FIX HER UP
by Tessa Bailey
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Reviewed by Hellie
Reviewed by Hellie
Blurb: Georgette
Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked
balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously
since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday
parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined
to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.
Phase one: new framework
for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)
Phase two: a gut-reno on
her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)
Phase three: updates to
her exterior (do people still wax?)
Phase four: put herself
on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)
Living her best life
means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever.
Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure.
Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge
she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who
better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid
favorite?
Travis Ford was major
league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s
flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t
even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a
joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is
not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date,
to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm?
It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny,
full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...
You guys, I’m glad Chick
Lit is making a retro-comeback because I have missed these rom-coms! This
one--pardon the pun--hit it out of the park when it comes to clicking all the
boxes for the perfect chick lit comedy. The EveryWoman heroine who is kinda
awkward, secretly crushing, but sexy as hell to the hero. The Hero who is
broody and dangerous (read: sexy). The classic comedy scenes that are a part of
every Hallmark summer movie: the women’s only club that goes awry once word
gets out and the whole town wants to participate; the Mudder Run; the wardrobe
makeover. Or the emotional gotcha scenes: like when Georgie makes Travis hit a
few balls at his old baseball diamond; when Travis rushes to her defense in front
of her family; when Travis has a run-in with the only person he never wants to
see, his father. It’s a roller coaster ride tied together with some of the
hottest sex scenes and romantic tension that Tessa Bailey is well known for in
her writing.
The next book is
supposed to be about one of the other main characters in this book (one of the
three founders of the “club”) and I cannot wait to see that story. I think
there is going to be lots of food...so I hope there’s a recipe. I’m always game
for a recipe in my books (am I the only one?) And I imagine the third book will
be about Georgie’s sister, Bethany--and woo boy, I don’t know what kind of hero
she’ll get but he’s going to have to be some bad ass.
There’s lots of baseball
talk and a grand romantic gesture...and well, this book really has it all on
the romantic front. If I had any critique--the hero does talk a little rougher
than I normally like (and especially during sex), but I did think it was true
to the character and the writer’s stylized voice. I can’t wait to read more.
I was really intrigued by this book and actually have a copy of it in my tbr pile by the bed. Can't wait to dive into the story.
ReplyDeleteYay!
DeleteI think would be a perfect summer read.
ReplyDeleteBaseball is the summer sport. :)
DeleteWell, that and women's soccer. :)
DeleteI'm really excited to read this book
ReplyDeleteI've been interested in this story since seeing a blurb about it. You just reinforced my need to read it.
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