Quiet Beautiful Things
Intensely and Stunningly Beautiful
Samantha Christy has a way with bringing the most incredible love stories to the page. The connections between her characters are rivaled only by the connections her readers feel to those characters. And, once again, she has created a truly special bond with Quiet Beautiful Things.
Not only is Quiet Beautiful Things book one in Christy’s newest Calloway Creek series (this time the Montana brothers are the focus), it connects to the Stone Brothers series in a remarkably poignant next generation HEA. Ellie Stone is stunningly real and beautifully developed. She’s strong and independent, accomplished and fiercely protective, but also wonderfully real and engaging. Everything about her pulls you in, from her backstory to her motivations to her internal struggles and realizations. And it is all stunningly intense and wonderful and beautiful.
And Blake Montana is so easy to fall for. His dedication to doing what’s right and going after what he needs, even though he never thought it would be what he wanted, makes him a beautiful human and a top-tier book boyfriend material. He’s that quiet protector, the crispy marshmallow who shows one face to the world but goes all gooey and lovestruck for those he finds he truly can’t live without. And while his internal struggles are different from Ellie’s, they’re also intensely real and wonderful and beautiful.
The relationship that builds not only between Blake and Ellie, but each of them and little Maisy is what’s truly stunning. And the connections forged through those relationships is absolutely heartwarming. Watching them learn so much about themselves and each other, their integrity and investment, their strength and persistence—it’s remarkable. And it also shows the dedication Christy took in researching and planning for this story. There are so many layers to their journey, and it’s all meticulously and elegantly written to portray their reality, their lives, and their love.
Quiet Beautiful Things can easily be read as a standalone, the story complete and fully engaging with a perfect HEA. But, if this is your first foray into Samantha Christy’s world, you are definitely going to want to binge her backlist. I definitely recommend the Stone Brothers series as well as her previous series set in Calloway Creek—The Brothers of Calloway Creek: The Calloways and the McQuaids. And then reread Quiet Beautiful Things often. Because it is absolutely wonderful.
