One Week in Maine by Shayna Ryan Review

One Week In Maine by Shayna Ryan Review

3 1/2 Smooches

Synopsis

Taken from Amazon

City girl Calista Coffman can’t believe her misfortune when she hits a deer in rural Maine on the way to a friend’s wedding. With her vehicle needing time-consuming repairs, she’s stuck in small town Maine for the week with nothing but the local hicks to keep her company. At least there’s the super sexy game warden that came to her aid on the side of the road to keep her entertained.

Will Holbrook’s given up on love after suffering a terrible loss in his past. But he can’t deny his attraction to the independent beauty that ends up stuck in his town, even if she’s a ‘flatlander’.

It’s supposed to be just casual, no strings attached, but even the best laid plans can fail…
A stand-alone novel at over 60k words for mature audiences only due to sexual situations.

My Review

One week in Maine was a fun, steamy and easy read. At 227 pages, it is a quick read and flows nicely. The book take place in a small town in Maine that values personal relationships over material things. When city girl Calista gets stuck in the town for a week, after wrecking her car, the locals do not know what to make of this city girl. But one local, game warden Will, likes her just fine.

Calista is a city girl from Hartford, Ct who is driving through Maine on her way to a wedding. When she hits a deer and gets stuck in this small town, she is not happy about it at all. Calista likes to live the fast paced life the city brings. She knows that this small town life is not for her.

WIll is the local game warden in the small town in Maine. He loves his job, his town, and the community of people he surrounds himself with. Will is kind and helpful and always there for those he cares about. But will has secrets in his past that can make it hard for him to open up to the idea of caring for a woman.

From the very first time these two meet you can feel the chemistry between them. The majority of this book takes place over a very short period of time so their relationship developed very quickly.  It did not take long from their first meeting for him to be sneaking under the dinner table to bite her thigh (I LOVED that part.)

There were several things about this book that I very much enjoyed. I really liked how the man, Will, in this book is the one who is lovable from the beginning and the girl, Calista, has to win you over. So many times in books nowadays it is the bad guy becoming sweeter to get with the girl so it’s nice to see a girl with a bit of a bite to her.

This book is not lacking in hotness! These two are definitely well matched sexually. I love how they are not afraid to have their fun no matter where they are because they cannot wait a moment longer.

That being said and knowing that I did enjoy this book there were a few things I think could have been improved on. The dialogue sometimes felt a bit forced and didn’t flow as smoothly as I would have liked. This was not distracting to the overall story just something worth mentioning.

Although this book is not lacking in sex I often felt that the sex was geared towards only Will and as a woman I would have liked to have seen a bit more reciprocation. Though the sex scenes were hot and steamy sometimes they did feel rushed and I would have liked them to have been drawn out a bit more.

My overall thoughts on this book are that it was an easy fun and romantic read that will keep you interested till the end.

~Miranda