Rock Bottom Girl: A Small Town Romantic Comedy Kindle Edition

This is a lovely, funny, heart-felt story about a girl that gets to find purpose, find love, and find herself in the very same environment that spawned all her worst fears and insecurities. She does this in that most hideous of all monsters: high school. Shudder.This book is funny, inspiring, and just plain great. Do yourself a great big favor and read it.

If you love entertaining, heart-warming and funny books – this is the book for you.I’m not usually into rom-coms but some author’s just work for me – and this author’s humor is right up my alley. Never too over the top, and without her characters being embarrassingly stupid, the humor was always just right, and the entire novel easily checked all my boxes – Rock Bottom Girl was a HIT!!I laughed out loud – and got some strange looks from the people at the hair salon – grinned some more, and just was plain happy reading this little gem.Rock Bottom Girl was all kinds of awesome things rolled into one.Sports romance – Small town – Romantic Comedy – Fake Relationship.A tattooed hero that was all kinds of yummy – but most of all as perfect as it gets. Supportive, incredibly well versed in hitting the right tone whenever needed, but still all kinds of edgy and ‘bad boy’. And one of those fictional teachers you wish were real.A spunky and feisty heroine, down on her luck, but still retaining her humor. The perfect person to get in trouble with. She is nothing short of awesome and incredibly likable – a down to earth, humble but also a kinda real character.And there were so many awesome supporting characters. I don’t really know where to start, Vicky, Libby, the Uncles, Amie-Jo – I could go on. Every single one brought something special to this book. And together it was one of these novels that just make you feel good. Low drama – but lot’s of fun.

As a lifelong resident of Lancaster County, PA, reading this book was so delightful in a way that literally every other book I’ve read about my hometown has lacked. As a rule, I tend to stay away from books set in LancCo because the cringe factor is palpable (especially those Amish romance and wannabe trad wife books written by women who’ve never lived here—blech). However, Lucy Score did this place justice in a big way. Her Lancaster references and descriptions were freakishly accurate and absolutely hilarious, as usual. (I sent my sister the entire Dutch Blitz scene through tears because I was laughing so hard. We’ve had similar experiences with that accursed game and how the competition ruins friendships and families worse than Monopoly😂 and it was just so perfect. Like, *chef’s kiss* perfection.) Not to mention, I could absolutely see this entire book playing out on the backdrop of my own small town Amish country high school.Okay so now that I’ve waxed on about my apparent hometown love, let me just say that not only does Lucy Score nail it with the setting, but my God, her characters and plot are fantastic. We all know where the story is going to eventually end up (and let’s be honest that’s part of what we love about her books), but the hi-jinks and situations the characters get into in the meantime are somehow both absolutely hilarious and entirely relatable, which is a hard thing to achieve. The banter/conversation is a 10/10 without being hokey, there’s always some hidden quirky side of the secondary characters that make them even more endearing, and maybe it’s just because I’m a 37 year old woman who had dreams of leaving her hometown behind for something bigger and better and still happily ended up here anyway (thankfully with my own wannabe bad boy with a good heart), but I loved this book so, so much. Definitely recommend.

I loved this book. It made me laugh, tear up, and research a game I never heard of. Great characters, even if I was wanting the main one to get slapped for her inability to accept good things. If you're looking for a fun escape, this is a good one.