Romance - I can take insta lust, but no one falls in love in a couple of days. Also, I'm assuming the brother will end up with his own book, considering the best friend drama in the sidelines? I liked the main girl well enough, but the main guy was a bit too greasy for my liking. Baileyâ€™s writing is a little jarring and over the top, and on several occasions I found myself laughing at the ridiculousness of the writing, not so much the jokes.Ĭharacters - A teeny tiny sunshine woman with t&a, and a big gruff man whoâ€™s secretly soft but only for the heroine. Writing - I donâ€™t need a literary masterpiece, but I need effortless writing that I donâ€™t really have to pay attention to. How about we take a look at the different aspects that I have expectations for, when I read romance:

At least I don't? But thereâ€™s still a lot of variance between books within the genre, so how to rate them fairly? They are essentially fantasy fulfillment, and most people donâ€™t really expect them to have much resemblance to real life. Rating romance books is a little more difficult than rating basically any other genre, because they arenâ€™t really supposed to hold up to close scrutiny. Before Myles sinks any deeper into this dangerous attraction, he needs to solve this murder and get back on the road.īut will fate take her from him before Myles realize the road has been leading to her all along … ( more) In other words, the insatiable hunger and protectiveness she is awakening is a threat to his peace of mind. She's also brave and beautiful and reminds him of the home he left behind three years ago. Sure, she's stubborn, distracting and can't stay out of harm's way. is becoming less and less of a hardship to have Taylor around. Myles is just there to do a job, not babysit an amateur sleuth. Not to mention her fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.Ī brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary school teacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on Taylor's life, they're stuck together, come hell or high tide. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe Taylor can be helpful, despite the countless hours she's spent listening to true crime podcasts. It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Codâ?just Taylor and her beloved brotherâ?but discovering a corpse in their rental house has really thrown a wrench into their tanning schedule. A spicy rom-com with a murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer!

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