This is a Clean Romance. I have to say I know what was going to happen in this book within a few chapters of this book. I found the characters ok. Overall, I just found this book ok and kindof boring. I had high hopes for this book, and I felt the book could have been so much better. I was kindly provided an e-copy of this book by the publisher (Harlequin Heartwarming) or author (Amy Vastine) via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review about how I feel about this book, and I want to send a big Thank you to them for that.

I loved reading about Blake and Amanda. I thought they had chemirsty. Its a heartfelt and enjoyable to read. Its wonderful written. It has a good storyline. Its a page turner.
I read and and reviewed an Advanced Copy of this book All thoughts and opinions are of my own. Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Heartwarming for letting me ready this story.

Montana Wishes is book 2 in the Blackwell Sisters series. This is the next series following the Blackwell Brothers series which introduced us the the Blackwell family. I loved that series and I'm loving this new series. With Montana Wishes we get to see sister Amanda Harrison. We travel along with Amanda as she comes to terms with her emotional and physical issues. As well dealing with long held secrets. This is a clean romance, which is wonderful. The characters are realistic and well written. The author handles the issues Amanda faces with grace and sensitivity. Fans of the Harlequin Heartwarming line of romances will love this book. It will also appeal to fans who are looking a romance that goes beyond just the normal heat you see when a couple is in love. There is an emotional depth to this story that is well done. I highly recommend Montana Wishes to all. And the Blackwell Sisters series is one to follow! I can't wait to see what's next! Highly Recommended!

Thank you NetGalley, Harlequin and Amy Vastine for gifting me an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review!
If you’re in the mood for a light, clean romance with a HAE to cleanse your palate, look no further! I love reading Harlequin romance novels because they always leave me in a good mood and feel refreshed after heavier reads. With this being a clean romance, the drama was kept to a minimum and the love was the main focus! Sometimes that is so much better than a plot heavy story.
Amanda Harrison has been dealt two heavy blows. First she discovers her last name is actually Blackwell and her family roots lie in Montana. Then her best friend and secret crush gets engaged to another woman. Suddenly Amanda is feeling anything but stable. Little does she know Blake has been in love with her for as long as he can remember and he’s just doing what he can to move on from Amanda. Blake agrees to help Amanda move one of her sisters to Montana and things take off from there.
There’s chemistry, a few laughs and even more sweet moments. I love a good road trip, it really is the best setting to fall in love with someone! The topic of infertility is broached in this book and as someone with PCOS who struggled with this myself, I really appreciated seeing it in a book. SO many people struggle with infertility but we’re just now really starting to read about it in books. Just another way to connect to the characters!
This is book #2/5 in The Blackwell Sisters series. Each book is written by a different author which I haven’t seen before in a series and I think is a very neat idea!

“Montana Wishes”, by Amy Vastine, is the second book in The Blackwell Sisters series. Amanda Harrison, one of the triplets in a family of five sisters, recently learned that she is related to the Blackwell’s, a ranching family from Montana. Her sister, Lily, ran away to Montana and now wants to marry a cowboy. Amanda agrees to bring Lily’s belongings to Montana in the hopes of bringing her home to San Diego. Blake Collins, her best friend from childhood agrees to take the road trip with her. Life is changing too fast for Amanda and she has trouble accepting the facts. This is a story with a heart wrenching secret; a story of the importance of family and friendship; a story to discover if DNA truly defines a family unit. This is a story I enjoyed reading and look forward to the rest of the series.

Amy Vastine’s contribution to Tule Publisher’s The Blackwell Sisters series is with Montana Wishes. This a clean romance that is truly one that’ll sweep you away with a story of family strife, discovery, and acceptance. I rather like that while Blake and Amanda’s story has completed its journey towards their HEA, all was not tied up in a nice neat little bow...with the hope that their loose ends will be tied up later in subsequent stories of the remaining sisters, Payton, Grace, and Fiona...Lily’s story also continues towards its own completed HEA during Montana Wishes, with more hopefully also to come.

I enjoyed the depth and personalities of the characters, with the secondary Blackwell family characters adding more richness to the story. All the characters were realistic and relatable...they certainly captured my heart, and I look forward to revisiting them in the stories to come in this series.

This ARC book was complimentary, provided by the Publisher and NetGalley. I am voluntarily providing my honest review.

Deeply emotional best-friends-to-lovers romance!

Quick content warning: this story focuses on a woman’s infertility issues, without any magic answers.

Amanda and Blake have been best friends since high school, but knowing she can’t give him the family he’s always wanted keeps her from letting their relationship advance. Preferring to be the one who helps fix everyone else’s problems, she refuses to let anyone know about her secret. As much as he might want more, Blake has resigned himself to accepting whatever level of friendship he can from Amanda, and is trying to move on with Nadia.

They agree to drive to Montana to help her sister, Lily, move permanently to the Blackwell Ranch. This time together doesn’t hold a lot of surprises, but even though we know what has to happen to secure their HEA, there’s a quiet beauty in how it is executed. This is not a story of a couple falling in love; rather, it’s a story of a couple who have been in love forever but they need a little help sorting through a mountain of obstacles that life has dealt them.

There’s enough humor here to lighten the mood and keep the story from too much despair, but the strong emotional interplay between Amanda and Blake is coupled with a heartwarming focus on expanding one’s definition of family as Amanda adds a whole slew of cousins and their spouses and children to her own family tree.

The all-secrets-revealed scene was well worth waiting for, and so beautifully done it nearly brought me to tears. I loved the subsequent family conference call and how her sisters rallied around her and Blake, offering support and suggestions in equal measure. All in all, this was a terrific book that could easily be read on its own but it’s infinitely better as part of the overall series. I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book.

I received an advanced copy from NetGalley for an honest review and I want to thank them for allowing me to give my honest opinion. When I read the blurb, I had high hopes that the Hero was fake engaged or some such plot, but nope.

My review & rating is based on my own personal tastes and has nothing to do with the writing or story in itself. I just don't enjoy stories in which one (or both) mcs are in relationships with OP. When I pick up a fictional romance, I want the fantasy of having the couple I am reading about be about them and no one else! I don't want to have my mind wander about the OW and what Hero is doing with her, what "first" experiences he is sharing with her, how he is in love with someone else, is sleeping with them and going through all the emotions that should be reserved for heroine. Nope. It ruins it for me right from the start if my mind has to wonder or read about it.

In this story, while there are many things that annoyed me, I especially didn't like the fact Hero is trying to force the heroine & his fiancee whom he dated for 2 months to be BFFs. I didn't like how he tried to make them think they were so much a like, etc.

For me personally, that type of trope/theme is a turnoff and I just couldn't enjoy the story once it started this way. I struggled to finish and unfortunately it didn't make me enjoy it any better.

Again, this is my personal view. For folks who don't mind that sort of thing, you may enjoy it.