Bursting with Love (Love in Bloom, #8; Love in Bloom: The Bradens, #5; The Bradens at Weston, CO, #5)
Melissa Foster
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Bursting with Love (Love in Bloom, #8; Love in Bloom: The Bradens, #5; The Bradens at Weston, CO, #5)
Melissa Foster
After having her heart broken by a country music star, Savannah Braden has sworn off men. She takes a break from her fast-paced Manhattan lifestyle for a weekend at a survivor camp to rebuild her confidence and readjust her priorities. But when she meets the handsome guide, Jack Remington, she’s drawn to everything about him—from his powerful physique to his brooding stare—despite the big chip on his shoulder. Powerless to ignore the heated glances and mounting sexual tension, Savannah begins to reassess her hasty decision. After losing his wife in a tragic accident, Jack Remington found solace in the mountains of Canada. This solitary existence allows him to wallow in his guilt and punish himself for having made a decision that he believes cost his wife her life. He never expected to want to return to the life he once knew—but then again, he never expected to meet gorgeous, stubborn, and competitive Savannah Braden. One passionate kiss is all it takes to crack the walls the two have built to protect themselves, and allow love to slip in. While Jack fights his way through his guilt, and struggles to get back into the lives of those he left behind, Savannah is there to help him heal, and together they nurture hope that they’ve finally found their forever loves.
Publication Year: 2013
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I loved, loved, loved this book. And the funny thing is, I didn't think I was going to like it as much as the others. I've always enjoyed the character of Savannah in the other books, but for some reason just didn't think she could carry a whole story. To be fair, she had help from Jack Remington to tell her story.
***Possible Spoilers***
Even though this book jumped from 0 to in love faster than any of the others, I was able to look beyond that. One of the reasons is that the typical romance trope wasn't used in this book. What I mean by that is, there wasn't any huge misunderstanding or jumping to conclusions by the characters. Ms. Foster herself has done it in the other books in this series, and that's okay. It's what we expect. Romance books aren't about the misunderstandings, they're about how the characters find their way back to each other. This story didn't need that. Every time there was the possibility for things to go in that usual direction, Savannah would speak her mind. Then, instead of getting pissed about it, Jack would explain what he had meant. What a novel idea! Even one of the biggest set ups to follow that trope, having Savannah know that Jack's wife's family was "spying" on him, didn't end in the blow up it would have in any other book. The characters of Savannah and Jack were written as mature adults with baggage. So refreshing!
Another thing I've come to love about all of this series is that every time, the characters question how they fell in love so quickly. They don't just gloss over it like it's an every day occurrence. Which, in their family it seems to be.
I hadn't realized, as I zoomed through these books, that the last one is not yet out. So now I'm anxiously awaiting to read how things turn out for the final Braden sibling.
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