Review: The Sweetest Thing - Jill Shalvis

The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis.


Two Men Are One Too Many . . .


Tara has a thousand good reasons not to return to the little coastal town of Lucky Harbor, Washington. Yet with her life doing a major crash-and-burn, anywhere away from her unfulfilled dreams and sexy ex-husband will do. As Tara helps her two sisters get their newly renovated inn up and running, she finally has a chance to get things under control and come up with a new plan for her life.

But a certain tanned, green-eyed sailor has his own ideas, such as keeping Tara hot, bothered . . . and in his bed. And when her ex wants Tara back, three is a crowd she can't control-especially when her deepest secret reappears out of the blue. Now Tara must confront her past and discover what she really wants. If she's lucky, she might just find that everything her heart desires is right here in Lucky Harbor.

This is the second book in Jill Shalvis's Lucky Harbour series and of course I loved it. Show me a Jill Shalvis novel that I don't love - I doubt you would find it.

Maddie, Tara and Chloe's mother dies and leaves them an old inn instead of selling they decide to stick around and see if they can make it work. The first book, Simply Irresistible, was about the middle sister Maddie, The Sweetest Thing focuses on the eldest sister Tara.

Judging from the first book I thought I would struggle to like Tara as she seemed kind of cold and judgemental but once I started reading and saw what she was really like and what she had been through I found myself warming up to her. Ford I loved from the beginning, he was such a good guy and so perfect for Tara. I even liked the addition of Logan the ex-husband, usually I hate love triangles but this one was just funny. Logan, of course never really stood a chance but the competition between him and Ford - which the town takes more seriously via facebook than the men themselves do - had some great moments.

I even loved the sub-plot of the daughter they gave up for adoption turning up and her relationship with Carlos, it was very cute and was a good parallel to what happened between Tara and Ford in the past. Plus it was a great catalyst to get them back together.

Jill Shalvis writes the perfect blend of heart and humour and it gets me every time. I am really looking forward to the next book, Head Over Heels, which will focus on the wild child younger sister Chloe and the straight laced Police chief Sawyer, it sounds like it's going to be a good one.

That's all for now.

Review: Animal Magnetism - Jill Shalvis

Animal Magnetism by Jill Shalvis.

Sunshine, Idaho, is a small and sunny town—the perfect home for man and beast. Well, maybe not for man, as pilot-for-hire Brady Miller discovers when his truck is rear-ended by what appears to be Noah’s Ark.


The co-owner of the town’s only kennel, Lilah Young has good reason to be distracted behind the wheel—there are puppies, a piglet, and a duck in her Jeep. But, she doesn’t find it hard to focus on the angry, gorgeous stranger she’s collided with.

Lilah has lived in Sunshine all her life, and though Brady is just passing through, he has her abandoning her instincts and giving in to a primal desire. It’s Brady’s nature to resist being tied down, but there’s something about Lilah and her menagerie—both animal and human—that keeps him coming back for more…


If you love excellent romance stories with really great characters, then go buy this book. I am a total sucker for romance novels especially ones with animals and this one was great. I am a total dog person, I have two crazy German Shepards who I absolutely love, so any books with dogs in are good for me. Although all the dogs in the books I read are way smarter then my two. Animal Magnetism had some really great funny moments and Jill Shalvis manages to write the story without everything being overly dramatic which makes a nice change.

The author really makes you care about the characters in this book, they have great depth and feeling, sure they are flawed and they miss the obvious most of the time but that's the whole point. You just really want to go on this journey and hope everything turns out OK for them. I liked how the main characters were total opposites and that this really worked to bring them closer. Lilah forms too many attachments and Brady not enough but in the end they balance each other out. And how they first meet is one of my favourite scenes.

I absolutely cannot wait for the other books in this series (at least I hope there are going to be other books) which I assume would be about Brady's brothers Adam and Dell. They both have very interesting jobs and their potential love interests seem great so I am sure their books will be equally as fabulous.

I would also recommend another of Jill Shalvis's series which only has one book out at the moment, Simply Irresistible, but the second, The Sweetest Thing, is coming out later this year.

That's all for now.