Nuts by Alice Clayton Review
4.5 Smooches
Synopsis
After losing almost all of her clients in one fell swoop following an accident involving whipped cream, private chef to Hollywood’s elite Roxie Callahan gets a call from her flighty mother, saying she’s needed home in upstate New York to run the family diner. Once she’s back in the Hudson Valley, local organic farmer Leo delivers Roxie a lovely bunch of walnuts, and soon sparks—and clothing—begin to fly. Leo believes that everything worth doing is worth doing slowly…and how! But will Roxie stay upstate, or will the lure of West Coast redemption tempt her back to Tinseltown?
Review
‘And that beard. What constituted a hipster beard? Is the length? The shape? The proximity to flannel and Mumford?’
Nuts is the first book in a BRAND NEW series by Alice Clayton focusing in a small upstate town in New York. Packed full of charm, wit and hysterical situations Nuts was a hit with me from page one. I have read quite a few of Alice’s books and can easily say this is one of my favorites so far. Sexier than I anticipated I was excited by the chemistry and passion between Roxie and Leo and how well mixed the humor, sex and drama all mixed to make one delightful story.
“You smell like honey and taste like heaven.”
Roxie moved away from home right after high school and landed in LA working hard to establish herself as a successful personal chef. But a blip in her career happens at the same time her mom needs her to come help fun the family dinner lands Roxie right back in the small town she ran from for the summer. While everything seems to always stay the same in the Hudson Valley there does seem to be one new sexy edition. Leo is the new co-op farmer in the town and his lumber-sexual look along with the muscles hours in the field have given him have all the local girls swooning. But from the moment they (hysterically) meet it seems clear that Leo is only out to have the attention of one girl.
‘Fuck local. I’d fucked local, and look where it got me.’
Roxie makes it clear from the beginning that whatever it is developing between her and Leo is just for the summer and all seems well and good but when two people mesh so perfectly nothing is ever that simple. Roxie was strong, independent and confident. It was clear in the years she spent away from home helped mold her into a modern woman. But the more she in the small town the more her klutzy nature and awkward personality seem to seep out. Leo is wonderfully mysterious and deviously handsome. Full of his own secrets and turbulent past Leo brings both the sexy and a good dose of drama to this light easy read.
‘Now I knew why they called it falling in love. Because the fall was so very, very bad.’
A wonderful start to a new and exciting series. I loved Nuts and I am desperately excited for Cream. Oscar and Natalie both grabbed my attention in this story and I cannot wait to see how the strong, silent and grumpy dairy farmer develops into a sexy book boyfriend.
~miranda
Buy It Now
