5 SMOOCHES!
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SYNOPSIS:
I really don’t need a bodyguard―I run a small-town lavender farm, for bee’s sake! But I’m getting one anyway since my identical twin sister just booked the movie role of a lifetime and it’s being shot in my hometown. And guess who my new broody, tattooed protector is? None other than the guy I had a one-night stand with last month.
Correction: he’s the guy with the wicked mouth and heated eyes who ran out on me before the bang without so much as goodbye. And of course he arrives in my tiny hometown where the film is shooting right in the nick of time to save me from the paparazzi at the market. The coffee shop. The dress shop too. I’m trying hard to stay mad after the third time the sexy jerk rescues me.
To top it all off, he’s staying in the cottage at my farm. With me. And there’s only one bed.
Maybe just one night would relieve all this tension? But one night turns into another, and then into sharing hearts and secrets that are best locked up. Especially since he’s leaving and I’m staying, and there’s no way we can be more than a summer romance that ends far too soon.
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REVIEW:
The first book in her new Darling Springs small-town romance series, Lauren Blakely’s It Seemed Like a Good Idea was an utterly charming, flirty and hilarious small-town romantic comedy that proved even the best-laid plans can lead to unexpected love. I listened to the audiobook, narrated in duet by J.F. Harding and Erin Mallon. They were wonderful together and turned in an authentic performance that echoed the kind of natural chemistry of the lead couple.
When Ripley, a down-to-earth lavender farmer who’s constantly mistaken for her famous actress twin sister, found herself saddled with Banks, the broody temporary bodyguard assigned to protect her while her farm hosted her sister’s movie shoot, their forced proximity sparked a battle of wills that quickly ignited into sizzling chemistry. Blakely expertly mined the grumpy/sunshine dynamic for maximum comedic effect which filled every interaction with razor-sharp banter, simmering tension, and laugh-out-loud moments as the stoic protector finds himself utterly undone by the off-limits woman he was hired to guard.
Told with Blakely’s signature wit, warmth and engaging storytelling, this lighthearted and fun romcom was a feel-good escape that I listened to in a single day. Five smooches from me for It Seemed Like a Good Idea by Lauren Blakely!
~Danielle Palumbo
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