Neither book two or three held the same attention as book one which had a suspense element. I also thought the way it all wrapped up with the civil war ghost could have been better. They could have found an archived letter to read to her or something. Still....I get hooked on the characters and have to read all three! ( )

Ryder es el Montgomery más difícil de descifrar; duro por fuera y nada blando por dentro. Es hosco y huraño, pero cuando se pone un cinturón de herramientas no hay mujer que se resista a sus andares arrogantes. Salvo, al parecer, Hope Beaumont, la gerente de su propio hostal…
Como antigua directora de un hotel en Washington, Hope está acostumbrada a la emoción y el glamour, pero eso no significa que no sepa apreciar las alegrías de vivir en una ciudad pequeña. Está donde quiere estar… salvo en su vida amorosa. Su única relación con el sexo contrario ha sido discutir con el irritante Ryder, que siempre parece sacarle de quicio. Pese a todo, ninguno puede negar la chispa que hay entre ellos… una chispa que prender con un beso en Nochevieja.
Mientras que el hostal va como la seda gracias a la experiencia y el instinto infalible de Hope, su pasado en la gran ciudad está a punto de hacer una poco grata y embarazosa aparición. Ver a Hope vulnerable agita las emociones de Ryder y hace que se dé cuenta de que, si bien Hope no es perfecta, sí que lo es para él…

Enjoyable book in the Boonsboro Inn series. You can tell that Roberts knows about running an Inn. I liked this book better than the second book in the trilogy but the first was my favorite. The women in the series seemed perhaps a little too perfect-- where did they get all that energy? ( )

I have mixed feelings about this trilogy. First off, while the characters are engaging, they are all rehashes of other Nora Roberts characters... (Ryder is Malcolm from the Brides quartet and Xander from The Obsession, Hope and Owen are both Parker from Brides, etc). And presumably the character of Justine is meant to be Nora Roberts herself, as her family does seem to own about half of Boonsboro, MD...which pretty much makes the trilogy one long advertisement for her businesses. All that being said, the advert worked, as I am ready to take a trip to stay at Inn Boonsboro (perhaps in the Eve and Roarke room, wink wink nudge nudge). ( )

Ehhh not too much to say. I loved Hope and loathed Ryder. I am glad for the most part that Roberts latest contemporary romances do not have the whole alpha male who is an asshole, but secretly has a heart of gold thing. Most of the crap Ryder did to Hope was "negging" in the first two books (he refuses to use her name and calls her innkeeper) and I thought too many people kept giving him passes. The only reason why I gave this three stars was that Hope was great, that the trilogy seems to take place over a two year period, and it was nice to read a romance that didn't take place in New York. I think Roberts skipped past some really good sub-plots in order to get back to the "investigation" into Lizzy which I still didn't care about.

"The Perfect Hope" finds the Inn Boonsboro ready for the summer. Clare is married and expecting, Avery is engaged to get married the following year, and now Hope feels a bit lost. She was left hurt by the end of her last relationship and realizing that the man she was with, didn't love her, and his family really didn't care about her at all. When her friends propose Ryder (why you guys? Are there no other men) Hope considers it and then proposes a "situation with no strings" with Ryder.

I just have to say this, Hope was too good for Ryder. I really wish that Roberts had some tension develop with her realizing that Ryder was set in his ways and wasn't opening himself up to her. The way he talked to her in this book and the last two books really set my teeth on edge. And I hated that Hope's supposed friends made it seem like well maybe he has a thing for you. Nope. Nope. Nope.

Ryder doesn't change at all (IMHO) he just stays the same and then goes around and does the He-Man crap when a situation comes up involving Hope. I just wasn't feeling him at all since it didn't seem to me he was in love with Hope at all. The story put them together, but I wasn't seeing true love through the ages.

The resolution to the whole ghost thing was eyeroll inducing. I went really a few times and just didn't care. I think for me that the series was just a platform to showcase Roberts new business and I wish that there had been more development of the last two romances in the series. I loved Clare and Beckett, loved Avery and felt meh about Owen, and then loved Hope and loathed Ryder. ( )