Forever Wilde In Aster Valley (Forever Wilde #9)

FUCK YES! Lucy Lennox's highly anticipated (at least by me) short story/novella "Forever Wilde In Aster Valley". Which, according to Goodreads is the ninth book in the Forever Wilde series (which is the spin-off series based off her first series titled Made Marian). But it's also sorta the fourth book in the Aster Valley series. Basically, it's the next book in all three serieses (is that even a word--it is now), and I couldn't be more fucking pumped about it. 

["When Miller Hobbs finds himself on a winter vacation in Colorado with the giant, exceedingly loud, Marian and Wilde families, he doesn’t quite know what to do with himself. He’s not really a Marian or a Wilde despite having DNA ties to both.

So every morning before the rest of the family wakes up and fills Rockley Lodge with holiday merriment (and noise), he escapes to the quaint downtown of Aster Valley where he spies a man through the bakery window kneading dough and dancing to music only he can hear. Miller is entranced by the dancing baker, and when Darius looks up and catches Miller staring, the interest suddenly goes both ways.

Can two strangers find love among the quaint chaos of an Aster Valley Christmas? Even if it includes the two most overwhelming and meddling families vying for the title of greatest matchmakers of all time?"]

I loved, loved, loved the Made Marian series. I read the entire thing obnoxiously fast. Then I sped read Forever Wilde even faster. And i'm reading the Aster Valley books as soon as they debut (life withstanding). I loved every single couple and the families in general. They're so open and happy and down-to-earth and just like...a giant warm hug. And I was (and still am) constantly giggling at this people and their sassy one-liners (and swooning over their fluff and steam and HEAs).

This novella was a great call-back to all of Lucy's series (honestly, I thought I'd be confused about who's who--I was--but it didn't matter, because they're all just so great----and now I really want to go reread all three serieses (still not sure if it's a word) because I miss these beautiful idiots). Right, I was talking about THIS book.

THIS book was beautiful. It was about (besides falling in love and finding The One and living happily ever after) being happy, even if you have to leave your high-paying job. Because if you're stressed out and not happy, then you need to re-evalutate your life. And Miller did (because he fell in looooooove (and Darius did a year ago, pre-novella)). And about finally finding love as soon as you give up looking (which is what eeeevvvvvveryone says happens, but like, I can't imagine myself stopping). And cute little hometown bakeries that small like honey and locally-sourced spices. :p

READ. IT. ALL. 

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