✪ THE SIMPLE LIFE ✪ Tara Sivec ✪

© ✰ Bianca ✰ Janeane ✰

   

• 19 October 2018
• Romantic Comedy standalone

★★★★★

4.75 Stars

*A standalone romantic comedy with a lot of heart*

Brooklyn Manning thought her life was perfect in every way, until it crumbled down around her and turned into a dumpster fire. With her pride wounded and her tail tucked between her legs, she leaves New York and goes back to her tiny hometown of White Timber, Montana.

No more twenty-four-hour taco trucks, no more shopping at the best designer stores within walking distance, no more giving taxi drivers the finger when they angrily honk at her. She didn’t think it could get any worse. But then Clint Hastings walked into the room and insulted her.

Her arch nemesis from high school is no longer a nerdy computer whiz, masturbating to pictures in PC World magazine in his free time (allegedly). He’s grown up to be a hot-as-hell cowboy, and she has no other choice but to be a smart ass right back to him. After all, it’s what they do. It’s what they’ve always done, and twelve years apart hasn’t changed anything.

Only this time, getting under each other’s skin is a hell of a lot more fun than it used to be.

Brooklyn left her tiny Montana home town right after high school. She wanted to make it in New York City. And she did. She's writing for the world's biggest fashion magazine. She's going to the best parties and has a great boyfriend. Or ... she kinda HAD all those things.
After a tiny little incident that landed her in the gossip mags, she's now back home at her dad's place in Montana.
She's not staying forever - obviously. But she needs a job. Which she finds at her childhood's best friend Ember's family's pumpkin farm. Which is also the family farm of her childhood's nemesis Clint. Aka the boy she kinda loved since kindergarten.
But she won't be picking any pumpkins ... nope... ☺☺☺ It's much worse ...
Let the fun times begin ....

What will happen with Brooklyn & Clint??
Will we get a happily ever after??
READ THE BOOK TO FIND OUT! ☺

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That was hilarious! And adorable and cute and cowboyish and pumpkinish and ... just adorable. I finished it in one day - I just kept on reading. I couldn't stop. Clint and Brooklyn are so cute with all their bickering and insulting - you just see the sparks flying around them. They've been flying around them since they met in Kindergarten! They're just a bit stubborn to see it... But they will!
And those kids are adorable too and Clint's sister and Brooklyn's dad and his lady-friend!
All so very adorable and hilarious. But we also have a few very moving and heartbreaking moments.
This was the perfect rom-com for a boring weekend - I just adored it!
And I need this to be on Netflix or Passionflix asap!

THE SIMPLE LIFE was such an adorably hilarious Cowboy-Nanny-RomCom! I loved it! Hurry to your nearest amazon for your own Clint ... this one is MINE!☺

ARC received via Netgalley for an honest review

Woohoo - that is always my reaction when I get a new Tara Sivec story on my kindle.

She is back to her rom-com best with The Simple Life.  It is a adorable, and cute and full of all things pumpkin that are not spice!

I love the love/hate things that Clint and Brooklyn have going.  I love that they have history and this snarkiness goes back a lifetime.

Fighting is foreplay with this pair!  I loved that beneath all the snarky (and sometimes mean) comments, you can feel all the feels they have for each other.

There are a couple of characters that will delve their way right into you heart - when they don't have you laughing your butt off.  One in particular would be the perfect partner for Gavin from the Chocolate Lovers series - I think Ms Sivec needs to make that happen.

It is not all fun and games though.  There are some sad and poignant moments that made my eyes leak a little bit.

A fun, flirty and enjoyable read.  I can't wait to see what Ms Sivec brings us next.

♥ EXCERPT ♥

A few seconds later, the man I saw riding the horse out front walks into the room with his cowboy hat-covered head tipped down low so I can’t see his face, carrying Mia in his arms.

Oh, screw you, ovaries!

No, I still don’t like children, but come on! Seeing a hot, manly cowboy wearing tight jeans, with his cowboy boots thumping across the floor, and carrying a kid in his arms would make anyone weak. Too bad he’s Nicole’s husband. Damn. I should have paid better attention to her Facebook photos. Lucky, lucky girl.

And then he lifts his head and our eyes meet.

Wait just one damn minute. This isn’t possible. There’s no fucking way.

“You!” I shout, my eyes bugging out of my head.

“What the hell is she doing here?” he growls, setting Mia down on the ground.

My only source of happiness right now is that Mia presses her face to his jean clad leg and wipes her nose back and forth against the material, leaving a trail of snot behind.

Clint Hastings. Nicole’s older brother and my arch nemesis growing up.

Whatever. I know I’m not a superhero in a comic book, but this guy has been the bane of my existence since the day I met him when I was in kindergarten, he was in second grade, and he threw a rock at my head. I kicked him in his tiny nuggets first, since he told me I couldn’t play baseball with him and his friends because I was a girl, but that’s not the point. If this were a comic book and we were meeting in a dark alley, I’d be holding my fists above my head next to a talk bubble that says So, we meet again. Tonight I will get my revenge and you will die by my iron fists! WHAM! BAM! KAPOW!

I cannot believe I was checking out his ass when I got here. There’s got to be a bottle of bleach somewhere in this kitchen I can pour into my eyes.

“What am I doing here? What are you doing here? Aren’t you supposed to be off in Silicon Valley becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg?” I ask, making sure my eyes stay above his neck and aren’t tempted to head south and see if those tiny nuggets hugged in his tight jeans grew in size since the last time I threw my foot into them.

Which would have been his senior year of high school, right here in this very kitchen, at his graduation party when he asked me if I bought the dress I was wearing in the toddler section.

It was a LBD! It was supposed to be tight and tiny, goddammit!

And seriously, what is he doing here? Last I heard through the high school grapevine, after he graduated from UCLA, he became a hotshot software developer at some huge company in Los Angeles and hadn’t been back home in years. Not that I ever asked. Or cared. You know, just idle chitchat after one too many glasses of wine and a friend request on Facebook from someone we went to high school with.

“Awww, have you been keeping tabs on me all these years, fancy pants? I knew you always had a thing for me.” Clint smirks.

“In your dreams. You smell like horse shit.”

“You look like horse shit,” he fires back, that stupid grin never leaving his face.

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Tara Sivec is a USA Today best-selling author, wife, mother, chauffeur, maid, short-order cook, baby-sitter, and sarcasm expert. She lives in Ohio with her husband and two children and looks forward to the day when they all three of them become adults and move out.

After working in the brokerage business for fourteen years, Tara decided to pick up a pen and write instead of shoving it in her eye out of boredom. She is the author of the Playing with Fire series, the Chocolate Lovers series, the Chocoholics series, the Fool Me Once series and Watch Over Me. Her novel Seduction and Snacks won first place in the Indie Romance Convention Reader's Choice Awards 2013 for Best Indie First Book.

In her spare time, Tara loves to dream about all of the baking she'll do and naps she'll take when she ever gets spare time.