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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
I'm in love with all of Sarina Bowen's characters, no matter which series.
What a great book. Perfect for fall, and I have been craving apple everything just reading about all the cider. I can't wait to read more by this author.
MF - contemporary romance - white MCs - high steam - pov first single - autumn vibes - food industry - grumpy/sunshine - one night stand - opposites attract - second chance - small town - third act external - 5 stars.
This was a reread for me as we are doing a buddy read of the whole series over in the Discord server. I’m glad to say the book read just as well the second time. Griff is so grumpy without being an asshole. The conflict is perfect, and the big conflict at the end was so well handled. I also really liked how the second chance was done, and that Griff is 100% in. His family is amazing dream, the perfect foil to Audrey’s awful mother.
Griffin Shipley, swoon! And what a cute family! I love the Shipleys and Grumpy Griff and Audrey’s dynamic. It was adorable how Audrey fell in love with the Shipleys and finally could feel at home with them more so than with her own family. She had so much to give and finally found people who could appreciate what she had to offer. Griff was a good guy although perfectly grumpy in the best way and I’m a sucker for HEAs.
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Another strong, if more conventional, contemporary from Sarina Bowen opens this new series, set in Vermont. Privileged party girl Audrey has an internship working for a major restaurant consortium in the Boston area, and is sent to Vermont to help source organic foods for the group. There, she encounters a guy she had a brief hook-up with in college, a promising football player who is now running his family's dairy farm and orchard. Griffin is the serious, protective family man, putting aside his own dreams to take over the farm after his father's death. But Grouchy Griff is still majorly attracted to playful, lighthearted Audrey, despite their differences. And for her part, Audrey finds Griff (and his tight-knit loving family) just about as scrumptious as a gourmet meal. But Audrey's dreams of opening her own high-end restaurant in the city hardly mesh with life on a Vermont farm.
Wasn't so keen on Audrey's backstory—her wealthy mother doesn't respect her daughter because she didn't choose the overachiever path—but I appreciated the book's refusal to make Audrey give up her dreams in order to be with the man she loves.
Wasn't so keen on Audrey's backstory—her wealthy mother doesn't respect her daughter because she didn't choose the overachiever path—but I appreciated the book's refusal to make Audrey give up her dreams in order to be with the man she loves.