{"id":66033,"date":"2022-08-25T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=66033"},"modified":"2024-04-11T03:58:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:58:37","slug":"release-arc-review-make-you-mine-honey-mountain-3-by-laura-pavlov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=66033","title":{"rendered":"Release & ARC Review: Make You Mine (Honey Mountain, #3) by Laura Pavlov"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Make You Mine by Laura Pavlov is live!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This is such a beautiful story! A heartfelt friends-to-lovers, single dad romance that made me laugh, cry and swoon. I fell in mad love with these characters, and I absolutely loved it!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Amazon – available free in KU<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Blurb<\/strong><\/h4>\n

A sexy firefighter. A much younger Nanny. The heat between them could burn down a small country. He doesn’t believe in forever. And she won’t settle for anything less.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Jace King is a smoking hot firefighter, a single dad and my new boss.<\/p>\n

He’s also the most beautiful man I’ve ever laid eyes on.<\/p>\n

It’s totally fine to secretly crush on the guy you Nanny for, right?<\/p>\n

Did I mention that he’s also a decade older than me, works with my dad\u00a0and he’s a close family friend?<\/p>\n

If you looked up OFF LIMITS in the dictionary, you’;d find an eight by ten photo of my\u00a0sexy boss.<\/p>\n

But something happens every time we’re in a room together.<\/p>\n

The attraction is almost overpowering.<\/p>\n

Jace is insistent that we can’t act on it.<\/p>\n

And I’ve always been a rule follower…<\/p>\n

but maybe sometimes rules are meant to be broken.<\/p>\n

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Add to Goodreads<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Review<\/b><\/h4>\n

5 sweet, swoony and heartfelt stars<\/b><\/p>\n

This is such a beautiful story! A heartfelt friends-to-lovers, single dad romance that made me laugh, cry and swoon. I fell in mad love with these characters, and I absolutely loved it!<\/p>\n

This is the third book in the Honey Mountain<\/i> series, and is the story of Ashlan, the youngest of the five Thomas sisters who will get books in the series. Each book can be read as a standalone (but don\u2019t miss the earlier books, they\u2019re fantastic!), and this series is becoming a fave!<\/p>\n

Ashlan has just graduated college and returned to her small home town of Honey Mountain, with dreams of being a writer, but otherwise unsure of what to do with her life. So she\u2019s thrilled when family friend, Jace, offers her a job as nanny to his two young daughters. Jace is a fireman and works with Ashlan\u2019s father and brother-in-law. They\u2019ve known each other for years, and she already adores his two little girls, so it seems like the perfect arrangements. Except for the inconvenient crush she has on her new boss.<\/p>\n

Jace is a good guy with a huge heart, whose whole world is his little girls. His marriage was not a happy one, and he\u2019s glad to be away from his toxic ex-wife who left without looking back. He has his hands full juggling to jobs and two girls who are struggling a bit and desperate for some stability, and Ashlan is just what his family needs. What he doesn\u2019t need is to be feeling the types of things he is feeling about his young new employee.<\/p>\n

There was nothing about this girl that I didn\u2019t like. I respected her. I admired her. I adored her. And I fucking wanted her something fierce.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s something between these two from the very beginning. It\u2019s a friendship, but they both know there\u2019s more there, and they both know it\u2019s big. But while Ash is all too keen to explore their epic chemistry, Jace isn\u2019t. He\u2019s worried about their age gap (he\u2019s 32, she\u2019s 22), and he\u2019s worried that he has too much baggage without anything to offer her. I could absolutely understand where he was coming from, and my heart ached for him, but that doesn\u2019t stop the occasional slip and some wildly inappropriate flirting.<\/p>\n

\u201cA kiss would never be enough for me,\u201d \u2026 I reached for chin and rubbed the pad of my thumb over her bottom lip. \u201cNot even fucking close.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ash is a rockstar through the whole thing. She\u2019s devoted to his girls, and does her job, giving Jace space, while also making sure he knows how she feels, and that the ball is in his court. She does it with confidence, maturity and grace, and I just loved her.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re wrong about me, you know that?\u201d She kissed me once more, hard and fast before climbing off my lap. \u201cI don\u2019t give up that easily. This isn\u2019t just an attraction for me.\u201d
\n\u201cWhat is it then?\u201d
\nShe held on to my hand as she looked down at me. \u201cIt\u2019s everything. But if I\u2019m the only one that see it, there isn\u2019t much I can do about it.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The build-up is great, the chemistry sizzles, and they work through it playfully yet earnestly, and when they take the big step, I was feeling it all with them, and cheering my little heart out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t think I was good enough. I still don\u2019t. But I don\u2019t know how to walk away from this. I don\u2019t fucking want to.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is such a gorgeous romance! It\u2019s real and honest, and it develops so naturally. There\u2019s lots of sweet and swoony moments, and I loved that we got to see SO much together time between them as they give themselves over to all they are feeling for each other.<\/p>\n

All of this plays out as Ashlan is looking after Jace\u2019s little girls, who are freaking adorable! 5 and 3, they have their own little personalities that bring so much to the story, and their relationships with their dad, with Ash and with each other, is so freaking precious. These kids had me laughing so many times, and the love that Jace has for them absolutely made me melt. I adored them!<\/p>\n

And then comes the ominous moment that I was waiting for \u2013 the inevitable drama, which in this case brings works really well in the story, and definitely brings the feels. It\u2019s not pointless, it\u2019s real, it\u2019s completely gutwrenching and its wonderfully written with so much emotion. I read with a pounding heart and tears streaming down my face. It was early hours of the morning, and I couldn\u2019t put the book down, desperate to see how it was all going to work out. It finishes beautifully of course, for a very well-deserved happy ending that left me feeling happy and completely satisfied.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you love someone, there\u2019s no running from it. And when you find it, it sure is worth the fight.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ash\u2019s sisters are a huge part of her life, so of course they\u2019re a big part of the story. I loved seeing them again, and seeing the support and love between the girls. And they\u2019re bringing their husbands along with them. Niko and Hawk already have a relationship with Jace, and I loved seeing them have his back so many times through the story. The group all together is fantastic, and I love escaping into this series.<\/p>\n

This is such a gorgeous read. It\u2019s fun, sweet, heartfelt, emotional and beautifully romantic, and I absolutely loved it.<\/p>\n

5 stars!<\/p>\n

An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Honey Mountain<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Always Mine (#1)<\/strong> (Vivian & Niko)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Ever Mine (#2)<\/strong> (Everly & Hawk)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Make You Mine (#3) <\/strong>(Ashlan & Jace)
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\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Simply Mine (#4) <\/strong>(Charlotte & Ledger)
\nReview<\/a>
\nBuy:\u00a0 Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n

Only Mine (#5) <\/strong>(Dylan & Wolf)
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About Laura<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Laura Pavlov writes sweet and sexy contemporary romance that will make you both laugh and cry. She is happily married to her college sweetheart, mom to two awesome almost grown kids, and dog-whisperer to a couple of crazy Yorkies. Laura resides in Las Vegas where she is living her own happily ever after.<\/p>\n

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