{"id":2409,"date":"2022-09-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/?p=2409"},"modified":"2022-09-06T15:21:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:21:12","slug":"resolutions-embraced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/resolutions-embraced\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Resolutions Embraced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul><li>Title:<ul><li>Resolutions Embraced<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Author:<ul><li>Ayla Asher<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Release:<ul><li>October 8, 2021<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Format:<ul><li>Audiobook<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Narrator:<ul><li>Kai Kennicott<\/li><li>Wen Ross<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Series:<ul><li>Ardor Creek #4<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My first impression of the female lead is that she cums off sounding like a supervillain. She makes it out like her whole reason for living is to get vengeance on some guy who wronged her in high school, but then she constantly goes on about how she&#8217;s over it and that was a lifetime ago, etc. It sends mixed messages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the guy who wronged her, it didn&#8217;t sound like what he did was all that bad. The entire story, people talk about this mean nickname he gave her, and yet at one point he said it was a nickname he&#8217;d heard other people calling her. Other people were the ones who chose to make a big deal out of it and he seemingly felt bad and tried to apologize to no avail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her whole thing seems to be that she wants to take the job he loves so much away from him, yet plot-wise, it feels as if it&#8217;s barely touched upon as if he only cares about it vocally, but action-wise, he cums off as indifferent. Despite her supposed seething hatred for him, she lets him off rather easily and they fall for each other. Honestly, I found their romance adorable and it&#8217;s the only thing that saved the story for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dual narrators, as always, did an exceptional job. I have nothing to add, as I didn&#8217;t encounter any errors, nothing stood out as I was listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: This copy was provided to me free of charge as a digital review copy. The opinions stated in this review are mine and mine alone, I was not paid or requested to give this book a certain rating, suggestion, or approval. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She came back to win\u2026and to rewrite a narrative created so long ago&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Chad Hanson has one true love: being mayor of Ardor Creek. With his charming personality, kind nature, and adoration of the small town, it\u2019s as if he was born for the role. Although he dates constantly and loves playing the field, he\u2019s never come close to falling for someone the way he loves his job.<\/p>\n<p>Abby Miller left Ardor Creek after high school, determined to become something other than a pariah. Chad Hanson had accidentally bequeathed her the name \u201cFlabby Abby,\u201d which destroyed any chance of making friends or having a normal high school existence.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades later, Abby returns, fierce and confident after her tenure as a senior advisor for a prominent Washington DC senator. Armed with her skills and experience, she begins an invigorating campaign to become the first female mayor of Ardor Creek\u2026and to exact a smidge of payback against Chad.<\/p>\n<p>Chad is blown away by his opponent. Drawn to her, he slowly realizes she might actually win\u2026not only the election, but Abby Miller might be the first woman to capture his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Ardor Creek! If you love sizzling banter that cracks you up and makes you snicker, smokin\u2019 hot love scenes, and a sweet frenemies-to-lovers tale, this book is for you! As with all of Ayla\u2019s books, there\u2019s a slight holiday twist, and this one has a fun New Year\u2019s Eve ending. The Ardor Creek gang is back and ready to watch serial dater Chad Hanson fall in love. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[315,182,517,26,13,4,12,105,197,210,66,179,531,149,262],"tags":[317,21,516,8,9,53,416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2409\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baskervillebookreviews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}