Ain't She Sweet (Green Mountain, #6) (Green Mountain Romance, #6)

by Marie Force

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Charley Abbott is so competitive that she couldn't back down from a challenge to go running up a mountain in a snow storm, especially because the challenge was issued by Tyler Westcott, the bane of her existence. Just when she is about to admit defeat and go home, the snow gives out beneath her feet and she goes tumbling down the mountainside.

With Charley's parents on vacation and all her siblings busy with new spouses or getting ready for Hunter and Megan's wedding, Tyler steps up to take care of Charley while she recovers from her injuries. Tyler not only feels guilty for needling Charley into the run that morning, but Tyler has been falling hard for Charley for years. He was just never able to get her to give him a chance.

Tyler in his pressed shirts and slacks always reminded Charley a little too much of her uptight brother, Hunter. Charley likes her men more down and dirty. But while recovering at Tyler's house, Charley gets to see Tyler in a whole new light and realizes that she has seriously misjudged him.  Once she stops thinking of him as someone she wants to avoid, she realizes just how wrong she has been about Tyler.

When Tyler confesses that his feelings toward Charley go way deeper than friendship, Charley would be on the run if she could, because Charley doesn't do happily ever after. That's a fantasy for other people.

Can Tyler convince Charley that they could find their own HEA before Charley heals enough to truly run away?

THOUGHTS:
Part of me feels that I should be offended by the fact that the only two characters written in this series so far that you have to gradually come to like are both women. Everyone in this town is absolutely maple-syrup sweet and wonderful. It certainly is a Norman Rockwell dream town. The only exceptions to this rule so far have been Megan Kane in And I Love Her and now Charley Abbott in Ain't She Sweet. Now neither one of them are horrible or unlikable characters, but they both have men who are pining for them in the background and both won't give these desperate, gorgeous men a chance until they are forced into close quarters and realize how awesome it is to have a man love them even at their bitchiest. So far there is no stud in town who is too good for an Abbott girl.

Don't get me wrong, all of the stories so far have been sweet, small town romances and no B.S. drama or contrived plot deviation to up the tension. These are all simply enjoyable story about people meeting and falling in love, some just meeting and some finally getting to know a long-time friend or acquaintance better.

Ain't she sweet focuses on Charley Abbott, who we find out was hurt in college and because of it, she keeps her shields up, never getting close to men. This was a little bit contrary at the beginning when she is lamenting that there are no good men, but it is Charley who doesn't let any in since it turned out that her college love was a user and a womanizer who had multiple girlfriends across campus. Note: Any guy who wants to keep your relationship a secret, is definitely hiding something, and that something is YOU! After this disastrous relationship, Charley doesn't seem to believe in HEA even though she is surrounded by them with her parents, and grandparents and now all her siblings. Yes, they can be happily married and devoted to each other, but it's not in the cards for Charley.

We add to this that Charley judges her interest in Tyler by the fact that he dresses well, much like her brother Hunter, and this is a turn off to her. Charley seemed to have dated just about every single man in Town but Tyler and again, just to be more contrary, it comes off like she just slept with the men rather than getting into a relationship, but then it seemed to be more of Charley having a few fuck-buddies on speed dial rather than risking a relationship with a man.

Just like with Megan in the previous story, we do come to like Charley once we get to know that deep down she is sweet, just like all the other siblings, but she lets that one experience rule her future.   We might come to like Charley, mostly because she finally let's Tyler in.  It is Tyler that makes this story.  He is super sweet and a little super desperate but he is there for Charley and opens up his home to her and to all her family to come and go to visit her.  Anything she wants, he provides but mostly he just wants a real relationship with Charley and for her to give him a chance.

This is a good story but not my favorite.  The one problem with a continuing series like this is that once we really get rolling with Charley and Tyler and Charley stops fighting the relationship, we lose some momentum when we deviate for a few chapters to catch up with Hunter and Megan, Will and Cameron, and Max, Chloe and the baby.   We also spend several pages with cousin Grayson and Lucy's sister, Emma, who are being set up as the next story.

 

This review was originally posted on EBookObsessed