REVIEW: The Bully by Willa Nash

5 SMOOCHES!

   

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SYNOPSIS:

Nellie Rivera is trading traffic for tranquility. When the quiet streets of small-town Montana beckon, she leaves Denver behind and moves to Calamity. It would be the perfect adventure if not for Cal Stark.

When her archnemesis dares to show his face one Saturday morning, declaring he is moving there too, she vows to make his life a misery. The town isn’t big enough for the both of them and besides . . .

She was here first.

Cal has been a thorn in her side since high school. He might have bullied her back then, but she’s not a modest teenager anymore and has learned a few plays of her own. If all goes to plan, she’ll run the former pro quarterback out of town within a month.

There’s only one problem. Cal has the same plan. He wants Calamity bad enough to pull out all the stops. And after one kiss, she realizes that he doesn’t play fair.

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REVIEW:

The alter ego of USA Today Bestseller, Devney Perry, Willa Nash’s writing style is everything I love about Perry’s from all those familiar feels to that wonderful attention to detail. A small town Montana setting, endearing and down-to-earth characters, much like Perry’s, Nash’s stories are as much a love letter to Montana as they are a love story. She’s taken me to Montana many times through her words and descriptions, and having read nearly every single one of the dozens of books set in Montana that Perry and Nash have written, it’s safe to say I’m a bit smitten with this state.

The Bully is the fourth book in the Calamity, Montana series, and it features an epic enemies-to-lovers romance. Cal and Nellie’s first meeting harks back to their private high school days where Cal was one of the wealthy, handsome, athletic boy and Nellie was a bright, wise-beyond-her-years and fresh-faced student on a scholarship. While the bud of their young relationship was rooted in an honest interaction, it inevitably succumbed to the misunderstandings and poor communications of youthful inexperience and pressures of the pecking order. Whatever tenuous connection was initially forged between them eventually gave way to teenage taunts, tantrums and toxicity.

The one steadfast connection between them was their mutual friend, Pierce, Nellie’s boss and friend from high school and Cal’s best friend since high school. Despite their mutual distrust and dislike of each other, Cal and Nellie just cannot seem to help the draw to each other. Their chemistry is explosive and thrilling and unlike anything either has ever experienced. Unfortunately, their communication style is set to snappy banter, and alternates between hilarious and hurtful. When they both decide to settle in Calamity, Nellie decides the town just isn’t big enough for both of them and sets a plan in motion to drive him out. Cal is determined to make Calamity his home, though, and he digs his heels in. It’s during this time, between the heated fights and the fiery hookups, that Cal and Nellie start peeling back the layers of their complicated history and begin to really get to know each other.

Devney Perry writing as Willa Nash has penned a hard-fought, hard-won love story in The Bully that was built on healing and forgiveness. Thoroughly addictive and a heart-tugging pleasure to read, I devoured Cal and Nellie’s story in a single sitting. I’m very excited that Nash has added another story to this fantastic series, and I am on the edge of my seat in anticipation of it. Five smooches from me for The Bully by Willa Nash!

~Danielle Palumbo

 


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