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by Katie Ashley, Smartypants Romance
Finley Granger returns to Green Valley after she catches her husband cheating on her to live with her GranBea and two elderly friends (think Golden Girls). She gets a job at the library where hunky Zeke Masters is volunteering at updating the library's computer systems.
This book just didn't do it for me. I'm not a fan of slapstick, and much of the humor here was the written form of pratfalls. You could see the setups coming a million miles away. I prefer humor where a sentence catches me by surprise, real nose-snorting laughs. I can't even with the Ben-wa balls. #obvious
I never warmed up to Finley. She seemed to get over the whole husband cheating too fast for someone who had just been planning a pregnancy with him. I found it weird that over the course of the book she became coarser in her speech - not because I care about some swearing, but because she's living with three old church-going Southern ladies. By the end of the book, she sounded like she was hanging out with the Iron Wraiths.
Zeke seemed like a nice guy but since the whole story is in Findley's POV, he's more of a cipher. The big mystery wasn't all that secret (spoiler: you just had to ask him).
Also, and this was a big no-no for me. You don't put something like Jenn is coming to a party and Cletus is going to play there and NEVER HAVE THEM EVEN SHOW UP! I mean, just a scene where Jenn brings a banana cake or Cletus imparts some pearls of wisdom. I mean, come on.
I've enjoyed most of the Smartypants Romance books, but this is one of the few misses.
This book just didn't do it for me. I'm not a fan of slapstick, and much of the humor here was the written form of pratfalls. You could see the setups coming a million miles away. I prefer humor where a sentence catches me by surprise, real nose-snorting laughs. I can't even with the Ben-wa balls. #obvious
I never warmed up to Finley. She seemed to get over the whole husband cheating too fast for someone who had just been planning a pregnancy with him. I found it weird that over the course of the book she became coarser in her speech - not because I care about some swearing, but because she's living with three old church-going Southern ladies. By the end of the book, she sounded like she was hanging out with the Iron Wraiths.
Zeke seemed like a nice guy but since the whole story is in Findley's POV, he's more of a cipher. The big mystery wasn't all that secret (spoiler: you just had to ask him).
Also, and this was a big no-no for me. You don't put something like Jenn is coming to a party and Cletus is going to play there and NEVER HAVE THEM EVEN SHOW UP! I mean, just a scene where Jenn brings a banana cake or Cletus imparts some pearls of wisdom. I mean, come on.
I've enjoyed most of the Smartypants Romance books, but this is one of the few misses.