Review: Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly

Crime and Periodicals by Nora Everly
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was provided an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was another favorite in the Smartypants line up! If you've been keeping up with the releases or you've read the other Green Valley Library offering Love in Due Time, you've met our shy librarian Sabrina Logan. Sabrina is crippled by anxiety and shyness. She's great with kids, but humans older than about 10 cause her to hide in the stacks. She's suffered alot of loss in her life and it has caused her to not trust herself to interact around others, like many of us she'd rather live life between the pages of her favorite books. Enter handsome the handsome sherriff, Wyatt Monroe, who keeps running into Sabrina around town when she's having a hard time with her nephew, her creep of a brother in law, or just life in general. Wyatt is a single dad, whose girls know and love Sabrina from her story hour at the library. He helps her with her autistic nephew after he had a bad day at school, and he and his girls accept him for who he is and his unique personality traits. They don't judge him like other people have, which melts Sabrina's heart because she fiercely protects the boy from any one who will do him any type of harm.

Sabrina and Wyatt have somewhat of an instant attraction, but neither of them want to rush into anything too quickly as they have other responsibilities to consider. As Sabrina makes changes to push herself out of her comfort zone, Wyatt is there to support her as is her best friend Willa, and her amazing family. No one pushes her farther than she is willing to go on her own until she's ready. Wyatt always has his girls best interest at the front of his mind, and is genuinely a good guy. I just really loved their characters and watching their relationship develop.

If you are looking for an angsty romance, this isn't going to be it. This is a sweet romance that is fairly light on the conflict. It has some really funny parts, and at the end of the day is a feel good story. I thought the characters were well developed and it handled the various situations the characters were dealing with respectfully and fairly realistically. Overall I really enjoyed the writing, plot, characters, and setting.

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