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A review by chelsss_ann
Love, Lacey Donovan by Jill Brashear
3.5
Ok, so a little while back, I posted a review about Blue Collar Crush. I didn't love it as a standalone, but it got me so amped up to read the series it was a novella for. It was a prequel for an ARC I have, Sincerely, Thatcher Hayes, but I knew I needed to start this series from the beginning before it hit my Kindle. Well, I didn't start it before it hit my Kindle, but I have flown through the first book in the Blue Ridge Book Club series, Love, Lacey Donovan (and the second book, because I started it on a flight and have already half of it).
So we have a spitfire FMC who doesn't believe in love outside of her romance novels. And then we have Beckett, who is all work and no fun, supposedly. The two are thrown together when Lacey finds the dog Beckett's sister has adopted has destroyed his house and she blames Beckett. She finds him working out to give her a piece of his mind, but all she can think of is she wants a piece of him. Anyways, they end up bonding over books and Lacey finds herself falling for Beckett. And there's a twist I did not see coming, but I'll leave that for you to read and find out.
Anyways, I loved the characters in this book and that each main character of each book in the series is part of a close-knit book club. And Jill Brashear's writing just grabs your attention from the get go and keeps you reined in. And while I did find Lacey's lamenting about how love doesn't exist in real life a bit too much sometimes, I enjoyed how the romance between her and Beckett was fast-paced but also believable and real. They communicated and realized that love comes with ups and down and being vulnerable.
I really liked this book, but I'm loving the second one in the series, XOXO, Valentina. You get a bit of glimpse into what her story is about toward the end of Love, Lacey Donovan and it just leads so well into the second book. I'm flying through these books, so I'll probably be writing a review on XOXO, Valentina by tomorrow!
So we have a spitfire FMC who doesn't believe in love outside of her romance novels. And then we have Beckett, who is all work and no fun, supposedly. The two are thrown together when Lacey finds the dog Beckett's sister has adopted has destroyed his house and she blames Beckett. She finds him working out to give her a piece of his mind, but all she can think of is she wants a piece of him. Anyways, they end up bonding over books and Lacey finds herself falling for Beckett. And there's a twist I did not see coming, but I'll leave that for you to read and find out.
Anyways, I loved the characters in this book and that each main character of each book in the series is part of a close-knit book club. And Jill Brashear's writing just grabs your attention from the get go and keeps you reined in. And while I did find Lacey's lamenting about how love doesn't exist in real life a bit too much sometimes, I enjoyed how the romance between her and Beckett was fast-paced but also believable and real. They communicated and realized that love comes with ups and down and being vulnerable.
I really liked this book, but I'm loving the second one in the series, XOXO, Valentina. You get a bit of glimpse into what her story is about toward the end of Love, Lacey Donovan and it just leads so well into the second book. I'm flying through these books, so I'll probably be writing a review on XOXO, Valentina by tomorrow!