A review by whatjanereads
The Rivals of Casper Road, by Roan Parrish
3.0
I absolutely loved the idea of this!!!
A whole street famous for its Halloween decorations, just like Christmas, but spooky.
An uptight architect who’s sole fun in life seems to be winning the competition for “best Halloween decoration” every year, over and over again. Until a new guy moves in across the street. A huge guy who can make beautiful statues and other things out of wood with a chainsaw and his bare hands. A guy who seems to be competition!!!
And guy Zachery must hate and wipe out immediately!
Only for this books title, there wasn’t much of a rivalry or a hate to love romance at all.
There was only one action, which was actually extremely shocking and childish. If I was Bram I would have killed Zach.
I loved the beginning of this, Bram is a huge cinnamon roll with a dog, a gentle giant. I always love characters like this and he was no exception.
I also immediately loved Zachery with his tight schedules and his tight suits he wears in homeoffice.
Roan Parrishes characters are always special and they will steal your heart in no time.
This was a complete opposite’s attract and I am a sucker for that as well.
This should have worked out perfectly, but it just didn’t. The beautiful autumn setting and the rivalry should have made for a perfect story, but it fell flat.
There wasn’t a real rivalry, Bram and Zach really had absolutely nothing in common and (he didn’t even like dogs???) most of their actions seemed super childish (Bram running away on a spooky hayride made for children??? When Zach is all about horror movies?).
Bram has just recently left a long term relationship and was horribly deceived by the two most important people in his life. But he falls in love and trusts Zachery in no time at all. It didn’t make much sense to me.
The first two books in this series are one of my favourite books of all time, but I feel like with the switch to a new publisher these books get very mainstream and also extremely tame (what is it with the rubbing against each other fully clothed sex in the last two books?! These men are mid 20s to 40!).
I still loved the characters, the idea and of course the style of writing. But this just didn’t live up to its potential at all and it makes me super sad.
A whole street famous for its Halloween decorations, just like Christmas, but spooky.
An uptight architect who’s sole fun in life seems to be winning the competition for “best Halloween decoration” every year, over and over again. Until a new guy moves in across the street. A huge guy who can make beautiful statues and other things out of wood with a chainsaw and his bare hands. A guy who seems to be competition!!!
And guy Zachery must hate and wipe out immediately!
Only for this books title, there wasn’t much of a rivalry or a hate to love romance at all.
There was only one action, which was actually extremely shocking and childish. If I was Bram I would have killed Zach.
I loved the beginning of this, Bram is a huge cinnamon roll with a dog, a gentle giant. I always love characters like this and he was no exception.
I also immediately loved Zachery with his tight schedules and his tight suits he wears in homeoffice.
Roan Parrishes characters are always special and they will steal your heart in no time.
This was a complete opposite’s attract and I am a sucker for that as well.
This should have worked out perfectly, but it just didn’t. The beautiful autumn setting and the rivalry should have made for a perfect story, but it fell flat.
There wasn’t a real rivalry, Bram and Zach really had absolutely nothing in common and (he didn’t even like dogs???) most of their actions seemed super childish (Bram running away on a spooky hayride made for children??? When Zach is all about horror movies?).
Bram has just recently left a long term relationship and was horribly deceived by the two most important people in his life. But he falls in love and trusts Zachery in no time at all. It didn’t make much sense to me.
The first two books in this series are one of my favourite books of all time, but I feel like with the switch to a new publisher these books get very mainstream and also extremely tame (what is it with the rubbing against each other fully clothed sex in the last two books?! These men are mid 20s to 40!).
I still loved the characters, the idea and of course the style of writing. But this just didn’t live up to its potential at all and it makes me super sad.