of that this book was a cozy feel good book that had me laughing out loud very early on. Was a lot of the stuff that happened in this book far-fetched and on the ridiculous side --> absolutely and I loved it... sometimes it's good to realize early on that's the type of book it's going to be and see where it goes.
First we have Hazel (FMC) who is a best selling romance author who many are saying is past her prime... including her publisher but she hasn't had inspiration since before her divorce and has been in a foggy funk since to the point where she's ignoring the majority of the outside world and sitting around wallowing in her pajamas... until she gets a wake up call in the form of her ex-husband's attorneys office saying that the deadline for vacating his apartment in NY is coming up... where is she even going to go? On top of that her best friend tells her if she doesn't put out her next book soon her publisher is going to drop her.
Hazel needing to do something...and quick finds an old news article reporting on a historic home in need of TLC being fixed up by a trio of hot brothers... now this is something she can work with she needs inspiration and a place to live... just so happens the very house is for sale in an online auction and she's just in time to start bidding.
Naturally she wins the bid goes to small town Pennsylvania and finds that it isn't as expected the place is in need of a lot of work, the mayor of the town is still in high school, and everyone including the local famous bird is out to get her... and worse still she dragged her best friend into this mess with her.
Having no where else to go she dives head first into small town living first things first she needs to get her place fixed up... and the very Brothers who drew her to the town in the first place are the men for the job... mainly because there are no others in the area to do it... but it works out just fine because what could be a better muse than 3 handsome men lifting heavy objects and fixing things around her new home.
Campbell (Cam) Bishop is grumpy, handsome, and 100% not interested in a relationship with anyone... especially not this clueless city girl who just came to town and will probably leave before they are even finished with renovations.
Of course Cam and Hazel clash so often that the sparks fly... but that passion soon ignites and they find themselves in a situationship... no strings attached, if one of them is done with the other that's it no relationship... what could go wrong they both want the same thing... until more feelings get involved.
This was a really cute feel good small town romance with a lot of quirky characters and heart who show up for each other when it really matters.
So glad I picked the person I did for the bingo challenge and this was the suggestion I loved it and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of this series!
I enjoyed this book but I put together some negatives from the comments so you can decide if it will be for you or not:
*Characters are too quirky/overly exaggerated/obnoxious
*book is too long
*boring
*She took Cam back way too quickly after the break up/he didn't grovel enough
*they are too old for a friends with benefits situation (I laughed at these types of comments they are in their 30's not 100)
*they are too old to not realize their "big feelings" /acted younger than intended ages
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