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...
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...
Title: Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered #1)
Author: Tessa Bailey
Publisher: Avon
Publication Date: June 11, 2019
Review:
I really enjoy Tessa Bailey's romcoms and this was no exception.
Imagine your family owns a home renovation company but you decide to branch out and do something you love only to find they don't take you seriously. In order to fix their opinion of her. But she needs help. She enlists her brother's best childhood friend, Travis, to fake date her to get her family off her back. It's all in good fun, right? Until feelings get involved...
This romcom was so much fun. I enjoy knowing there will be fun and build up, a little bit of stress, and then a happily ever after. Is it predictable? Sure. But it's also so much fun to see how it plays out. Bailey does a great job developing her characters and making them relatable.
Georgie is a really fun character. She's sweet and is really good at her job. She's also a bit naive at 23 and hasn't yet experienced much of life (both professionally and personally). Aside from the fact that her job is as an actual clown (honestly, clowns are so creepy for me), she also has a wicked sense of humor. She knows what she wants and isn't afraid to pursue it, though she does let what her family thinks of her chosen profession get in her way a bit. But she learns over the course of the book what makes her happy and how to stand up for that. She has a lot of growth.
Travis is a swoon worthy MMC. He's trying so hard to put his past behind him but people remind him every step of the way how he messed up his career. He pushed hard to move forward during the course of the story. He's also tender and loving.
There's a lot of sexy times in the second half of the book. Personally, I like the sexy times in a romance but I know it's not for everyone.
Is the plot unpredictable, not really. I love that we get to know Georgie's family and friends (for future books I'm sure as Bailey likes to have cross over characters). But I was ok with it being just a fun and satisfying, easy read.
If you love a good fake dating, friends to lovers story, pick this one up!
Imagine your family owns a home renovation company but you decide to branch out and do something you love only to find they don't take you seriously. In order to fix their opinion of her. But she needs help. She enlists her brother's best childhood friend, Travis, to fake date her to get her family off her back. It's all in good fun, right? Until feelings get involved...
This romcom was so much fun. I enjoy knowing there will be fun and build up, a little bit of stress, and then a happily ever after. Is it predictable? Sure. But it's also so much fun to see how it plays out. Bailey does a great job developing her characters and making them relatable.
Georgie is a really fun character. She's sweet and is really good at her job. She's also a bit naive at 23 and hasn't yet experienced much of life (both professionally and personally). Aside from the fact that her job is as an actual clown (honestly, clowns are so creepy for me), she also has a wicked sense of humor. She knows what she wants and isn't afraid to pursue it, though she does let what her family thinks of her chosen profession get in her way a bit. But she learns over the course of the book what makes her happy and how to stand up for that. She has a lot of growth.
Travis is a swoon worthy MMC. He's trying so hard to put his past behind him but people remind him every step of the way how he messed up his career. He pushed hard to move forward during the course of the story. He's also tender and loving.
There's a lot of sexy times in the second half of the book. Personally, I like the sexy times in a romance but I know it's not for everyone.
Is the plot unpredictable, not really. I love that we get to know Georgie's family and friends (for future books I'm sure as Bailey likes to have cross over characters). But I was ok with it being just a fun and satisfying, easy read.
If you love a good fake dating, friends to lovers story, pick this one up!
Author:
New York Times Bestselling author Tessa Bailey can solve all problems except for her own, so she focuses those efforts on stubborn, fictional blue collar men and loyal, lovable heroines. She lives on Long Island avoiding the sun and social interactions, then wonders why no one has called. Dubbed the “Michelangelo of dirty talk,” by Entertainment Weekly, Tessa writes with spice, spirit, swoon and a guaranteed happily ever after. Catch her on TikTok at @authortessabailey or check out tessabailey.com for a complete list of books.
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