A Fair Warning by Dianna Roman

 


A Fair Warning

Dianna Roman

Rating : 4 Stars


Publisher's Blurb

Poppy

All I wanted was to throw a little bag of dog poop at my ex's door to release my divorce demons. Is that too much to ask? Just my luck Deputy Hillbilly Upchuck Duke catches me in the act. That creep's been on me like germs on a buffet since we were kids. I have a bar to run, a beer garden to build, and moron cousins and patrons to wrangle. I don't have time to be stalked by this idiot. If he thinks showing back up in Grand Valley with a star on his inbred chest, sans mullet, will make me forget the hell he put me through, he's dumber than he was when he left Illinois. 

Chuck

Poppy Prince hates my guts. Always has. It's cute she thinks those nicknames bother me, almost as cute as how clueless she still is about her sex appeal. It takes a special kind of man to put up with her crap. I'm going to show her once and for all that no one's as special as me.

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Review

Romantic novels are not my go-to genre but I’m trying to broaden my reading horizons by reading things that I’ve not tried before.

I liked the writing style and the characterisation of Poppy & Chuck who are both likable but flawed individuals.

The tension with the will they, won’t they plot during the first half was fun but ultimately fell away a bit once this was resolved.

I can’t say that I enjoyed the chapters dealing with the couple’s sexual encounters and I found it easier to skip ahead but then I’m probably not in the author’s target audience (I’m a 50 something male Brit LOL)

I’ve read so many thrillers and murder mysteries lately that I spent the whole time waiting for a corpse to turn up (there were a few stiffs!) so it was a refreshing change to read something that had no major twists & turns and headed to its inevitable happy ending.

In truth I would’ve liked to see a bit more plot not directly related to Chuck & Poppy’s relationship to better get to know them in their jobs and private lives away from each other but the story didn’t suffer without it.

Overall this was a fun read and I’m happy with my experimentation with the romance genre but I’m off to read something with a much higher body count next

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