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My Review:Title: Just Folking Around
Author: Penny Reid
Series: Good Folk: Modern Folktales #0.5
Published by: Indie
Release Date: June 23, 2021
Format: Kobo Book
Pages: 68
Genres: Contemporary, Romance
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2021 COYER Summer
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My rating:
Blurb:One night? No strings? A sexy game of chess? No problem.
If you've never read a Penny Reid book before, this is the place to start! An all new series starter snack from the author of the WINSTON BROTHERS and KNITTING IN THE CITY series. . .
Raquel Ezra loves to fish. With so many fish in the sea, she’s never had a problem baiting the hook or reeling them in. Raquel is a good actress, she can be anyone’s fantasy for a single night as long as they agree to be hers. Which is why she doesn’t think twice about spending an evening in nowhere Tennessee with a smokin’ hot, well-mannered, and intriguing sheriff’s deputy by the name of Jackson James.
Except, when the time comes, Raquel discovers that reality might just be better than any fantasy, and maybe she’s not ready to release this catch.
JUST FOLKING AROUND is a 16k words, contemporary romance, a complete standalone, and is the prequel to TOTALLY FOLKED, book #1 in the Good Folk: Modern Folktales series.
3.5 stars — I might not have been in the right mood to start this one.
Raquel kind of left me a bit lost with who she was. She was hung up a lot on how quirky she was, and hiding her quirkiness, and I’m sure we’ll find out more in the main novel, but this one just left me a bit confused. I also wasn’t a bit fan of how much she lied, willingly, but again…I’m assuming a lot of that will be addressed in the main book.
It was definitely cute and hot, but honestly I’m more intrigued by Jackson than anyone in this novella, and we didn’t get his POV (which is a bummer).
Reading this story just kind of left me feeling unsatisfied. Not necessarily in the clamouring for more sense, but in the I needed a bit more from this prequel. I wonder if I’d enjoy it more if I read Totally Folked first. Or, and again I can’t stress this enough, maybe it was just my mood.
That is a bummer this one didn’t make you want to read the next book. 🙁 I really liked this one. I get the Raquel stuff, but I feel like that really comes together in the next book.
I hate it when I can’t tell if a book wasn’t the right fit for me, or if it was just my mood at the time. 🙁