Loving You

The Donovans (Sweetbriar Ridge), Book 1

De: Samantha Chase

Narrado por: Carly Robins

Not everyone in Sweetbriar Ridge is as sweet as the town name would suggest. But single mom Jade Mackenzie is up to the challenge of winning over the town if that's what it takes to make her new shop a success. After all, this is just the latest in a long string of battles she's had to face. Since she's given up on men—all of them except for her son—she can throw all her energy into the new business. Or so she thought until the most charming and too-good-looking-for-his-own-good man walked into her shop...and she literally falls into his arms.

Levi Donovan knows how to charm his way through life; winning people over is just what he does. But no amount of charm can save him when he's at the center of a scandal that costs him his position at a prestigious ad agency. With no other choice, he's forced to return home to Sweetbriar Ridge, the small town he left behind the first chance he got. When he meets the owner of the new coffeehouse, he starts to think that small towns aren't so bad. And when he finds out Jade needs a little help promoting her new business, he makes it his mission to help her.

No matter how hard she tries to resist, Jade can't help but be swept away by Levi's good looks and the sweet way he interacts with her son. But he isn't staying, and getting attached would be a mistake. Levi always swore he would never settle in Sweetbriar Ridge, but could loving Jade be reason enough to stay? Each book in the Donovans series can be treated as a standalone.

©2023 Samantha Chase (P)2023 Dreamscape Media

Loving You

After reading “Finding You” I wanted to read more about this little town of Sweetbriar Ridge and its quirky inhabitants. Though this is part of a series they are written to be read on their own. I am pretty sure this is also a spin-off of a different Donovan series, as they are mentioned in this book as well. This book follows 2 MCs Jade Mackenzie, a single mom opening her own business, and Levi Donovan a big-shot ad exec who got involved with the wrong woman and lost his job. As these two charm their way into each other’s lives we have a sweet romance that builds and a group of friends that come together. Though this is a pretty clean romance more going on than just two people is falling in love. There is a lot of family drama on both sides of this relationship. For Levi, it’s coming to terms with how his dad left as a child and finding out what happened. For Mackenzie it’s drama with her child’s paternal grandparents who blame her for the disgrace of their child who wanted nothing to do with the human he helped create. All that drama made for some far-fetched scenarios but it was entertaining to read. I loved the sweetness of the coupling and how straightforward Jade is. It is very refreshing to not have characters hide their feelings.

Sound

The voices of the readers. The story line was good but the voices of the readers made the love story less romantic.

Spectacular performance of a phenomenal book!

If this is the way the Sweetbriar Ridge Donovans starts, we the readers are in for a spectacular ride.
Loving You is the first book in The Donovans: Sweetbriar Ridge and as I said above, what a spectacular beginning.
I absolutely LOVE Jade and Levi’s story. I really enjoyed watching first the friendship develop between Jade and Levi, then the love. I especially loved watching the relationship between Silas, Jade’s son, and Levi develop.
I loved reading all the secondary plots within the book as well. But, I think one of my favorite parts was when Jade recommends a book to a customer, that just happens to be a book from my favorite series written by Ms. Chase.
I loved all of the characters….LIE!!! There were a couple that I did not particularly like, Levi’s mother for one. Sorry Ladies, I will not give anything away. You will have to read this fabulous book and let us know if you feel the same.
Because of my absolute love of reading romances, I was gifted with a copy of this fabulous book for my opinions and thoughts of the book.
I want to put it like this. Since I received the book, I have read it twice, and bought the audio of the book and have listened to it as well and LOVED every single word!!!
Speaking of the audio…
Carly Robins as freaking usual has done a spectacular job performing this book!! She ALWAYS brings the book to life for me.
Enough of my blathering! Thank you for reading my review. I am most certain that you will love this book as much as I have. So, what are you waiting for? Go hit that purchase button from your favorite retailer and enjoy the read.

Excited that the Donovan Series Continues

As always Samantha Chase gave us a great book with romance, family and humor. Can’t wait for book 2 in Sweetbriar Ridge.

Loving you is a good book

I enjoyed how it started bringing in the other parts of the family ( cousins) especially more females :)

Just ok for me

Predictable but I did like the characters. Just not enough to the storyline for me