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Iced Coffee Dreams
The fourth and last of Jennifer Montgomery's wonderful coffee shop romances is out, Iced Coffee Dreams, starring Wynne (short for Eowyn--her parents are die-hard Tolkien fans), who's working part-time at Campus Coffee over the summer. She has dreams of opening her own cafe one day, but she's prone to anxiety ... and she finds it impossible to say no to problem-customer Shannon, who comes in all too often with a "Hey girl, hey," and a request for extra caramel, milk on the side, an extra punch to her loyalty card--you get the picture. If she can't handle Shannon, will she ever be able to manage a cafe on her own?
Enter coworker Parker, who's reserved, but friendly. In fact, he seems to want to spend time with Wynne. He's interested in her dreams and has ideas for how to build her confidence.
All the details in this story are just perfect. Every time Wynne imagines a different type of cafe, I was thinking, "Yes, I want to go there." (Traveling pop-up cafe? Check. Garden cafe in an actual garden? Check! hot-air-balloon cafe? Ooh, Check! Tree house cafe? Check check check! I definitely want to go to that one.)
And then there was the moment when Wynne's friend Kayleen describes what she expected Indiana to be like:
This is a sweet romance, where the pleasure is in watching the characters get to know each other and watching Wynne learn to face tricky situations successfully. The characters are all **very** likable and relatable--it's very fun to spend some time in summer with them, and RIGHT NOW in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway is precisely the story's setting--long, hot summer.
Highly recommended!
Enter coworker Parker, who's reserved, but friendly. In fact, he seems to want to spend time with Wynne. He's interested in her dreams and has ideas for how to build her confidence.
All the details in this story are just perfect. Every time Wynne imagines a different type of cafe, I was thinking, "Yes, I want to go there." (Traveling pop-up cafe? Check. Garden cafe in an actual garden? Check! hot-air-balloon cafe? Ooh, Check! Tree house cafe? Check check check! I definitely want to go to that one.)
And then there was the moment when Wynne's friend Kayleen describes what she expected Indiana to be like:
“Infinite corn, bonfire parties, two boys in a mud-spattered truck give us a lift to the ol’ swimming hole where we all drink beer out of red Solo cups while dancing in the headlights of a circle of pick-ups,” Kayleen said.
“Gosh,” Wynne said, all false innocence, “You must have listened to a lot of country music to come up with a list like that.”
“It’s not my fault,” Kayleen said. “My mom played it all the time.”
This is a sweet romance, where the pleasure is in watching the characters get to know each other and watching Wynne learn to face tricky situations successfully. The characters are all **very** likable and relatable--it's very fun to spend some time in summer with them, and RIGHT NOW in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway is precisely the story's setting--long, hot summer.
Highly recommended!
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Altho I got used to characters being from "Santa Fe" as "somewhere exotic." That was before Breaking Bad. Now everyone's all, I WANT TO GO TO ALBUQUERQUE! I'm just like, I lived there for four years. You do not want to go to Albuquerque.
Albuquerque
Re: Albuquerque
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Aw.
That reminds me of Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport (1980).
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Constructing your ideas of somewhere from music or television or movies—the pop-cultural image of itself, not the place itself. The protagonist of Gila Monsters is a kid from New York City whose family is moving to the American Southwest; he's convinced it's all cactus and cowboys and Gila monsters, which his best friend Seymour says will meet them at the airport. It was a Reading Rainbow book. It's sweet.
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If ONLY Gila monsters met people at the airport!
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I've been having trouble reading romances lately because so many of them would be awful in real life with stalking and boundary pushing and I just can't ignore it anymore.
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