In the Weeds

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To absolutely no one's surprise, I loved In the Weeds just as much as I loved Lovelight Farms. I really love how Borison writes — the characters just leap right off the page and stand next to you while you read. In the Weeds takes the side character of Beckett from the first book and explores him and his relationship with the social media starlet, Evelyn St. James. They were adorable together, and steaming hot when it got to that part, but woof. I wanted to shake them by their shoulders in the standard third act break-up.

By the way, can we stop with the third act break-up? Come up with some other way to introduce tension into the relationship or something, because I am tired of it. We know the two are going to get back together, we know there's a happy ending at the end (OR I WOULDN'T READ IT.) so most of the time the third act break-up just seems cheap and over engineered. In In the Weeds, there's just a substantial amount of miscommunication, or just plain no communication. EVERYTHING WOULD HAVE BEEN SOLVED IF THEY HAD JUST TALKED TO EACH OTHER. Like ADULTS.

But oh well. Tis a standard thing for contemporary romance novels, so I guess I should get off my soap box, and just deal with it.

Beckett is a lovely leading man, and I would have read a bunch more starring him. I loved his love for animals, his sisters, his father...all of it. He was so full of love, it was practically leaking out his ears. I loved that he had a sensory issue, and couldn't be around loud noises for too long. I loved that he wasn't perfect. It was fantastic representation, so I was very pleased with that. I also really liked Evelyn — someone who was just lost. She was seemingly perfect — everyone loved her, she wanted to help everyone, etc etc. But she was so confused as to what she wanted out of life that she felt relatable. Mush them together, and they were just peaches and cream. Fantastic.

ANYWAY — I really love Borison's writing, and I think she's well on her way to being someone I auto-buy. We'll see how I feel after the next entry into this series, which I already have downloaded and ready to go from KU. Onto the next, my friends.