Ignite: A Grumpy Single Dad Romance (Cloverleigh Farms Next Generation Book 1)

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she'd act like a child and this might be selfish of me but i found it annoying when she'd complain or cry about dex not loving her back. Imagine if instead, Dex has put effort into learning how to french braid because his daughter's liked it. It’s weird cause it was obvious but at the same time insignificant because they just fit so well together. So of course, when the girls are given back to Naomi, she's concerned that this man is chopping up the girl's hair? And second - the co-parenting relationship he had with his ex and his attitude towards her and hers towards him, it had again, such a realistic vibe.

But it had taken me a solid twenty minutes of working on the gum in Luna’s hair before I gave up and cut it out, and then Hallie hadn’t been able to find her lucky penny. One day, one of the girls gets it stuck in her hair and he doesn't even bother to try and brush it out and get it out. That's fine, but I would just love it so much more if characters like him stopped adhering to toxic masculinity, and instead did something like sing disney songs with his girls in the car. She was a little naive and had her own complexities, but she was self-aware and behaved like someone who loved and respected themselves.Those are just a couple of instances but something I want to touch on too is the double standards between men and women. Our happily ever afters never come just where we expect them to- but that is what makes finding them so special.

And the story unfolds with such ease- Dex melts my heart, and Winnie’s love and optimism is so endearing. They just get to fuck around and be less than mediocre, yet, they're so much more loved by their children than the other parent.

Dex was thinking about how pretty Winnie's nails were and I thought that was so cute because men rarely acknowledge things that women put effort into like hair, makeup, outfits etc. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. There's all sorts of reasons why they shouldn't even try, but the chemistry and the pull between them is stronger than all of those.

If you’re new to the series, then this is the perfect place to dive in - it almost feels like a spin-off. The author takes us back to the Cloverleigh Farms world with the next generation, and I couldn’t be happier. His biggest flaw is that he’s trying to be the father to his girls that his father WASN’T to him and that sets him back a bit. I could easily start to crave the way he’d made my heart pound, the way he’d given me butterflies, the way he’d stolen that kiss from me like he knew he couldn’t afford it but he had to have it anyway.

Winnie, super romantic, decides that the 12 year age gap is not an issue, and works to help Dex see it too. Back to the review lol (I HAD to mention it lol it was one of the first interactions between Winnie, Dex, and his girls… but I digress). Dex chose to go off into the military/seals or something, while she always had to stay home with the kids. This second generation story has all the swoony charisma and effortlessly emotive sincerity of the original Cloverleigh series stories, but it also sparkles with it's own heartfelt allure. I don’t know what else I should add, because apart from the already mentioned issues - this was an overall great little story.