There are a lot of home renovation / love stories out there and I thought this was the best in that trope! But warning - there is quite a bit of steam, much more than I expected! I also love a good treasure hunt mixed in to add a bit more excitement!

Maggie, a YouTube home renovator is constantly bouncing from project to project, and doesn't have a place to call home. Silas, aka "Hot Landscaper Guy", has a huge personality, and falls fast for Maggie and has some of the best lines to try to get her to relax and open up! They balanced each other quite well and I loved seeing Maggie's progression to feeling a bit more grounded. A few more things I loved in this book: found family, multiple new romances, and the best tag-along dog, Kevin! Maggie's story line with Cody had some of my favorite scenes and I adored their relationship and mentorship. I loved where all the characters ended up, but I did start to lose a bit of steam in the middle as it was quite long.

A book about an ever wandering house flipper and a hot landscaper with an adorable pitbull? Sign me up!

What I liked:
Silas's family dynamics
The house renovations and history
Kevin, the mischievous pitbull
The ending

What I Didn't Like:
Alpha male vibes
Overuse of the word 'darling' and other terms of endearment
The insta-love didn't really pass my vibe check
Quite a few mini plotlines in addition to the main that kind of muddle it at times
About 50 pages too long

And don't let this cute cover fool you; it gets 🔥🔥!!

Ok this was cute but at times it was too cute you know?
Like, I'm jealous and wish I could live the easy life of these characters who just happen to have everything work out so perfectly for them in such a short span of time!

The romance was good. I loved hearing about the house renovation project and I loved the side characters and would say I want booksfrom them but they wrapped up nicely in the end.

If you are in the mood for a feel good book with super sweet romance and not any real problems this is a good book for you!

Thank you to the publisher for an advanced copy!

I’ve been a Lucy fan for a long time - and this may be her best book yet! It never fails that when I finish a Lucy Score book I am going to want the stories for all the side characters - and this book is no exception! I will say that the ending does a really good job of showing where they all end up, but she just writes side characters SO well!! You want to know them all!! But this story is about Maggie and Silas - and their banter was all the things!! Silas was in love from the moment he saw Maggie and throughout the story he is trying to show her they are perfect for each other - all while restoring an amazing house with a bit of a mystery attached to it . My absolute favorite part was the ‘found family’. There was Silas’ family - who were all kinds of crazy and wonderful, but then add in Maggie and several others who together made this spectacular group of people who support each other. I just loved all the things - and can’t wait to do a reread!

Thank you Lucy, NetGalley and Forever Publishing for the ARC!

Holy steam! I laughed out loud so many times with this book. I thoroughly enjoyed Maggie and Sylia's banter and their chemistry was off the page!! It was everything that a RomCom needed to be. I loved it!!

There’s a reason I have tremendous faith in Lucy Score to always provide me with a good, uplifting story. I’m going to come right out and say it, this one’s for the Nora Roberts fans, the ones who grew up reading her stories, idyllic yet gripping, that were as rich in the community and work ethic and the found family as they were in the romance. Plus, fulfilling secondary romances. Me, I mean me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very romantic and sexier than my 90s-00s reads by far, but it’s rooted firmly within the other themes of the book; the house flipping and the landscaping tidbits and the town of Kinship, which I fell hopelessly in love with. Another thing the author has a talent for, making me fall for these adorable little towns when I myself living in one know it’s not that easy to build something so lovely in a close knit place like this. BRB going to socialize with a bunch of townies so they’ll adopt me as part of their family and introduce me to the local hottie. Just kidding, I’m a card carrying hermit.

Silas, our flirty charmer falls head over heels as soon as he lays eyes our very capable heroine Maggie, and pursues relentlessly but respectfully. This is somehow slow burning insta love and I was into it. Maggie is a scary efficient workaholic and as amazing at what she does as she is at moving on from her projects and her problems. She may have plans to chase her next big project after this latest ambitious undertaking, but Sy, and Kinship have different ideas. Our Silas with his big Taurus energy, works hard and plays hard, knows the value of self care and stopping to smell the roses, persistent where it counts, laidback but with a fierce temper when finally provoked, plant dad, dog dad, and just plain daddy. Hold on, let me finish swooning a little. Imma be honest, I didn’t think I’d be swayed by an Idaho dude, but our Hot Landscaper had me with his Darlins and his devotion to Maggie. And he has the best of modern families. They’re opposites, inexorably drawn together.

Speaking of families, I want to list out every single character we met and I loved, and their various romantic and non romantic relationships and the roles they played in making the book what it is, but that would be all of them and I don’t think we have time for that. I will mention Maggie’s BFF Dean and his little love story though. Swooon. Me Score writes the best BFFs that I want to steal for myself. Also the best siblings. And the most awesome parents. And adorably grumpy old men and equally adorable awkward teenagers. And obviously, the pets. Okay she does it all well and doing so much beautiful character work in about 400 pages while also writing a satisfying romance and family drama with a treasure hunt thrown in is nothing short of miraculous.

Just when you think I can’t come up with more superlatives, I’m about to start talking about probably my favorite part of the book, the last 25% or so. It was going to be a 4-4.5 star book until then, but thanks to some alchemical magic that occurred, everything came to geet he so well in the final act of the book that I couldn’t dream of rating it less than 5. All the signs and the little breadcrumbs converging into full circle moments that left my heart full of joy and wonder. Really there’s so much love in this book I wanted to bathe in it like a warm elixir for clear skin and immortal youth. Sue me I’m a sap, and Ms Score taught me it’s okay to be a sap sometimes.
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This was so sweet and I adored it!!! It was definitely a little cringey and the dialogue was very sickly sweet, but I cried at the end once everything came together.

Maggie is a house flipper and Youtuber, and the moment that her newest contractor shows up he decides he's going to win her over. It obviously works, and their romance is truly delightful!! The conflict was also nice to read as someone who is no longer in their early 20's - it was like, real life problems with no easy solutions and tbh some of it hit SLIGHTLY too close to home.

I can't wait to read more from Lucy Score!

For someone obsessed with renovation shoes, this was the perfect book for me. Maggie is a Youtube sensation who makes a killing off creating content about her flipping houses. Silas is a local landscaper with a ginormous dog and an open heart. I loved the small town romance vibe to the book and the banter was 10/10.

Thanks to Forever and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for a review!

So, we have Maggie. Maggie is a boss babe with a popular YouTube house-flipping show and some serious family drama. She travels all over the country fixing up homes with her ex-husband, Dean, and then placing them on the market. They never stay in one town for more than a few months, and that’s the way Maggie likes it.

That is until they come to the town of Kinship, Idaho, where she’s been tasked with renovating the Old Campbell Place, a huge Victorian mansion.

In this town, Maggies meets Sexiest Landscaper Alive, Silas. Silas immediately falls head-over-pruning-shears in love with Maggie, and Maggie slowly begins to soften when subjected to Silas’s and his dog Kevin’s charms. But even with her deepening feelings, she knows her time in Kinship is limited, despite everything that can go wrong going wrong with the renovations and meeting a rather eclectic group of the town’s residents along the way.

Will Maggie complete the work on time, or will sexy time with a certain someone and a mystery surrounding the mansion’s former owners derail her plans?

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What I didn’t like

Look, there was a lot going on in this one. At times, I felt like there was a little too much going on. Too many characters, too many subplots. This book kept on going on and on and felt tedious at times. I also was not too fond of Silas’s alpha male personality throughout much of the book. If a man acted with me the same way he acted with Maggie—possessive af—some major red flags would be going up.

What I liked

I really appreciated Maggie’s take charge, positive demeanor. She was no shrinking violet. I also liked most of the side characters in this one, with Dean and his snarky sense of humor being high up on that list. Kevin also added some lighthearted comic relief to a book that could feel heavy and slow-paced at times.

With the above caveats in mind, I recommend this one to fans of contemporary, open door romances with a dab of mystery thrown in for the hell of it.

Maggie Moves On combines some of my favorite things: light-hearted romance with a side of steamy sexy times, home improvement projects, and adorable yet poorly behaved dogs
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Maggie's life is singularly focused on three things: renovating dilapidated homes, building her home reno audience on YouTube, and moving on to the next project with no attachments. Sexy landscaper Silas Wright is determined to put a kink in those plans and do the impossible: make Maggie stay.

This book might be Ms Score's first traditionally published book to date, but she delivers the same quality writing, laugh-out-loud witty dialogue, dynamic characters, and swelteringly hot scenes her readers have loved for years.
If you're looking for well-plotted love story with a side of mystery, don't hesitate to give Maggie a read!

3.5-4 stars. This was a fun read. One of the things I enjoy about Lucy Score books is that she tends to have great "found family" plots. The cast of characters are always interesting, diverse, and well-developed.

I thought Silas could be a bit overpowering at times, but I liked that Maggie tended to pushed back on it. I'm not a big fan of the insta-love, and I guess that's where Silas would bug me, but despite that, I thought he was an interesting and devoted hero. Maggie had the biggest character growth out of the two of them, and I think it turned out well for her in the end. (the relationship with her dad was a bit too easily solved in my opinion, but I guess you can't really drag that out since he wasn't a focus point in the novel lol)

The side plot with the house and the story of its owners was also entertaining. I enjoyed watching that slowly unravel. You can never go wrong with a big old house filled with fun secrets!

But like I've mentioned with other Lucy Score books, it felt too long at times. Not as long as some of her other books, but still a bit long for the plot.

*ARC provided by NetGalley

This was a cute book. The lead love interest, Silas, wasn’t exactly my favorite but that doesn’t mean he’s bad. It was funny and sweet and interesting to see how much seemed like it was out of a show you watch on HGTV. I liked how there was 2 different romances going on at once. It did take a while for me to get into the story though. Started out a bit slow.

House flipping isn't something that holds a lot of interest for me, and neither do YouTube shows or insta-love. Maggie Moves On has 3/3 - but I absolutely loved it and will spend the rest of the review raving about it.

First off, the insta-love was *very* different from the usual. Our hero, Silas, is immediately attracted to Maggie and has no qualms about sharing it, in joking statements about falling in love and being together forever on the first day they meet. It just FIT with his personality instead of screaming gross like it normally does to me. It definitely helps that it is dual POV so you can get Silas' perspective - it's really just that every little fact he learns about Maggie seems perfectly formed to call to him and he is just so easy-going. And Maggie handles it so well, giving it back to him just as much.

So Maggie is in Idaho to flip a big, old, historic house for her YouTube show before she moves onto the next project, as she's been for ages now. But this house feels different, it quickly starts to feel like home. Especially when she grows more and more fond of Silas, makes friends, and basically adopts a wayward teenager to make sure he does his math homework and doesn't fall in with the wrong crowd. Outside of her trauma and insecurities, she's basically perfect and frankly I would date her.

Maggie Moves on has everything, a stellar romance (with some spice), a plot line that includes a treasure hunt, historical investigations, and house flipping, a secondary romance between two side characters that is utterly sweet and very gay, and amazing friendship and parenting. It's about finding exactly what you're looking for in the places you least expect and making your own type of family. It was amazing and I hope everyone loves it.

**Thank you to Forever and Netgalley for an early copy in exchange for an honest review**

This was my first read from Lucy Score. It was a delightful story. I enjoy watching shows about flipping houses and redoing them, so I was excited to read this. I liked the feature of the house flipping being a major part of the story. I could vividly see the Old Campbell Place as I read. Maggie and Silas had their moments. They could be really cute together when they were on the same page with their feelings. These two had good banter and I enjoyed that. I liked the dynamic of Silas's family. They were blended and mixed and got along so well. They truly loved each other and that was great to see. I was also charmed by the townspeople of Kinship, Idaho. They were resilient and there for each other. It was a pleasant small town. For my first book by this author, this was a nice start. There were more things I liked in the story than disliked so I was interested until the last page. Overall, this was a fine read. I will probably read more Lucy Score books in the future.

🛠Maggie Moves On 🛠

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 (4 Stars)
Steam: 🌶🌶🌶/5 (a few very descriptive steamy scenes)

I used a mix of Ebook and audiobook while reading this one!
Narration: the narrator was good! Did a good job of distinguishing between characters

No spoiler review 👇🏻

I really enjoyed this book!! It was a fun Rom Com

This book follows Maggie, a YouTube house renovator and Silas a landscaper, she hires for her most current project. Maggie flips houses and then moves on to another house…but this time she starts getting attached to Silas and the town…

This made for a fun read! If you like HGTV, small towns and steamy romance I think you’ll enjoy this. Plus Kevin the dog! (It’s Kevin’s world and we are just living in it)

I also liked the secondary romance of Silas’ brother Michael and Maggie’s producer Dean, it was cute and a great LGBT couple.

This was hilarious and sweet! I really enjoyed it. My reason for 4 stars is because the middle dragged a small bit. But overall a fun RomCom…with some steamy scenes!

Thanks to Netgalley, Hachette Audio, Forever Publishing for the copy in exchange for my honest review.

Maggie Moves On was an OK read for me. I liked the book's premise but couldn't stay engaged with the story and care very much about the characters. There was an interesting storyline about the house's history and the lost treasure that could've been more developed and would add more adventure to the story. My favorite character was Kevin the dog, a service animal school drop-out!

✨ Review ✨ Maggie Moves On by Lucy Score

I absolutely LOVED this book. It was a total delight - full of swoony attraction, steamy steaminess, joy-filled HEAs, heartwarming found-family, hilarious fun with pets, and so much more.

Maggie and her best friend Dean have a popular you tube home renovation show and in this book they jump right in to their biggest project yet -- an old 18-room mansion in Kinship, Idaho. Maggie and Dean hire Silas to head up the landscape renovation, and he quickly becomes the Hot Landscaper Guy, fawned over by Maggie's 900,000+ followers. Maggie and Silas connect instantly though in a comically outrageous meet cute, involving a muddy dog, an attempted car theft, and a near naked landscaper. :D As Maggie resists against her urges that prevent her from making long-term connections, holding her to any particular place, Silas sets out to charm her. Will Maggie change her longtime "no ties" operating mode or will she move on at the end of this job?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Genre: f/m contemporary romance
Location: small-town Idaho
Pub Date: Out now

This book had so much heart and humor and I just reveled in it. It was perfect reading through the hard events of the past few days, offering a bit of distraction from the absurdity of U.S. political chauvinism. This book truly was a feel good adventure and I loved it. Also, I guarantee you will fall in love with Kevin the dog!

One small qualm is Silas's adamant, possessive flirting early in the book, guaranteeing that Maggie would become his future wife. This kind of joking possessiveness always makes me cringe, and this discomfort continued until Maggie really started returning his affections. This irritation was offset by the rest of the book, but probably drops it to a 4.89 star rating for me 😂

Read this if you like:
⭕️ a dog with great comedic timing
⭕️ a heartwarming story of found family
⭕️ home renovation shows
⭕️ small town camaraderie

Thanks to Forever Publishing and #netgalley for early copies of this book!

Lucy Score has been sending out some phenomenal books lately and this one stands out among them. What a unique and cute love story to experience with Maggie and Silas. The banter, heat, and humor were adorable and off the charts! Completely engaging and a trusty read for a rainy or and relaxing by the beach and reading type of day!

I love this book! I've read many of Lucy Score's self-published novels in the past, but this one outshines all of them. Maggie and Silas are sweet, sexy, and funny, and this book may've made me cry (it definitely made me cry). I'm so happy to see Lucy in the traditional publishing sphere and I'm excited to see what her next project with Berkeley is!

Maggie reminded me of the house flippers featured on HGTV, which I loved. I also enjoyed Silas' charm and his quirky dog Kevin - I adored how Silas seemed to fall for Maggie at first sight and even started calling her his future wife shortly after meeting her. I loved the mystery aspects surrounding the original owners of the Campbell house and the hidden treasure. On the downside, I felt like this book was unnecessarily long and I personally could have done with Cody's storyline as I didn't feel like it added anything significant to the plot. Also, I disliked that, due to the fact that Maggie is a house flipper who is constantly moving, there was almost a sense of impending doom throughout the book regarding Silas and Maggie's relationship. The house flipping/ renovations in this book reminded me a bit of "Faking Reality" by Sara Fujimura and the treasure hunting towards the end of the novel reminded me a bit of "Something Wilder" by Christina Lauren. I would definitely recommend this book to fellow romance readers; especially ones who've previously enjoyed Lucy Score's previous novels.