Happy Trail (Park Ranger, #1)
Daisy Prescott
1 ratings • 1 reviews
Happy Trail (Park Ranger, #1)
Daisy Prescott
1 ratings • 1 reviews
A man of few words, Ranger Jay Daniels values the calm, quiet solitude of the Great Smoky Mountains. Never quite fitting in with either side of his family, he prefers the company of birds and trees to people. Yeah, he’d most definitely prefer a bird—any bird, any bird at all, take a vulture for instance—to the human-tornado hybrid that just blew onto his peaceful stretch of the Appalachian Trail. The path of true love never has run smooth for Olive Perry. After getting dumped and promptly abandoned in the middle of her multi-month hike, Olive swears off men. Determined to finish the long trek by herself, she doesn’t need a prince—or broody and taciturn ranger—to save her. Yet, when an early snowstorm threatens the mountains, and Ranger Daniels is charged with getting hikers to safety, that includes hot-tempered Olive Perry. Snowed in and forced to share an abandoned cabin, can Olive’s heated intensity melt Jay’s cool reserve? And if so, will this happy trail lead to true love? Or will their time together be just another bump in the road? ‘Happy Trail’ is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book #1 in the Park Ranger series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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Meh.
While I love a good story about finding yourself and trying to do something challenging to prove you're made of tougher stuff, I felt like we didn't get a good idea of who either of our main characters really were before they met. Olive makes references to her previous life of being a rich socialite, very surface level, but these are brief and incomplete. So her transformation into a nature loving small-town loving bird-watcher was somewhat lacking to me, because it was only part of her arc.
Same with Jay--he talks about struggling to always fit in, but we never really saw him deal with any bullying, just his own memory of vague incidences that happened in his youth. So he comes to terms with something that we the readers haven't had a chance to feel upset about?
Also, I like the idea of the forced proximity romance, but in this book that was for like 48 hours, including sleeping time. So I just didn't buy them falling in love so quickly. Lust, sure. Like, sure. Intrigue, fascination, and the 'je ne sais quoi' that makes them want to pursue a relationship, alright! But love seemed like a far stretch, we didn't see them connecting enough, imho.
Plus there was only one real sex scene and it was meh steamy for me.
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