Cream Of The Crop by Alice Clayton Review
4 Smooches
Synopsis
Manhattan’s It Girl, Natalie Grayson, has it all: she’s a hot exec at a leading advertising firm, known industry-wide for her challenging and edgy campaigns. She’s got a large circle of friends, a family that loves her dearly, and her dance card is always full with handsome eligible bachelors. What else could a modern gal-about-town wish for? The answer, of course, is…cheese.
Natalie’s favorite part of each week is spending Saturday morning at the Union Square Farmer’s Market, where she indulges her love of all things triple cream. Her favorite booth also indulges her love of all things handsome. Oscar Mendoza, owner of the Bailey Falls Creamery and purveyor of the finest artisanal cheeses the Hudson Valley has to offer, is tall, dark, mysterious, and a bit oblivious. Or so she thinks. But that doesn’t stop Natalie from fantasizing about the size of his, ahem, milk can.
Romance is churning, passion is burning, and something incredible is rising to the top. Could it be…love?
Review
‘The first moment I’d laid eyes on him, I’d been dying to lay thighs on him. My thighs. On his shoulders. I’d been hit with an instant wave of lust.’
Cream of the Crop is the second standalone in the Hudson Valley Series by Alice Clayton and once again she has transported us to a ideal location. I love the small town of Hudson Valley and all of its residents. This time we get curvy city girl Natalie who has a penchant for cheese and Oscar the sexy and gruff dairy farmer she has been lusting over at the NYC Farmer’s Market every Saturday.
‘If it was possible for someone to spontaneously combust from watching a grown man churn butter, then I’d be the first to do it.’
Ad executive Natalie jumps at the chance to take on the case with the town of Hudson Valley. Eager to get there to spend more time with her best friend, Roxie, as well as the opportunity to lust a little more after the local dairy farmer. Natalie has never had a problem landing a man she wants but around Oscar she becomes bashful and can barely string two words together. There is no denying that Oscar and Natalie have unbelievable chemistry and I truly loved them as a couple but I didn’t connect as much with them as I did with Roxie and Leo. I did love their story and I did love man of few words, Oscar, immensely.
‘He was commanding, forceful, short on words but long on brooding, and the furthest thing from a natural-born salesman.’
Cream Of The Crop was adorable and fun. Low on drama but full of laughter, life and love. There were a few problems set up that I thought would develop into bigger issues but still the story was a delight to read and left me with a silly grin on my face. Alice paints a descriptive picture of farm life that will make you yearn for a simpler life. By the end you will be wanting your own farmer to take you in the barn.
~miranda
