Review: Coming Home to Starr's Fall

Coming Home to Starr's Fall by Kate Hewitt
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Laurie Ellis has never really put down roots, or felt at home. Given up for adoption at birth she bounced around the system until she aged out, since then she's had an unremarkable job, lived in a pokey New Jersey apartment, and never really made any real friends. However, an unexpected legacy allows her to fulfil her dream of opening a pet shop and bakery (for the animals) and she has chosen the small town of Starr's Fall, not least because her birth mother gave it as her home town. Maybe, just maybe, she might find some clues to her family.

Starr's Fall is off the beaten track, and like most small towns its main street is suffering from the pervasive influence of online shopping so the opening of a new store is a blessed relief, even if the concept of a pet bakery is a bit 'out there'.

Whilst most of the townsfolk are welcoming, if not encroaching, Laurie's nearest neighbour, who owns the bookshop opposite is downright rude and unfriendly. Joshua Reilly escaped Starr's Fall for New York and a life as a composer, until his father's death forced him to return and run the family bookshop. His fiancee broke up with him by text, he hates the small town knowing his business, and he's not overly fond of selling books.

This was super sweet and has Hallmark movie written all over it. Whilst there is some dramatic tension, overall it was too sweet for me. Others will love it.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley.

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