Cute and Enjoyable
4 out of 5 stars
Next In Line For Love isn’t my first book from Harper Bliss and it won’t be my last. The first was the ninth book in the Pink Bean Series and I really enjoyed that, even jumping in so late in the series. This time Bliss writes a workplace/age-gap romance that takes place at a high-profile brewery.
Ali Lennox is a 35-year-old kid at heart. She’s “dealt” with the loss of her sister and basically lives her life every day like she could die in a freak accident at any point. This makes her seem younger than her age and makes Jill seem older by comparison (their real age gap is 18 years – 35 to 53). They are obviously already 18 years old but I think that Bliss was writing Ali to seem younger so that you felt the age difference even more.
The story line in Next In Line For Love was interesting and cute. I love the brewery aspect of it and it felt like it wasn’t a craft brewery or anything but more of just an old entrenched family brewery (maybe similar to Yuengling). There were some funny lines early in the book where both Ali and Jill notice that no one is drinking their beer at any of the parties or events that they go to which made me chuckle.
I really enjoyed the dual narration here – it’s not something I’m used to in FF books but it was really nice. It allowed me to really focus on each person and not have to guess “is this Jill or Ali?” Their voices were different enough that you could tell who was who but similar enough to not be jarring.
The actual book is mostly introducing each character and sort of shows their worlds slowly coming together in slow motion. Towards the end of the book when things are escalating was impossible to put down. I really wanted to know what was going to happen and if this was truly going to be a happily ever after or not.
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