Author: Jae
Genre: Contemporary Romance 🌶️
Tropes: Coming Out, Slow Burn, Small Town
Series: Fair Oaks #2
Pages: 332
Published: May 1st,2019
Format: ebook (kindle), audiobook (audible)
Started: 10-31-2024
Finished: 11-01-2024
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synopsis
Small-town florist Ashley Gaines loves her little flower shop and putting together the perfect bouquets for weddings and other happy occasions. Her own love life, however, is far from blossoming. Ash has decided that staying in the closet is safer than risking her heart again.
Local bakery owner Sasha Peterson hasn’t had much luck mixing it up with romance either. Besides, she’s too busy whipping up delicious treats to have time for a relationship.
But when their town’s first lesbian wedding forces them to work together, Ashley and Sasha discover they have more in common than they imagined.
During food fights, cake tastings, and slow waltzes, they begin to see each other in a new light. Soon Ashley has to admit to herself that Sasha is tempting more than just her sweet tooth.
rant
- Liked the contents of this book better than the first one but not the audiobook ‐ why in the world did the narrator go w/ that voice for Sasha she made her sound like she was 12 years old and that threw me off for like the entire book ‐ on the other hand her voice for Ashley was perfect
- If I ever read this again it would have to be w/o the audiobook fs
- I really liked both of the characters in this book more than the first ‐ there wasn’t much going on behind the scenes in their lives so there was a lot more focus on them and the growth of their relationship
- I also love any and everything that has a lot of angst in it and this definitely delivers ‐ like w/ some of her other books I really wish they could’ve been an established couple a bit earlier on ‐ I do love a good slow burn but just not the way Jae does it lol she waits to long ‐ it’s a slow burn in the sense that they don’t become a couple til the very end but they definitely get together before that very last chapter if you get what I’m saying ‐ to me it just takes away from seeing what they would actually act like as a couple instead of just friends / two people trying to hide the depth of their feeling for one another ‐ to me there a definite difference between the two
- Sasha is one of those underrated characters that flies beneath everyone’s radar but is actually really deep & actually wanted to help Ashley feel more secure in her sexuality ‐ Ashley is deep in her own head and definitely more worried about herself and her image (especially compared to Sasha) you can tell she doesn’t want to be that way tho but w/ her families background and being their only child (even though she wasn’t originally) it’s hard not to be and that’s understandable
- I enjoyed the ending of the story and her parents actually surprised me there too
- Would read again
noted & quoted
- Beach scene
- Making food together
- Ashley hoping Sasha would stop by on her
- Wedding scene
