readswithyenny 's review for:

Ruby Spencer's Whisky Year by Rochelle Bilow

4.0

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I thought this book was super cute! And am impressive debut! I’m a sucker for romances with Scottish men (I have Samantha Young to thank for that!) so this book was right up my alley! American-born Rudy moves to the Scottish Highlands to write a cookbook after feeling unfulfilled living and working in NYC (and after a string of bad relationships). Her plan is to live in a small Scottish cabin for a year to find herself and to develop her cookbook. The last thing she imagined would happen was to find a home in Thistlecross; and find love with a strapping, bearded Scot. This reminded me so much of one of my fave books, Much Ado About You, but it was different enough that I still really enjoyed the book. I didn’t get emotionally in the characters as I did with MAAY, because they didn’t seem as developed to me. Ruby, the h, was written in a way that seemed younger than her 35 years. Brochan, the H, was a hunky cinnamon roll. I thought the book was written well and the story was interesting; just not as emotional as I was expecting. But overall, it was a cute, heartwarming, "fade to black" romance and I would recommend it! Just be warned - you will get hungry reading the book!

Thank you so much, @berkleyromance, for the eARC and finished copy of the book; and @prhaudio for the complementary audiobook! Nikki Massoud did a fantastic job narrating! Stay tuned for a formal post!❤️