Fix Her Up

Tessa Bailey

Hot & Hammered #1

Ebook 400 Pages

Contemporary Romance

Publisher: Avon

Release Date: June 11, 2019

Overall Rating: 4/5

Disclaimer: I received a ARC of this book from the publisher on Edel in exchange for an honest review. All opinions stated on here are my own.

Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.

Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?)
Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)

Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)
Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)

Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite?

Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her...

Georgie is the youngest sibling in her family and feels like she must fight her way in the family just to be heard. While I, as the oldest in my family have no idea what she is going through I can sympathize with her. I thought Travis was a good fit for her, someone in her life who saw her as an actual person, as an adult with thoughts of her own.

I most definitely didn’t hate this story at all but I didn’t love it the way I wanted to and that’s fine because I still like and enjoyed it. The fake dating troupe is one of my favorites and if a book has that in it, I’m reading it. Georgie was definitely my favorite thing about this book. She was happy with her life even though people judged her for being a clown. She enjoyed her work and wanted to expand on it. I really loved the beginning of the book, I didn’t love the rest of it as much but I liked it. There were some things at the end that I took issue with that was all me and not the fault of the book. I won’t give away what it away because that would spoil it. My real issue with the story was it felt like aside from Travis, and towards to the end her sister no one else really stopped and listened to Georgie, almost as if the problem was resolved but there was no actual resolution.

I do recommend this book to people who are looking for a good quick read with a great heroine. Travis and Georgie are great together, they work to better the life of the other and it really come through the pages. This is a book worth reading.

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