Three Simple Words was intelligent, fun and sexy, but it was also about letting go and realizing that sometimes your idea of a perfect life can change when you find the right person. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
Description:
She’s holding out for a happy ever after.
Annie
I know where to find my happily ever after—between the pages of a romance novel. It’s why I sell books, why I blog about them, and why I’ll never get disappointed by love.
So what if my brother’s best friend from high school is now a bestselling author? Or that he just blew back into town on a Harley, filling out a pair of jeans like he never did before? Or that he’s agreed to do a signing at my bookstore on such short notice? Because despite all his adoring female fans, I kind of hated his book.
Wes
The last time I saw Annie Denning, she was a senior in high school, three years older than me and way out of my league.
Now I’m her last-minute date to a wedding, and what started as a night of pure fun has turned into something more real than either of us anticipated.
Annie is my muse. When I’m with her, my writer’s block fades away, and the words finally flow.
The only problem? She wants the fairy tale—her very own happily ever after—and anyone who’s read my book knows the truth. I just don’t believe they exist.
I somehow missed the release of Three Simple Words by A.J. Pine, but as soon as I realized it I 
jumped up and bought it because I thoroughly enjoyed the first two books in The Kingston Ale House Series and this one did not disappoint. A bestselling author whose book is being touted as a romance and whose hero is somewhat autobiographical returns to Chicago hoping to get rid of his writer’s block and pen his next bestseller. What he doesn’t expect is that his high school best friend’s sister who by the way HATED his book turns out to be his muse unlike any other he’s had before. Three Simple Words was intelligent, fun and sexy, but it was also about letting go and realizing that sometimes your idea of a perfect life can change when you find the right person.
Wes Hartley is riding high on his success as a best-selling author and enjoying the resurgence as his book hits the shelf in paperback, but Wes is struggling with writer’s block and his next deadline has come and gone. He knows he’s on borrowed time so after a successful tour, he heads “home” to Chicago, to reconnect with his best friend from high school and hopefully find some inspiration.
Annie is a firm believer in Happily Ever After and spends her days happily in her bookstore, Two Stories, and her evenings reading the romance she believes in and blogging about it. When her little brother’s best friend comes back to town and agrees to do a book singing in her shop at the request of her brother, who is she to say no even where she despises the book, because her store needs the business, she just never expected the 14 year old boy that use to play video games in her family home to be the hot man standing in her store.
I enjoyed watching Annie try not to like Wes and Wes trying to convince Annie that his book was more realistic than the romances she loves. They were never really antagonistic; in fact the attraction between them was strong from the start. I admired that Wes tried to abide by his friend’s wishes and not make Annie “research” for his next book, but she was determined to enjoy herself and knew going in there could never be more than a friends with benefits type arrangement. Wes realizing that Annie sparked his creativity, that she believe in his writing even if she didn’t like the way his book ended was a crucial moment in their relationship as was Annie realizing that Wes’ problems with relationships were much deeper than she ever expected. I liked these two together, I think they balanced each other nicely and I think they brought out very different sides of each other, something they both were surprised to see.
Wes had some really great lines, something Annie thought were “just lines,” but it became evident that she brought out his sweet and sensitive side just as much as he brought out her sexy, seductive side.
Each book in this series has been really different, each couple taking a different kind of journey to get to their happily ever after; but I’ve loved them all and Three Simple Words was an extraordinary addition to this series.
4.5 stars
Thanks for the great review Slick