BOOKWORM REVIEW: Fearless Heart by Brighton Walsh

April 16, 2023

BOOKWORM REVIEW: Fearless Heart by Brighton Walsh

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

SPICE: 🔥🔥🔥.5

If you love romance. If you love small-town romance. If you love broken MMCs who fall first. If you love a family full of curmudgeons who have each other's backs no matter what. If you love a perfectly executed miscommunication trope.

This is a book for you.

Ford McKenzie and Quinn Cartwright have been locking horns since they were children. Always competing, their only mode was bickering until Quinn moved away for college. Now she is back in town and is the number two doctor in the town's only clinic. (If you surveyed some of the clinic's patients, however, they would tell you that the brilliant and compassionate doctor is their number one.) She has been asking her boss what it would take to buy the clinic, and the misogynistic twerp responded with a requirement: she must be married.

Ford has been trying to clean up his reputation as the town lothario. When his ex-girlfriend rubs her wedding in his face and calls him the Never-Forever Guy, he tells her that she will see him and his girlfriend at the wedding. A girlfriend that does not exist.

Ford and Quinn eventually agree to put their proverbial weapons down and go through marriage until they can achieve their goals: Quinn gets her clinic, and Ford gets his comeuppance at his ex's wedding.

But as they go through their fake marriage, they get more insight into their fake spouse. And what they're learning has them questioning: maybe their fake vows are more happily ever after than they estimated.

I fell in love with this series since Brady's story, and each McKenzie story just gets me more and more invested in Starlight Cove. I feel like I cannot adequately convey how much I have enjoyed and loved this book.

Ford is just adorable. His connection to Quinn reads so naturally and effortlessly. In a family of pitbulls, Ford is the carefree Labrador who does what he is asked and takes life not too seriously. Don't mistake him to be a pushover, though. I love the growly Ford when it comes to protecting the people he loves.

And Quinn. I cannot say enough about how much I absolutely related to her. The pressure of being one's own champion is overwhelming, and I love the thought and care that Brighton Walsh (and Ford) takes to address Quinn's family history.

Their chemistry, even when they were fighting, is just on point. I feel like each McKenzie sibling just gets dirtier in each read, and I almost feel like for the later siblings because their brothers certainly keep setting that bar higher and higher. Carefree as he may be, Ford takes charge in the bedroom and there are no regrets..in Quinn's part and in this reader's. The tension that has been building over the course of three books finally gets its payoff and I was not disappointed at all.

Of course, Starlight Cove would not be Starlight Cove without its wonderful ensemble cast. The siblings and their partners are back as begrudgingly charming as ever. And good ol' Mabel is back with her old and new tricks, both of which are equally as entertaining.

This book is the third in the series, but it can be read as a standalone. If you have not been paying attention to the rest of my review, though, let me stress one thing: I love the series. And I really hope that you would, too.

** I am voluntarily reviewing an advance copy of this book. Thank you to Brighton Walsh and Wildfire Marketing Solutions for providing an ARC. **

ABOUT THE BOOK

Quinn Cartwright sees me as nothing more than her rival...her enemy. But I’ve been obsessed with her since we were teenagers. She's gorgeous and brilliant with a tongue sharp enough to cut glass…and she has no idea I love it as much as I do.

So when she needs someone to put a ring on it because of her a-hole boss, I marry her without hesitation.

We draw up a contract on a napkin. This marriage might be fake, but no one in our small town has to know.

She may never see me as anything more than a playboy, but sleeping in the same bed together night after night makes me want to put my skills to use and prove just how good this fake marriage can be…

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