Blog Tour: Review of The Fixer Upper by Maggie Mae Gallagher

Author: Maggie Mae Gallagher
Published by: Blushing Books Publications
Publication date: September 6th 2019
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

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Abby Callier is more in love with Shakespearean heroes than any real man, and she’s beginning to wonder if there is life for her outside the pages of a book. It doesn’t help that her esteemed parents tend to view her as they would one of their science experiments gone wrong. On the eve of finishing her dissertation, she escapes her staid existence to live in the house she inherited from her Great Aunt Evie in the small town of Echo Springs, Colorado. Because, let’s face it, when a woman starts comparing her life to horror films, it might be time for a break. 

Sheriff Nate Barnes believes in law and order and carefully building the life you want. In his spare time, he has been remodeling his house in the hope that one day it will be filled with the family he makes. But Nate doesn’t like drama or complications and tends to avoid them at all costs. And yet, when Miss Abigail Callier, his newest neighbor, beans him with a nine iron, he can’t help but wonder if she might just be the complication he’s been searching for all along. It doesn’t hurt that he discovers a journal hidden away by the previous tenant and decides to use Old Man Turner’s advice to romance Abby into his life.
Abby never expected her next-door neighbor, the newly dubbed Sheriff Stud Muffin, to be just the distraction her world needed.

The problem is she doesn’t know whether she should make Echo Springs her home, or if this town is just a stopover point in her life’s trajectory. And she doesn’t want to tell Nate that she might not be sticking around—even though she should because it’s the right thing to do, the honest thing—because then all the scintillatingly hot kisses with the Sheriff will come to an abrupt halt. Did she mention that he’s a really great kisser? 

The Fixer Upper is the first book in the Echo Springs Series.  This is Nate and Abby's story.  Abby inherits her great aunt's house.  She moves there to fix it up to sell and to finish her dissertation.  Nate it the town sheriff and her next door neighbor.  This is a pretty cute romance.  Nate and Abby were good together. Although, I kind of felt like they needed better communication in the beginning.  It might have saved them both a lot of angst later in the story.   I was rooting for them to get a HEA.

I liked all of the side characters, as well as the town.  They are definitely characters I would love to read more about.  I also enjoyed the mystery part.  My favorite part of the book was the journal entries from Old Man Turner.  Some of the advice that Nate decides to use with Abby was pretty comical and disastrous.  Daisies, anyone?  My only issue with the book was the amount of inner dialogue.  There was too much, especially in the middle of a conversation.  I'm not a fan of that as it breaks up the flow for me. 

I do recommend this one.  I look forward to more adventures in Echo Springs.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Maggie grew up listening to Cardinals baseball and reading anything she could get her hands on. She remembers her mother saying if only she would read the right type of books instead binging her way through the romance aisles at the bookstore, she’d have been a doctor. While Maggie never did get that doctorate, she graduated cum laude from the University of Missouri-St. Louis with an M.A. in History.

Maggie is a bestselling and award-winning author published in multiple fiction genres. She also writes erotic romance under the name Anya Summers. A total geek at her core, when she is not writing, she adores attending the latest comic con or spending time with her family. She currently lives in the Midwest with her two furry felines.

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