Spring Fever is a series starter collection and each book will be rated separately.
As Deep as the Ocean // Mac was very tempted to forge a document and keep the New Zealand vineyard for himself. After all, nobody would know... He's the win expert and he put most of his life into viticulture and winery management to manage the vineyard. But his conscience can't let him do it. After all, the owner called him the son he never had, and his own father had run the place into the ground. So he contacted the only relatives the owner ever had, and they agreed to visit. What he got were three gorgeous sisters... And the oldest, Winifred, or "Fred", has a connection to him. But the three sisters, who did need a new start as well after their life in London (their bipolar mother destroyed all correspondence between them and their father) had ZERO experience in running a winery, bed & breakfast, and the restaurant. And they certainly don't have the money to make the place great again... Unless Fred gets married to access her inheritance. So Mac found himself with the indecent proposal: marry Fred, let her get the inheritance, and put it toward the winery. But what happens when they finally acknowledge they had fallen for each other for real?
This is good, but not great. The dance between their guilt and shame vs. their obligations are pretty good, but the pacing felt a bit off. And the "weird will" trope about marrying to gain access to inheritance is getting a bit old. 4/5
An Uncommon Sense // Grace is a skeptic, and a medium for spirits is just someone to be avoided. But Ash Rutherford is too handsome to avoid, esp. when his daughter is in her class. And Ash was once a doctor... now a widower raising his daughter alone. He does occasionally have an event where he relays messages from the beyond... Something Grace can't believe. // Ash never gets involved with a skeptic, but Grace's love for frilly underwear when she flashed him by accident intrigued him, esp. when he found out she's one of his daughter's teachers. But Grace promised to never fall for a flake... But is he really a flake?
Good touch of the details, as this medium supposedly really does relay the messages from the beyond. Fictional, of course. 4/5
Mr. Insatiable // Kit has a nickname bestowed by his ex's... "Mr. Insatiable". But to Enya, he's just Kit, her best platonic friend. Enya had a very bad trauma when she was 15... She was raped. Eight years later, she still tenses up when she gets in bed with a man... And EVERYBODY is warning Kit and Enya to stay away from each other, keep things platonic. But Enya's desire to feel a proper orgasm led her to have a one-night stand with Kit. And that quickly turned into a torrid relationship. But Enya can't tell anyone about her last secret... the one thing that would never allow her to stay with Kit...
Turns out the secret was a non-issue, but I'm not spoiling that here. 4/5
All in all, 4/5, good consistent quality.
Category: Contemporary
Primary Plot: Three book collection of series starters about very different couples
Overall Rating: 4/5
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