Smoky Mountain Romance

Heading into familiar territory once again, the American writer Erin McCarthy has created another franchise that’s reached new heights of success. Combining immaculately realized characters with fully rounded narrative arcs, she’s taken the tropes of the genre and built something completely new from them. With this particular series she has done it once more, as she takes what has previously worked before, and essentially subverts it providing a number of twists and turns in the process. Taking a more traditional approach to the romance genre, McCarthy heads into familiar territory here, combining location and people for an engaging effect. Set to the backdrop of the mountains, it follows a fun and breezy narrative arc, charting the trials and tribulations of relationships and courting. Whilst this may be fairly typical for McCarthy on the surface, it does offer plenty of surprises within, as she takes some of the more well worn elements of the genre and effectively twists them in the process.