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A review by bananatricky
Leave The Night On by Laura Trentham
5.0
A solid four and a half stars.
When Sutton Mize takes her fiancee's cherry-red Camaro convertible to Abbott Brothers Garage and Restoration for a full restoration as a wedding gift she gets a rude shock - her best friend's panties under her fiancee's seat! Cheating on her would be bad enough, but with her best friend? That's devastating! Desperate not to look like a schmuck or a loser Sutton tells a little white lie, that she was also seeing someone else, and then compounds it by naming Wyatt Abbott, the guy who found the panties when clearing out the Camaro.
Wyatt is one of four Abbott brothers (looking at Goodreads this seems to be the fourth book in the series but the first about one of the Abbott brothers and you can definitely read this as a stand-alone) running the garage. The garage is on the Louisiana side of the small town of Cottonbloom whereas Sutton comes from the more affluent Mississippi side and there is an intense rivalry between the two sides of the town. Wyatt has known Sutton since they were at school together but the paths of a grease monkey and the daughter of a judge don't cross that often - until she brings a car to his garage!
I really liked this book. It encompasses several of my favourite tropes: fake relationship; opposites attract; and small-town. Sutton and Wyatt are both 'nice' people, Sutton tries too hard to please people and worries what they think - until she discovers that Andrew was more interested in marrying a Judge's daughter than being with her for herself. Wyatt is the likeable peace-maker of the Abbott brothers, trying to keep the peace between his two elder brothers Ford and Mack and his quiet twin Jackson. But more than that, they are likeable characters, neither of them behaves irrationally or acts unreasonably. maybe they are each a little insecure but in the context of their history it seems appropriate.
Overall, I liked the book, I'm going to go back and read the earlier books and I'm really looking forward to seeing who will be the subject of the next book - will it be Ford, or Mack, or Jackson? I like Ella or Willa for the love interests - but I could be wrong, it could even be Bree.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.
When Sutton Mize takes her fiancee's cherry-red Camaro convertible to Abbott Brothers Garage and Restoration for a full restoration as a wedding gift she gets a rude shock - her best friend's panties under her fiancee's seat! Cheating on her would be bad enough, but with her best friend? That's devastating! Desperate not to look like a schmuck or a loser Sutton tells a little white lie, that she was also seeing someone else, and then compounds it by naming Wyatt Abbott, the guy who found the panties when clearing out the Camaro.
Wyatt is one of four Abbott brothers (looking at Goodreads this seems to be the fourth book in the series but the first about one of the Abbott brothers and you can definitely read this as a stand-alone) running the garage. The garage is on the Louisiana side of the small town of Cottonbloom whereas Sutton comes from the more affluent Mississippi side and there is an intense rivalry between the two sides of the town. Wyatt has known Sutton since they were at school together but the paths of a grease monkey and the daughter of a judge don't cross that often - until she brings a car to his garage!
I really liked this book. It encompasses several of my favourite tropes: fake relationship; opposites attract; and small-town. Sutton and Wyatt are both 'nice' people, Sutton tries too hard to please people and worries what they think - until she discovers that Andrew was more interested in marrying a Judge's daughter than being with her for herself. Wyatt is the likeable peace-maker of the Abbott brothers, trying to keep the peace between his two elder brothers Ford and Mack and his quiet twin Jackson. But more than that, they are likeable characters, neither of them behaves irrationally or acts unreasonably. maybe they are each a little insecure but in the context of their history it seems appropriate.
Overall, I liked the book, I'm going to go back and read the earlier books and I'm really looking forward to seeing who will be the subject of the next book - will it be Ford, or Mack, or Jackson? I like Ella or Willa for the love interests - but I could be wrong, it could even be Bree.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
Bumped for release.