By Lindsay Lovise
Star rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Spice rating: 🌶️🌶️🌶️
Audio rating: 🎧🎧🎧🎧
Pub date: 9/17/2024
Blurb
Holly Celeste and her sisters make the best apple cider in Maine—courtesy of a magical secret ingredient—but even that hasn’t been enough to keep their orchard afloat. To save the family business, Holly accepts a proposal to let a ghost hunting series film an episode on her farm. Connor Grimm may be the sexy and down-to-earth TV host the nation loves, but to Holly he represents her greatest fear: exposure. Holly doesn’t mind if Connor chases down a silly ghost story—it’s their other secret she’s terrified he’ll reveal.
Connor Grimm’s life goal is to normalize the paranormal, which he does on his show, Grimm Reality. Except he isn’t only looking for a ghost at Wicked Good Apples. There have been rumors of rain during droughts and other inexplicable happenings that could only be attributed to something supernatural, and Connor plans to expose it on an episode that will take his show’s success to another level.
Intent on keeping Connor in the dark, Holly joins him as he interviews eyewitnesses, hunts for old records, and unearths a story even she didn’t know existed. Despite her resolution to dislike him, she begins to fall for the only man who’s ever made her feel like strange could be normal. Too bad a relationship with Connor could only be temporary; he moves to a new state every month, and there’s no room in his life for a woman with a pet hedgehog, a houseful of nosy aunts and sisters, and a failing apple orchard.
When Connor finally pieces together Holly’s greatest secret, he’s forced to choose between revealing his biggest paranormal discovery yet and propelling his show to the top of the charts, and giving it all up for the wicked woman who’s charmed his heart.
Category: Paranormal Romance
Read if you Like:
🍎 Haunted apple orchard
🍎 Magical powers
🍎 Reality TV
🍎 Quirky family
My Thoughts:
If you are looking for a fall romance with a unique paranormal twist look no further! For people like me who love the idea of running an apple farm in rural Maine but also don't like to get up early or the cold this is the perfect way to experience it!
I really enjoyed Connor and Holly's dynamic. They had very opposite goals and it was fun to watch them end up liking each other despite it. I also enjoyed that they came to understand and respect each other's motivations.
I did struggle a bit with getting into this one. I felt like the beginning was a bit slow. I'm glad that I stuck with it though and I'm hoping the series will continue. It seems like Holly's sister and Connors brother might have had some chemistry so hopefully a sequel?
I listened to the audiobook of Perfectly Wicked and really enjoyed it! Brittany Pressley does the narration and I have really enjoyed other titles by her including the Seven Year Slip. This one is single narrator for dual POV so it that isn't for you maybe read with your eyeballs.
Thanks to PRH audio and Alcove Press for providing me with early access. All opinions are my own.
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