Falling for the Wingman by Crista McHugh – a Review

Falling For The Wingman
The Kelly Brothers – Book #3
by Crista McHugh
Release Date: March 1,2014

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Description:
Air Force pilot Caleb Kelly has come back home with one mission in mind—to propose to the woman whose letters and lucky charm helped him survive his deployment in Afghanistan. But when he finds their apartment empty with a note saying she’s left him, he arrives at her mother’s house in rural Alabama less than a week before Kourtney is about to marry another man. Now he’s out to win her heart again and gets some unexpected assistance from her younger sister, Alex.

Alex Leadbetter has always thought Caleb was too good for her manipulative, social-climbing sister. She had assumed Kourtney’s identity to write letters to him and keep his spirits up until he returned home to the hard truth, never expecting to fall in love with him along the way. After he shows up in town, she convinces him that the best way to get Kourtney back is to make her think he’s fallen for someone new — her. But when a fake romance becomes all too real, her deception may leave them both grounded.

Review:

Talk about not being able to see the forest for the trees…………. Once Caleb returns from Afghanistan and finds Kourtney gone and a note saying that she’s left him, he makes it his mission to make her see that they are meant to be together.  Her emails were the one bright spot that he gravitated to while deployed.  He doesn’t understand how she could have written the things that she did, only to leave him high and dry.  He fell in love with the person who wrote those emails, and by damn, he will make her see that she loves him too.

Once he arrives in Alabama, he heads straight to Kourtney’s family home, only to find her finalizing her wedding plans……….to someone else.  Kourtney’s little sister, Alex, diffuses the situation and convinces Caleb to leave with her so that they can talk.  When Caleb tells Alex of his plans for he and Kourtney, Alex convinces him to pretend that she and Caleb are a couple, which will cause Kourtney to want him back.  After all, Kourtney doesn’t like to lose, especially to her little sister.  What Caleb doesn’t know is that Alex fell for him a long time ago and she is hoping that once they spend time together, he’ll realize that Alex is the one for him.  Not her egotistical, overbearing sister.  The one rub?  How in the world will she explain her deception to him?  Will he understand that she did it because she cares for him and wanted to give him something to look forward to?  Or, will things crash and burn before they ever get off the ground?  Well my friends, you’ll have to read to find out…….

Crista McHugh is a goddess.  Her writing style grabs you and doesn’t let go.  Once again she has written a wonderful story that starts from the very first word.  Sounds corny, huh?  But, let me tell you…….there is nothing gratuitous about the way she writes.  You know how when you’re reading a story and the same point gets made 14,792 times and you’re like “get on with it!!”??  That doesn’t happen in her stories.  EVER.  She draws you in from the very first word with wonderfully written dialogue that has you clamoring for more.  Alex was such a sweet soul.  She owns a garage and is a mechanic there as well, and goes out of her way to help those in need.  Not just in the garage, but in the town itself.  She is such a likeable character and has a huge heart, and is determined to make her own way.  She really is the antithesis of her big sister, Kourtney.  Caleb, even though he was a little thick headed at first, was the perfect match for Alex.  Along with their spot on chemistry, which burned up the pages, his willingness to ask his family for their input on the situation only endeared him to me more.

One more time people…………… If you’re not reading Crista McHugh’s wonderful series, you are seriously missing out.  And, once again, very well done Crista…..very very well done!!

Reviewed by Vickie

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