Review: This Feeling by Kelly Elliott

 Author: Kelly Elliott
Publication Date: May 2025

My friends and family don't think so, but I'm getting Giants season tickets out of the deal. I can do anything for a short couple of months, right? However, when my ex's sexier older brother, Delcan, moves back home, I realize I'm not that confident after all.
For five years, I've avoided Moose Village, New York, as much as possible for one reason: the girl I've crushed on since high school was already spoken for--by my brother. Now discharged from the military, I'm coming home, tentatively heartened by the fact that they're no longer a couple. Except...it seems they are. But something's different this time. Harper doesn't seem as smitten as she was the first time around.

Meanwhile, the chemistry sizzling between us is what I've dreamed of for years. Even if I'm able to get to the bottom of the weird behavior between my brother and Harper, I've gone from one dangerous career to another. I've already got my anxious mother badgering me to quit. Will my career choice be too much for Harper, too?
I can only hope this feeling between the two of us is enough.

Is there anything worse than getting dumped by your boyfriend in a very public, very humiliating way? How about agreeing to fake-date the jerk to help get his matchmaking mother off his back and make his new love interest jealous?

This Feeling is the second book in the Moose Village series.  This one is Harper and  Declan's story. It can definitely be read as a stand alone book.   I thought this was a really cute romance.  It's almost like a second chance romance. Declan had always had feelings for Harper, but when Declan's brother Sean asked Harper out first, Declan thought he missed his chance. Now they are broken up and Declan is not missing his shot.

 I think their relationship was that much better because of the time apart.  Both matured and  came to the relationship ready for a commitment.  I really love Declan and Harper's banter.  They just fit so well together.  I also have to thank the author for writing one of the funniest scenes I have ever read.  You'll know which one when you read it.  I haven't laughed out loud like that while reading a book in a long time.  I highly recommend this one.