Review: Batter of Wits by Karla Sorensen

Batter of Wits by Karla Sorensen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

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

Have you ever heard of hate at first sight?  Have you ever known someone to have a love curse, but in reverse?  Well Grace Buchanan has both.  She's moving from her crappy job in California to Green Valley with her twin brother to be closer to their dad, aunt, and uncle.  When her car breaks down outside of town and local lawyer Tucker Haywood comes to her rescue, she has such a visceral reaction to him and she doesn't know why.  The Buchanan men are all supposedly cursed in love to find the "one" in a love at first sight kind of thing, but Grace is the only girl in the family born for generations.  She and her twin brother Grady have never really believed in the family curse, but they can't deny what is happening between Tucker and Grace.  Tucker is nothing but kind to Grace and she has no reason to dislike him.  When they are forced to work together on a project for the town fair, Grace realizes he's not that bad and she needs to try harder to be nicer.

I really enjoyed this as expected.  Grace's interactions with her family were really great.  I loved her conversations with her Aunt Fran, her dad, her mom, and her brother.  Each time she spoke with them we got to know her a little bit more and got to see a different facet of her personality.  Tucker is a little more closed off, only opening up when he is with Grace.  We get to seem him open up more and more as he gets more comfortable with her and himself.  He's reserved and respectful when he's around the townsfolk and his family, but when he's with Grace he's witty, funny, and full of personality.  Grace on the other hand always says what she is thinking and wears her heart on her sleeve.  Their relationship comes crashing together fairly quickly, almost too quickly.  When they have conflict around Tucker trying to do the right thing and pleasing everyone around him and going after what he really wants in life and love, it comes as no surprise that people get their feelings hurt.  I really liked that the grand gesture Tucker made to win her back involved Grace's photography, something that she truly loves and showing the town how she sees the world. 

I enjoyed this hate to love, love/hate at first sight, romance.  It has great characters, great side characters, and a good story. 

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