Title: Danger, Sweetheart
Series: Sweetheart bk 1
Author: MaryJanice Davidson
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary
Blake Tarbell has a town to save. Rich, carefree, and used to the Vegas party lifestyle, Blake is thrown for a curve when his former cocktail-waitress mother pleads he go back to her roots to save the town she grew up in. Blake’s used to using money to solve his problems, but when he arrives in Sweetheart, North Dakota, this city boy has to trade in his high-priced shoes for a pair of cowboy boots…and he’s about to get a little help from the loveliest lady in town…
Natalie Lane’s got no time for newbies. The prettiest gal to ever put on a pair of work gloves, there’s nothing she can’t do to keep a farm up and running. But when a handsome city-slicker rolls into town with nothing but bad farmer’s instincts and good intentions, Natalie’s heartstrings are pulled. She’s about to teach him a thing or two about how to survive in Sweetheart. And he’s about to teach her a thing or two about love…
Thoughts: So here it is…the ONLY books my Davidson I’ve ever liked were her Alaskan Royals series and let me tell you I was very upset we didn’t get the rest of that family’s books as there was a major mystery that wasn’t solved by the end of the last book. So when I got this book and read the letter from Davidson in the beginning of it I knew I had another Alaskan Royals like book on my hands and I had to read it immediately.
I’m so glad I did because this book is full of everything I love about romantic comedy books and everything I love about romance books in general. There were times when she pulls a Deadpool and talks to the reader via those notes at the bottom of the page whose name I can’t remember at the moment and I LOVED those.
Then there’s the story in general that had me laughing out loud so many times for a variety of reasons. From the horse Blake names Margret of Anjou and to how he calls his brother Rake the terrible and their texts and phone calls. Then there’s the nuclear option that had me confused until I no longer was.
Natalie and her reaction to Blake had me laughing so many times. She really wanted to hate him and make him suffer but they way he reacted to everything had her liking and then loving him.
I have to say the cast of characters in this book reminds me of why I loved the Alaskan Royals so much and how much I’ve missed reading these types of books.
If you’re looking for a great read that will get you banned from reading in bed because you’re laughing then you won’t want to miss this book…or Rake the terribles book USA Dead Ahead coming out this fall.
Grade A
