“Surprise me,” the words fell from my lips before I even realized what I was saying. Didn’t matter though, they were true. I’m ready to start our forever. I want the future he and I have spent hours talking about, but I’ve never had the courage to reach out and grab it. Now I do. I knew on our first date; she was the girl I was going to marry. I told her so every chance I could get. Even went as … Even went as far as asking more times than I can count, but never on one knee. I knew that she wasn’t ready, but I needed her to know that I was.
I’ve been planning for weeks, wanting to make everything perfect. I took her words to a whole other level, and now I’m worried I’ve gone too far.
This is a 30k word companion novella to the Southern Heart Series.
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5 It’s Perfect Stars!!!
When I heard we were getting Dave and Olivia’s wedding story I literally squealed with joy. I’m a lover of this entire series, it’s the series that introduced me to Ms. Ryan’s books, and I’ve since consumed every single one of her books. I sat down with this novella and just soaked in this story.
Dave and Olivia have been together for a while now. We’ve seen them in the previous books in the Southern Heart series, but a little on the periphery. But now, it’s time! We get to the crux of why they’re not married and how Dave is going to fix it! Yes, there’s a little angst in this one and I wanted to bop Olivia over the head a couple of times….but I got over it!!
This man is totally swoonworthy and loves her with every fiber of his being and knows they can overcome any obstacles real or imagined in their way. So he proves it and big time!!!
“I want her with my last name sooner rather than later. We’ve waited long enough to start the next phase of our lives together”
This one is a quick read and I for one am going to go back and re-read the entire series from beginning to end and re-experience all the love and devotion these southern men have for their women!!!
Omg I loved this one. Not only is the cover amazing but the storyline was amazing too. Kaylee blew me away with this storyline. Enjoyable from beginning to end. I was honestly waiting for something bad to happen but it never did. Was just a great wonderful lovable story line with two amazing characters and all of their friends. Highly recommend reading this one.
Southern Devotion was a total swoon worthy romance. Two people who have loved each other for years, owned each other’s hearts but one has let fear stand in the way of their forever. When Olivia finally decides she has held up their future for an unsubstantiated fear she becomes impatient when David doesn’t seem to be acting fast enough. When the man who is her forever pulls out all the stops to give her the dream proposal and wedding she might just be blown away by how far this man will go for her. A beautiful love story with a shining heart filled ending.
Kaylee always delivers! This was such a sweet romantic story . Such a great ending to her southern hearts series . Now I think ill go back and do some re-reading starting with Southern Pleasure.
Awww, Olivia & David’s story is so adorable!! The perfect, no-drama love story that’s been in the making throughout the series. I loved getting to catch up w/ everyone, seeing everyone come together as a family, taking those next steps in life. Absolutely the perfect bite of story for this group!!
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What an amazing book to close out a series! I loved everything about this book! I loved getting to reconnect with favorite characters from the series as well as finally get Olivia & David’s HEA!
Super sweet and super sexy!
Olivia and David’s story is what true love and devotion are all about! So sweet and sexy. You see how much these two truly love one another. David shows how deeply his love runs. Amazing writing! I was captivated from the start. A must read for sure! 5 stars!!
Southern Devotion by Kaylee Ryan was way more than I could have ever thought possible. Kaylee completely floored me with Olivia and David’s story. This Southern Heart series is ending and I loved that it ended with this short little story. Most romance stories are about the beginning, those first flutters of love in your belly… in your heart. Southern Devotion skips over those beginnings. We get right into real life where the newness wears off, where the bills and daily life starts to set in.
There was something so special about this book. The pure love and romance of it had me feeling completely weak in the knees. Even with just barely over 100 pages, Kaylee Ryan is able to give these characters depth and real emotions. Ryan’s writing keeps getting better and better. I quickly fly through her stories… the love and romance that she crams between the pages.
I received an ARC of this book with the hope that I would leave an Unbiased Opinion. I was not required to leave a review, positive or otherwise, and my opinions are just that… my opinions.
I have read every single book in the Southern Heart series by Kaylee Ryan. Every single one, and I have loved every single thing about each couple in each of the interconnected books. I loved the family atmosphere, the friendships, the hardships and most definitely the love. I have been patiently waiting for Olivia and David’s story to have a happily ever after for what seems like forever . Even though this story is a novella, I feel like I got what I needed out of it. Southern Devotion was so romantic, and so sweet, that I have a tooth ache. The love and devotion coming off of the pages was astounding. This novella isn’t one to level you emotionally. This novella is one, where the words and love will be encrypted in your heart forever. Southern Devotion was a great ending to an amazing series. I also enjoyed being to see what the other couples were up to. I definitely recommend this book.
What an ending to an amazing series! Olivia and David finally get their story and I was so very happy to read it!
Olivia and David were meant to be together. We’ve watched them right along with their friends, Evan and McKinley, and also Aaron and Whitney. Olivia’s self doubt and David’s patience makes their story one of love, support and pure magic. Everything about their relationship makes me have hope and I truly enjoyed this love story that made me swoon from start to finish.
This is one of those stories you read over and over again because it’s one of promise, hope and true love that is so worth the wait.
The last of Southern Heart.
When I read book three, Southern Attraction, I’d made a note to myself that I couldn’t wait for Olivia and David’s story. Well it’s here, and I found it to be a happy low angst rounding out to the series. I got to see the three couples and their families from the earlier books, and find out how they were going and growing.
I don’t know about small town US, and being from NZ, I couldn’t understand her reticence regarding being ‘that’ mother who served behind a bar. The bar was a part of their family history, and something that I would’ve been proud of, but, this is Liv’s story, not mine. David, however, thought there was more to it than her worry about working in a bar, and he worked hard to let her know that he knew her and understood. He was gorgeous.
4.5 Stars for a wonderful novella that finishes off a fantastic series in the best possible way.
This story gave me all the extra I wanted from the southern series. This is Olivia and David love story. After many years of dating it’s time for them to get their HEA. It’s a beautiful love story.
I absolutely love this series. The men in this series are all alpha country boys. Their women are sassy, spunky and loved beyond words. I hope this isn’t the end of the series and that maybe we can the second generation stories. One can dream.
David and Olivia are awesome. They love hard. Family and friends alike.
Southern Devotion was a quick read but it was so good! I loved David and Olivia. I’m glad we got to see their happily ever after! They had a beautiful love! They were perfect together! I am sad this is the end of the story but I loved it!
A short novella that had me falling in love with Olivia and David. A great closer to this amazing series.
This is a very swoon worthy kind of HEA for this couple. We get to see where the other couples are at in their lives. I really enjoyed reading it. The epilogues were really amazing. Beautifully written.
Told in a dual POV with an HEA. I recommend this story and all the previous books in this series are all worth the readers precious time and money.
Southern devotion was the perfect ending to the series I absolutely loved this with such a romantic and dreamy story of the final couple David and Olivia
Thia book was so swoony and it was such a good novella because we got to read about previous characters that we had met in the first book.
Olivia and David had been together for a while and David knew he saw his future with Olivia bit she was stuck thinking she wasn’t good enough and she was really getting overwhelmed that she wasn’t doing enough with her life or that she was scared of the future.
David was so sweet and how you want to be treated by a man, he treated Olivia like a queen and it was such a beautiful story to watch unfold how he could be his best romantic self.
Loved Loved this book and had the perfect Epilogue to see how all the characters that we read about in the previous books ended and how they were such a great happy friends with their growing families.
This has been an amazing series, and I’m kind of sad to see it go! But I’m also happy that Olivia and David finally have their story told! We knew they belonged together, knew they were meant for one another, right from the beginning, because their story started right along with Evan and McKinley’s, and they stayed strong throughout Aaron and Whitney’s and Mike and Jaime’s stories. Now it’s their turn!
This was a beautiful story, full of love, support and patience. David’s infinite patience and enduring love for Olivia, makes him the kind of man that we all swoon over, and wish for in our own lives. Olivia is confident in David’s love for her, but let’s doubt about other things creep in, holding her back from accepting what she wants in life. It just goes to show that even the strongest, most confident woman can be brought low by self doubt.
This isn’t a story about beginnings. It’s not a story about that first blush of love. It’s about the kind of love that stays strong through everything, the kind that never wavers, holding true through adversity until the HEA is finally realized. This charming, magical story holds my heart, and promises to become one I will read over and over again, whenever I need a reminder that love is worth the wait!
I loved getting back to this series and all of the characters in the series.
I am so glad that David and Olivia finally got their story told. Its been building since the beginning of the series so with that I would recommend that you read the other books first but its not a must. You will just get more out of it. Plus you will want to read them anyway as they are all amazing reads.
This is a story of patience for sure. David is so in love with Olivia and she is not ready to commit. He shows her that his love is real and that he is willing to wait. Olivia is in love with him and she believes that he truly loves her and is devoted to her but doubt creeps in and its holding her back from the life she knows she wants.
Will Olivia finally see that he is what she wants and all the reasons she keeps him at arm length she can conquer and let go or will in the end she push his patience to the limit and see him moving on? This is a quick read and ties up the series. I am sad to say goodbye to these characters but I know we will get more amazing characters from this author.
great read
Olivia has watched everyone in her circle of friends get married and starting families. However, Olivia has yet to allow David to propose. Finally she tells him to “Surprise Me” and that is all he needs to not only give her the ring he has had for her but to also give her the wedding of her dreams. Every woman could only hope and dream that the man in their loves were as romantic and awesome as David. The perfect ending to the series.