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3.44 AVERAGE
3.44 AVERAGE
I really liked this book! Finley needs a new start after discovering her husband is cheating on her with her male trainer. She moves to Green Valley where her Grandmother and her girl gang all live and gets a job at the local library, where she meets the mysterious Zeke. Finley felt real in the way she wallowed then bucked up and moved forward. Zeke was a true gentleman and it was a treat discovering where he came from and what he's going in Green Valley. I really enjoyed them together, and it was a great addition to the Green Valley library series- in fact, it was by far my favorite.
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Disclaimer: An eARC was provided via the Author and Smartypants Romance as part of the Blog Tour. The Thoughts, opinions & feelings expressed in the review are therefore, my own.
Another wonderful edition to the Green Valley Library Series set in the Pennyverse – and it’s all about finding new lease in life; especially after your life implodes in ways you couldn’t have ever imagined!
Finley, our wonderful protagonist thought her life was on a good steady pace, a good job, a husband with plans to expand their family soon – not exciting all the time; but one that she was hopefully content with. Until she is blindsided with a revelation; that leads her to flee to her GramBea’s house in a small town of Green Valley, Tennessee.
Now she lives with four senior ladies, who all are hell bent upon trying to get her back into the saddle, so to speak and she has a chance to fulfill her dream of working in with historical archives in the town’s library and maybe, just maybe end up writing a historical book as well.
What she didn’t expect was to meet that tall, dark and the very mysterious handsome tech support of the library just weeks after her marriage imploded.
Zeke, our tall dark and attractive stranger, has his own agenda to be in Green Valley and is in town for a short, short time.
There is an instant geeky connection between Finley and Zeke – which made this novella all the more sweet and adorkable. The more time she spends with Zeke, the more she realises that when you find someone as wonderful and as caring Zeke; the timing of that meeting honestly doesn’t matter.
Add in Finley’s opinionated, nosy roommates, you have some very hilarious and riotous scenes that are the perfect balance to the sweet romance developing between our lovely protagonists’ - all of this has made sure that Shelf Awareness for a very interesting and enjoyable read!
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I have to give this one star because I got pretty close to not finishing this book. It was WORK to finish it so that should really tell you most about how I felt about it. The dialogue was weird to me, the flow didn't work, and the characters just lacked any real depth that I could connect with. And as a cosplayer, the whole scene at the cosplay mixer was just epic cringe worthy.
This book wasn't for me but who knows, it might be for you.
This book wasn't for me but who knows, it might be for you.
Laugh out loud funny
This is my first Katie Ashley rom com, but certainly not my last! There were so many parts of this book that made me laugh, I was texting friends who’d read it lines every once in awhile. It’s my last Green Valley book until the next Smartypants books come out and I’m ready for more!!!
This is my first Katie Ashley rom com, but certainly not my last! There were so many parts of this book that made me laugh, I was texting friends who’d read it lines every once in awhile. It’s my last Green Valley book until the next Smartypants books come out and I’m ready for more!!!
This story was more comedic than previous books in the series, and I appreciated that. The heroine's elderly relatives, known collectively as "the girls", were what made the book worth reading for me. The way their personalities played off of each other was fun to read. Overall, the book felt like a slice of life in Green Valley since there weren't really any big obstacles for the hero and heroine to overcome. Still, I would recommend this as a light and fun book to pick up.
I was provided with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This was super funny. I loved Finley and Zeke as a couple. I also loved "the girls" aka Finley's grandmother GramBea, and her Great Aunt Dot and her Godmother Estelle. They were kind of like a more pious version of the Golden Girls, and they were hilarious with their pearl clutching (except for progressive Estelle) and meddling. Finley quits her job as a journalist and moves to Green Valley after she finds her husband in bed with someone else. She moves in with "the girls" in order to figure out what she wants to do next. When she takes a job at the newly renovated library as a history curator, she encounters Zeke Masters. Zeke is volunteering his time and IT skills at the library while on sabbatical from his life in Seattle.
Zeke and Finley quickly hit it off, but she is going through a divorce and that is emotionally draining and he is going through some emotional stuff as well. They find comfort and support in their budding friendship. He pulls her into his outdoorsy, nerdy lifestyle, and she introduces him to the ways of the south. As they both navigate through their own emotional issues, they keep ending up back at the same point. They can't deny that there is something between them. Their romance picks up fairly quickly and it is pretty heated. GramBea and Aunt Dot would definitely be clutching their pearls if they knew what those two had been getting up two.
This was so enjoyable. I will say that it lacked the character interaction from the Pennyverse that I've come to know and love having read all of the other Smartypants Romance books. With this being the final book in the 2019 release cycle, this one was the most independent of the releases. The author kind of stuck with her own characters and locations, which were great, but if you've read the other books you expected more interaction from the main players in Penny's books and the other Smartypants books as well as more visits to the main locales in Green Valley. There were brief mentions of some of the characters and places, but the interactions were brief. That doesn't take away from the fact that this was a great read, I'd just like to see more interaction with the characters and places we've come to know and love from Green Valley.
Overall another great addition to the Smartypants Line and the Green Valley Library Series.
This was super funny. I loved Finley and Zeke as a couple. I also loved "the girls" aka Finley's grandmother GramBea, and her Great Aunt Dot and her Godmother Estelle. They were kind of like a more pious version of the Golden Girls, and they were hilarious with their pearl clutching (except for progressive Estelle) and meddling. Finley quits her job as a journalist and moves to Green Valley after she finds her husband in bed with someone else. She moves in with "the girls" in order to figure out what she wants to do next. When she takes a job at the newly renovated library as a history curator, she encounters Zeke Masters. Zeke is volunteering his time and IT skills at the library while on sabbatical from his life in Seattle.
Zeke and Finley quickly hit it off, but she is going through a divorce and that is emotionally draining and he is going through some emotional stuff as well. They find comfort and support in their budding friendship. He pulls her into his outdoorsy, nerdy lifestyle, and she introduces him to the ways of the south. As they both navigate through their own emotional issues, they keep ending up back at the same point. They can't deny that there is something between them. Their romance picks up fairly quickly and it is pretty heated. GramBea and Aunt Dot would definitely be clutching their pearls if they knew what those two had been getting up two.
This was so enjoyable. I will say that it lacked the character interaction from the Pennyverse that I've come to know and love having read all of the other Smartypants Romance books. With this being the final book in the 2019 release cycle, this one was the most independent of the releases. The author kind of stuck with her own characters and locations, which were great, but if you've read the other books you expected more interaction from the main players in Penny's books and the other Smartypants books as well as more visits to the main locales in Green Valley. There were brief mentions of some of the characters and places, but the interactions were brief. That doesn't take away from the fact that this was a great read, I'd just like to see more interaction with the characters and places we've come to know and love from Green Valley.
Overall another great addition to the Smartypants Line and the Green Valley Library Series.
Super cute and fun! I'm loving these Smartypants Romances so far!