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A review by lanidacey
Sweet Talkin' Lover by Tracey Livesay
4.0
Wavering between a 3.5 and a 4, so I'll round up and see how I feel as the book settles.
I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this one! This is the second Tracey Livesay title I've read, and both times I couldn't put the book down. Some of the first romances I ever read were small-town contemporaries, so this gave me nostalgic feels to my early romance-reading days. As a bonus, though, this time I got to read about characters who looked and grew up like me.
Caila and Wyatt had great chemistry. It was a bit insta-lovey, but the attraction we so well described that I was willing to go along with it.
The plot is a tad cliche: Caila is the big city executive sent to a small town to shut down the factory that appears to support half the town while Wyatt is the handsome and charming small-town boy who makes it his mission to convince her otherwise. They connect and both are conflicted about how to move forward with their original intentions.
What saved the plot from feeling tired were the additional side plots and drama affecting the characters: Wyatt and his conflict with his grandfather's overbearing expectations and Caila and her grief surrounding the death of her grandfather. I also really liked the relationships they formed with the side characters. The town is populated with a mix of townies and transplants who all have their own reasons for staying and supporting the community.
I have to admit that I wasn't that in love with the chapters centering on the girls' trip ... which makes me a downer, as that's the whole lynchpin for the series. I just found it too confusing to be thrown into this group of women I just met who all talked the same and had similar stories (high-achieving professionals who all went to UVA).
A really enjoyable, warm read that I'd recommend to people who love the small-town and enemies-to-lovers tropes.
I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed this one! This is the second Tracey Livesay title I've read, and both times I couldn't put the book down. Some of the first romances I ever read were small-town contemporaries, so this gave me nostalgic feels to my early romance-reading days. As a bonus, though, this time I got to read about characters who looked and grew up like me.
Caila and Wyatt had great chemistry. It was a bit insta-lovey, but the attraction we so well described that I was willing to go along with it.
The plot is a tad cliche: Caila is the big city executive sent to a small town to shut down the factory that appears to support half the town while Wyatt is the handsome and charming small-town boy who makes it his mission to convince her otherwise. They connect and both are conflicted about how to move forward with their original intentions.
What saved the plot from feeling tired were the additional side plots and drama affecting the characters: Wyatt and his conflict with his grandfather's overbearing expectations and Caila and her grief surrounding the death of her grandfather. I also really liked the relationships they formed with the side characters. The town is populated with a mix of townies and transplants who all have their own reasons for staying and supporting the community.
I have to admit that I wasn't that in love with the chapters centering on the girls' trip ... which makes me a downer, as that's the whole lynchpin for the series. I just found it too confusing to be thrown into this group of women I just met who all talked the same and had similar stories (high-achieving professionals who all went to UVA).
A really enjoyable, warm read that I'd recommend to people who love the small-town and enemies-to-lovers tropes.