Author: Tessa BaileyTitle: Fix Her Up
Series: Hot & Hammered #1
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2019
Genre: Contemporary romance
Links: Book Depository / Bokus / Adlibris / Goodreads
Okay, where to start with this one. Hm... Let's start with what I liked. I loved Georgie and at moments I also liked Travis, especially when he defended her. I did not see the complete point with the "fix up", but I felt like it was made for her sake and not anyone else (no matter how much she wanted Travis to see her) so that's a good thing. I love her being a clown, of all things. I don't think I've ever read about clowns in romance before..? It awesome, in any case!
The love Georgie has for her family is also lovely to read, even though I hated Stephen (Steven? Damn audiobooks), because he was frankly a misogynist dick. (Who the hell comes to fetch his wife just because she wasn't home when he came out of the shower? Really?)
Bailey is also great at writing funny conversations and banter and I found myself laughing and chuckling throughout the book. It also has steam. A lot of steam.
What troubled me with the book was multiple things. For one, I didn't feel it for Travis. Shitty childhood, sure, but that wasn't enough for me to feel anything for him. For another, like I read in another review, there's so many tropes going on that it's hard to make it all connect. I would have been happy with maybe two connecting, but there's a lot going on.
Also the sappiness. I can handle a bit of sapp, but this is just too much. The book got boring about halfway through and it never really recovered. Sometimes it felt like the book didn't even have a plot, just a whole lot of pining and sappiness..? I don't know, it didn't really work for me, is all. And I hate, absolutely hate, the endearment "baby girl". That's what you call a child, not a grown ass woman (who hates being treated as a child?!) and especially during sexy times. I mean, come on. Do you want her to call you Daddy at the same time? Yuck. Sorry, I just hate it and it bothered me during the entire book.
So, this is a cute but steamy book with questionable sappiness and my entire rating goes to Georgie and her girls, basically.
2.5 of 5 cheese plates
/ Denise
Okay, where to start with this one. Hm... Let's start with what I liked. I loved Georgie and at moments I also liked Travis, especially when he defended her. I did not see the complete point with the "fix up", but I felt like it was made for her sake and not anyone else (no matter how much she wanted Travis to see her) so that's a good thing. I love her being a clown, of all things. I don't think I've ever read about clowns in romance before..? It awesome, in any case!
The love Georgie has for her family is also lovely to read, even though I hated Stephen (Steven? Damn audiobooks), because he was frankly a misogynist dick. (Who the hell comes to fetch his wife just because she wasn't home when he came out of the shower? Really?)
Bailey is also great at writing funny conversations and banter and I found myself laughing and chuckling throughout the book. It also has steam. A lot of steam.
What troubled me with the book was multiple things. For one, I didn't feel it for Travis. Shitty childhood, sure, but that wasn't enough for me to feel anything for him. For another, like I read in another review, there's so many tropes going on that it's hard to make it all connect. I would have been happy with maybe two connecting, but there's a lot going on.
Also the sappiness. I can handle a bit of sapp, but this is just too much. The book got boring about halfway through and it never really recovered. Sometimes it felt like the book didn't even have a plot, just a whole lot of pining and sappiness..? I don't know, it didn't really work for me, is all. And I hate, absolutely hate, the endearment "baby girl". That's what you call a child, not a grown ass woman (who hates being treated as a child?!) and especially during sexy times. I mean, come on. Do you want her to call you Daddy at the same time? Yuck. Sorry, I just hate it and it bothered me during the entire book.
So, this is a cute but steamy book with questionable sappiness and my entire rating goes to Georgie and her girls, basically.
2.5 of 5 cheese plates
/ Denise
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