The Coppersmith Farmhouse

Devney Perry does small town romance with light suspense really well. Her writing has only gotten better which might be why I didn't enjoy this debut novel as much as I love her later releases.

I did enjoy reading it. It skipped over some events that I thought would have been interesting to see in favor of focusing on the relationship building between the two main characters. It has a dual point of view but the majority comes from Gigi's perspective.

Overall I think my issue was that I didn't really like Jess. I usually love a protective, alpha male love interest but in this case it really felt like there wasn't much give and take. He talks over her, makes decisions without her, and when she brings up things that bother her he sort of just tells her to deal with it. I expected at least a little compromise from his end.

I'd still recommend reading this as I'm interested to see where the series goes but if you've started with more recent releases keep in mind that this was an early work.