A review by beckyyreadss
Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey

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  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I wanted to read this book because I love Tessa Bailey’s work – It Happened One Summer is still one of my favourite books that I think about almost daily. So, when Tessa announced the second book this series and that it was a enemies-to-lovers, marriage of convenience trope with a tall, dark and handsome love interest - I was like SIGN ME UP! 

This book has two points of view. The first is Natalie Vos, who we met in the first book, she is Julian’s sister. She has lost her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop in New York, so she has returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she’s sufficiently drowned her sorrows in wine and she’s ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she must be married before she even sees a penny of it. And well, she’s not looking to get married after what happened in New York. But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to the man who makes her want to kill him and kiss him, in equal measure. The second point of view is August Cates. He might own a vineyard, but he doesn’t know anything about making wine. He's determined to do his late best friend proud, no matter what it takes. Except his tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting like people are gagging it’s that disgusting and his buddy’s legacy is circling the drain. No bank will give the loan he needs to turn the business around and then the gorgeous, feisty heiress knocks on his door. Natalie has haunted his dream since the moment they met, he can’t stop thinking about her especially considering how their date ended. The chemistry is sizzling which morphs into simmering insults. Now, a quick marriage could help them both. A fake wedding, a few weeks living under the same roof, and then they can go their separate ways, if they both make it out alive. How hard can it be? There’s just one thing they didn’t account for. Their unbearable and undeniable attraction.  

THIS BOOK. THIS BOOK. This book is how you do the marriage of convenience trope. This book was so much better than the first book mainly because the MCs didn’t annoy the shit out of me. One character being like I've come from a broken home and I'm damaged and the other one being like I'll show you love and make sure you are comfortable around me just owns my freaking heart. I loved Natalie’s growth during this book, she started in a rough place and managed to know her worth and knew what she wanted in life. There was no third act break up, there is a bit of miscommunication but it’s very minor that it didn’t annoy me as much as other miscommunication books have. Natalie was so badass and I loved her and how she doesn’t let her family name be all she has, she wants to prove herself as being Natalie not just a Vos, and I liked that. August Cates – that man, he will never ever beat Brendan Taggert as he owes my heart, but he is a very close second and I would love a book where Piper, Brendan, Natalie and August go on a double date or a couples retreat or something. Anyway, back to August – my little damaged and grieving soul. He was so precious and overprotective but I loved it. He was like controlling overprotective, he was like you can do what you want but if anyone doesn’t let you do it or degrades you, I will end them sort of way. I wanted to hug August during the chapters where he was going through his grief and talking about Sam. I would have loved some prologue of how close Sam and August were, but you find out during the book but I would have loved a POV chapter from Sam or August when they were serving. 

I always want to slowly read Tessa’s book, but it just never happens, I end up devouring it and then sitting there, wondering what book of hers I'm going to read next and when is her next release?  
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