3.5 ⭐'s
A jam maker, a garbage man, and a small town cop. Apparently a polyamorous dream team for disposing of bodies 👀
🍓 Small Town
💀 Poly/MFM
🍓 Jam Maker (& part time unaliver)
💀 Garbage Man x Police Officer
🍓 Best Friends to Lovers
I have been waiting very impatiently for Juniper, (the third and oldest Ellington sister), book since the moment she stepped on to the scene in All My Love. I knew that little apron wearing older sister was going to be the most twisted of them all AND MAN WAS I RIGHT.
I will say though this is in no way a dark romance! Obviously with elements of murder, you would think it would be. But it really is just a small town gal who happens to analive people on the side (we all have our faults! 😅). It never felt dark, it honestly more funny than anything else.
I loved the reasoning behind why Juniper does what she does, and the way that both Sterling and Dash reacted to all of it. Probably not the most realistic, but very wholesome and definitely hilarious. The hijinks that these three get up to trying to clean up this whole mess had me in a FIT OF TEARS laughing so hard. One scene in particular with a finger... I couldn't keep it together 🤣
I loved how the dynamic and relationships progressed with all three of these besties. Juniper was obviously the (ahem pun intended ✨jam✨ that brought these two men together. But I really loved watching Sterling and Dash admit their feelings for each other. They both had to process what that meant, but they were SO UNBELIEVABLE CUTE while they figured it out. Like oh my goodness my big strong men kiss and get it over with!! 🤭
Partially why I didn't give this a higher rating is simply because I expected more from it. The timeline from the end of the second book to this book confused me. There were all these breadcrumbs left for Juniper, Sterling, and Dash's story...but they ended up just not being a thing in this book. Sort of like loose ends that the author forgot to tie up, which nagged at me. Those bread crumbs were what gave me such high expectations, and what led me to be let down a bit.
In the end though, this was a fun time! A certainly unique small town romance, with it being a poly romance and ya know her being a murderer and them helping over it up 😅 (that usually doesn't happen in small town romances lol). But it was still so sweet and soft. A perfect mix of plot, romance, and spice honestly.
Loved these three books, and I'm certainly going to miss all three of the twisted Ellington sisters! They were wild, unhinged passionate, and in the end so much fun to read about 🥰