Review: The Only One (The One, #3) by Tawdra Kandle

4.5 stars! *****

Author: Tawdra Kandle

Title: The Only One (The One, #3)
 

Mason Wallace left his hometown to live his dream: he had the perfect career, a gorgeous wife and a beautiful baby girl. He was on top of the world, until it all shattered with the sudden death of his wife. Now he's back in Georgia, running his bar and trying to take care of his family. And he needs all the help he can get.

Rilla Grant's never been farther than twenty miles from her family's farm. Her overprotective father wants her to marry their church's youth pastor and settle down into the life he's chosen for her, but she's not sure that's what she wants anymore. Rilla's chafing to make her own choices, and that includes starting her own PR business and maybe even moving off the farm, no matter how much her dad hates it.

When Mason asks Rilla to work on some promotion for his bar, she's both excited and terrified. Excited, because it's just the opportunity she's wanted, and terrified because Mason, with his electric blue eyes and drool-worthy body, is the kind of guy who makes her knees weak and her heart pound. He's the only one who's ever tempted Rilla to defy her family, and when she does just that by moving in to help take care of his daughter, they're both forced to make a decision that'll change their lives forever.

Sometimes love isn't the easy choice. Sometimes it's the only one.

A great conclusion to the "trilogy". The main storyline was amazing and I loved that we've seen a lot of characters from the previous books.

Rilla was raised by a very protective father. He's part of a church and believes that jeans and TV are evil and that you should never talk to an unmarried man alone. He's got a plan for Rilla, but it's not what she wants to do. She might be shy and quiet, but she's determined and ready to make some changes. She's got a degree and she's ready to use it.

Mason's wife died a couple of years ago, leaving him alone with their newborn daughter. He moved back to him hometown and opened a bar. He decided to offer lunches and he needs someone to promote it. And Rilla is the one to do it.

She also helps him take care of his ill mother and daughter. Once she comes back really late and her father throws her out, because he thinks she sinned (which she didn't). Mason offers to let her move in with him and she does. Then he suggest to marry him and she does. But he let her know that he'll never love her and that it's basically just a marriage of convinience.

I admire Rilla. She was brought up in sheltered environment and she didn't have much experience with people in general but she fought and she won. She was a shy little mouse who turned out to be a lioness.

And Mason. Big muscled guy who adores her daughter and he can sing! What's not to love?

Watching those two fall in love was something incredible. It felt natural and made me want to find someone like that sooner rather than later. They understood each other, they completed each other, they made the other one a better and braver person.

What I didn't like was one sentence in the end. And it's not just in this book, it happens in lot of books I read. It was something like "I loved you from the first time I saw you".. No, you didn't. You didn't even know her. You might have been attracted to her, you might have a crush on her but you didn't fall in love with her. Not possible.

I liked THE ONLY ONE the most out of the series. Mostly because of Rilla, because she went through such a character transformation, but still stayed herself, if it makes sense.

I gonna reread this one for sure sometimes in the future.