Review: Roan Parrish's THE RIVALS OF CASPER ROAD.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for the complimentary e-ARC and the publisher for the complimentary finished copy. All opinions provided are my own.

​If I’m looking for soft & cozy Roan Parrish is always a good bet & the title of this upcoming release--The Rivals of Casper Road—(not to mention those adorable FREAKING PUMPKINS on the cover!!) sucked me in.

Give me all the fall stuff.

This ended up being everything I said in the first paragraph: soft, cozy. Sweet. Pumpkin-y ;).

The basic set-up of this one is that after suffering a big heartbreak Bram Larkspur has moved to Garnet Run, Wyoming, home to some of Parrish’s other beloved characters.

His new neighbor is prickly Zachary Glass, a stiff, reserved type who has won the neighborhood Halloween decorating competition several years in a row.

Thanks to a couple of unfortunate moments they end up as rivals for a brief moment, & then they become something else (hint: something with smooching).

This is just a fast, heartwarming read between a prickly & the sunshine one with an epilogue that ended things on an awww note.

I’m really happy that these two Harlequin releases of Roan’s just go for it & these covers make me all kinds of happy.

4⭐️. Out now!

CWs: references to former anti-Semitism & bullying. Zachary has self-consciousness and insecurities about appearance now. Zachary’s sister disappeared when they were teens. Bram was cheated on in past.

[ID: the book rests on a wooden desk & is surrounded by an autumnal garland with white & light brown pom poms & orange hearts.]