GRR Reviews Count The Roses by Jackie Weger

Count the Roses is a romance about two hurt people, both commitment-shy, meet. Add fish out of water and different worlds, and it's a well polished romance, but I honestly don't feel too much beyond the normal.

Jennifer Dewitt was betrayed and jilted by a man she thought loved her but turned out only to need her connections to her father to get a job. She was also tired of her mother trying to set up her life, forcing her to go into acting. She departed the East Coast for a brand new life in New Orleans, and worked her way up from ground level in a hotel, and got to catering manager, but she's still barely making do. That is, until she encountered Adrien Merrill. Adrien Merrill is Cajun Royalty... he still has a plantation, and he actually owns the hotel Jennifer works at. An encounter between Adrien and Jennifer at the hotel had Adrien intrigued, but Adrien was commitment shy after his previous wife hated plantation life ("boring") and actually had an abortion after their divorce, made him wary of "city girls" and "northerners". But Jennifer was nothing like that. But Jennifer's life experience had taught her to rely on no one, and Adrien's southern charm seems so... smothering. Yet they can't get over each other...

The southern charm was nice but didn't feel as southern as some of the other southern charm romances I've read. The characters just feel a bit flat compared to author's other efforts.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: Woman determined to make her own way in the world falls for the cajun royalty and technically her boss

Tropes: hot for boss, betrayed, fish out of water, resort

Overall Rating:  3/5