Book Review:  Forrest for the Trees (Green Valley Heroes, #1) by Kilby Blades @KilbyBlades @SmartyPantsRom

Forrest for the Trees
(Green Valley Heroes, #1)
by Kilby Blades

 

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Forrest for the Trees, an all-new slow-burn small-town romance from Kilby Blades, is LIVE in Kindle Unlimited! Kilby kicks off the brand new Green Valley Heroes series in the Smartypants Romance Universe with her enemies to lovers standalone!

 

 

Forrest Winters isn’t just a federal fire marshal; he’s a thorn in Ranger Sierra Betts’s side. The way he swings his big ax, fixes her with his chameleon gray eyes, and talks about his jurisdiction has a way of breaking her concentration. He has a way of showing up everywhere he doesn’t belong, including Greenbrier Ranger Station. And he really needs to quit stealing her bacon bites.

When a series of suspicious fires, an underhanded co-worker, and a cagey Parks Police Chief threatens her job and the park itself, Sierra grudgingly agrees to partner with Forrest. Their side investigation may be her best shot at preventing the framing of an innocent man. But can his firefighting expertise and her detective skills lead them to the real arsonist before Forrest breaks her with his charm?

‘Forrest for the Trees’ is a full-length contemporary romance, can be read as a standalone, and is book #1 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe

 

 

My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

 

He wasn’t a full-on curmudgeon, but half of one, a right she supposed he’d earned from managing to keep himself alive for so long.

 

“Please tell me you didn’t name your axe.” “I name all my axes. It makes them feel special.”

 

Just remember. That “no sex ’til the third date” crap is for people who secretly hate themselves and resent their bodies.

  

My Review:

 

Shame on me. I’d never heard of Kilby Blades before picking up this book and I reveled in her clever and original arrangements of words. I fell right into her smooth and easy storytelling and I was quickly invested in her uniquely endearing and quirky characters as well as smirking, sighing, and deathly curious about their exploits and endeavors. I have always enjoyed my visits to Green Valley and haven’t found a clunker yet in the Smartypants collective. Forrest for the Trees kicks off a new series and I am totally committed, hooked, enamored, and inquisitive of what will come next. In the meantime, I’ll be perusing Ms. Blades’s listing of twenty-one published books. Where have I been?

 

 

About the Author
 

Kilby Blades is a USA Today Bestselling author of Romance and Women’s Fiction. Her debut novel, Snapdragon, was a HOLT Medallion finalist, a Publisher’s Weekly BookLife Prize Semi-Finalist, and an IPPY Award medalist. Kilby was honored with an RSJ Emma Award for Best Debut Author in 2018 and has been lauded by critics for “easing feminism and equality into her novels” (IndieReader) and “writing characters who complement each other like a fine wine does a good meal” (Publisher’s Weekly).

During her career as a digital marketing executive, she moonlighted as a journalist, freelanced as a food, wine, and travel writer, and lived it up as an entertainment columnist. She has lived in five countries, visited more than twenty-five, and spends part of her year in her happy place in the Andes Mountains. Kilby is a feminist, an oenophile, a cinephile, a social-justice fighter, and above all else, a glutton for a good story. Follow her everywhere @kilbyblades.

 

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3 Replies to “Book Review:  Forrest for the Trees (Green Valley Heroes, #1) by Kilby Blades @KilbyBlades @SmartyPantsRom”

  1. Great review, glad you enjoyed the book. Are these ‘bearded bloke’ books all by the same author under different names? Just with the covers all looking alike.

    1. No, Penny Reid started it off with her series of bearded brothers living in a small town in Tennessee and then she opened it up to other authors and additional series. Most of them are also within or at least loosely connected to this small Tennessee town.

  2. Glad you enjoyed it, sounds like a good read. I do wish the cover was different though, I am seeing too much of them, its like they have run out of ideas. For a moment I though Penny Reid was the author until I looked closely and was it wasn’t.

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