Stacey vows to have her life figured out by the time her friends get hitched at Faire next summer. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it’s been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants more out of life. Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. otherwise the book is an easy, pleasing beach read.Another laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story. The main character mostly exhibits a whole lot of privilege that allows her to push the 'quiet quitting' and 'work on your own terms' narratives that have been popular of late, but that most of us truly can't afford to truly buy into. The 'Dex is constantly treated like the dumb guy' thing just isn't convincing, and the 'Dex is always the guy who loses in the love triangle' thing is insinuated but again, not played out to its full conclusions, maybe because if it were it would register as more icky than anything else. It seems like there are some plot points that were thought out differently than they ultimately ended up.the 'big reveal' about Dex's bad boyness could just be back story, but it is SO built up it just feels hallow. The characters are overly angsty and lack communication skills for adults so the complications feel pretty YA. The storyline is cute, and it fits within the series. But when her time on the road is over, will Lulu go with her gut, or are she and Dex destined for separate paths? The stresses of her old lifestyle fade away as she learns to trust her intuition and follow her heart instead of her head. But when Lulu proves indifferent to his many plaid charms and a shake-up threatens the fate of the band, Dex must confront something he never has before: his future.įorced to spend days and nights together on the road, Lulu’s interest in the kilted bad boy grows as he shows her a side of himself no one else has seen.

The only drawback? Dex MacLean: a guitarist with a killer smile, the Casanova of the Faire…and her traveling companion for the summer.ĭex has never had to work for much in his life, and why should he? Touring with his brothers as The Dueling Kilts is going great, and he always finds a woman at every Faire. Lulu’s cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Renaissance Faires, and when she spies one at a time just when she needs an escape, she leaps into the welcoming environment of turkey legs, taverns, and tarot readers. The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca.Ī high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa 'Lulu' Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it’s all wrong.

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