nicole_3 's review for:

Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey

1.0

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I had so many problems with the romance in this one. Georgie wants to be taken more seriously because everyone treats her like a child, even though she’s 23. Travis needs to revamp his image to be ‘family friendly’ for a potential sports commentator gig. So naturally they decide to fake date. Georgie’s children’s party clown business and the concept of Travis being in a long term relationship helps Travis. Being with Travis, who is known to sleep around, helps Georgie appear more mature. And therein lies (one of) my issues with this novel. Georgie is a virgin and this is mentioned to the point where the implication is made that she’s not seen as mature because she is not sexually active. Whereas Travis is seen as more mature because he’s very sexually active. I wasn’t going to dig back through the book to fully verify, but I’m pretty sure the first sex scene occurs before Georgie can find her courage to call out those treating her like a child. She’s an adult, virgin or not, so her character development should not be tied to her sex life. Also, super weird how Travis is hung up on Georgie being his best friend’s sister and sister-like to him and yet he’s having sex with her.

I wish this book had ended much differently. The third act breakup is resolved in the span of one short chapter with an apology, proposal, and dramatic kiss in the middle of traffic. They went from broken up to engaged without an actual conversation. The whole thing was resolved too quickly and easily.