GRR Reviews Summer and the Groomsman by Cathryn Hein

Summer and the Groomsman is a contemporary romance set in Australia. It features FMC with a little angst and good family problems for the MMC to make things interesting, but the horse was what stole the show.

Summer Taylor, the new beautician in the town of Lavenham, has a horse, Binky, that likes to roam. It didn't help that the ranch she had the horse boarded was a bit run down and fences are developing gaps, because the owner, Gav, was basically drinking himself into oblivion. When Gav's brother Harry came to visit, and always ran over the horse, Harry has no kind words for Summer, but Summer is not a shrinking violet. Harry was back home to attend a wedding, and he was shocked to find his spa appointment was with Summer, and realizing he had not been a gentleman, he asks her for her forgiveness, not that Summer forgives easily, of course, about the insult to her horse Binky... but there's no denying that they had a thing for each other...

The push-pull is fun, and the forced proximity and meetcute are executed properly. However, there doesn't feel to be much of the darkest hour to make things really exciting.

Category: Contemporary

Primary Plot: New Beautician tries to resist one of the groomsmen in town just for the wedding, then he found she's assigned to him for spa...

Tropes: wedding, ranch, small town, return, wedding, best man

Overall Rating: 4/5 (rounded up)