Review: Well Met 🎈🍗🌹 by Jen DeLuca

Well Met by Jen DeLuca
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I was a ren faire virgin before this book. I had heard of them of course, who hasn't?, but I never considered them enough to hold an interest to me but this book looked so charming that I just had to dig in.

And cute this was *yoda voice*.

Emily Parker is freshly dumped and homeless, so she travels to Smalltown, Maryland to help her sister and niece get themselves together after a horrible car crash. There she finds herself signed up to volunteer at a local renaissance faire being a taver wench.

Everything goes wrong from the start since the one in charge is no other than English teacher, Simon Graham--who is super serious and uptight, thanks to a family tragedy but we don't know that right away.

This ensures that Simon and Emily start off of the wrong foot and snowball into a complicated mess. But you know what they say, love is not that far from hate, right?

I liked both Emily and Simon in their own personas. But were well developed and I totally got were they were coming from. I also liked the idea of a romance between them, but I somehow felt the actual development of a relationship somehow lacking. I don't know, I feel they so seldom interacted to really make me feel their mutual attraction. I mean there was attraction, and there was romance, it just felt to me like it was rushed and a little lacking.

There is plenty of romantic gestures *after* they decide they are in love with each other. And they were really cute and had me smiling for real. So I might be the only one who didn't feel the connection with Emily and Simon as a couple. So try for yourself! :)

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Review: Fight or Flight ✈️ by Samantha Young

Fight or Flight by Samantha Young
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I was maybe half way convinced while reading this, still thought Caleb was a pretty shitty human being for saying service people shouldn’t get a “thank you” because they are doing their jobs. So I really had my reservations about this man, but then the author had to go and make *that* the conflict.

(*****spoiler alert******** that Caleb’s ex girlfriend had an abortion behind his back. Like whaaaaaat. Like Samantha Young knows how hard it has been to legalize a woman’s right to choose and then she goes and makes the woman a “villain” for “killing his baby”. It was unnecessary and backwards and gross. Like ugh. I can’t even.)

Just no. And don’t even get me thinking about the amount of people that have read this book and don’t find that whole plot bothersome.

Also, Ava seemed so much better than that! Like I remember how much it used to bother her at the beginning of the book that Caleb was a huge jerk but by the end she was like “Oh he is hurt on the inside that’s why he is mean.”

Get out of here.

*throws kindle away* *stomps away angrily at the amount of time I wasted reading this*

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Puck Buddies by Tara Brown ⛸👠

Puck Buddies by Tara Brown
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was a total surprise. I got it because it sounded fun and I am always up for some romance with a touch of initial hate, so I jumped right in.

It ended up being a mess. But in a good way.

So many messy feelings and situations. And messy people! I am not even sure I liked either of the main characters at first. Both Sami and Matt were huge snobs, the kind people inherently are when they are brought up in the world of the ultra rich and famous.

But they were also funny (Sami cracked me up so many times) and endearing (Matt could be such a romantic when he wasn’t so stupid). And I truly think both of them grew up and really saw their mistakes and their flaws and actively tried to change. That’s why at the end I could say that I liked the book. Even if I had to suffer through the crappy thing Matt did. ——-> spoiler alert —-> cheating, ugh.

Anyway, I don’t exactly regret the time I spend, but can’t say I am interested in reading more about these two. Though I have a feeling that they turn out alright in the future, the growth they showed during this story makes me believe they are in this for good.

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Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington 🌲🌊🏊🏼🏊🏼‍♀️

Meet Me at Midnight by Jessica Pennington
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The premise of this book is delightful. A prank war going on for the span of eight years that is suddenly ended by a third party who becomes the new enemy and forces the two previous enemies to be allies? Uh yes! Sign me the hell up!

The book is all about summer feelings of invincibility and being young and careless. Both our main characters, Asher and Sidney, are really invested in making each other suffer embarrassment, discomfort and the plain old feeling of loserdom. This is the last summer before college though, the last summer... and things don’t go as planned.

I liked the book. I thought both Asher and Sidney really captured the way teenaged minds work. They were both funny to read and a joy to watch as they slowly come to really know each other finally, after all the years of vacationing together and never really get to.

I am not sure I can pin point the reason I didn’t quite fall in love with the story. Though I did enjoy it, I can’t say it captured me enough to read nonstop, or to make me want to read it again. But that could be me.

So I totally would recommend it if you are in for some light, summery read that will take you back to the days we could still enjoy the outdoors.

Stay safe!

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