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Fix Her Up
by Tessa Bailey
Rainy days at the beach can be hard to fill. Lucky for me the first very rainy weekend day in the past month came when I was about 1/3 of the way into this book, so I curled up in bed and listened, went for a manicure and listened, and ran to the grocery and listened, blasting through the remaining 2/3. Turns out the rainy day at the beach was pretty darn good.
I had read the other two books in this series already (though this is the first book in the Hot & Hammered series) and I have also read some other Bailey books. I will say something close to what I always say about Tessa Bailey books. The writing is not great (though it is much better in the Bellinger Sisters series than in this earlier one) and Bailey desperately needs a copy editor. There is a little bit of word misuse in all the books, and tons of duplication of words and concepts. Does anyone else say "business degree diploma?" No.
In addition to the writing not being super strong, Bailey's men have a possessive slightly toxic edge that is problematic. It was less problematic in this book than some others though our hero, Travis, infantilizes Georgie quite frequently. I cringed when Georgie had a workman in her house and he barked something about it not being safe for her to be alone with the man in her house. And then there is the money thing....our heroine in this book, Georgie, is a 23 year old party clown who was able to purchase a house in Port Jefferson, For those that are not in the NYC metro, Port Jeff is on Long Island at about the midpoint between Queens and Montauk. Port Jeff might not be as pricey as houses closer to the city, but you would be hard pressed to find anything there for under about $700k which seems out of reach for a 23 year-old party clown. If not, I got into the wrong business.
Here is where this review gets a little inconsistent, because despite the clunky prose, and the men who are a bit too caveman for my particular liking, and the absurdly luxe lifestyles enjoyed by construction workers, and longshoremen, and clowns, I enjoy these books. They are very very sexy and delightfully romantic. So yeah, it was really fun.
I had read the other two books in this series already (though this is the first book in the Hot & Hammered series) and I have also read some other Bailey books. I will say something close to what I always say about Tessa Bailey books. The writing is not great (though it is much better in the Bellinger Sisters series than in this earlier one) and Bailey desperately needs a copy editor. There is a little bit of word misuse in all the books, and tons of duplication of words and concepts. Does anyone else say "business degree diploma?" No.
In addition to the writing not being super strong, Bailey's men have a possessive slightly toxic edge that is problematic. It was less problematic in this book than some others though our hero, Travis, infantilizes Georgie quite frequently. I cringed when Georgie had a workman in her house and he barked something about it not being safe for her to be alone with the man in her house. And then there is the money thing....our heroine in this book, Georgie, is a 23 year old party clown who was able to purchase a house in Port Jefferson, For those that are not in the NYC metro, Port Jeff is on Long Island at about the midpoint between Queens and Montauk. Port Jeff might not be as pricey as houses closer to the city, but you would be hard pressed to find anything there for under about $700k which seems out of reach for a 23 year-old party clown. If not, I got into the wrong business.
Here is where this review gets a little inconsistent, because despite the clunky prose, and the men who are a bit too caveman for my particular liking, and the absurdly luxe lifestyles enjoyed by construction workers, and longshoremen, and clowns, I enjoy these books. They are very very sexy and delightfully romantic. So yeah, it was really fun.