After reading the first two books in the Moving Violations series, I was definitely curious about this third book. These first two books left me with mixed feelings, but how can I deny a Cowboy story?! In ‘Her Renegade Cowboy’ we meet Lily Donovan. Lily has been through something horrible, and she is convinced men can ...KEEP READING »
In ‘When Sparks Fly’ we read the story of Avery and Declan. Avery runs a hotel/event space with her sisters and loves everything about it. Next to having a great job, and having a great relationship with her sisters, Avery lives with her best friend Declan in a nice apartment. They have a great living arrangement and they share some great friends. But there has always been something more between Avery and Declan. Everyone could see it, except themselves.
When Avery survives a horrible car accident, she is forced to accept help from Declan for about everything. And soon the grow closer than ever before. But Declan is haunted by his past, and soon things aren’t going as well as hoped.
At first it honestly took me a while to really get into this story. It took a very long time for me to really feel the connection between and Avery and Declan. And I found things taking to long to really start. But luckily, when I did start to enjoy their ‘relationship’, I soon really really loved them. Especially Declan. There just was something about him that I found really charming, and I didn’t want to stop reading about him.
Avery’s character wasn’t my favorite though. There just was something about her I didn’t really like all that much.
The romance was definitely a slow burning one. At times it got a little bit more steamy, but it was mostly sweet and I definitely liked it. I always love the friends to lovers trope. There’s just something about having this solid friendship before turning lovers that I’ve always enjoyed.
This was my first Helena Hunting book, and although it wasn’t my favorite book, I did enjoy the writing. And I’d definitely love to read more books in this series.
If you’re a regular visitor here on Maureen’s Books, you’d know that I’ve been on a Romance reading spree for the last couple of months. So when I saw the cover of this book and read the book description I knew I wanted a chance to read this book. And as fast as I could, I started reading.
In ‘The Widow of Rose House’ we meet widow Alva Webster in 1875, who has recently moved back to New York for a fresh start. After being married to an abusive husband Alva just wants to make it on her own. To make her fresh start she takes on the job of restoring an old mansion, which is apparently haunted. When professor Samuel Moore arrives at her doorstep with the suggestion he might be able to help her, she soon finds herself without any other options than to join forces with him.
This book started a little hard for me. I just couldn’t really get into the story to be honest. And honestly I think that has more to do with me, than with the writing itself. And fortunately I slowly began to love this book more and more.
It had been a while since I read a historical romance novel and this one is unlike any other I read. But I definitely enjoyed it, more than I thought I would. The two main characters Alva and Samuel are so different, but still so perfect for each other. I just loved reading there story and everything about them. Sure, there where some things I didn’t think where all that historical accurate, but it didn’t bother me at all.
The whole ghost thing was interesting enough, but not all that important to me. I just loved the romance and getting to know both Alva and Samuel better.
Overall this book was definitely a nice change from the many contemporary romance novels I read.
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