Blog Tour Review: Folk Around and Find Out (Good Folk: Modern Folktales #2) by Penny Reid

Posted November 12, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, Review / 6 Comments

She’s about to teach him a lesson he won’t soon forget.

Folk Around and Find Out, an opposites attract, single parent contemporary romance set in a small town from New York Times bestselling author Penny Reid is out now!

I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Blog Tour Review:  Folk Around and Find Out (Good Folk:   Modern Folktales #2) by Penny ReidFolk Around and Find Out by Penny Reid
Series: Good Folk: Modern Folktales #2
on October 20, 2022
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Pages: 446
Source: the author
Format: E-galley
My Rating: five-stars
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Blurb:

He needs to get her out of his system. Just once…

Hank Weller doesn’t help people. He leaves that do-gooder nonsense to his best friend, Beau Winston. Hank does what he wants, when he wants, with whomever he wants—and Hank does not want to hire Charlotte Mitchell to be an exotic dancer at his club, The Pink Pony. Sure, he can’t help noticing the dips and curves of her, how shrewd, smart, and funny she is, the fire in her hazel eyes. He’s always noticed. She’d probably draw a crowd and entice the regulars. But after Charlotte’s messy, public divorce made Hank’s club out to be the culprit—and made her the single mother of four kids—he doesn’t need or want any additional bad press courtesy of Charlotte Mitchell. Or the distraction. Unfortunately for him, the town’s prettiest charity case doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of the words nope, no, and never.

Charlotte Mitchell doesn’t much like Hank Weller. Once upon a time, she used to. Years ago, she liked him a whole heckofalot despite other folks in town labeling him as “eccentric” and “nonconformist,” which were polite southern alternatives to “filthy rich” and “self-centered douchebag.” Her opinion of him changed dramatically after he volunteered to be her date to junior prom and then promptly stood her up. They haven’t so much as acknowledged each other in over a decade. But a sudden family emergency means Charlotte needs access to Hank’s club ASAP. Unfortunately for her, the narcissistic fancy-pants doesn’t seem to understand the meaning of the words help, generosity, and compassion.

But he’s about to find himself schooled. Charlotte is going to teach Hank a lesson once and for all about basic human decency, whether he likes it or not.

Spoiler alert. . . he likes it. 😉

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Excerpt

My day hadn’t been great even before she walked in.

I’d just returned from the funeral of my longtime bookkeeper. He’d died from old age in his sleep surrounded by his five kids, loving wife, and eighteen grandchildren while leaving me with a reconciliation mess and this month’s payroll to finish.

My newly trained bartender had sent a manifesto via text message, blaming his decision to quit on my unwillingness to build a dedicated meditation room and give him four paid half-hour breaks per shift to use it.

Three Diamond Whiskey bottles out of the six that had shipped from the distributor were broken in the crate. If you’re keeping score, that’s seven hundred dollars in Tennessee Whiskey and a crime against humanity.

On the plus side, the suit I’d worn to my parents’ funerals fit and I still looked damn good in it.

Of course, I didn’t know the newcomer was her at first. The door opened and closed, same sound as normal no matter who was coming or going. It was a Sunday mid-morning, still early yet for any of the dancers or bouncers and way too early for any customers.

But the moment she turned the corner and came into view, I gritted my teeth. Here we go. What could she want? She better not be selling Bibles.

“Charlotte.” Standing behind the bar, I crossed my arms and sounded unfriendly. She’d caught me restocking paper products and the three surviving bottles of Diamond Whiskey. I was only half finished with my current task, but nowhere near half finished with my task list for the day. I did not have time for pious Charlotte Mitchell.

As a rule, I had time for two types of folks: people I paid, and people who paid me. A small number of exceptions to this rule existed: a few friends from college and in town, like Beau Winston or Patty Lee, and any woman I’d set my mind on seducing, but even then, I made sure the scales remained balanced—give and take, tit for tat, even-steven. Point is, Charlotte was obviously not the former exception, and there was no way she’d ever be interested in becoming the latter.

“Hank.” She didn’t look at me, but she did paste on an obligatory-looking smile that pulled her full lips tight and came nowhere close to her green eyes. Tracking Charlotte Mitchell’s slow approach, I didn’t miss how she took her time and peered around.

I wanted to snark, “Lost? I believe the wallpaper and sanctimony store is closer to downtown.”

Instead, I ground out, “What do you want?”

My Review

I was so excited for Hank’s story and this one started out in a surprising way! I knew of course the whole reason Charlotte would want to become an exotic dancer couldn’t possibly be why she was telling him. So when we found out it was to help locate her missing cousin, that made so much more sense. Although I still feel the idea was a little crazy knowing her ex’s family.

This was a total grumpy sunshine romance, but oh my gosh how much Hank made my cheeks hurt from smiling so much at his interactions with Charlotte’s kids. Especially the first one. It just made me fall completely in love with him! I liked getting to know more about Charlotte in this story too. While we knew a bit about her from Jackson’s book, we didn’t quite know the whole/real story for her. And I ended up really liking her a lot as well.

There was so much to this story. I can see why the author mentioned several times that Hank kind of took over and told the story differently than she thought it would go. When we got Jackson James’s story in Totally Folked, he was all sexy from pretty early in the story, I mean “Release the Kracken!” was a line that made the story. Hank, well this was a slow-burn romance. While that made sense with Charlotte being a single mom and how she had been portrayed as being Ms. Perfect by the town, the fact that Hank was such a rebel and ran a strip club had me thinking it would get hot and heavy pretty quickly.

But you know what? I loved the way this went instead! I loved that this story was different in so many ways than I might have expected. I loved all the ways the Winston family fit into the story. Cletus not showing up other than a joke about his sausage one-liners until later in the book was a little disappointing. I kept thinking why didn’t Charlotte reach out to Cletus for help with her cousin or her ex’s family? But then when Sienna got Cletus over to help Charlotte, it was obvious from the way she reacted to him and the thoughts she had at first about him being a simple guy.

And the ending, the epilogue, oh my gosh how I loved the glimpse into their future lives with the wedding being that of one of the kids. Penny Reid has once again blown me away with her characters and story and world. And oh my gosh, now that I know who the third story in this series is going to be about, both characters in the couple, I am sooooooooooo excited!

About the Author

Penny Reid is the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestselling author of the Winston Brothers and Knitting in the City series. She used to spend her days writing federal grant proposals as a biomedical researcher, but now she writes kissing books. Penny is an obsessive knitter and manages the #OwnVoices-focused mentorship incubator / publishing imprint, Smartypants Romance. She lives in Seattle Washington with her husband, three kids, and dog named Hazel.

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6 responses to “Blog Tour Review: Folk Around and Find Out (Good Folk: Modern Folktales #2) by Penny Reid

    • Lisa Mandina

      Yes! He was so good with them! Especially after all his protests about how kids were good for nothing but spreading disease and dirt, lol.

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