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Book Review: Honey and Happiness (Hemlock Creek Book 4) by Josie Kerr

Honey and Happiness

(Hemlock Creek Book 4)

by Josie Kerr

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Saffron McNabb is living her best life. After abandoning corporate rat race almost twenty years before, Saffy’s happily managing a small bed and breakfast in the north Georgia mountains. That is until the owner of the Creekside B & B wants to sell, and not to Saffy. 

Bruce Baird is in desperate need of a change. Bored both professionally and personally, when he’s forced to take a vacation, the normally unadventurous actuary decides to throw caution to the wind. 

A close encounter with one of Saffy’s rescued animals leaves the tightly-wound man and the free-spirited woman at odds. But when reality intrudes on the odd couple, they find they have more in common than not, and maybe, just maybe, Saffy and Bruce actually make a perfect combination. 

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My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

 

Chances are his suitcase was lost despite the assurances of the airline, and if it was, he didn’t want to spend the next week looking like he was dressed in castoffs from a community theater production of Godspell.

 

“But I got to thinking—” “Oh, Saffy. Never, ever think when you’re locking lips with a handsome man.” “I know,” Saffy said with a sigh.

 

… so what type of person did that make her? A judgmental twatermelon…

 

 

My Review:

 

This has been one of my favorite series, like ever! And I smirked and sighed contentedly while reading this amusing, sweet, and sexy stand-alone installment. Aptly titled, as it was sweet as honey and certainly made me happy. This endearingly appealing tale arrived on my Kindle at the perfect time, as I needed something fun, refreshing, and pleasantly satisfying while definitely lighter in nature after an unhealthy diet of angst and tension. The alluring and adorable couple of Saffy and Bruce worked a charm. The storylines were fresh, delightfully upbeat, easy to follow and well paced, while laced with levity, a sweet romance, a few surprises, and hits of humorously delectable steam.

 

The lovely book cover alone continues to affect me like some sort of visual Xanax, as the gleeful and magnetically attractive woman featured has managed to magically elicit a smile every single time my eyes have landed on her joyful countenance. She makes my heart sing and was the perfect match for the character.

 

I enjoyed both of the quirky and enticing main characters, although I aspire to be as Zen in my world as Saffy was in hers; she had found her niche, enjoyed utilizing her skills, and had established a useful and satisfying outlet for her creativity. I adored her! Saffy had been living a calm and almost totally fulfilling life with her unusual menagerie of rescue animals while running a B&B and organic products store ingeniously named Goat Waggle ~ snort! Sounds like Nirvana to me, and a handsome and gentle vacationer turned out to be the tasty treat who tipped the scales toward total bliss. That was until a greedy twatwaffle attempted to sell it all out from under her with shady dealings. The hero of the day was not whom I expected and I look forward to hopefully peeling that onion in a subsequent volume in the series.

 


 

 

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Josie Kerr is a transplanted West Texan living on the edge of semi-profoundly rural Georgia, a.k.a. the southernmost edge of the northernmost county in Metro Atlanta.

She has an M.Ed. in Secondary English Education but discovered that she hated high school more the second time than she did the first, so she decided to meld her love of technology with her education background and became an Instructional Designer. When not writing articles about how to fire someone without getting sued or why you should really not apply for jobs using your SexxyStud99@aol.com email address, she writes steamy romance novels that feature grown-up Heroes and Heroines.

9 Replies to “Book Review: Honey and Happiness (Hemlock Creek Book 4) by Josie Kerr”

  1. Nice write-up DJ. Glad that you enjoyed the book. I’ve seen this one around in my home too 🙂 my wife is reading. It’s not my favorite genre. However, I’ll try to sneak-in a few chapters at-least.

  2. I love the name of that book! Glad you’ve found such a fabulous series to love DJ 🙂 great review!!

  3. Loving all the funny animal character graphics!! I’m sold in cute animals.

  6. I loved those quotes and the animal graphics. This one sounds hilarious.

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