BOURBON LOVE NOTES BY SHARI J. RYAN

Bourbon Love Notes is the first book in a brand new series by Shari J. Ryan. This is an emotional book, much more emotional than I anticipated and a very slow burn in terms of romance. 

Rating: ★★★
​Release Date: January 13, 2020
Genre: Emotional Romance
Series: The Barrel House series #1 (can stand alone)
Pages: 305 pages
Format: eBook. Borrowed from KU. 

​In a split second, life can steal a last breath ... and derail all future plans.

While flying home after a phone call that left me heartbroken, a row to myself would have been ideal. Instead, I was unknowingly sitting shoulder to shoulder with a strikingly attractive single dad and ex-Marine. I could have pretended not to notice the man, but there was something familiar about him.

It didn’t take long before I pieced together where I knew him from or why he was back in my life.

With chaos holding me hostage, I wanted to hide but couldn’t avoid Brett Pearson, our old family friend, and my teenage crush, because he kindly offered to help out with my family’s business—The Barrel House.

Handling my father’s distillery would be a distraction from my 

​brutal reality. Except, I never paid close attention to the art of making bourbon, unlike Brett, who was full of bourbon knowledge. He offered to teach me a thing or two, but all I could focus on was the way his lips moved when he spoke to me.

I needed to grieve, and my head was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but my heart was splitting at the seams.

Bourbon was spilled, drinks were shared, but could passion ignite from a dying last wish?

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​Release Date: January 13, 2020
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars

Contemporary Romance | Emotional

Bourbon Love Notes was an unexpected read for me. For one reason or another I figured it would be a plain old contemporary romance with heat and humor. I wasn’t expecting most of the book to turn me into an emotional wreck! Gosh this book broke my heart. You may think I’m saying this because something happens between the hero and heroine but that’s not it. It’s the family’s story that tore my heart in two. Shari J. Ryan certainly laid out grief on a platter here and I absolutely fell into it. I was a MESS. My heart broke, my chest ached, and the tears were shed! I’m saying this so that readers will know that this is not without emotion because it’s FILLED with it!

One of my favorite things about this novel is the ending. I have to say if an ending can turn me into mush and make me smile like crazy then it’s pretty good! That’s the case here although I do wish the first 60% gave me the same feelings. Unfortunately, the romance never really caught up with me until the end. It almost felt like a filler for a family drama rather than an actual romance novel. That’s not to say that there is no romance because there is, but it’s very slow (almost achingly slow).

With that being said, I may not have loved this book, but I sure appreciated it’s beauty. I’m also looking forward to Journey’s book which will be released next. I hope it’s a little lighter than this one!

★★★

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