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Rose Hill #4

ALC provided by Must Love Audio

Author: Elsie Silver

Narrators: Megan Wicks and Connor Crais

Thanks, Elsie and @mustloveaudio for the ALC! 

Oh, Elsie! I’m always impressed how you manage to grip me from page one! 

The meet-cute: Bash, fire pilot. Gwen, yoga instructor. Airport. All flights cancelled. He’s grumpy. She’s sunshine. Bad margaritas. Lots of talking and sharing. Feelings, Phone number given. They part.

The conflict: he texts. She ghosts him. A year passes. They meet again. She’s his “son he just recently found out he has” ‘s girlfriend.

The Universe being shitty: she finds a job in Rose Hill. She befriends Clyde, to whom Bash is donating a kidney. She’s Clyde’s caretaker. In Bash’s home.

All that is enough to catch your interest, I’m sure. But you add that the son is a little shit, that Clyde is a meddler and that Bash is part of the Ball Busters (and they’ll definitely butt in) and you get one kickass story to tie up this series that has captured my heart from first book. 

Add to it that it is narrated beautifully by Megan Wicks and Connor Crais. The obvious choice for Gwen would have been a narrator with a peppier voice and not the sultry Megan, right? WRONG. She’s absolutely perfect as Gwen, who can make margaritas out of any lemons thrown her way! I LOVED her as Gwen! And Mr Crais cornered the market on alpha mellows and Bash is one for the books. Plus, the man gave Ford. West and  Reese the voices of the narrators who came before him as Bash. Subtle mannerisms, tone, inflections. Just perfection! 

We have everything Elsie in this one and she didn’t take the easy road. Gwen has some deep wounds. So does Bash. Neither one has let them steer them away from being “givers” even though everything seems to be taken from them.

We have the cute pet, the grand gestures, the found family, the Ball Busters, heroic gestures and even a cameo from a beloved character. And my darling Ford shows up doing his Ford things for Rosie. 

PERFECTION. 

A million margaritas! 

Rep: Gwen is plus size

Content notes: fat shaming, weight stigma, forest fires on page, organ donation and transplant