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Carpentry and Cocktails by Nora Everly
5.0

I fell in love with the Monroe brothers in Crime and Periodicals, and of course we met Willa as Sabrina’s friend in that book too. This was yet another book that I could not put down! I devoured it in a day. Everett is the Monroe brother we get in this story and you can’t help but adore him and love him, and I want to know where my sexy, geeky man is! It’s possible the Monroe brothers could be a force to reckon with even when it comes to the Winston brothers for me. Willa is so tough and strong, but occasionally needs to let go a little, and that’s what Everett takes his time and helps her with. And Willa needed to be tough though, after her horrible mother, and her really scary ex, it was totally understandable how she behaved.

Once again our supporting characters make the story even better, totally the icing on the cake. Especially the younger sisters. They are so funny! They had me giggling every time they appeared. Well, except at the beginning when Willa’s younger sister made me cry a little. But her behavior, like Willa’s, was very justified for her age and experiences.

Honestly, I don’t think you can go wrong with any of the books in this series. My only complaint, and it is one I posted in the last book I reviewed for the Donner Bakery series, was that while this is supposedly set in the world of the Green Valley library, not much had anything to do with that. We kind just need a Monroe Brothers series, instead of calling them all part of the library series. But that’s just a personal thing, and with the library bit, it’s kind of personal to me because I am a librarian and so look forward to any and all library stuff!