Cherry Picked (Sunday Brothers series #3)

May Archer recently released the latest novel from her Sunday Brothers series. Here's "Cherry Picked."

["Never ask your brother’s best friend to… pick your cherry.

When I asked Jack Wyatt to help me lose my pesky v-card, I didn’t expect him to keel over in shocked disapproval and nearly tumble us down a mountain.
You might think a guy who's been reading romance novels his whole life would've figured out a smoother way to broach the subject, but in my defense, I’ve been pining for Jack for seven long years, just waiting for him to notice me.
Jack sees me as sweet, shy Hawk Sunday: his Pride and Prejudice-obsessed hiking buddy; his dependable employee; the honorary little brother he’s determined to protect, not…deflower.
But to me, Jack is everything a romantic hero should be: tall, gorgeous, kind, and brilliant.
Or at least I thought he was brilliant… until he started getting so many things so boneheadedly wrong.
Like refusing to do the deflowering himself, but also, erm... blocking any other potential plant-lovers from getting all up in my garden.
And like continuing to see me as someone who needs protecting, rather than a man who needs possessing…
A man who's determined to get his cherry well and truly picked this summer, whether Jack Wyatt likes it or not."]

I forgot what angst feels like. This book...this angst. God fucking hell fire and shit balls. I mean, I've read worse angst, but the build up? Hawk has been in love with Jack from the very beginning, and we saw that from the very beginning of this book. Everyone knew...well, everyone but Jack (and Webb...poor, oblivious Webb).

You'd think it wouldn't take quite so long for Jack to see it...I mean, he saw it, but he didn't seeeee it. If that doesn't make sense, you've never read romance. This book, this series, this author is a fantastic place to start (well, I'd start at the beginning of May's stuff, but I'm a purist like that...usually). 

ANYway. This book was so fun and the angst was worth all of the fluff and the sweetness and the love that was just THERE all along. Watching it bloom and grow and then explode into a thousand stars? So worth the anxiety and lack of breathing...and the tears (I'm not proud of myself, but Jack was so heartbroken and defeated, and I sobbed). So. Worth. The. Wait.

Now we need another Sunday brother to find love. There are at least two more of them. A not-spy and a college student. Both need love in Pippin Hollow with the meddling residents and the odd traditions and the protective family and the small town wonders. Maybe someone from Licking Thicket?  

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