Almost Just
Friends (Wildstone
#4). By Jill Shalvis. 2020. William Morrow Paperbacks (ARC
paperback).
1. Get Gavin and
Winnie raised, out of the house and settled on their own √
2. Apply to a
Physician’s Assistant program far away from Wildstone--Colorado
will work
3. Get the lake
house and cottages in good enough order to land a buyer so that there
is money to pay for said program and relocation
4. Don’t fall for
the new hunk staying at the marina
She so doesn’t
have this.
5. So Gavin and
Winnie are back, surely this is temporary
6. Gavin has a
secret
7. What’s this
about turning the property into a B&B???
8. Winnie has a
secret
9. Missed the
deadline for classes, can apply again
10. Can totally
handle a fling with the marina/Coast Guard/DEA hunk named Camden
Hayes
Family, fun,
forgiveness and finding someone to put down roots for. Shalvis hits
all the right notes. The only confusion
for me was the amount of the story spent on a secondary romance
between Piper’s brother Gavin and Wildstone police officer CJ. It
is easily a third of the book and not a setup for the next
installment. My preference would have been to have Gavin and CJ’s
story as a novella despite the overlapping events. This would have
given some pages to see Cam on a mission and some shenanigans of the
Mannings running the B&B before the epilogue. Final verdict
though is that Shalvis writes such wonderful characters and I
thoroughly enjoyed this book.
358 pages
