Truth or Beard: A Small Town Romantic Comedy (Winston Brothers Book 1)

Listened to as an audio book, seemed slow to build up to anything. Other than the slight confusion from alllll the names thrown at you its overall a good read, or rather listen.

Was a simple, lovely, easy story. Would easily read the rest of the series.

4.5 Stars

I came into this book with *very* big hesitation. I'm not a "romance" reader, but damn if this isn't a well written book!

I'm now almost finished with the second one and the third is already queued up on my Kindle. :)

I’m torn about this book. On one hand, it has one of the hottest opening scenes of any romance novel I’ve ever read, on the other, it has some serious consent issues, and some major cringe moments (like a bit character who is a skinhead and everyone is apparently fine with that??!!)

The main character read as hopelessly young and immature, and I felt creepy reading about her getting railed in various public settings. I really like the premise of a bunch of brothers with beards. I just wish they were in their 30s, and their love interests were self-actualized feminists. Also NONE of the people in this town are LGBTQ? With so many characters, the lack of diversity is a real bummer.