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A review by bee_thebibliophile
All Folked Up: A Small Town Romantic Comedy by Penny Reid
3.5
Oh Isaac Sylvester and Hanna Townsen…I’ve been waiting for your story for so long and maybe that’s why I feel a little disappointed by where things ended up?
Isaac is back in Green Valley on ANOTHER undercover assignment, this time posing as Hannah’s boyfriend and a bouncer at the Pink Pony to get close to a trafficker and take him down. Since so much of this story takes place at the strip club, there’s a LOT of strip club talk, maybe more than it needed? But Isaac and Hannah start fake dating all while wishing it was real since they both have feelings for each other that have been developing over time. However they don’t really know each other despite growing up together since Isaac has been undercover so long and Hannah has been keeping everything about her personal life locked down for years.
I wanted to love these two together, but they just made me feel sad - I’m glad they found each other, but the lead up to that, the hardships they went through, the decisions they had to make to be together really just made me upset. The ending of this story wrapped up extremely conveniently and felt so rushed, even with the epilogue included. After all of the build-up for both Isaac and Hannah throughout all the books set in Green Valley, I wanted more for them. It drove me a bit crazy that so much of their backstories were told instead of shown; it felt like a ton of exposition but didn’t feel like they were getting to know each other well since so much of that happened with other characters instead of together.
Added the .5 stars for Cletus, Jennifer and Hank - the true stars of the show. There were points where the promise of seeing one of these three again made me carry on. I’m really sad to leave Green Valley behind, it’s one of my favorite fictional places to visit.
Isaac is back in Green Valley on ANOTHER undercover assignment, this time posing as Hannah’s boyfriend and a bouncer at the Pink Pony to get close to a trafficker and take him down. Since so much of this story takes place at the strip club, there’s a LOT of strip club talk, maybe more than it needed? But Isaac and Hannah start fake dating all while wishing it was real since they both have feelings for each other that have been developing over time. However they don’t really know each other despite growing up together since Isaac has been undercover so long and Hannah has been keeping everything about her personal life locked down for years.
I wanted to love these two together, but they just made me feel sad - I’m glad they found each other, but the lead up to that, the hardships they went through, the decisions they had to make to be together really just made me upset. The ending of this story wrapped up extremely conveniently and felt so rushed, even with the epilogue included. After all of the build-up for both Isaac and Hannah throughout all the books set in Green Valley, I wanted more for them. It drove me a bit crazy that so much of their backstories were told instead of shown; it felt like a ton of exposition but didn’t feel like they were getting to know each other well since so much of that happened with other characters instead of together.
Added the .5 stars for Cletus, Jennifer and Hank - the true stars of the show. There were points where the promise of seeing one of these three again made me carry on. I’m really sad to leave Green Valley behind, it’s one of my favorite fictional places to visit.