I was so excited to go back to this world that the author introduced us to in The Way I Hate Him. The small town of Almond Bay has so many characters that I couldn’t wait to get back to. While this one didn’t start out with some of the craziness that has me rolling with laughter on the first page, it didn’t take long before I was laughing out loud as I read! I think that Wyatt Preston is going to be my favorite book boyfriend of the year.

I love the grumpy/sunshine trope, and love it even more when it is reversed so that the man is the sunshine, which we had in this case. Wyatt’s cheerfulness as he was constantly badgering/flirting/breaking down Aubree’s walls was so perfect. His crazy outbursts and opinions and the way he could take any conversation into the gutter in such an extraordinarily unexpected way was what kept me laughing all through the book. Some of my favorites are when he called her his “special love dumpling”. Or the way he would react to her giving him the sarcastic replies like:

“If it makes you feel better, I’ve stuck my head up your ass the furthest.”
“That is one of the most beautiful things you’ve ever said to me.”
“I know.”

Or when he would say he needed her to compliment him, or talk about certain parts of his anatomy, and he would try to embarrass her by telling people who happened in on their conversations that she was talking about that. When he was telling her how dignified he was.

“What do dignified men do?”
“Smoke cigars and talk about their loafers.”

I want my own Wyatt so bad! 

Aubree’s reticence at letting him inside her walls was so understandable. It made sense for her to keep him at arm’s length as long as she did. But I did get a little frustrated that as she opened up to him about her ex and her ex-best friend that he didn’t go ahead at that point and tell her about his own ex issues. Of course that led to some of the final drama, going a little different than maybe I’d expected. And I do feel that sometimes these books are a little long at times, but as I was reading Wyatt’s hilarious banter with Aubree, it kept me going. 

I loved all the characters from the author’s other books that made appearances, even ones I didn’t expect! The way that Quinn connects all her worlds is just so unique and wonderful and exactly one of the reasons I love her books so much. Almond Bay’s townsfolk were as much fun as remembered from book one. And I look forward to another book set in this town, I assume it will be the other brother, Ryland, hopefully getting his own HEA.