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Mismatched in Mayhem

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I voluntarily read and reviewed an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for letting me read this book.
It was an easy read and the main characters are pretty likeable. This is the first book I've read by this author and in this series, and you don't need to read the previous books to appreciate the sisters and their names.
Emmet was delightful, and I liked that the author included him as a way to bring Walker and Mason back together. The other issues the characters had felt a little dramatic at times (mostly involving Cassandra) but I understand what the author was trying to do.

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This is the first book I have read by Ms. Rico and I loved it. This is a very clean, funny book filled with romance. Mason and Walker are polar opposites but they are also a perfect match. From theIr first meeting Mason is taken with a Walker. Now Walker on the other hand isn’t that impressed with Mason. He is just another to good looking, charming university student.

This book moves at a good pace with funny supporting characters. I really enjoyed this book and couldn’t put it down. It’s has a dual POV and is truly a sweet romance.

I received an advanced copy for an honest review:

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I love this series!
I always enjoy revisiting Mayhem.

What I liked:
The writing style
The characters
Dual POVs
The humor
Part of a series: Whiskey Sisters
Standalone
HEA
Epilogue

I look forward to reading Bailey's story.

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Time to head back to the small town of Mayhem, the most unique place in Minnesota!

Walker works at the family bar and meets Mason one night when his friends mistakenly leave him there after a night out. The attraction he has and Walker share is evident fairly quickly. I liked seeing her open up to and connect with someone outside her sisters.

The writing, characters, and plot are just as charming and sweet as the earlier books in the series. That's not to say Mason and Walker don't make some mistakes along the way, but their journey to happily ever after is realistic and entertaining! I also loved getting to catch up with Walker's sisters, Fr. Romance, and the other citizens of Mayhem. I hope we get to see more of them in Bailey's book!

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Walker finds her match in Mason!

Walker O’Halloran runs the family bar with her sisters and takes classes at the community college when graduate student Mason Stevens entered her life. He was left behind after his friends spent an evening at the bar so Walker gave him a ride home and he really wanted her phone number but she shot him down because she didn’t date customers. Mason has a hard time with dating because he wasn’t sure if people wanted to meet him or his mother who was a movie star. He needs to tell her or the tabloids were going to do it for him.

Mismatched in Mayhem by L.E. Rico made me laugh a lot about the people that lived in Mayhem and the Knitty Kitty especially what the cats would look like in the sweaters. You need to read Mismatched in Mayhem if you like your romance with a side of laughter.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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This was a cute, adorable story. I loved Walker and Mason, they were such a sweet couple and deserved their happy ever after. 💞

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This was a new to me author & I was decently surprised. While at times the plot dragged on a bit, the majority of the story was enjoyable & entertaining. The unusual names of the family members were hilarious but made sense in the context of this story. The key item I took out of this story is to remain open to explanations no matter what you think you see or hear. Your own insecurities could be coloring the scene.

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Walker O’Halloran is taking a new approach to her life, a more responsible and calmer one. Now that she and her sister's have become owners of their families pub she knows that is where her priorities should lie. Not to mention it conveniently makes her too busy to date or pay attention to any man... that is until Mason Stevens comes waltzing through the door!

Mismatched in Mayhem is a charming story brimming with humor and heart, and laced with bits of drama and emotion too. This one turned out to be a very enjoyable first read for me, the characters quickly made me feel welcome in their world, and were also quick to steal my heart too. Highly recommend you get your hands on this one, it's characters will tell you a story that will touch your heart, make you laugh and make your heart skip a beat!

I requested an advanced copy of this title from the publisher, and I am voluntarily leaving my honest opinion.

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A great read.

The story of Walker and Mason. They meet when he is drinking in her family's pub. He likes her, particularly the fact that she doesn't know who he is. She is set against relationships so can he convince her to give him a chance?

Looking forward to the rest of this series!

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Back to Mayhem with the Whiskey Sisters! To say this is a unique series is an understatement. The community, the sisters' names, did I say the community lol!

Walker is carrying a heavy burden, unnecessarily, but try telling any female not to worry or feel guilt and see how well that goes. She's closed herself off to any forms of happiness beyond her little family, after all, she feels she Diane deserve it

Mason Stevens needs Walker's assistance after being left at her pub. He is almost instantly smitten but she is totally different that any other woman he has dated. Also, will Walker accept his family secret.

This story has fun, hilarity, and good ole family interference. The love story, romance and troubles that keep popping up make for a very entertaining and fun read

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Mismatched in Mayhem by LE Rico a fabulous four-star read. I was so tempted to give this five-stars as it deserved it in parts, but there were also a few parts that dragged a little. The characters and the story were great and well done, but the padding for the story just got a bit too much at times. I didn’t realise that this was number four in the Whisky sister’s series, and I will be gong back to read the rest as the sisters each had such great stories to tell. I really identified with Walker, she had a great softness to her under the harsh bartender shell, she shows it when she interacts with Farther Romance and Jake, but she is also a great watcher, watching life and doing what she can. Mason Stevens is a great character most of the time, but I did want to shake him once or twice, but not as much as I did his parents, it took a while for me to warm to them. This story had great depth and gave us some great characters, it also showed us different sides of people and that was surprising and very well done. I will be looking out for this author as I enjoyed the story and the writing.

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An entertaining romance between a female bartender, Walker, and a young man, Mason, who finds himself attracted to the lovely bartender. Since their fathers’ death, Walker and her sisters own the O’Halloran Pub. Since this was the fourth book in the series, I think I would have enjoyed the story more if I had read the previous three books. Mason is never sure if he is loved for himself or his wealthy family and does not tell Walker about his famous movie star mother. He is eventually outed by the media. Will Mason’s family accept Walker, and will she give a romance between them a chance? Witty dialog between the various characters adds to the charm of this story. I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (by paytonpuppy)

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This was a cute, sugary HEA (Happily Ever After) romance that is sure to get anyone out of their reading slump, which I can attest too. First, this is part of the Whiskey Sisters series but it stands alone on its own. The reason I bring this up is all 4 sisters have the most amazing names in the world. This story follows Johnny Walker, Walker to her friends and family, as she falls in love with Mason the son of a hollywood actress. This story is full on angst as both characters deal with the realization of who Mason's mother is along with a alcoholic ex-girlfriend that doesnt know how to tell her new fiance that she has a problem. I laughed until I was crying when we met Winston Churchill and his arch-nemesis Prince Harry and Meghan along with the owner of the pie shop who has a psychic ability like no other. The family dynamic and the cuteness of this small town has me interested in reading the other 3 sisters stories.

Thank you to netgalley, L.E. Rico and Entangled Publishing for allowing me to review this book for my honest review.

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Mayhem, Minnesota is the most wonderful and wacky of small town literature. This one is pure perfection.
Hilarious and very touching. I loved Walkers story and you will too.
Touches on Autism, Grief and the price of celebrity all surrounded by loving and quirky family and friends.

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****Mismatched in Mayhem is a delightful young adult read. Walker and her three sisters inherited the family pub when their dad passed. Walker has let feelings of guilt prevent her from doing anything other than work and school. Fear of failure has kept her from totally committing to a college degree. Grad student Mason is determined to change that. He wants a relationship, but he has that pesky Hollywood connection that has him on reporters’ radar. What follows is a book that should make young adult readers happy that that they invested their time. The author has written a sweet, quirky, funny and often revealing story set in Mayhem, Michigan, a small town populated with characters that are well, characters...like Fr. Romance, some four legged critters with royal names, and a psychic pie shop owner. I voluntarily reviewed an advance copy of this book from NetGalley.

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Mismatched in Mayhem is the third book in the Whiskey Sisters series, something I had no notion of prior to reading this novel. It was a little hard for me to keep track of all the four sisters and their significant others and the extended branches of their families because I had not read their books.
In this book the female protagonist Walker holds a heavy personal dislike of romantic relationships, something the reader vies to find out about throughout the story but her reason for this barely makes an appearance until the very end of the story. It was frustrating to read a book where the male lead is heavily pursuing a female who says no for more than half of the book.
Mason, Walker’s latent love interest holds his own personal secret regarding his family which he fails to tell Walker about until he is backed into an un-accomodating corner and it ekes out. Mason continually makes decisions in his personal life that he knows he should reveal to Walker, but always chooses not to. There is limited growth in Walker’s character, and I was continually frustrated reading this book by this lack of sea change. Mason’s parents were incredibly easy to dislike, and I felt like Walker had to actively impress them in order for them to give their seal of approval to her relationship with their son.
The lasting flavor to coat my mouth for Mismatched in Mayhem is frustration. While there were cute moments sprinkled into their romance, in the short amount of time that this couple knew each other, it was a bumpy roller coaster ride, complete with loop-de-loops and swirls.

I received an ARC from the author and publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Mismatched in Mayhem is the story of the third “Whiskey” sister - Johnny “Walker” O’Halloran. Since her father’s death nearly five years earlier, Walker has dedicated her life to running his pub. While the pub is owned equally by all four of the “Whiskey” sisters, it is Walker who has managed the business to the exclusion of having a personal life. She has done so as penance, as she feels responsible for her father’s death.

Mason’s parent are Hollywood royalty; his mother is an Oscar=winning actress, and his father is a well-known producer. Despite these credentials, his parents chose to raise Mason and his autistic brother Emmett in a small Minnesota town. Now a graduate student, Mason hasn’t been dating since a well-publicized break-up with a Hollywood starlet.

Mason and Walker meet when he and some buddies spend an evening in O”Halloran’s Pub. After his friends mistakenly leave Mason behind, Walker agrees to give him a ride back to the university. Despite her determination to avoid a relationship, Walker eventually agrees to a date with Mason.

Do Mason and Walker have a chance of a HEA with a cast of crazy characters in a town called “Mayhem”?

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