Jocelyn

Title: Jocelyn: City Girls Don't Fall for Cowboys

Series: Sewing in SoCal #2

Author: Sarah Monzon

Publisher: Radiant Publishers

Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance, Christian Fiction, 

Source: Own

My Review:

Jocelyn is the second book in the Sewing in SoCal series by Sarah Monzon. While each book can be read as a stand-alone novel, I recommend reading them in order as the friends are in each book and you will get minor spoilers to the earlier books.

This story was so much fun to read. My only regret is taking so long to read it (5 years!!). Jocelyn is a strong female character and is sure of who she is. While going on a work retreat to a dude ranch should have put her out of her comfort zone, she found a part of herself she didn't know was missing.

"Just when I'd started to get a little more comfortable with the number of females on the ranch, they'd multiplied."

Malachi. He is the sweetest, most awkward male character. Endearingly so. I loved getting to know him and seeing his relationship with Jocelyn. I also loved his Gran! I love all these stories that have a wonderful grandmother figure; they add so much to the story.

I look forward to reading Nicole's story next, and seeing more of Jocelyn and Malachi!

★★★★/5

Challenges: Mount TBR, Oceana's Read Christian Romance = Floral cover; 

Synopsis (Amazon):  

City girls do not belong at dude ranches.

There are a few things everyone should know about Jocelyn Dormus.

1. She hates her job at a financial conglomerate but will never leave it because stability is more important than creativity.
2. Being a Black female in the corporate world, she has to work twice as hard and never show weakness. Even if weakness comes in the form of her reaction to her boss announcing the corporate retreat taking place at a dude ranch and she think the idea of bugs, riding horses, and camping sounds like unnecessary torture.
3. She's more passionate about the weekly sewing get together than anyone--even her closest friends--know.

Jocelyn Dormus is great at her job even if she hates every minute of it. When her boss announces their yearly corporate retreat is to take place on a dude ranch, she responds how she always does at work--outward calm while inwardly screaming. She's a city girl. She doesn't belong--nor wants to be--within ten feet of a horse. But she can't let her coworkers know of her fear or inexperience. She can learn to ride a horse from a YouTube video, right?

Malachi Thomas us doing everything he can to keep his family's legacy alive--including inviting outsiders onto his family's working ranch to play cowboy for a week even though he's painfully shy. He's seen his fair share of greenhorns, but these bigwigs from the city are something else. Especially the woman who makes his heart gallop in his chest whenever she's around.

She's city. He's country.
She's effervescent and outgoing. He's reticent and tongue-tied around people.
Opposites may attract, but can attraction lead to something that lasts forever?

Jocelyn is book #2 in the Sewing in SoCal series. Each book is a stand alone sweet, closed-door romantic comedy that follows members of the same sewing group through their romantic misadventures.

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