Wallflower Seeks Mountain Man is the first book in Marley Michaels' Bear Mountain Brothers series. Brady Long is one of the brothers on Bear Mountain who has been promised a soulmate. He has started to lose hope that he would ever find her when Serena Black came into his life. But each find out that even if you're destined for each other, life will still try to tear you apart.
One of the things that it took a little time for me to get used to is that the book is told in present tense. Present tense is extremely useful when an author wants their story to be fast paced. However, since it isn't common to do it always feels odd until the reader becomes used to it.
I do connect with Serena which is part of the reason I like this book. She isn't social and prefers spending her days reading books. Unlike me, she has a close relationship with her dad. So close that she drops out of college just so she can watch over him after he suffers a heart attack. I would've liked her choice to live with him or Brady to have been harder. This due to the fact she could finally feel like her dad wasn't a burden she had to bear. Maybe I wanted that to happen so badly because it was the only bit of real character growth readers got from her.
Yes, there is also a subplot about her not being a wallflower by the end but that isn't really given much focus. All it amounts to is being with Brady breaks her out of her shell. Sort of. But I don't want to get into spoilers here.
Where Serena has her self-imposed responsibility to her father keeping her away from Brady, Brady has his responsibility to Bear Mountain keeping him away from Serena. He is the leader and, for obvious reasons, takes his job seriously. At one point he leaves to spend time with Serena, during which time some of his brothers make a mistake which causes him to want to never leave the mountain again.
A thing that is odd is the fact Brady's family is part of Serena's favorite series. There is a character in this series that writes books based on true stories. Serena reveals this fact to Brady shortly after meeting him. Instead of freaking out about an obsessive fangirl, he is extremely calm about the idea. While I have imagined meeting characters from various works of fiction, I don't think they would react like Brady did.
Writing an arousing sex scene can be hard. Word choices are all important as you arouse your readers that way. Each person has their own set of words that arouse and kill the mood. The trick is finding a good middle ground so you can please as many people as possible. So it's understandable when a writer uses a wrong word or phrase. The word the author uses to describe Brady's manhood is 'silky'.
In my limited experience no man's manhood has ever been silky. Know what is silky? Shirts, pillows, and sheets. So instead of being aroused I just started thinking about those three objects.
I would recommend Wallflower Seeks Mountain Man by Marley Michaels to those seeking a lighthearted romance book.
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