REVIEW:

Hello my friend!

I am rather sad today. I have finished the Second Edition, the fifth and final book of the Parent Trap Series by Tess Thompson. I loved the premise of the series right from the beginning and never tired of it. I want it to go on and on. I was hoping the kids would get a real reputation in town and have a great demand for matchmaking. I guess I can only pray for a spin off of this series!

This one is about Dorian Flynn and Delphine Delacroix. Dorian runs the bookstore in town that he inherited from his mom and Delphine owns the art gallery. Delphine is skeptical about love and Dorian has never been married. I can’t tell you much more than that. I don’t want to spoil the fun of this book for you.

If you haven’t started this series, now is the time before it gets buried in your want to read list. Let’s face it, there are so many good and entertaining books and so little time. I have a ton of books in my library. I’m hoping someday when I am no longer on this earth someone will discover my book stash on my tablet and have a glorious heyday reading all of the wonderful books I have collected. Don’t let this series collect dust. It is so fun and the characters are definitely going on your “I want to be in their friend group” list.

If you love a good series with characters you can care about and one that will keep you entertained with a quirky premise, then this series must be on your nightstand. I promise you will have wonderful dreams when you fall asleep! Until next time,  Happy Reading!

P.S. If you’re looking for a good book for the rest of the weekend, this is it!
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SYNOPSIS:

Delphine Delacroix does not date.
Delphine Delacroix does not chat.
Delphine Delacroix especially has no interest in the quietly sunny bookstore owner everyone thinks is perfect for her.

Six years after losing her husband, Delphine has built a quiet life on control, routine, and careful distance. She runs her gallery by day. She raises her daughter. And in a small studio behind her cottage, she throws pots — slowly, patiently, for no one but herself — because clay is the only thing that’s ever let her make something whole out of something broken.

She politely, firmly, and with increasing exasperation, declines every matchmaking attempt the good people of Willet Cove have made on her behalf for the last three years.

Delphine is fine. Delphine is fine.

Then fifteen-year-old Annie makes the bravest choice of her young life: she walks into a grief support group alone. And Delphine — who has spent six years refusing that same room — is undone.

She’s not the only one who notices.

Dorian Flynn has always politely suggested that Delphine Delacroix might have opinions of her own about whom she dates. Then he sees a teenage girl sitting by herself in a room meant for grown-ups — and the fiercely guarded woman who comes to pick her up, clay still dried on her wrists — and realizes the entire town may have had a point all along.

Delphine is wary. Dorian is patient. And somehow, between hesitant conversations in quiet bookstore aisles, a watchful shop cat with opinions of his own, and a girl who deserves more than silence, an unlikely found family begins to form.

But letting someone in means risking the one thing Delphine has fought for six years to protect. And the longer she circles Dorian, the more she begins to suspect that the truth she’s been outrunning — about her husband, about herself, about what she’s really been afraid of — is finally ready to catch up with her.

She’s been wrong about the past.
She might be wrong about love, too.

Dorian is counting on it.

Second Edition is the fifth and final book in the Parent App series — a deeply emotional, slow-burn, behind-closed-doors small-town romance featuring a grumpy single-mom gallery owner and potter, a quiet Navy-veteran sunshine hero with a soft spot for the girl who needs him, found family, a meddling bookstore cat with opinions, meddling teenage matchmakers, and a powerful journey through grief, healing, and the terrifying hope of a second chance at love.

Because in Willet Cove, some love stories aren’t written in the first draft.
They’re the ones you finally let yourself revise.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tess Thompson is the USA Today Bestselling and award-winning author of contemporary and historical Romantic Women’s Fiction with over 50 published titles. Her books are emotional and heartwarming with themes of second chances, redemption and the power love has to change lives and create community.

She lives in the Pacific Northwest in a house on a small lake with her husband and kitties. Her four children are now young adults exploring their own paths and adventures, leaving an empty nest and a lot more time to write. She and her husband enjoy a quiet life, obsessed with birds and the other wildlife on their property, which makes them officially old. On any given day their yard could be visited by deer, bears, coyotes and squirrels.

Most days, she can be found curled up in her favorite chair reading or in her office writing while keeping an eye out for hummingbirds in the feeder outside of her office.