2 Cringe-Worthy Stars**
Small town boy loves girl, girl leaves boy to pursue big city dreams, girl returns to small town, boy still loves girl, girl makes him miserable, cue happy ending... blah blah blah.
Typical.
I have read this same concept in about 50 different books.
Shay used to spend her summers as a teenager at her grandparents house in fictional Red Maple Falls. I honestly don't even remember what state as I really just didn't even care. She falls in love with local hot stuff Matt. Then, one day Shay leaves and never looks back. Matt is heartbroken as Shay is 'his one true love'. The one that got away.
Eventually, Shay moves back to Red Maple Falls and opens her own little bakery after being some hotshot in NYC...ok?!
Anyways, Matt's pissed and he should be. I mean who the hell does she think she is stomping all over his puppy dog in love heart as teens and then have the audacity to come back years later and try to woo the town with her muffins??
Matt is now the town Sheriff, and by the sounds of it, the only damn one there is as he gets called to EVERY. SINGLE. CALL. Which, consists mostly of the town drunk half naked, running all over town in his tractor looking for some hot old ladies to throw on the back of his sexy ride and cruise off into the sunset. On his fricken tractor!
That is until one totally cliched night when he gets a break-in call to none other than the muffin-wooing, heart snatching Shay.
Now, Matt goes from pissed to worried real quick. Real fucking quick.
We then proceed to go through about 15 chapters of Matt bitching at Shay to lock her doors at night and her yelling at him, refusing to lock her doors just to be an asshole because 'what gives him the damn right to care about her?' even though she secretly wants him to care about her. And love her. And get down on one knee and beg for her hand in marriage. And give her lots of babies. We eventually find out the real reason Shay left as the authors sad ass excuse at making Shay seem like a poor, little rich girl who deserves all the forgiveness and love in the world. I didn't buy any of it.
My head is spinning.
I got bored really quickly attempting to chug through this book, and I actually put it aside and read three other books before eventually coming back to finish this one up. There was a lot of unnecessary plot twists thrown in which never amounted to ANYTHING. And honestly, those plot twists probably would have saved a good portion of this story.
The only reason this book gets two stars is because I actually liked Matt's character and his family. Especially his 90 year-old feisty grandma who encourages him to get some poo-nanny any chance he gets so she can have some grandbabies before she croaks.
The rest. Completely forgettable.
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