E-galley Review: Package Makes Perfect (Green Valley Heroes #6) by Lauren Connolly

Item: Package Makes Perfect
Rating: 4.5
Author: Lisa Mandina

Posted May 11, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 3 Comments

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E-galley Review: Package Makes Perfect (Green Valley Heroes #6) by Lauren Connolly

Package Makes Perfect by Lauren Connolly
Series: Green Valley Heroes #6
Published by Smartypants Romance on May 9, 2024
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Pages: 310
Source: the publisher
Format: E-galley
My Rating: four-half-stars

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Blurb:

When a man cheats, don’t go postal. Date a postman.

Robin Dunn is used to dealing with egotistical men. After years in the military and working in the male-dominated field of aviation mechanics, Robin thought she could tell the good guys from the bad. She even moved to the small town of Green Valley for a man she planned to build a life with. So why is that guy butt-naked on their couch with another woman, fondling her chest like he found himself a set of stress balls?

Not one to run away, Robin decides to stake a claim on her new home and dole out some much-needed revenge. In a twist of luck, she convinces Arthur Kraut, her loser ex’s cousin, and the town’s grumpy mail carrier, to agree to her fake relationship scheme. Probably because she offers to help the guy with his lady troubles through copious amounts of PDA.

After a lifetime of disappointments, Robin can’t help noticing how Arthur always delivers when she needs him. Too bad she’s done with needing men. Doesn’t matter that kissing Arthur has her thinking other, dirtier thoughts. All she wants is to get revenge on her ex, fix airplanes, and not fall for a man who has his heart set on someone else…

‘Package Makes Perfect’ is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #6 in the Green Valley Heroes series, Green Valley Chronicles, Penny Reid Book Universe.

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My Review

I really liked this author’s first book in the Green Valley Heroes series, Letter Late Than Never, and so I was very excited for this one. And once again I was not disappointed! While the only problem I can possibly think of with this one is maybe it was a little long, the story was perfect otherwise! And strangely, this is my second virgin hero story in a month’s time!

Robin was a strong woman who actually even tied us back to the last story I read in this series, Young Buck by Kilby Blades, because she was catching her boyfriend in the act of cheating on her. For some reason she called in her boyfriend’s cousin, Arthur, to ask if he knew about it. He didn’t want to believe her, so she took him with her when she went to confront him. Let’s just say Robin knew about getting back at someone. Eggs, the garden hose, she made sure her ex, Daren, knew she was mad, and she tried to make sure he knew she was done with him.

Arthur was the strong, silent type. The big broody, grumpy bearded guy. But totally a cinnamon roll as he was also a softie on the inside and with his friends and people he cared about. He gave Robin a place to stay and was her shoulder to cry on. He believed he had a soulmate, based on his father’s love of his mother, who he’d lost at a young age. He was so sure he would find that soulmate with a first kiss and would just know.

Robin’s background was a mother who would constantly move when her relationships didn’t work out or ended, making Robin sure she would never move for a man, would only do what she wanted. And she had been a pilot in the military, lost part of her hearing because of it. Now her dream was to one day own a plane repair shop, like where she currently worked. Her current boss is ready to retire, and she’s just waiting for him to let her know if she can take over, only all of a sudden he brings his son in, and now she’s afraid he plans to hand the shop to him instead of letting her take it over.

Robin was funny. She decided she didn’t want to be herself for a while, wanted to be someone different, so she put on Arthur’s clothes and tried to act like him and be him. She soon found out he wasn’t a good kisser. Which led to finding out more things about his inexperience. After a few kissing lessons, or kiss attacks as Robin called them, he had a real kiss, and knew that Robin was his soulmate. He’d wanted her since the first time his cousin had brought her to meet the family, but of course had put that out of his head because she was with his cousin.

And the two of them do the whole fake dating routine. But with all the help Robin gives Arthur to help with his inexperience, of course the two of them get to know each other better and grow closer and fall in love with each other. As they go along, there is not only Arthur’s cousin, Robin’s ex Daren, but also all of his brothers, I believe 3 others besides Daren? At first they are all mad at Arthur for supposedly stealing Daren’s girl. But Arthur finally finds out, exactly as I’d suspected, that Daren’s family didn’t know the truth behind why they broke up. And that changes it all.

I loved all the characters in the story. Not only the Green Valley gang we’ve met in other books, like Arthur’s postal worker friends, but also his family, because his mother was from India I believe? So he face-timed with them at one point and his grandmother, mother’s mom, fell in love with Robin when she saw her there. And let’s talk about the Kraut brothers, Arthur’s cousins who were basically like his brothers. I’m hoping we get a spin-off series with all of them getting their own HEAs!

About the Author

Lauren Connolly is an award-winning author of contemporary and paranormal romance stories. She’s lived among mountains, next to lakes, and in imaginary worlds. Lauren can never seem to stay in one place for too long, but trust that wherever she’s residing there is a dog who thinks he’s a troll, twin cats hiding in the couch, and bookshelves bursting with stories written by the authors she loves.