A review by thaliareads
Too Hot to Handle by Tessa Bailey

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.5

A fun start to the series. I really liked the book after the first few chapters. It started a bit slow in my opinion, but that was just because of the setup required since the series will follow each of the family members over time. By the time they ended up in Hurley, I was invested and enjoyed it from there. While still not my favorite of the Tessa Bailey books, it was for sure worth a read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Sexual content

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Violence

Minor: Alcohol and Death of parent

As with Tessa's other books the sexual content is very explicit and is a constant throughout the entirety of the book and does typically involve cursing. The rest of the content warnings do contain minor spoilers:

The book starts with main character looking upon her restaurant up in flames. The very same restaurant that had been her now-deceased mother's. The main character also reflects often on her time on a cooking competition show where she did threaten someone with a knife. Finally, the other MC owns a bar so alcohol does come up from time to time.