Even Tree Nymphs Get the Blues

By: Molly Harper

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi, Jonathan Davis

A hilarious new standalone novella brimming with otherworldly charm from the reigning queen of paranormal romantic comedy Molly Harper!

Ingrid Asher is the newest resident of Mystic Bayou, a tiny town hidden in the swamp where shapeshifters, vampires, witches and dragons live alongside humans.

Ingrid doesn’t ask for much. The solitary tree nymph just wants to live a quiet life running her ice-cream shop in peace. Unfortunately, she can’t seem to shake her new neighbor, Rob Aspern, head of the League’s data science department and so good looking it just isn’t fair.

If there’s one thing Ingrid doesn’t need, it’s someone poking around in her business. But the more she gets to know the hunky mathematician, the more she finds herself letting her guard down. Can she trust him with her secrets, or will her past destroy everything?

For more Mystic Bayou stories, check out the series—available in Audible Escape.

©2019 Molly Harper (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

Underwhelming but at least it was free

Male love interest gets a pat on the back for doing the bare minimum. Nothing happens-there's a whole world set up with a magical enclave in the deep south and the potential for some cool supernatural storytelling and magic-human relations stuff. There is no big event where magic powers come into play, the humans find out, the town needs saved, anything. There's a casual reference to a serial killer that's never explored further or mentioned again. If you had to summarize the story in one line "A tree nymph starts an ice cream business" barely leaves anything out.

Fails as a supernatural story, fails as a romance. The guy violates boundaries, she forgives him. He's painted as an exceptionally good guy for following basic cues and not pursuing women who aren't interested in him. This is nothing special to be celebrated, this is being a halfway decent human being. They then begin a lukewarm relationship with very little chemistry or development at all because she hadn't trusted a man in 70 years and suddenly this rando who's already pissed her off catches her attention. It's baffling at best.

romance delivered with feels and laughter

Ingrid Asher is the newest resident of Mystic Bayou and the opening scene to this tale was hilarious. Ingrid is a tree nymph. She is socially awkward and untrusting around humans, others and in particular, the League. She’s bought a farm, and a local business where she plans to open a creamery.

Rob Aspern, head of the League’s data science department is also Ingrid’s neighbor. Whenever he is around her he becomes socially inept and quite frankly it was hilarious. Ingrid who is suspicious of everyone made it more so by her reactions.

I loved watching the romance unfold as Harper gave us a mix of adorkable and awkward moments. Of course Jillian and Danica get involved. How could they not!

Talk of mouth watering ice cream flavors had me making a trip to the local ice cream shop. Then they had to go and mention pie. 🥧🍦😍

We learned a little more about Mystic Bayou and the tear/rift as Harper updated us on the town, previous couples, and more.

The conflict could have been resolved with communication but wasn’t dragged out and led to character growth, secrets, and tender moments. All of this added to the swoon and feels.

I love listening to this series on audio. The narrations have been stellar. It captures the snark and personalities of these characters. Amanda Ronconi and Jonathan Davis narrate the dual POV. These two are perfect together. They enhance the humor, oddities and characters.

Maybe Should Not Have Been A Free Book

I downloaded this book as one of my free listens for June. It stated it was a free-standing book, but come to find out that many of the characters are from a series. While this had it's cute, funny moments, I was put off by the dual narrators. Women are much better at lowering voices than men are raising theirs. It was good when they were each reading their respective characters, but the crossover of Ingrid to Mr. Davis was not good at all. Might be better if they read it more as a play than a book.
Since the dual narrators are in the first 2 books I don't think I will go back and listen to them.

Cute

This was the only June Original that I found even remotely interesting. It was ok...one of those books that you can listen to while you are doing something else.

Great book!

I came into this book without any knowledge of the author or series and downloaded it in a whim as it was offered as an audible original. Well, I absolutely loved it. The book quickly caught my attention with its quirky humor and very like-able characters. It was unexpectedly wonderful and I find myself wanting to know more. I’ll probably go and check out other works by the author!

Loved it!

Honestly, the only reason I bought this was because it came with one of those Audible 3 for 1 credit deals. But it was a great listen.

I'm not a very book-y person, so I hope you weren't looking for one of those reviews, but I found this to be very entertaining. I love a little fantasy mixed with my reality and I thought this was a great balance.

Both narrators were great and kept my attention. I loved the duality of having both a man and a woman.

I'm actually going to find the other books about Mystic Bayou and start from the beginning!

Excellent Listen

This is one of the better books I’ve listened to. It’s light and enjoyable. The story is believable and I could see myself in the tree nymph. It’s well narrated which adds to the enjoyment.
Looking forwards to more books like this from Molly Harper.
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strange little book

Short book. Just as the characters were well developed, the book was over. nothing memorable here, disappointed

Nice story

Nicely written story, it's about a woman facing her fears. Regaining her trust in a man. Happy ending!

Light reading

Cute, but predictable. A little different story about magical beings living together in harmony with humans.