Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly @NoraEverly @SmartyPantsRom @jennw23

Posted November 14, 2019 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 8 Comments

Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly

Review copy was received from Publicity team. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.


Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly @NoraEverly @SmartyPantsRom @jennw23Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly
Series: Green Valley Library #2
Published by Smartypants Romance on November 5, 2019
Genres: Contemporary Romance
Format: eARC
Source: Publicity team
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In Green Valley, Tennessee everybody knows everybody, but nobody knows Sabrina Logan.

Sabrina has been hiding in plain sight for years. Living her life inside of books, dutifully helping her family, and hoping no one will notice her. So far? Mission accomplished!

Yet when sexy—and distrustful—sheriff, Wyatt Monroe returns to town with his daughters, he definitely notices the quiet librarian everyone else overlooks. The single dad can’t seem to shake thoughts of shy Sabrina. Without quite understanding the impulse, Wyatt makes his mission finding her again, so he can . . . well, he’ll just have to reckon with that later.

What Wyatt discovers is a woman who trusts too easily, but who’s afraid to live. Trust doesn’t come easily to Wyatt. But living? That’s never been a problem. And he’d sure like to show her how.

I continued with the Green Valley library series set in Tennessee.  This is the town where the Winston Brothers grew up and the library is where Bethany Winston worked.   As in the previous book,  the woman works at the library.  The chapters also alternate between Sabrina and Wyatt.

This was a fun read but didn’t feel very believable to me.  Sabrina has shut herself off since her sister died 10 years ago, other than caring for her 3 children.  Her father, a doctor, is their guardian. The youngest, Harry is on the spectrum. Sabrina has been his mother, the only one he has known, and is now adopting him.

Wyatt Monroe comes back to his home town after his divorce with his two daughters. His mother provides care for them when he is working.  His three brothers are also in town, working in the family business so he has lots of support.

Wyatt takes an interest in Sabrina and she slowly opens herself to him and to life. She has real growth and that is always a good thing. Sabrina and Wyatt are both kind people, doing their best. For me,  the children were the best part of this story and I loved them.

Excerpt:

“Wow, he can dance,” I observed. 

I gasped when Wyatt’s hand on my waist slid up my side then up the underside of my arm to take my hand from his shoulder and link our fingers together. It was just like in Dirty Dancing, except I was facing him instead of away like in the movie. His grin grew a little bit wicked right before he used both of my hands to turn me. His front was now at my back with our arms crossed in front of us. 

I felt his warm, hard body behind mine and I felt…way too much. Tingles covered every square inch of me. The air felt different against my skin; I was burning up. 

His chin dipped low to rest on my shoulder. “Are you okay?” he whispered into my ear. His breath ruffled the hair against my neck, and I shivered. 

“Yes,” I whispered. Then I nodded in case he didn’t hear me. I felt his stubbled jaw graze the side of my face and I began to experience heretofore unknown feelings. My perception of what was possible for my life shifted. My brain had disengaged, and I floated along on pure sensation. 

We rocked side to side like that—closer than I’d ever been to anyone in my life. His chest rose and fell against my back as his arms tightened around me and he sighed against my hair. The last of my conscious thoughts dissolved and I succumbed to pure feeling. His body moving against mine became my world. His hands in mine kept me tethered, lest I float away on this cloud of sensation that was gradually becoming overwhelming. 

I had never felt anything like this. I never even thought feelings like this were possible in real life. In romance novels, sure. But to feel such contentment laced with giddiness right now was something I had not expected. Before I could succumb to the spreading tingles and dwindling brain power and embarrass myself, he raised our arms up high and twirled me around and around underneath them. I giggled and squealed. Apparently, I was that girl—a squealy, laughing, girly girl. But maybe we were all that girl in the right circumstance. 

He was right. I did not need to know how to slow dance when I was with him. We danced close; so close his knee was between my legs. I delighted at the feel of his soft, warm skin when he placed one of my hands on the back of his neck. He moved his free hand low on my waist, hooking his thumb in my belt loop to guide me in slow, small circles over our spot on the dance floor, then back and forth using his hands to push me out and pull me back into his body. He coaxed me where I needed to go. I felt weightless and graceful. 

The whole bar and everyone in it disappeared until it was just us dancing together, bathed in the moonlight filtering in through the high windows, and the little lights—so much like stars—illuminating the dance floor with their tiny rays. As the song ended, he spun me out and then back up against his body to dip me low with his arm wrapped tight around my waist. He grinned down at me with those gorgeous lips and beautiful chocolate brown eyes and I—I would never forget this moment—not ever.  

About Nora Everly

Nora Everly is a lifelong bookworm. She started reading the good stuff once she was tall enough to sneak the romance novels off the top of her mother’s bookshelf and it has been non-stop ever since.

Once upon a time she was a substitute teacher and an educational assistant. Now, she’s a writer and stay at home mom to two small humans and one fat cat. Nora lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and her overactive imagination.

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Posted November 14, 2019 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 8 Comments


8 responses to “Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly

  1. i enjoyed your review. i love that, even though the book didn’t blow you away, you focused on the positive. what is okay to us could be out of this world for someone else