4.5 stars really. This was a slow burn romance. Obviously there is always the physical attraction between the two characters pretty quickly, but then the romance and all that took its own sweet time. I don’t mean that in a bad way though, just that is how the story went. I enjoyed the first book in this branch off series of the Green Valley Chronicles, Happy Trail, also by Daisy Prescott, and so it was fun to jump in and spend more time with these park rangers and the people of Green Valley. And Odin was fun because we got to meet him just recently, very briefly in another book, Carpentry and Cocktails. I just love all the little connections in these stories!

I had an inkling what Daphne’s past was like from the little hints she’d given as the story went along, so it wasn’t a huge surprise when she revealed her secret to Odin. Odin’s secret wasn’t quite as bad as it might have been made out to be by the media and articles that Daphne found about him when she first googled him. In the end I loved that while both of them had times they were upset that the other didn’t tell them something up front, both were reasonable and listened, like I think is realistic. That way the end was a perfect ending all the HEA I wanted and none of the extra drama that I dread in romances sometimes.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.