4.14 AVERAGE

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4.5
adventurous challenging emotional funny medium-paced

“I started falling in love with Faye Calloway on the edge of a cornfield, on a stage, over a bottle of bourbon, and every time she’s been in my arms since.”

Okay what a BANGER of a book! I loved it! Faye was a strong FMC I rooted for (pro-sexy work and LEO adjacent?! SWOON). Then gruff and grumpy Lincoln?! Yummy. How he was with his daughters, as well as Faye was just perfect. I loved watching him slowly warm up, it was just amazing. 

As someone who was not a fan of book one, I’m so happy I read this book because wow the change in relationship dynamics and romantic suspense in this book had me HOOKED in all the ways I didn’t in B&L. 

🌶️🌶️: “If I forget to tell you later,” he says as leans forward and kisses just above my navel, “you’re the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. And like this.” He kisses my right br**t, then my left, lowering his head to kiss the center of my p***y as I moan for him. “I won’t be the same man after it.” Reaching up, he wraps his hand around my throat, Pulling me forward in the most dominant way. The taste of me on his tongue, our heavy breaths, and the thrum of wanting the other so intimately has the kiss nearly all-consuming.

❤️Hate to Love 
🤎Single Daddy 
🥃 Small 
🤎Age Gap
❤️ Romantic Suspense

Final Rating: 4.75⭐️, 3.25🌶️ 

So excited to read Bourbon & Proof - also, the fact I got to meet Victoria last month at the Meet & Greet Cute signing was just amazing timing! I wish I had already read this to share my love! 

Thank you @homecookedbookspromos for a copy of the audiobook in exchange for my honest review!
emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Goodness gracious, I'm obsessed with this series!!

Lincoln, the single dad (with glasses! HELLLOOOO!), and Faye, the burlesque dancer. What a combination! These two people together were absolute fire! 🔥 Faye is such a strong, confident FMC. Hadley had a girl crush on her and I can totally see why! Lincoln didn't stand a chance against her. He tried holding back but very much failed. I loved Lincoln's girls too! They were so much fun. This book was fun and sexy and filled with great banter and suspense too. I am seriously intrigued by Ace & Hadley and cannot wait to read the 3rd one!

🎧Audio:🎧
This was a duet narration by Lee Samuels and Megan Wicks. I feel like both of these narrators were the perfect pick for these characters. They captured the tension and emotions perfectly. They absolutely kept me invested in this story.

This audiobook comes out July 11. Thank you so much to Victoria Wilder & Home Cooked Books for this ALC!
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional reflective tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Faye Calloway finds herself back in her hometown, Fiasco, KY, and she's hoping she can avoid the one man who told her to stay away for good - Lincoln Foxx.  Faye is a strong FMC and she's not afraid to protect those she loves.  And as things start to unravel back at home, things were never what they seemed to be.

BRB while I will be endlessly swooning from Lincoln Foxx!  He is the epitome of a single girl dad and he will stop at nothing to ensure his girls are happy.  I literally don't know which Foxx brother is going to end up as my favorite because I'm loving them all so far!  The tension between Faye and Lincoln is THICK and I love the enemies to lovers vibe they have going on.  The bourbon scenes have me wishing I was a bourbon girlie!

And now I am FERAL for Ace & Hadley to get my fix of the last Foxx Bourbon boy!

Audiobook:
Narrated in duet by Lee Samuels & Megan Wicks and this is another absolute banger of an audiobook for our Foxx Bourbon Boys!! These two brought Faye & Lincoln to life and I devoured this audiobook so quickly!!  If you were on the fence about listening to this one, just do yourself a favor and grab this audio because you won't regret it!