Always a Bridesmaid

4.25⭐ Always a Bridesmaid is the perfect book to take with you, if you're spending the day at your local beach or even in your local park. As it's such an enjoyable, engaging, and amusing read, full of varied and interesting characters, and it has a romance that's fun, light, and sweet. Not to mention it's whimsical and charming, and just everything a small town story should be. And I was completely enamoured throughout. Would happily recommend. **I was kindly provided with an ARC via Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review**

4.5 Stars This is the second book in the series and just as good as the first. I really liked Violet. I want to be friends with her. Plus I totally get her love of purple. It breaks my heart the way she has been treated most of her life. She has such a big heart that she deserves someone who will love her just the way she is. Now Ford has the potential to be that someone if he can get out of his own way. The humor of this book was one of my favorite parts. I can't tell you how many times I found myself chuckling along while reading. Most of it is the banter between Ford and Violet. That another one of my favorite parts of the book. This was a hard book to put down because I wanted to see Violet get her HEA. The search and rescue puppies and dog were an adorably bonus. I would highly recommend this one because along with the humor it has plenty of heart

This second story in the series, belongs to Violet Abrams and Ford Maguire. Ford is one of the tight knit friends who’ve been together since childhood. Violet is the illegitimate daughter of the town’s major. A daughter that was not really accepted or supported by either her father or the town. But when Violet finds her boyfriend with someone else, she comes to town to stay with her half-sister, get a chance to know her better and help her sister give the bakery a facelift. Violet meets Ford when she almost burned down the bakery and Ford is one of the firefighters that answers the call. Both individuals’ past, has molded their present. Each dealing with insecurities, and feelings of not being truly loved . It’s a story about relationships between friends, lovers, family members and overcoming obstacles. I loved book one in the series, Just One of the Groomsmen and though that one still will remains my favorite, this one was good. I would highly recommend the reader to read book one since the story of the couple in the first book is important in this book. I was entrusted a copy of this book by Netgalley. The opinions expressed are solely my own.