wow ... JUST wow ... HOLY WATERWORKS!
Before I say anything about the book let me just throw this at you .... we have a girl who comes back 'home' (not happily) to help her dying mother ... find out her sister is actually her biological mother and that her brother is really her uncle. but wait, there's more .... the lawyer helping poor dying mother is the guy she stood up 18 years ago at prom becaue she was so messed up over finding out her mother was her sister. WHAM! And you thought your life was convoluted! HA! lol Will Ren and Tully become friends again or will they not be able to get past prom night? Can Tully forgiver her mother/sister for the lie that they kept from her 18 years ago and that Sugar ruined her prom night....READ AND FIND OUT lol The book had a really good story and very well developed characters. the story kept me intrigued and wanting to know what happens to the characters. This book had romance, sadness, forgiveness and family. I am very happy that it is part of a series and can't wait to read the next book in the series.

Copy provided by NetGalley & Tule Publishing for an honest review!

The title and the cover of “The Sweetest Thing” by Lilian Darcy give the impression that it is a love story that revolves around chocolate.

But it is not about the chocolate per se. It is about the love of chocolate of a mother and daughter that bridged the gap between them. And on another subplot, buying the perfect chocolate also signaled the end of a perfect marriage.

Set in the fictional town of Marietta, Montana, “The Sweetest Thing” is about love and forgiveness. It is also righting wrongdoings from the past. And in this story, our hero and heroine – Ren Fletcher and Tully Morgan find out that chocolate is not really the sweetest thing. That title had been claimed by LOVE.

The Sweetest Thing is Rated M for Mature due to references to drug use and addiction. There are also mild sex scenes.

A wonderful and delightful story. I truly enjoyed reading this book and look forward to more from this author in the future!

I liked the book.

Incredible, emotional, great writing...

Very enjoyable read!

The Sweetest Thing is the second book in the River Bend series. It is an extremely well written and well edited romance novel (full length).

Tully, the heroine, left River Bend on the day of her prom when she discovered that her older, drug abusing sister is actually her mother. Tilly leaves behind Ren, the boy she was dating. Now her mother is clean, sober and eighteen years later, dying of cancer. When she returns to Montana to help care for her sister/mother she is reunited with Ren who is going through a divorce. This is a story about forgiveness, lost chances and love.

I was engrossed by the plot and the characters in this book. I was drawn in by both and found myself identifying with the characters, laughing and crying with them.

The Sweetest Thing ends with a satisfying HEA. I highly recommend this book and look forward to reading more of the River Bend series in the future.

ARC provided by the publisher via Netgalley.

Like Good Together, this book read more like women's fiction than romance. A long, painful family saga of one family from Marietta and their terrible secrets, it's hard to enjoy when so much of the book is just downright depressing.

Tully stands up Ren for senior prom, running away when she discovers the horrible truth of her life. What could have been a budding romance was stopped in its tracks at that stage. Now years later, Tully is back to make peace with her family. Ren is stuck in a bad marriage, but there's something there anyway.

With every turn of the page, it seems another shoe drops.

I swear, if it weren't for Ren's mother, I'd have wanted to just sit down and bawl over it all. She was welcome comic relief, though I'm not sure she was meant to be. Plus, Tully and Ren don't have much of a romance at all.

It was a good book, but not even close to my favorite Montana Born story.

3.5 Stars

The one thing I love about this book is that there is not one single character who is has no faults or role in the drama that unfolds. I like it when every character is slightly flawed or makes mistakes because no one is perfect. In the Sweetest Thing, even Tully makes choices that are not fair or right, but the intentions behind them are good. Coming back home to help care for her ill mother, whom everyone in town believes is her sister, shows she is compassionate and willing to try to heal before it is too late. Sugar, her mother is as complicated as it gets. She is a classic example of living life without fear of consequence and then it catching up to you when you least expect it. I think she was fortunate to have a family willing to forgive her mistakes and try to make her happy in her final days.

One might argue that Ren, the boy whom Tully stood up to in high school, is perfect and was a victim. In truth, he made poor decisions about his marriage and holds back on facing the truth. Though I do think he handles the surprises he faces very well.

This was an easy to read romance, well written romance that was hard to put down.

This delightful and emotional story will have you flipping the pages like there's no tomorrow.

Tully found out a horrible secret a while back and fled, leaving her prom date Ren high and dry.

Now that Tully has to come back to Marietta eighteen years later, even more secrets will be revealed and she will get a second shot at a happily ever after.