The participants are encouraged to stay in character for a lot of the time and they dress in fun costumes. I don’t really know anything about Renaissance Faires but it seemed like a bit of fun. This has all the hallmarks of a book for me and I absolutely did enjoy huge parts of it. It isn’t until Emily meets Simon’s ‘alter-ego’ (his faire character) really, that the two of them seem to find a bit of common ground. Emily finds Simon’s rigid attitude towards the faire oppressive and he can’t deal with her casual flippancy towards it, frustrated when she’s on her phone during meetings. She clashes with Simon, the high school English teacher in charge of the volunteers (and seemingly, everything else as well). And when Cait wants to join the local Renaissance Faire, Emily is told that an adult must volunteer with her as well, so Emily is roped into being involved.

Emily packed up her life and moved to just outside Baltimore Maryland in order to be that person for both her sister and her niece. A single mother, Emily’s sister April needed a lot of care and someone also had to help with her daughter, 14yo Caitlin. But the heart wants what it wants and it wanted to read this book!Įmily was at a low point when her sister, 12 years her senior, was involved in a serious accident. It was also on sale on iBooks so I snapped up a copy and was ready to break up the somewhat heavy/serious/crime types of novels I have left on my TBR for the month. This was another book suggested in a thread on the romance subreddit which asked for grumpy heroes falling in love with sunflower heroines. This summer was only ever supposed to be a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can’t seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon, or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they’re portraying? Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she’s in her revealing wench’s costume. The faire is Simon’s family legacy and from the start he makes clear he doesn’t have time for Emily’s lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up.

Blurb :Īll’s faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author, Jen DeLuca.Įmily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him?

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