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I enjoyed this fun contemporary romance set at a Renaissance Faire. In this first-in-a-series rom com, DeLuca pairs her grumpy English-teacher-turned-renaissance-faire-pirate with a recently dumped college dropout trying to get back on her feet. The banter, y’all. The BANTER is perfection. Emily takes a job as a tavern wench, placing her under Simon’s jurisdiction as ren faire organizer. While playing characters all summer is fun and flirty, they also have to figure out how they are together in real life, versus how they are at the Ren Faire. DeLuca explores identity, expectations, grief, and the proverbial masks we wear, all while providing a simmering slow burn love story. Come for the bantery main couple, and stay for the side characters—one of whom owns a bookstore called Read It And Weep.
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All’s faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca.
Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him?
The faire is Simon’s family legacy and from the start he makes clear he doesn’t have time for Emily’s lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she’s in her revealing wench’s costume. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they’re portraying?
This summer was only ever supposed to be a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can’t seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek.
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