Happy Trail

Happy Trail is book one of the Park Rangers series in the SmartyPants Romance Universe. Green Valley has some more good folks up on the mountain and they have stories to tell. There are a couple of small appearances of familiar GV faces. This is a super slow burn that gives readers time to know both characters stories and hangups. I loved Ranger Jay Daniels and Olivia "Snowbird" Perry getting to know each other on the trail and snowed in the cabin. The Appalachian Trail is as much a character as Jay and Olivia. I felt pleasingly immersed in the hiking culture as Snowbird muses of her five months on-the-trail learning curve with the thru-hikers, dude bros and hiker trash. It's fate when she finds the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds. I confess to a lot of Googling and slackpacking is my only considered option should the opportunity arises. Lol Prescott gives us people seemingly very different but as we learn their secrets they are so very similar. Society and social media are not friends of this pair who have been hiding inside their own skin. Olivia is wonderfully quirky and her runaway mouth is hilarious. Jay thinks so too as he begins to cast off his grumpy ways and open up to her beauty and charm. I marked many more comments and passages than I normally do because the banter and inner awkward thoughts made me laugh so often. One of Jay's observations made me a tiny bit swoony. "Even in the dim light from the fire, she's beautiful. Dirty and honestly more than a little smelly, she still has trouble written all over her face." The pair don't spend a lot of time together but it's clear they both feel a big spark. The time they do spend together is completely alone with very little distraction and only conversation for entertainment. I was thrilled with the ending. It fit them perfectly. I look forward to bumping into them in the coming Park Ranger books. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

4.5 Stars This is the first book in a new series and it has me hooked. I gobbled this one right up. For what Olive goes through on the trail, more power to her because I don't think I could have pushed on like her. I loved Olive and Jay. They may be opposites, but they fit each other like a puzzle. They have great chemistry and their banter was one of my favorite parts of the book. You feel for Jay because he feels like he doesn't belong because of his heritage, but he does a lot of self growing in this book. This is a must read and I'm so looking forward to the next book in the series.

I am so loving the Smartypants Romance books!! Happy Trial is just another jewel in the series of books. Daisy Prescott is a new to me author and I am so glad I got the opportunity to read this. This is the quirky, swoony, heartfelt and just lovely romance in the Park Ranger series. This is Jay and Olive's story. Olive is an amazing character! I floved her quirkiness and I admired her strength and determination. She didn't let a crappy situation and experience take away from her doing something she wanted to do. She was a hilarious character if she was a real person I would totally want to be BFF's with her! Jay was also amazing. He is a bit jaded, but rightfully so, to be facing discrimination and outright bigotry in this day and age is sad and so unsavory. He keeps his cards close to his vest and when Olive comes hiking into his world, he sees what could be. The dialogue was funny and even educational. I get a kick out of learning new things! As this is set in the fictional world of Green Valley, it was lovely to see past characters make cameo appearances! To me, it just adds more to the story and really blends it into the world that Penny Reid created. I can't wait to add some of Ms. Prescott's previous stories onto my TBR list!