Romance series: Bright Falls

It feelso like there may be a run of series post about murder mysteries in the near future, so here I am today with a romance series, just because I finally finished the third of these last week and I even mentioned the fact there’s an offer on the first one in this month’s kindle offers post. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2bbzQHrYdg/?igsh=MTZoNWYwb245OWM1eA==

This is a trilogy of books following a group of friends in the town of Bright Falls. Delilah returns to town she grew up in (and hated)in the first book to photograph her step sister’s wedding and finds herself drawn to her stepsister’s best friend Clare. The second sees Astrid, the aforementioned stepsister, rebuilding her life by renovating a historic inn and fighting with the inn owner’s granddaughter. And the final boom sees Iris, the final member of the group and romance author seeking to solve her writers block with a part in a queer retelling of a Shakespeare play and a fake relationship with her love interest in the play.

So as you can tell from those summaries, several of my favourite tropes crop up here – enemies to lovers, fake relationships and returning to a small town, oh and house renovations. The dialogue is fun and the extended friendship group is a delight and if you’ve ever read a small town romance and wished the town in question was a bit less straight, these could be the romances for you. They’re fun and queer and that’s not even an issue that comes up as worth commenting on.

These were Ashley Herring Blake’s first romance novels and this is it for this series – but she has a festive romance coming this year, featuring two exes finding themselves stuck together at Christmas and the first in a new series coming in 2025 too so plenty to look forward to if you read these and like them.

Happy Friday everyone!