A Few Pecans Short of a Pie (Southern Eclectic, #4)

by Molly Harper

Sexy school principal Kyle faces the biggest challenge of his career: getting his (pregnant) event planner girlfriend Margot down the aisle before the baby arrives!

Readers first fell in love with big city event planner Margot in the first Southern Eclectic novel, Sweet Tea and Sympathy, as she discovered a long-lost branch of her family—the McCreadys, of McCready's Bait Shop & Funeral Home. To Margot’s surprise, she's taken a liking to life in small-town Georgia...helped along by a romance with the hot elementary school principal.

The two of them have been taking it slow—or they were until Margot gets pregnant! Kyle wants to make an honest woman of her, but Margot's still trying to proceed with caution. After all, she was the best event planner in Chicago before she ever came to Lake Sackett—her wedding has to be perfect, and perfect includes not having the baby halfway down the aisle.

• ISBN13: 9781501178993
• Publish Date: 4 February 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: The Gallery Press
• Imprint: Gallery Books
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 110
• Language: English

Reviews

[EBookObsessed]

Molly Harper — always fun reading.

This short pre-Gimme Some Sugar novella once again features Cousin Margot, the big city event planner, and her love, school Principal Kyle. Margot needs to plan the most important event ever — her own wedding and she needs to do it before her unplanned baby makes a debut.

Margot knows everything about planning the perfect wedding but between morning sickness and baby brain, she can’t make any decisions about her own wedding. Kyle, the smart man he is, is just happy to get married and has stepped back to allow Margot to create the wedding of her dreams.

But in true small town form, everyone in Lake Sackett knows just how to help Margot, and it wouldn’t help themselves earn points in the local social circles, starting with everyone wanting Margot to borrow their wedding dress.

She doesn’t mind doing a taste testing of wedding cakes with Duffy’s friend Lucy, especially since she has been so kind as to send over all those pecan pies which is the only thing Margot can keep down.

It is just that everything else shouldn’t be so difficult for her…she’s an event planner for goodness sake. But when it is the most important day to you, how can you be sure you will get it right.

This was a fill-in novella before Gimme Some Sugar and we do have some time-crossing with both novels since Lucy is establishing her business, and it will take us time to get there in Gimme Some Sugar.

It was a cute story except I was quite annoyed that Kyle’s former mother-in-law was suddenly so against their getting married. I thought she was okay with Kyle dating as we finished their story and it bugged me that suddenly she seemed to be very angry that he would marry his pregnant girlfriend after being widowed for so many years.

It is always fun to spend time with the McCready’s and in the head of Molly Harper.

[Berls]

3.5 stars
I continue to really enjoy this series from Molly Harper (what have I not enjoyed of hers?!?).

It was fun coming back to the original couple, further down the road in their relationship. I think it was also particularly fun for me to read about a pregnant heroine while also being pregnant. She's having a harder go of it than I am though lol ;)

I like seeing the developing relationship between Margot and Kyle's girls and the complications of stepping into a step-mom position when their mother has passed away. And, of course, the humor was totally on point.

I would have loved to see this continue on as a full-length, passed the wedding to the birth of the baby, but I'm sure we'll get that from some character's point of view eventually, so I'm okay waiting.

And of course, love Amanda Ronconi's narration. That's always perfect for me !