Goodreads Choice Award Finalist for Best Romance *Amazon Top 10 Romances of 2016AAR Top 10 Romances of All Time*From the NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, & USA TODAY bestselling series.Make a deal with the devil and you might get what you want, but will it be what you need?Jennifer Sylvester wants one thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the … thing, and that one thing is NOT to be Tennessee’s reigning Banana Cake Queen. Ever the perpetual good girl and obedient daughter, Jennifer is buckling under the weight of her social media celebrity, her mother’s ambitions, and her father’s puritanical mandates. Jennifer is officially desperate.
And desperate times call for Cletus Winston.
Cletus Winston is a puzzle wrapped in a mystery covered in conundrum sauce, and now he’s in a pickle. Despite being convinced of his own omniscience, extortion by the exalted Banana Cake Queen of Green Valley has taken him completely by surprise. So… what’s a maniacal mastermind to do?
Likely, the last thing you expect.
Beard Science is book #1 in the Solving for Pie: Cletus and Jenn Mysteries series and Book #3 in the WInston Brothers series. Each book is a standalone, full length (110k words), contemporary romantic comedy novel, and follows the romantic exploits and adventures of one of the six Winston Brothers.
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Five stars—wonderfully evocative comparisons that light up the page.
Love this whole series. Fun, funny and sexy!!
Wonderful characters & great story line. Awesome book.
I enjoyed the first 2/3 of this book. The characters were interesting, and there was some humor. But then it devolved into one sex scene after another. So unnecessary.
I love the Beard series. The characters are so fun and the author’s use of vocabulary & the twist of phrases is so much fun.
Any Penny Reid book is a must read for me! Penny is so witty and builds such great characters it sucks you in from start to finish!!
Love the beards. 🙂
Read it. Bored with it.
Pre ordered next book…
Sad to see the end of the Winston brothers series, but I have complete faith that Penny Reid will continue to regale us with witty entertaining romance stories.
I loved all of these books. Such a fun family even with all the drama in their lives.
Love the whole series! Great writing. Funny, romantic, and leaves you feeling great!
Penny Reid does a masterful job of creating quirky, 3D characters you can’t help but root for. I love the unique spins she writes into everything.
As usual,Penny Reid has written another entertaining addition to the Winston family saga.Beard Science has all the wonderful characters and crazy antics for which this family is known. I have enjoyed every book I have ever read by her.
Absolutely loved it!! Could not put it down!
Love this series.
Beard Science gave me so many goofy smiles.
I loved this book, the narration was brilliant and I can’t wait to read or listen to more books in this series. I love the Winston brothers.
Cletus is a complex man, not many people saw the real Cletus but there is more to Jennifer Sylvester, the town’s and world-famous banana cake queen than people see too and she sees Cletus, the real Cletus.
A bit about the plot;
All Jennifer wants to do is settle down with a man, have kids and live the dream. Jennifer runs the bakery and is controlled by her mother who puts her out there on social media as the banana cake queen, Jennifer has millions of followers and her mother expects a certain image and the right sort of man for Jennifer to settle down with and one that won’t change her or her image.
When Jennifer is video interviewing the sheriff at the station regarding her cakes she notices Cletus who is there to repair something hiding some evidence and catches it on camera, she then uses this evidence to blackmail him into teaching her how to date and get a man, Jennifer is a sheltered young woman who was even homeschooled by her mother so she hasn’t experienced highschool, dates or a boyfriend.
What a build-up, what a perfect match, I loved the journey to how they fell in love with each other, I loved both of these quirky characters, I laughed so many times. Brilliant!
See here’s the problem: Cletus has been my favorite brother from the second we met him, and now I don’t have his book to look forward to anymore! Not that I won’t finish this series because I have thoroughly enjoyed these crazy kids!
Cletus is a pretty fabulous mastermind who is a wonderful cross between Gandalf the Grey and Emma of the Jane Austen novel with some quirks as unique as his name. When Jenn, the Banana Cake Queen, catches him hiding evidence against the local motorcycle gang, she decides that she is going to take a page out of his handbook and blackmail him into helping her. Jenn lives her life as a caricature of her parents’ creation, and she is ready to take control of her own life including finally getting what she really wants: a husband and children. Cletus is shocked to find that the Jennifer he thought he knew could surprise him, and he quickly begins to help not because of the blackmail but because Jenn is worth his time. Jenn’s “person lessons” are a cross between My Fair Lady and an episode of MASH.
As Jenn figures out who she wants to be, Cletus is forced to make some shocking re-evaluations about his plans to destroy the motorcycle gang, his father, and Jackson (local police deputy who has it out for the Winston brothers). Jenn’s strained relationship with her brother in the motorcycle gang recruitment program and her controlling parents come to a head when Cletus attempts to manipulate them all into giving Jenn the family she deserves.
This book has the twists and character development worth of my favorite Winston brother! Penny Reid has written another winner!
Loved loved loved
One of my favorite books and the characters are the best.