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3.51 AVERAGE
3.51 AVERAGE
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
While this may be someone’s cup of tea, it is not mine
This book needs a rewrite. There were too many bad writing decisions made. Was she rushed writing the book or never read it straight through or just lazy? I don’t know which is worse.
SPOILERS BELOW
1. No baseball team hires a NEW commentator in the fall. If someone retires like at the end of a season, playoff announcers will call the game who are well known and professional. A new commentator will be hired for the beginning of the new season the next year.
2. No one hires a stretch limousine unless you are going to prom or on The Bachelor. In New York you would hire a black town car or a fucking Uber Black! Also, having sex on the floor of a limo is trashy especially because they both strip down.
3. The Just Us league became popular because the mother and the sister in law told some people and maybe 50 ppl showed up? The sister let them in? What?! Dumb.
4. No one gets hired in the foyer of a house(big or gigantic) without any real conversation or even a on-air tryout to see if they could speak cogently in a live setting to be a commentator.
5. Dinner parties at a rich person’s house to discuss employment would never, ever have a black tie dress code. They were going to sit outside “al fresco”, as the host put it. That would mean barely cocktail attire and more like dinner attire. Never a tuxedo.
6. Why is the mom such a brat? Why do the kids all treat her with kid gloves? All that was explained was that she handled the bookkeeping for the family business and had long nails.
7. The plan for their relationship was a month or so. But they had their initial hookup at his place on a Thursday when she had to cancel her lunch date. Then drinks at the Waterfront either Friday or Saturday. Sunday was family dinner. The next day was him building her mantel. The next morning they went for a run and hooked up in the dugout in the rain. Then the Just Us league crashed the sister’s house. Two days later was the dinner with the executive which makes it the Wednesday less than a week after their first hookup? That was supposed to be a month. The day after the dinner Travis saw his father and Stephen. And then the tough mudder was the Friday a week after but according to the book just the next day. You can’t write something that was supposed to take place over a month or more and start out each day with “the next morning” or “last night, after the limousine dropped them off at her house” and expect us not to pay attention that time has passed and it is not adding up!
8. Georgie is 23, owns her own home, didn’t get any financial help from her parents to buy it or fix it up, and she did it two years after college (I assume) on the money she makes doing her one job of party clown for 5 year olds or younger on weekends only? How much does she charge? $1000 a party? No way! Maybe $500 at best. At the top of her game after years of clowning. I don’t believe she could afford a down payment a couple of years out of college.
9. Travis makes it up to Georgie by proposing to her? It was literally at most 10 days after they decided to fake date. Why would that be a sane person’s solution? Why would they stay making out on the side of the highway long after the traffic died down? How were they going to get home? Was the brother going to swing around at the next exit and pick them up later?
I know that these are silly details, but they are just so easily fixable. Don’t get me into the title of the book. Yes, the family business is flipping houses, but Georgie isn’t in the family business and specifically not allowed in the business. Travis “works” for the really busy(no time to help Georgie with her house) business, yet he is able to take hours long lunch breaks, long morning sex runs before work, days off when it is “inspection day” even though they only have one other non-family member worker and have three jobs going on at once. All this to say, Travis barely works and no one is fixing up her who I suppose is Georgie other than when she gets a boatload of clothes and a new haircut.
Did Travis see Georgie in her new look and finally see her as a new person not the young girl with a crush swinging from a tree limb? Yes, but she fixed him more than better undies and a haircut fixed her. She rescued him. She reminded him that he was good. She nursed his ego and reputation. Why is it Fix Her Up? It could have been Fix him up or Fixer Upper to keep it easy. The Pygmalion plot point making it the title is just trite.
Ugh! I had such high hopes when the sex was so hot. But the story sucked!
SPOILERS BELOW
1. No baseball team hires a NEW commentator in the fall. If someone retires like at the end of a season, playoff announcers will call the game who are well known and professional. A new commentator will be hired for the beginning of the new season the next year.
2. No one hires a stretch limousine unless you are going to prom or on The Bachelor. In New York you would hire a black town car or a fucking Uber Black! Also, having sex on the floor of a limo is trashy especially because they both strip down.
3. The Just Us league became popular because the mother and the sister in law told some people and maybe 50 ppl showed up? The sister let them in? What?! Dumb.
4. No one gets hired in the foyer of a house(big or gigantic) without any real conversation or even a on-air tryout to see if they could speak cogently in a live setting to be a commentator.
5. Dinner parties at a rich person’s house to discuss employment would never, ever have a black tie dress code. They were going to sit outside “al fresco”, as the host put it. That would mean barely cocktail attire and more like dinner attire. Never a tuxedo.
6. Why is the mom such a brat? Why do the kids all treat her with kid gloves? All that was explained was that she handled the bookkeeping for the family business and had long nails.
7. The plan for their relationship was a month or so. But they had their initial hookup at his place on a Thursday when she had to cancel her lunch date. Then drinks at the Waterfront either Friday or Saturday. Sunday was family dinner. The next day was him building her mantel. The next morning they went for a run and hooked up in the dugout in the rain. Then the Just Us league crashed the sister’s house. Two days later was the dinner with the executive which makes it the Wednesday less than a week after their first hookup? That was supposed to be a month. The day after the dinner Travis saw his father and Stephen. And then the tough mudder was the Friday a week after but according to the book just the next day. You can’t write something that was supposed to take place over a month or more and start out each day with “the next morning” or “last night, after the limousine dropped them off at her house” and expect us not to pay attention that time has passed and it is not adding up!
8. Georgie is 23, owns her own home, didn’t get any financial help from her parents to buy it or fix it up, and she did it two years after college (I assume) on the money she makes doing her one job of party clown for 5 year olds or younger on weekends only? How much does she charge? $1000 a party? No way! Maybe $500 at best. At the top of her game after years of clowning. I don’t believe she could afford a down payment a couple of years out of college.
9. Travis makes it up to Georgie by proposing to her? It was literally at most 10 days after they decided to fake date. Why would that be a sane person’s solution? Why would they stay making out on the side of the highway long after the traffic died down? How were they going to get home? Was the brother going to swing around at the next exit and pick them up later?
I know that these are silly details, but they are just so easily fixable. Don’t get me into the title of the book. Yes, the family business is flipping houses, but Georgie isn’t in the family business and specifically not allowed in the business. Travis “works” for the really busy(no time to help Georgie with her house) business, yet he is able to take hours long lunch breaks, long morning sex runs before work, days off when it is “inspection day” even though they only have one other non-family member worker and have three jobs going on at once. All this to say, Travis barely works and no one is fixing up her who I suppose is Georgie other than when she gets a boatload of clothes and a new haircut.
Did Travis see Georgie in her new look and finally see her as a new person not the young girl with a crush swinging from a tree limb? Yes, but she fixed him more than better undies and a haircut fixed her. She rescued him. She reminded him that he was good. She nursed his ego and reputation. Why is it Fix Her Up? It could have been Fix him up or Fixer Upper to keep it easy. The Pygmalion plot point making it the title is just trite.
Ugh! I had such high hopes when the sex was so hot. But the story sucked!
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Romance novels are my guilty pleasure, but this just made me feel awkward. The sex scenes are cringe-worthy. The only redeeming quality is the characters’ non-romantic relationships. If the book wants its message to be about asserting yourself, then it should focus more on character development.
emotional
funny
fast-paced
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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
*pfffffbbbbbbbbbbttt*
this book loses the plot about 40% of the way through and just becomes sex scenes interrupted by our mc talking about his dick and how his gf is his bff's younger sister.
also my two least fav romance tropes were used. 1. running out the room before a misunderstanding can be explained 2. ending in proposal........................ yo its been 2 months show ur commitment by moving together or some shit idk
this book loses the plot about 40% of the way through and just becomes sex scenes interrupted by our mc talking about his dick and how his gf is his bff's younger sister.
also my two least fav romance tropes were used. 1. running out the room before a misunderstanding can be explained 2. ending in proposal........................ yo its been 2 months show ur commitment by moving together or some shit idk
emotional
funny
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced