When Alec Met Evie

Title: When Alec Met Evie

Series: Appies #6

Author: Jenny Proctor

Publisher: Jenny Proctor Creative

Genre: RomCom, Contemporary Romance, Fiction

Source: Kindle Unlimited

My Review:

I love the Appies series and I am working my way through it. When Alec Met Evie is the sixth in the series, but each book works well as a standalone novel.

I have been looking forward to Alec's story from the beginning of the series, and it doesn't disappoint. He goes from living alone to a house full, and it brings out dad vibes he didn't know he was capable of. 

Evie and Alec are great together. They have a history together, and getting to know each other as adults makes their relationship move faster than it probably would have. It doesn't feel forced or fast, especially since they have known each other for most of their lives.

There is a great cast of characters, from Evie and Alec to Ruth, the twins, and the rest of the Appies team.

Read for:

🏒 the Appies

🏒 witty banter

🏒best friend's brother

🏒age gap (9 years)

🏒cameos of characters from the other books

🏒single mom

🏒forced proximity

🏒text messages

🏒 Alec singing to Juno

🏒coffee every morning

🏒the ending

★★★★/5

Synopsis (Amazon):  

Evie told herself not to fall for her pro-hockey crush. But when she sees him holding her baby girl, all bets are off.

When Evie moves South to the same mountain town where her childhood crush plays pro-hockey, she arms herself with all the reasons why she can’t fall for him again.

Number one: Alec is her best friend’s much older brother.
Number two: She’s recently divorced and does not need another man in her life. At least not anytime soon.
Number three: With a four-month-old daughter, she has zero time for dating.

Trouble is, Evie doesn’t know another soul in North Carolina, so when her rental floods before she’s even moved in, her only option is to crash with Alec for a few weeks. When she protests, he insists it’s what he’d do for his sister, and that’s basically what she is to him.

But all these years later, the unexpected chemistry between them definitely says otherwise.

A new relationship is risky when Evie is still licking her wounds from her divorce, and she has no idea if Alec has any desire to be a dad. His sister already warned he isn’t the type to settle down.

But she can’t make herself care about any of that. Not until she’s already fallen, and it might be too late to save herself from another heartbreak.