A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey!
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…
My Review:
A Step-by-Step On How To Properly Enjoy Reading A Rom-Com:
Step 1: Peruse the bookshelves, scanning all the covers and titles, waiting for the perfect book to choose.
Step 2: Notice a fun and colorful cover practically begging to come home with you. You can almost hear it calling your name.
Step 3: Answer the siren’s call. Pick it up and become delighted to find it’s written by none other than Tessa Bailey, who you adore!
Step 4: Buy the book and immediately run home, cancelling all work for the rest of the day, order some takeout for dinner, and begin reading.
Step 5: Laugh, swoon, cry, swoon, laugh some more, get hot and bothered, laugh again, swoon the ultimate swoon, and finish reading.
Step 6: Be sad that you finished that fast and immediately go to Tessa’s website to se when the next in the series comes out.
Step 7: Get happy that you don’t have to wait tooooooo long to get the next book.
Step 8: Pick up the book you just finished so you can go back and re-read some of your fave scenes.
Step 9: Laugh again, swoon again, get hot and bothered again. Sigh contentedly.
Step 10: Text all your fellow book lovers and insist they buy this book.
Step 11: Text them again to stress the importance of getting this book.
Step 12: Google hot baseball players.
Step 13: Realize you’ve lost a t least an hour looking at hot baseball players.
Step 14: Lovingly place the book on your bookshelf and resort to smiling at it every time you look at your shelves.
Step 15: Write this review and reiterate to anyone reading the same thing you told your friends in the text messages….BUY THIS BOOK!
Thank you, Tessa, for yet another KICK ASS READ! I can’t wait to read the next installment in this series! Well, anything you write, really.
Book Links:
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ABOUT TESSA
Tessa Bailey is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans and laptop, driving cross-country to New York City in under four days.
Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention.
She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband of eleven years and seven-year-old daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.
Fabulous review Jillian!!! Sounds awesome!! Shared on my socials!💖💋👍