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Thank you so much for giving me this opportunity.
Natalie.

As usual another hit from the very talented Jill Shalvis, and we're back in Wildstone. Even though this is part of a series it is really a standalone novel and you don't need to have read the others first, although why wouldn't you when they're so good?!

This story is about two sisters, Brooke and Mindy. Brooke is the younger sister who left Wildstone and works in an exciting job, making travel films and travelling the world. Mindy is the stay-at-home Mum, with three young children, a doctor husband, and runs one of her parents POP Smoothie shops and has everything regimentally under control, down to having a manual of what everyone should do and when - a real control freak!

The sisters used to be close, but since Brooke had a bad accident a while ago she's closed herself off a bit and they've lost that closeness, as Brooke avoids going back to Wildstone. But then Mindy turns up on Brooke's doorstep a hysterical mess, saying she's had enough and can't cope with anything any more as she's being pulled in too many directions. So Brooke steps up and swaps lives for a few days (that turns into a bit longer!). Mindy stayed at Brooke's apartment and destressed a bit, going out with Brooke's friends and living her life for a while, and Brooke finally went back to Wildstone to look after Mindy's children, while her husband Linc was away at a conference.

Of course there is always a love interest, and Brooke was avoiding Wildstone because of Garrett, who she was involved with for a while, also next door neighbour and best friends with Mindy and Linc. Garrett isn't happy to see Brooke because she just dumped him and ran with no explanation 7 years ago. But the reason why comes out soon and they start getting closer again.

This is just one of those great books about relationships and the trials and tribulations of life and family, but with the usual Jill Shalvis humour and snarkiness, and her perfect way of making you relate to, and sympathise with, each character. I loved them all, with all their flaws! I am a big fan of Jill Shalvis, and I don't even need to know what the book is about, I just know that if she wrote it I'm going to love it, a definite auto-buy author for me. Fabulous!

4.5 - "This is just a one-time thing..." Stars!

We return to the town of Wildstone and its residents for the third book in Jill Shalvis’s hugely enjoyable series of the same name. The Lemon Sisters gives us Brooke and Mindys’ stories although Brooke is in the forefront, Mindy’s story is very much intertwined with hers, especially as at the start she turns up unannounced on Brooke’s LA doorstep with her three hilarious and adorable kids in tow while obviously being on her last nerve in the middle of a meltdown.

"We are the Lemon sisters… we survive everything and keep on ticking…"

Agreeing to take care of your (almost) estranged sisters kids and returning to a hometown she’s has barely set foot in for around seven years raises a lot of red flags for Brooke, a lot of water has passed under the bridge since then, but one thing hasn’t changed… her chemistry with the boy-man she left behind; Garrett Montgomery.

She had no idea what was wrong with her, but all of her feelings for him from that time in her life seemed to stick in her throat…

This is a pair that have history ( a lot of which she has tried to box up in her brain and ignore), and towards the end of their relationship the memories are definitely not happy ones, something Brooke is hoping she can rectify while she is in town, and try to come to terms with in her heart at the same time.

She’d destroyed him one, and he had no intention of letting her get another shot…

Having Garrett as her next door neighbour has its advantages as she tries to wrestle through the day to day running of three children all with their own very different wants and needs, but dealing with the elephant in the room between them on a personal level is a whole other degree of difficult, especially when the man in question tries very hard to stay as far away from her physically and emotionally as he possibly can. This is a man you come to understand that has been hurt and abandoned on more than one occasion in his past and he definitely isn’t looking for a repeat performance with Brooke or even giving her the opportunity to rebuild those bridges that were burnt between them all those years ago.

"I’ve never lied to you… Never will."

One big problem though is he also can’t deny the burning chemistry that they still have and the fact that he still wants her with every part of himself. Brooke is not far behind him on those feelings, but the fact her life is in LA and his is firmly set in Wildstone brings us a whole other set of issues. Add into the fact her sister Mindy and husband Linc are also trying to work through their own marital and relationship issues, as well as meddle in Brooke and Garrett’s you are looking at a book when the story never stopped moving and the plot kept me invested in everyone and everything that was playing out.

"Every second with you was an adventure… a heart thumping, adrenaline-rush adventure…"

Millie, Mason & Maddox offered a huge chunk of light relief in this one, with Brooke discovering how awesome he niece and nephews are in the early stages, to Linc realizing how much he has missed time spent with his young family in the second half, they were all their own little characters and just as important to the book as a whole for me. I will admit I struggled with Mindy a little at points, but overall not enough for it to detract from my general enjoyment of the story, another winner from Jill and I hope we get to return to Wildstone again very soon!

"Love makes you do some pretty stupid shit."

Liana 4.5 stars
As I haven’t read the first books in the series I didn’t knew what to expect but it definitely could be read as a stand-alone.
I loved so many things in this book.
There are such great characters, all flawed and real with insecurities, troubled by their decisions in the past, heartbroken humans that will keep going into life because it’s what you do, you have to keep going but I also was happy to see that they wanted to tie all the lose ends left behind. I think we all need a break at some point in life when everything gets to overwhelming. I loved the connection between all the characters and the kids as well as they are a big part of the story as well.
I know that we live in a world where we supposed to accept us as we are and don’t judge and I’m happy that this book treats some of our fears and flows.
Overall it’s a perfect book to read it while relaxing and taking the sun on your skin and a cocktail on the table.





On a more personal note I have to say that I’m sorry for all the drama that people are causing online for some out of context sentences from this book and making something totally different of it.