Sweet Talkin' Lover by Tracey Livesay

Since today is the release day I wanted to boost this contemporary romance. I was very luckily to receive an arc from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

Sweet Talkin' Lover: A Girls Trip Novel is the first in a new series about a group of girlfriends who each find their own love story.

I do want to point out that despite the series name of Girls Trip the trip was at the very beginning of the story and didn't play a significant part of the plot. It was just a quick introduction of the women you will be seeing in future novels. So if you're expecting something similar to the movies Girl's Trip complete with drunken shenanigans this is not that story. However this is still a great romance. I'm hoping the annual trips will have a larger role in future stories.

The cover though gorgeous is a little misleading because it makes you believe this is a spring or summer romance. The fireworks actually give me 4th of July feels. This is a fall romance.

That being said this was a good story. Once I got into it I devoured it like candy.  You know those  movies that you see on Hallmark and sometimes Netflix where the big city workaholic woman ends up on assignment in a small town? This is like one of those except with a black women as the lead and plenty of sexy scenes.

Our story opens with Caila experiencing a loss and then struggling to overcome it. She's so concerned with hiding her emotions and covering up her feelings that it starts to affect her work. She is sent to a small town named Bradleton to evaluate a plant that has been producing cosmetics for one of the brands her company recently acquired. I liked that we didn't just hear about what a hard worker Caila is, we were shown. She spends most of the trip with her friends working and is very clear about her career goals.

Bradleton is a small Southern town that's all about family, tradition, and football. The entire town is automatically against her since her mission is to shut down the plant which employs many of the citizens. Caila meets Mayor Wyatt Bradley aka Mayor McHottie who is determined to get her to appreciate what the town has to offer. Cue the friday night lights, pumpkin cheesecake bars, and hayrides.