Kiss and Tell

Creekville Kisses, Book 3

By: Melanie Jacobson

Narrated by: Jorjeana Marie

Tabitha Winters, glamorous celebrity chef, loves her life and growing empire in New York. But when her best friends buy the old summer camp where they worked as counselors, she can't turn down their invitation to appear at the opening week fundraising gala . . . even if it means confronting the memories of her first love and its disastrous ending.

She never imagines she'll run into Sawyer Reed again-her old flame has no business being at Oak Crest. And worse? He's there to collect on a marriage pact they made ten years ago when they were clueless college kids. But Tabitha never could resist a dare, and when Sawyer double dares her to give him a week to show her they still have their old magic, she's all in to prove he's wrong.

Only she doesn't count on him knowing her better than he has a right to. Or having the perfect dates to charm her. And she definitely didn't plan on their attraction still burning hotter than the end-of-season bonfire. But summer camp isn't real life, and Tabitha won't let the spell he's weaving derail her well-planned future. Except no other guy has ever gotten to her the way Sawyer does, and as his knee-buckling kisses work their magic, Tabitha wonders: can she risk her heart again on the only man who ever broke it?

©2022 Melanie Jacobson (P)2024 Tantor

The scenes from the past were annoying.

I didn’t like this book as much as the others in the series. I’m hoping the next book goes back to the original format with his viewpoint and her viewpoint. If this was a free book it would have gotten 5 stars. Since I had to use a credit, it wasn’t worth it.

Teenage avoidance and camp shenanigans

Decades of being apart because they couldn’t just talk to each other made this a frustrating listen. The first half of the book spends every other chapter nine years in the past, belaboring young love between camp counselors Tabitha and Sawyer. The midpoint reveal of what estranged them was ridiculous.

The second half has Sawyer wanting to mend things and then revealing he’s been lowkey stalking her for almost a decade. The second half then has her avoiding him because … stupidity. All the while, their friends enable their stupidity instead of staging an intervention or locking them in a camp cabin or anything fun or reasonable. Seven of this eight hour book was unnecessary. The last hour of small town romance wasn’t enough to make this a book I’d recommend.