It Happened on Love Street + Giveaway
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: IT HAPPENED ON LOVE
STREET
Author: Lia Riley
Series: Everland, Georgia
On Sale: April 25, 2017
Publisher: Forever
Mass Market: $7.99 USD
eBook: $5.99 USD
In the tradition of New York Times bestselling authors
Kristan Higgins, Jill Shalvis, and Marina Adair, comes the first in a new
series by Lia Riley about two city sisters finding love in a small town.
The most romantic place
she never wanted to be . . .
Pepper Knight moved to
Everland, Georgia, as step one in her plan for a successful legal career. But
after this big-city gal's plans go awry, going home with her tail between her
legs isn't an option. So when the town vet—
and her sexy new neighbor—offers
Pepper a temporary dog-walking job, she jumps at the chance. No one needs to
know that man's best friend is her worst nightmare . . . or that Everland's hot
animal whisperer leaves her panting.
My Review
For the first book in a new series, I thought this was a nice introduction to the people of Everland. There are your town gossips, flirts, family, friends, and of course, I can't forget Hog (the town's meanie). So there is plenty of people to kept this story interesting. Yet, with all of these characters, I was left with only one foot in the story. There was never a strong connection towards Pepper or Rhett. If I were to have met them in Everland, I would have called them casual acquaintances. There was a time of two were I actually did laugh but they were far and few between. I wanted more laughs. At times because I was not fully engaged with the characters or the story, it felt like a lot of stop and go reading this book. Back to Pepper and Rhett. There were sparks, they were just on the sweeter side. Actually, I wished that Rhett could have been more like the famous Rhett from Gone with the Wind. This book was a good read. I would read another from this author.
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THE EVERLAND, GEORGIA SERIES
IT HAPPENED ON LOVE
STREET, #1
THE CORNER OF FOREVER AND
ALWAYS, #2
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lia Riley is a
contemporary romance author. USA Today
describes her as "refreshing" and RT
Book Reviews calls her books "sizzling and heartfelt." She loves
her husband, three kids, wandering redwood forests and a perfect pour over
coffee. She is 25% sarcastic, 54% optimistic, and 122% bad at math (good thing
she writes happy endings for a living). She and her family live mostly in
Northern California.
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“Here’s an idea.” He nudged his
finger on hers. “Say we—and this is purely hypothetically—enjoyed the . . .
ahem . . .pleasure of each other’s company in the privacy of ourhomes.”
“Hypothetically, kept it casual and
under the radar?”
She nudged back. “When I leave,
there’s no heartbreak, no drama, and no one is the wiser.”
“Interesting theory?” He reached
out, his hand splaying her knee. “Or recipe for disaster?”
Tingles shot up her thigh. His skin
was warm, those fingers very big and very male. “I have enough to worry about with
my future. If you don’t need me for more than a little here and now? I might be
persuaded. Hypothetically.”
He moved his hand from her knee to
the back of her neck. The touch melted her faster than an ice cube in the July
sun.
“What are you thinking?” she
murmured.
His deep blue gaze locked on hers
and there it came again, that curious sensation of floating and drowning. “That
I’d like to hypothetically kiss you.”
There was a sudden roaring in her
ears, a whoosh of blood. “Well, there’s only one way to test a hypothesis.”
Slowly, oh so slowly, he dipped
forward. His lips didn’t settle on hers like she expected. Instead, he kissed
the center of her forehead, softly, experimentally. A tremble rocked through
him.
The evening air was sultry, no a
hint of chill. The idea that she shook this steadfast man sent a shiver of need
through the join of her thighs, a throbbing shudder that swelled to an ache as
he peppered a light trail of kisses down her temple, and then moved lower. He
took his sweet time on her cheeks, treating her as something to savor, a delicious
dessert you didn’t want to wolf in one bite. Tension spread through her body,
pulling tighter and tighter, her belly doing a fluttery dips and dives.
When he finally reached her lips,
it seemed reasonable to expect that the kiss would be as soft as the others.
Silly. Because Rhett was full of surprises. He didn’t hold back, his tongue was
greedy, insistent, and hungry. Their teeth banged together. A chair tipped
over. They crashed against a table leg, sent it screeching across the floor.
“In theory, you’re a good kisser,”
she gasped, tracing her lower lip with her tongue. The skin was puffy, aching.
“Let me experiment a bit more. The
initial results are promising.”
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