Review: Loving Cara by Kristen Proby (Love Under the Big Sky #1)

Josh King's life is upended when his twelve-year-old nephew is unceremoniously abandoned by his twin brother Zack's soon-to-be ex-wife. With Zack still deployed, Josh knows he has to step in and take care of Seth, but it's clear that he's going to need help since he and his parents can only do so much for him. When Seth's studies need one-on-one attention to help him prepare for the new school year, Cara Donovan is brought in to tutor the boy over the summer. And even though they've known each other for years and have seen each other in town, being in closer contact with Cara brings her into Josh's more focused attention. The pull to one another is stronger than they ever thought possible, but the last thing Cara wants is to be just another notch on Josh's bedpost. Can he prove that with her, he's planning for forever?

Loving Cara is the first novel in the Love Under the Big Sky contemporary romance from bestselling author Kristen Proby and has a friends-to-lovers feel to it, although teacher Cara Donovan and rancher Josh King had more of a teasing friendship, what with him and his twin being best friends with Cara's best friend's older brother. The relationship between Josh and Cara escalates rather quickly and that could be due, in large part, to them spending almost every single day together, what with Cara tutoring young Seth King at the family ranch. Their feelings for each other deepen in a short amount of time, and that doesn't give Cara much time to wrap her head around the idea that the guy she's crushed on for years is interested and in love with her. She has her fair share of insecurities that mean girls, now and then, tend to bring up.

I really liked Cara and Josh as a couple. What they had was an intense kind of love, but they were also a couple that knew how to have fun and when to keep things light between them. They both cared a great deal about Seth and their protectiveness mixed with their own brand of discipline and child rearing made them even more endearing. While I did like their love story, there was a part of me that wondered why it was only now that Josh actually noticed Cara as someone who had the potential to be someone more significant in his life. Then, everything that followed happened really quickly and it all becomes so deep and heavy in such a short amount of time that I couldn't help but raise an eyebrow at its fast-forwardness. Still, I enjoyed Loving Cara and it set the bar for the rest of the Love Under the Big Sky series. Four stars! ♥

Date Read: 12 December 2015

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