Title: Bittersweet
Authors: Carmen Jenner & Lauren K. McKellar
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Publisher: Carmen Jenner and Lauren K. McKellar
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
ARC Received From & Reviewed For: Social Butterfly PR
From two USA Today bestselling authors comes a tale of miscommunication and muffins.
Romy Love knows weddings. As the author of a hugely successful wedding blog, you’d think she’d have love covered. It is her last name, after all.
When it comes to her big day, Romy has the flowers picked out, a dress collecting dust in the back of her closet, and a preacher on standby. There’s just one problem: the groom doesn’t know it yet.
Romy has eyes for the Italian coffee god and single dad who owns the bakery in her building—she also has plans for his delicious buns—but in order to get her happily-ever-after, she has a few things to check off her list first:
Lose twenty pounds
Take over the blogging world one wedding at a time
Make Coffee Hottie fall in love with me
Yeah, this shouldn’t be difficult at all.
Elio is perfect. For Romy. Except... Well, she has hangups. Lots of them. So does he, she just doesn't know it. What starts as flirting--Romy's kind of up in the air about that at first because why, oh why, would a man like Elio flirt with a woman like her?--leads to more flirting and comfortable banter. But that's it.
The hangups and assumptions puts a sudden stop to everything growing between them which led to confusion, hurt, and wasted time.
Anyone in a relationship knows that communication is incredibly important. However, anyone in a relationship probably also knows that it isn't always easy to communicate with the one you like and/or love. Especially at the beginning stage of the relationship. There's fear of saying too much, saying the wrong thing, saying it wrong, so the words stay on the tip of the tongue instead of being spoken.
And what is unsaid can be just as damaging as what is said.
That wasted time I mentioned? It was a doozy and led to an eye opener. It also led to a chance for Elio and Romy to clear the air and, essentially, start over while picking up where they'd left off. The attraction sky rocketed from there because they were in it for real this time, leaving nothing to chance, instead holding tight to the forever after they wanted, needed, deserved.
I enjoyed this story. Except for that moment of wasted time, it's a predictable read. But engaging. No skipping ahead, no skimming the pages. It was delightful, enlightening, and amusing to see inside both Elio and Romy's heads as they navigated their way from strangers to friends to lovers.
Carmen Jenner is a thirty-something, USA Today and international bestselling author.
A tattoo enthusiast, hardcore makeup addict, cake fanatic, and zombie fangirl, Carmen lives in sunny Australia, where she spends her time indoors wrangling her two wildling children, a dog named Pikelet, and her very own man-child.
A romantic at heart, Carmen strives to give her characters the HEA they deserve, but not before ruining their lives completely first … because what’s a happily ever after without a little torture?
Lauren K. McKellar is a writer of contemporary romance reads that make you feel. This hybrid-published USA Today best-selling author loves writing books with stunning local settings, heart-throb heroes, and leading ladies who overcome great hardships in their lives.
In addition to writing, Lauren loves to read, and you can often find her up at all hours of the night with a glass of wine, some chocolate, and a good book. She lives by the beach in New South Wales, Australia, with her husband, infant son, and their two dogs. Most of the time, all four of them are well behaved.
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