A resenha de hoje é sobre o livro A Lot Like Home, da autora Kat Cantrell. Além da resenha, temos um trecho e a sinopse do livro para vocês lerem! Não deixem de ver o post completo e participar do sorteio no final!
Sinopse
Da autora BestSeller Kat Cantrell, uma série de romances em uma cidade pequena com um toque de mágica.
Bem vindos a Superstition Springs, cidade em construção.
Após ser chutado da Marinha, ex-SEAL Caleb Hardy precisa de uma nova missão, e recosntruir a antiga cidade de mineração em uma atração turística é isso. Se ele faz isso certo, Superstition Springs se tornará um novo lar para seus bando de desolados amigos… e talvez um lugar para expiar o terrível erro que eles fizeram em sua carreira.
Havana Nixon tem outros planos para o esquisito ponto no mapa que ela nunca pode realmente chamar de lar. A cidade está caindo aos pedaços. Lutando. Solução: convencer os moradores a vender. Exceto ela não contava com o enfuriante (e lindo, não que ela irá dizer isso pra ele) obstáculo que cai no meio de sua negociação e age como que se as barreiras que ela cuidadosamente ergueu contra o mundo não existem. Graças a Deus ela chegou armada com um noivo, não importa que isso tudo é uma farsa criada para manter uma de sua tia famosas predileções de se tornar verdadeira.
Mas num lugar místico como Superstition Springs, nada acontece como o esperado, não menos a disputa entre duas pessoas com planos opostos, que dá choques toda vez que eles entram em contato. Se eles puderem só se desdobrarem o suficiente para um compromisso, talvez eles vejam que queiram a mesma coisa – eternidade.
But in a mystical place like Superstition Springs, nothing ever goes as expected, least of all a head-to-head between two people with opposing plans, who spark every time they get in each other’s way. If they could just unbend long enough to compromise, they might figure out they both want the same thing–forever.
Synopsis
From USA Today best seller Kat Cantrell, comes a small-town romance series with a touch of magic.
Welcome to Superstition Springs, town in progress.
After being kicked out of the Navy, ex-SEAL Caleb Hardy needs a new mission, and rebuilding an old Texas mining town into a tourist attraction is it. If he does it right, Superstition Springs will become a new home for his band of world-weary teammates… and maybe a place to atone for the horrific mistake they’d made in the line of duty.
Havana Nixon has other plans for the quirky dot on the map she never could quite call home. The town is falling apart. Struggling. Solution: convince the folks to sell out. Except she didn’t count on the infuriating (and gorgeous, not that she’d ever tell him that) obstacle who plunks down in the middle of her land deal and acts like the careful barriers she’s erected against the world don’t exist. Thank goodness she’s arrived armed with a fiancé in tow, never mind that it’s all a sham designed to keep one of her aunt’s famous love predictions from coming true.
But in a mystical place like Superstition Springs, nothing ever goes as expected, least of all a head-to-head between two people with opposing plans, who spark every time they get in each other’s way. If they could just unbend long enough to compromise, they might figure out they both want the same thing–forever.
Resenha
A Lot Like Home é um romance contemporâneo, onde a autora o descreve como “clean romance”, ou seja, nada de cenas quentes entre os lençóis.
Caleb e Havana formam um casal crível, com seus altos e baixos em suas vidas particulares e faíscas rolando soltas quando eles cedem à tentação de estarem juntos. Tenho que admitir que em muitos momentos eu quis sacudir a Havana até ela pegar no tranco e enxergar tudo que acontecia a sua volta e tudo que ela estava colocando a perder, mas em momento nenhum deixei de torcer pelo casal.
Caleb é nosso já famoso herói com cicatrizes de guerra, mas o personagem é desenvolvido de uma forma sutil e podemos entender todos seus problemas e torcer para que ele consiga transformar sua vida e junto com isso a vida de toda uma cidade.
Superstition Springs é um ponto quase invisível do mapa, mas uma cidade que você se apega desde a primeira descrição, com seus moradores cheios de charmes e manias, além de uma mágica no ar que faz você torcer por tudo e por todos.
Esse foi meu primeiro livro da Kat Cantrell, mas com certeza não será o último!! Sua escrita e seus personagens me cativaram e eu mal posso esperar pelos próximos livros dessa cidade em construção onde eu sou a mais nova torcedora pra que tudo funcione!
Excerpt
The gaze of the other half of Team Doritos hadn’t strayed from her face once, and being the sole focus of a man she’d had such a bone-deep response to was starting to make her a little breathless. Better to let that cat out of the bag pronto before it turned into something much bigger than it was.
With a bright smile, she offered her hand to him. “We’ve already met. All except for the exchange of names, that is.”
“You’ve already met?” Serenity’s gaze cut between them. “What on earth—”
“Long story,” he said smoothly, his voice as ragged and fascinating as it had been back at Mavis J’s. “I’m Caleb Hardy.”
When he clasped her hand, the buzz that she’d convinced herself had been imaginary arced between them, nearly frying all her circuits as well as it had the first time.
“Caleb,” she croaked and snatched her hand to her side in hopes of jump-starting her brain back to some functional level, which did not work apparently.
By the time she could speak again, the other three men had introduced themselves, and the best she had to show for it was the impression that the one with a full beard had the same last name as Caleb, so they were brothers or cousins, or it was a raging coincidence that she knew nothing about because a man had touched her.
Ridiculous.
Time to get control of this crazy train. She cleared her throat. “Nice to meet you all. If I might steal you away, Aunt Serenity? I have something I need to discuss—”
“Actually,” Caleb drawled, forcing her attention back to his face, where a day-old shadow of whiskers had darkened his jaw to the point of distraction. “You and I need to have a conversation first.”
“We, um… what?”
“Clear out, Elmer,” he instructed the dark-haired one next to him, who moved instantly, allowing Caleb to slide from the booth.
Before she could peep out question one, he hustled her away from the table with a gentle grip on her elbow. No one at the table stopped him. Or said a word. Including her aunt, which was typical. She’d always let Havana take care of herself along with everyone else.
Too shocked to protest, she let him lead her a good four steps before she remembered her voice did actually work. “What are you doing? I need to talk to Serenity, not you.”
“Oh, I disagree,” he countered, and somehow he’d gotten her feet to move again. “Best we do this outside.”
Outside? Where there were no witnesses? The man was former military, which explained why his arms were the size of a tree branch but not what he could possibly have to say to her privately.
Unless he’d mistaken pig wrangling as an expression of interest. Maybe that was considered courtship where he came from. Privacy meant loads of opportunity to flirt with a woman he’d decided to pursue. That stymied her so much she forgot to argue. Where was Damian when she needed him?
Back at the hotel, of course, because she’d stupidly told him she didn’t need him while she tried some different persuasion techniques with Serenity—she had to figure out why she wasn’t selling this deal, and having a discussion with the other half of Team Doritos wasn’t going to get her closer to that.
Fine. Caleb Hardy wanted to talk—so did she. So she could tell him that strong-arm tactics didn’t work on her. Once on the street, she jammed her hands down on her hips and whirled to face him. Holy cow, he was much closer than she’d realized and smelled like man and something clean, bright.
His eyes were brown. The dim light at Mavis J’s hadn’t revealed that, but out here in the sun, it was hard to miss the unusual almond color. Fascinated, she fell into them for a brief moment of insanity, recalling how he’d looked at her after helping her off the floor—as if she was special simply because she’d helped him chase a pig.
She liked helping, the rush of knowing she’s made someone’s life better. She liked it when people recognized her efforts even more. And he had. For a shining moment they’d had perfect cohesion. They could again; it was all right there in his eyes… She shuddered at the cocoon of awareness that had just formed between them and willed it away. Who cared what color the man’s eyes were?
She took a step back. But he followed her, not letting her get more than an inch or two away.
“Stop that,” she instructed throatily, mortified that he’d managed to affect her voice. “You’re crowding me.”
“Stop moving away,” he countered, his voice low.
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About Kat Cantrell
USA Today Bestselling Author Kat Cantrell read her first Harlequin novel in third grade and has been scribbling in notebooks since she learned to spell. What else would she write but romance? When she’s not writing about characters on the journey to happily ever after, she can be found at a taekwondo tournament, watching Big Bang Theory or dancing with her kids to Duran Duran and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Kat, her husband and their two boys live in North Texas. She was a former Harlequin So You Think You Can Write winner and a former RWA® Golden Heart® finalist for best unpublished series contemporary manuscript.
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