Yay! Starting the New Year off with a five star read from Carrie Ann Ryan. Whiskey Secrets is the first book of her brand new series (a spin-off of the Montgomery Ink series. If you haven't started Montgomery series it is perfectly okay to read this as a stand-alone) Whiskey and Lies. The Collins Family first introduced in Ink Exposed when they ran to Tabby's rescue. The brothers, Dare, Loch, and Fox, I knew instantly would get their own series after reading that book, and the wait has been worth it. As always Carrie Ann Ryan's writing pulls at your heartstrings, the characters are so well written they are deep and flawed and they real do end up feeling like they are my friends.
Dare never thought he would end up a bartender, ok so he's more than a bartender he runs not only the family bar but the restaurant too, Old Whiskey Restaurant and Bar, it's essentially two seperate places not to mention all the stuff he does for the Old Whiskey Inn attached. But Dare really doesn't mind because it keeps him busy and not thinking about the son he only gets to see one weekend a month.
Kenize Owens was eager to start her new job as the innkeeper at the Old Whiskey Inn. It is her way of starting over in a new place away from all the people who she knew and all their pitying looks. After years of dealing with verbal abuse from her husband getting away from everything was exactly what she needed. Being a big city girl moving to the small touristy town of Whiskey is going to take some getting use to.
Dare and Kenzie didn't start off on the right foot but after making up and Dare apologizing they start getting along, more than getting along they soon fall head over heels for each other but with Kenzie's past she's hesitant to let herself be in that vulnerable to another person again, and Dare is worried about keeping custody of his son he doesn't want to start something and then it be held against him. Kenzie is also afraid of her ex-husband who keeps trying to contact her and is obsessed with her not to mention her own idiot of a brother who causes her nothing but grief.
Overall, I loved everything about this book. The family dynamics are different than the Montgomery clan and that's good because not every family is the same but it isn't a drastic difference, they are still a very loving family, and they are for each other when they need it, they pick on each other, and get into each other's business but you can tell the differences when you read it. Kenzie and Dare are a great couple and Dare is so oblivious, I do love oblivious heroes. This was a great start for the series it gives a little look at the other two brothers and their lives, like Loch and his daughter and the fun easy going Fox (which means he's going to be the exact opposite in his book, which is the next book.)
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