REVIEW: Trouble on Tap by Avery Flynn

Trouble on Tap by Avery Flynn: Olivia and Mateo are friends with benefits, until Olivia admits she wants more. This has Mateo running for the hills. Several years pass and Olivia comes back to town, and they have to face their feelings for one another.

Both Olivia and Mateo are dealing with issues. Olivia has to deal with the fact her ex is trying to ruin her, and that many in her hometown hate her, seeing her as only the wild Sweet triplet. Mateo is dealing with the loss of his unit in an IED explosion and with the physical and emotional scares from the event.

Mateo started out as a complete jerk. He was mean to Olivia, making snide remarks about her and her career as a model, having no idea that she’s actually going through her own personal hell. He’s grumpy, irritable, and at times downright hostile. Despite that, you can’t help but hope he gets a happy ending because he’s been through so much, and it’s clear his attitude is more of a defense mechanism than anything else.

I liked Olivia. Despite how the town treated her, and what she was going though with her ex, she kept her head up. And when the mayor tried to get her to back down from trying to fix the veterans center for the simple reason he saw her as trouble, she refused to cave in. She was determined to prove to everyone, including Mateo, that she wasn’t the wild, crazy girl she used to be.

While this is the third story in the series, it works fine as a stand alone. The other two books are about Olivia’s sisters Miranda and Natalie. I hadn’t read these but had no problem following the story or the characters, as the two sisters aren’t predominately featured.

Book Info:

Publication: July 14, 2015 | Avery Flynn | Sweet Salvation Brewery #3

What fun is life without a little bit of trouble?

Retired supermodel and forever wild child Olivia Sweet is nothing but trouble. The youngest Sweet triplet is back in her hometown, but instead of a triumphant return it’s a parade of humiliations. She’s broke, homeless and dealing with the fallout from her scumbag ex-boyfriend publishing naked pictures of her to a revenge porn website.

Staid and stalwart veteran Mateo Garcia has seen more trouble than a man ever should in his lifetime. He’s gone from pretty boy Marine to a small town police chief with a chip on his shoulder and scars covering the left side of his face. Now his former lover, Olivia, is back in town and living next door.

When the two are forced to work together to fix up the crumbling veterans’ center, the sparks fly between the beauty and the man who sees himself as a beast. Not everyone is happy that Olivia is back home though and Mateo has to choose between the town who wants her gone and an uncertain future with a woman who he thinks could never love him…