Thank you to Devney Perry and her team for the advance reader copy of Jasper Vale, the fourth story in The Edens series.
Devney Perry + Fake relationship + Marriage of convenience + Edens series = a match made in heaven! This book sure was and I anticipate fans who have long anticipated Eloise’s story will be more than satisfied.
I am a Deveny Perry review team member, but I remain honest and genuine in my reviews.
From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Devney Perry comes a small town, fake relationship romance.
Eloise Eden’s pride and joy is her family’s hotel in Quincy, Montana. Her lifelong dream is to own The Eloise Inn. All she has to do is prove to her parents that she’s the epitome of responsible. That her days of being duped and making reckless decisions are history. She’s so close she can taste it.
Until after one weekend in Las Vegas, she comes home married to a stranger.
Jasper must have put her under a spell with those soul-deep eyes because after a single night together, they woke up husband and wife. Her only hope is to keep this marriage a secret until it’s annulled. Then she’ll pretend it never happened.
Except Jasper begs her to stay married. To fake it for three months so she can accompany him to a wedding. Maybe she’s lost her mind to agree. But her brooding husband seems desperate. It’s only three months, right? Then she’ll say goodbye to Jasper Vale, and with any luck, hello to her new hotel.
Check out my more detailed thoughts below…
- Characters: I have been dying to get in Eloise’s head since we met her. I wanted to know more about her dynamic with her parents as we have only been previewed to that from the outside perspective of other Eden siblings. My big question going into this was why they were so reluctant to hand over the keys of the Eloise Inn to the namesake Eloise Eden. I am glad to say readers will get an excellent idea of that once they dive in. Eloise is a girl who walks around with her heart on her sleeve, she is incredibly caring and compassionate to everyone almost to a fault. While our hero Jasper Vale is closed-off and very much keeps to himself. He was introduced in the last instalment, Garnet Flats as Knox’s trainer. The best part about a super stoic hero is watching him fall head over heels in love. This should not surprise me as I know Devney’s writing abilities inside out by now, but damn she did such a great job building a flawed and multifaceted hero with tragedy in his background. A tragedy which was integral to his actions and choices in a logical way. I anticipate readers will love both characters.
- Setting: I love Quincy! Devney’s imagined Montana small-town works especially well in the dynamics of this story. As the characters were faking their marriage and did not want the entire town to gossip about it much of this book was them convincing others out in public, which in turn convinced themselves. Or the other dynamic was all the lovely isolated and private time this couple got, and that’s where they really fell in love. Also a quick mention to the time we get to spend at the Eloise Inn, I loved this setting and the interesting subplot that grew from it. I was not expecting it and I love how Devney has these thrilling mysteries up her sleeve.
- Pacing: I just zoomed through this story. I crawled into bed to read it the night I received it and was so immediately enraptured by the story. I read it in under three hours, and was so sad I finished it to fast. Now I have to wait until September to return to the Edens and to Quincy, Montana.
- Romance: This couple started hot and those embers never dulled. As I alluded to earlier the best parts of this romance were the quiet ones. I adored how they began to build a life together between the walls of Jasper’s A-frame cabin. The scenes in it were both physically and emotionally intimate. I adored this couple, as I have every Edens’ romance. Lylah is next, and I cannot wait to see what Devney has dreamed up for her especially as the tropes and premise feel more reminiscent of Indigo Ridge, my favourite instalment in this series.
Jasper Vale receives five out of five stars.
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