{"id":74768,"date":"2024-05-26T08:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=74768"},"modified":"2024-05-26T08:47:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-26T12:47:35","slug":"review-resisting-the-grump-mount-macon-1-by-ashley-munoz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=74768","title":{"rendered":"Review: Resisting the Grump (Mount Macon, #1) by Ashley Munoz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2.5 stars<\/b><\/p>\n

I have been enjoying Ashley Munoz\u2019s Stone Riders MC<\/i><\/a> series, and have been excited to check out more of her work. This is the first book in the Mount Macon<\/i> series, and it\u2019s a small town, sort-of-enemies-to-lovers romance.<\/p>\n

Raelynn spent her teenage years in love with town recluse, Davis. He was five years older than her and never looked her way, and when he inadvertently shattered her poor teenage heart, she ran away to college with no plans to return. Five years later and she has come back to help her parents and their struggling business, and it turns out that in her absence, her parents (having no idea of her previous crush) have pretty much adopted Davis into the family, and she is furious. She wants nothing to do with the man who caused her so much pain and who represents so many of her embarrassing memories, but with her parents pushing them together at every opportunity, and Davis himself interested in pursuing the woman he\u2019s heard so much about (also having no idea that she is the teenager who used to moon over him all those years ago), it\u2019s impossible to escape him.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a fun idea, but I just couldn\u2019t get invested in this one. Firstly, I didn\u2019t think Rae was particularly likable. Sure, she\u2019s young, but she seems really immature. Her teenage crush was obsessive, and disturbingly stalkerish, and in no way felt like love to me. I get how she blamed Davis for the big event which drove her away, but I thought she was overdramatic with the way that she reacted and how\u2019s she\u2019s held on to it all of these years. And her anger with Davis on her return to town, and how she treats him, seemed really over the top.<\/p>\n

That led to me not really feeling their chemistry at all. In fact, the first time things got steamy between them, I was stunned that they went there so out of the blue like they did! Why? Where did it come from? I started to feel things a bit more as the story went on, they are insatiable for each other and there is plenty of sex, and you can see the shift from almost emotionless banging to forming a true connection, and I did start to believe in their love story. But there\u2019s a bit of back and forth and some silly misunderstandings which cause bumps along the way, which were frustrating.<\/p>\n

Rae and Davis both have some personal stuff that they need to come to terms with, which impacts their relationship, and it was satisfying watching them confront their issues and work to move past them, and I was happy to see them get their HEA.<\/p>\n

So it wasn\u2019t the heart-pounding love story with all the feels that I was hoping for, but it was an OK read.<\/p>\n

2.5 stars.<\/p>\n

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Resisting the Grump (#1)<\/strong> (Davis & Raelynn)
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Tempting the Neighbor (#2)<\/strong>
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Saving the Single Dad (#3)<\/strong>
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