Rowena’s review of Undeniable (Country Roads #2) by Shannon Richard.
“Funny, sassy, and sexy. Reading Shannon Richard is pure pleasure!” -Jill Shalvis, New York Times bestselling author
THEIR LOVE WAS UNDENIABLE
Grace King knows two things for certain: she loves working at her grandmother’s café and she loves the hunky town sheriff. She always has. As she bakes him sweet treats, Grace fantasizes about helping him work up an appetite all night long. But whenever she thinks she’s finally getting somewhere, he whips out some excuse to escape. Growing up, he never looked twice at her. Now Grace won’t rest until she has Jax’s undivided attention.
Jaxson Anderson can’t deny that his best friend’s kid sister is the sexiest woman in Mirabelle, Florida. Unwilling to burden Grace with his painful past, Jax keeps the sassy blonde at arm’s length. Yet one heated kiss crumbles all of his carefully built defenses. But when a town secret surfaces, threatening to destroy everything they believe in, can the man who defended Grace from bullies as a child protect her now?
Undeniable is the second book in the Country Roads series by Shannon Richard.
Grace King has been in love with Jax Anderson for as long as she can remember. Their relationship started back when they were kids and Jax would protect her from the bullies in school. Grace’s home life was always talked about in their small town and her older brother Brendan King spent a lot of years protecting Grace from the talk and from getting hurt. He had a lot of help protecting Grace from his friends, Jax and Shep. While Grace has grown up feeling loved and has been happy for the most part, she longs for the companionship of a man and she’s always wanted that man to be Jax.
There’s history between Jax and Grace. They grew up together, Jax’s best friend is Grace’s older brother but there’s a bond, a connection between Jax and Grace that goes beyond anything she’s had with anyone else. Grace knows that Jax is it for her and she’s tired of waiting for him to figure it out. They’ve been battling wits for years and he’s still holding her at arms length. In this book, Grace takes the gloves off and goes after what she wants.
But with Jax, things are so complicated. Growing up the way that he did, he thinks that Grace deserves so much more than he can give her. She deserves everything that he’s not good enough to provide, even though he wants to. Jax has a nightmare of a father and his father has gotten into Jax’s head time and time again and it’s hard to listen to everyone else when he’s been told over and over again how worthless he is.
Jax and Grace’s story is one of those childhood friends, best friend’s little sister stories that I adore. I liked both Grace and Jax in Undone but I liked them a whole lot more in this book. It was nice to get in both of their heads and see where they were coming from with the things they thought about their situation. I liked that it wasn’t dragged out and kicked to death. It was dealt with over the course of the book and the story was still interesting enough that I wanted to continue reading.
The thing about this series is that it’s not an in your face series with stories that jump out and grab you by the throat. It’s more of an ice cold glass of coke after a long day in the hot sun kind of read. It’s a slow build kind of story that unfolds slowly but everything in the story is cute that you don’t mind. I thought this romance was sweet and I wanted to cuddle it close. Jax and Grace aren’t perfect characters but their imperfections made me like this story more. It’s probably not for everyone but I liked it and I’m glad that I read it.
Grade: 3.5 out of 5
This book is available from Forever. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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