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Spirited and beautiful, Jillian Parker is one of Marietta’s newest
business owners. Still, her mother worries about Jillian’s bare ring
finger. So in order to give her mother something else to fuss over,
Jillian adopts a cat named Romeo. He turns out to be anything but a
docile lap cat.
One snowy night, Romeo makes a break for it. With Jillian right on his heels, they have a near miss with a passing pickup driven by Avery Wainwright, one of Jillian’s closest friends. A rodeo accident has the sexy cowboy returning home to recuperate, and he’s not happy about it.
So when Avery finds himself lassoed into the Bachelor Bake-Off, he turns to the one person who has always helped him out—Jillian. But will teaching him to take chances outside of the show ring have them both discovering that their feelings for each other run much deeper than they ever imagined?
One snowy night, Romeo makes a break for it. With Jillian right on his heels, they have a near miss with a passing pickup driven by Avery Wainwright, one of Jillian’s closest friends. A rodeo accident has the sexy cowboy returning home to recuperate, and he’s not happy about it.
So when Avery finds himself lassoed into the Bachelor Bake-Off, he turns to the one person who has always helped him out—Jillian. But will teaching him to take chances outside of the show ring have them both discovering that their feelings for each other run much deeper than they ever imagined?
Genre: contemporary romance
Publication date: February 2017
Mature content: no
Review: The plot sounded promising, but Sprinkled with Love failed to hold my attention.
I never felt a connection with either of the main characters and, more importantly, I never felt a strong connection between them.
Jillian keeps saying she's over Avery but then we discover she's still in love with him. The she still had a crush on him sounds about right. But love? I was not convinced.
And Avery is a walking disaster. For a man who raised his siblings basically alone I would have expected him to be confident in his abilities and have clear views on which direction he wants to steer his live. Instead, he seems unable to make decisions. He wants Jillian, but he doesn't want to share her views of the future; he wants to buy the ranch, but then he decides to let it go and go back to the rodeo circuit instead; he decides to sell the house and then balks at the last minute. After all of that, how could I believe he really wanted Jillian and a family of his own?
I never felt a connection with either of the main characters and, more importantly, I never felt a strong connection between them.
Jillian keeps saying she's over Avery but then we discover she's still in love with him. The she still had a crush on him sounds about right. But love? I was not convinced.
And Avery is a walking disaster. For a man who raised his siblings basically alone I would have expected him to be confident in his abilities and have clear views on which direction he wants to steer his live. Instead, he seems unable to make decisions. He wants Jillian, but he doesn't want to share her views of the future; he wants to buy the ranch, but then he decides to let it go and go back to the rodeo circuit instead; he decides to sell the house and then balks at the last minute. After all of that, how could I believe he really wanted Jillian and a family of his own?
I also found the writing a bit repetitive in places, and too many cliches throughout the book. It is a clean, sweet romance story, but it doesn't stand out in any way, so I can't bring myself to rate it with more than three stars.
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