Light hearted

Happy Trail

Smartypants Romance, Daisy Prescott — 2019

A man of few words, Ranger Jay Daniels values the calm, quiet solitude of the Great Smoky Mountains. Never quite fitting in with either side of his family, he prefers the company of birds and trees to people. Yeah, he'd most definitely prefer a bird--any bird, any bird at all, take a vulture for instance--to the human-tornado hybrid that just blew onto his peaceful stretch of the Appalachian Trail. The path of true love never has run smooth for Olive Perry. After getting dumped and promptly abandoned in the middle of her multi-month hike, Olive swears off men. Determined to finish the long trek by herself, she doesn't need a prince--or broody and taciturn ranger--to save her. Yet, when an early snowstorm threatens the mountains, and Ranger Daniels is charged with getting hikers to safety, that includes hot-tempered Olive Perry. Snowed in and forced to share an abandoned cabin, can Olive's heated intensity melt Jay's cool reserve? And if so, will this happy trail lead to true love? Or will their time together be just another bump in the road? 'Happy Trail' is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book #1 in the Park Ranger series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.

Reviews

Sheena@yoshina

Aug 13, 2022

Needless to say this romance novel was cute. There wasn't anything in particular that stood out from this read besides the funny quirky banter between the leads in which case I found the most enjoyable. Otherwise it wasn't a terrible despite the instant love aspect to this novel and I would definitely be considering giving the author another go in the future.

Kelly Casey@caseygirlreads

Nov 25, 2021

The romance portion of this book is very slow and doesn't fully get going until near the end. The pacing is part of the reason for this. The majority of the book takes place in the span of 4 days, and then the rest jumps forward multiple times so that the ending takes place almost 2 years after the events of the beginning of the book. In some ways the main character Jay completely changes between how he acts those first few days to how he acts when Olive shows back up months later. It's weird. However, I much prefer the last third of the book to the first two thirds. I didn't know anything about this book going into it, but I did enjoy it and would consider reading more from this author or series. My favorite line is "Love is the most powerful force of change. I never imagined falling in love would bring me full circle to who I'm meant to be. There is no struggle to embrace the different sides of me. I am myself at last."