Thursday, 8 May 2025

REVIEW - Buns (Hudson Valley #3) by Alice Clayton

The Book
Release Date: 23 May 2017

Clara Morgan is living the dream, if you can call rebranding hotels that are desperate for a new life and running any kind of marathon a dream. Which she does. But the career she loves and the endurance races that keep her adrenaline pumping have kept her too busy to put down any roots. Growing up in foster care, she’s never been able to establish traditions of her own, which may be why she’s fascinated by the rituals that generations-old family resorts are known for. She’s especially interested in the Bryant Mountain House, and not just for their secret recipe for the yummy, gooey, can’t-get-enough-of Hot Cross Buns….

Archie Bryant, the man with the Buns, is fifth generation and one-day-owner of the charming yet run-down Bryant Mountain House in Bailey Falls, New York. He’s determined to save his family’s legacy from the wrecking ball the old-fashioned way—by gritting his teeth and doing what needs to be done. There’s no way Archie will be influenced by the new hotel branding expert his father brought in to turn one hundred and fifty years of tradition on its head just to attract a faster, younger, slicker crowd. But when some of Clara’s ideas start bringing in new, paying customers, Archie can’t deny that she may have just given him a shot at keeping his resort open.

It’s sticky, it’s messy, it’s sweet, it’s Buns.

My Review    4 STARS
**My thanks to NetGalley and Galley Threshold Pocket Books, for providing me with a free copy for an honest review**

Clara is a powerhouse that helps struggling hotels back from the brink and she has now been taken to Bailey Falls and the failing Byant House Mountain where she meets the owners son Archie. A man who has never recovered after the early death of his wife.

the pair constantly butt heads, until the thin line between lust and anger blurs and the pair find themselves in a lip lock.

Clara hides from her painful past, whilst Archie still hurts about his wife and is quite ridged to start off with until she starts to soften his corners.

When a new company takes over the business she works for, Clara is given an ultimatum that ends up hurting both of them until Clara gets her head on straight and she finally goes for the happy ending.

Loved that we still get to see more of the two previous couples and that they all join up and Clara fills the whole she didn't realise was empty.

Really enjoyed this book

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