Book Review: When Sparks Fly by Helena Hunting

Charming, hilarious, and emotional...When Sparks Fly is Helena Hunting at her very best!

Avery Spark is living her best life. Between her friends, her sisters, and Spark House, the event hotel her family owns, she doesn’t have much time for anything else, especially relationships. She’d rather hang out with her best friend and roommate, Declan McCormick, than deal with the dating scene. But everything changes when she is in a car accident and needs someone to care for her as she heals.

Declan avoids relationships, giving him a playboy reputation that he lives up to when he puts a one-night stand ahead of a promise he made to Avery. While he may not have been the one driving the car, he feels responsible for Avery’s injuries and is determined to make it up to her by stepping into the role of caretaker.

Little did they know that the more time they spend in compromising positions, the attraction they’ve been refusing to acknowledge becomes impossible to ignore. When they finally give in to the spark between them, neither is prepared for the consequences. Their love is fragile and all it will take is a blow from the past to shatter it all.

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My Review:

This book is a mostly sweet, thoroughly fun story, with a bit of an emotional roller-coaster element to it. I really liked Avery and Declan. I particularly liked them together. I had a lot of fun giggling at the situations they wound up in as Declan played nurse and the pair started to realize what their true feelings for one another were. It made my heart bleed to see how badly scarred Declan had been by his parents’ relationship. But I especially appreciated that this wasn’t a story of True Love simply conquering all. It took work and compromise and a commitment to making their relationship the best it could be to bring about the ending they get. Now that we’ve met Avery and her sisters, I hope we get the chance to know them better in future books about the other two Sparks.

I received a complimentary advanced copy of this book through NetGalley.