Mirjana **DTR - Down to Read**'s Reviews > Beginner's Luck

***4 Stars***

WOW!! What a terrific debut! I absolutely fell in love with Kate Clayborn's characters, relationships, and writing style.

Ben is part of what home means to me now - he's not everything, but he might be the biggest thing, and he's going to change every careful arrangement I had set up in my life, but for once I'm so excited about that prospect.

There's so many wonderful nuggets of awesome to love in this book:

-A swoony slow burn romance centered on home repairs and butterflies and attraction and humor and fun

I can feel the way my smile changes, from laughing pleasure to flattered surprise - and he's watching it, watching that transformation.

There it is again, that feeling: I want to kiss her so bad that I can feel it in the palms of my hands, at the backs of my knees.

-Female friendships that are all about the support and love

-Family relationships that come in all different kinds of packages. As much as I loved Kit and Ben in this book, I was also head over heels in love with Ben's relationship with his dad

-A writing style that's easy and effortless and sucks you in from the prologue. You feel like you already know these characters but at the same time you can't wait to get to know the characters. That's definitely not an easy thing to pull off!

-Feels! From the romance butterflies, to the relatability, to the swoon, to just the right amount of heat...GAH!! So damn good!

...this rush of - heat, happiness, fun - coursing through me, this way I feel only when I'm around Kit....Kit makes me want everything, makes me want to be her best friend, her safe place, her family, and the guy who can fuck her until she can't remember her own name.

I can't wait to dive into the rest of the series and read Zoe and Greer's books!

This was a fantastic beginning to what looks to be an amazing series and the first book in what definitely looks to be a promising writing career for Kate Clayborn. She can count me as "One and Done!" One book is all it took to make a fan out of me!

She gives me a crooked smile, all mischief, a smacking kiss on my chin before pulling away. "Practice, Ben. For whatever comes."

Then she winks at me, twirling away, calling to Zoe and Greer for a dance, and I stare after her, stupid and stunned and more settled in my own skin than I've ever felt in my life.