#hannah bellinger

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Fox's internal worry and urgency to get antiseptic on Hannah's cut is kinda oddly endearing!

#we love a man who worries about infection and cares about proper wound care lol #this is actually very cute #hook line and sinker #tessa bailey #fox thornton #hannah bellinger

[nickjgoodsell]

My Review: Hook, Line, and Sinker (It Happened One Summer #2): by Tessa Bailey

My Review: Hook, Line, and Sinker (It Happened One Summer #2): by Tessa Bailey

Publish Date: March 1st, 2022Number of Pages: 400 PagesPublisher: Avon BooksGenre(s): Romance **Warning!! This review contains spoilers from the previous book in the series, so continue reading at your own risk! You’ve officially been warned!!** To see my review of book #1 – It Happened One Summer – Click HERE Total Star Rating: 4.25 Stars ‘I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was…

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#book review #book review blog #Brendan Taggert #Fake Dating #fox thornton #goodys blog #hannah bellinger #Hook Line and Sinker #It happened one summer #New Adult Romance #Piper Bellinger #Romance #romance novel #Romance Tropes #tessa bailey

[viraegos]

new muses added !   —     hannah bellinger   (hook, line, and sinker)     &     piper bellinger   (it happened one summer)

#𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐒 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐕𝐈𝐒𝐔𝐀𝐋 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐌𝐒 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐍 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐖𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐀𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐂 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐃𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 ⠀ 、 ⠀ piper bellinger . #td.

[inaredflush]

tag drop: characters pt 1

#im so very tame now | alexis rose #gave my blood sweat and tears for this | amy santiago #theres nothing like a mad woman | catalina suarez #on my vigilante shit | kim possible #id be the man | rebecca welton #i had a marvelous time ruining everything | rhaenyra targaryen #what must it be like to grow up that beautiful | aphrodite #they say i did something bad | hecate #i miss who i used to be | hera #all this shit is new to me | persephone #youre so gorgeous | psyche #the road not taken looks real good now | hannah bellinger

[haveyoureadthispoll]

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time--in bed and out--and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his... personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom. She knows he's a notorious ladies' man, but they're definitely just friends. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport's resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker's eye... yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she's walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and... and... man overboard! He's fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he's all in, she'll choose him instead?

#book: hook line and sinker #author: tessa bailey #genre: romance #genre: contemporary #year: 2020s

[third-thoughts]

Headcanon - Tessa Bailey Protagonists Play D&D

For the purposes of this headcanon, it's Piper and Hannah Bellinger, Brendan Taggart, Fox Thornton, Taylor Bassey, Myles Sumner, Hallie Welch, and Julian and Natalie Vos. Somehow they're all playing together. I hope some people who like both D&D and Tessa Bailey read this and understand what the hell I'm talking about...

Piper chooses an aasimar after reading about their heavenly beauty, and the sorcerer class so she can have a high charisma. It's basically her, but with magical powers. Her play style is the definition of "highjinks" and Brendan loves her for it.

(While thinking this up, I thought "Rose Gold Dragon" and found it way too funny.)

Brendan would absolutely, 100% be the guy who just plays a human fighter. He chooses all the boring but sensible options - I can see him picking the Battlemadter archetype. I can imagine the adventure stalling because of him being so methodical and cautious when he plays. He physically cannot speak in any voice other than his own, despite everyone urging him to imitate their voices as practice. It's painful to behold.

Before I read too much of Hook, Line and Sinker, I thought it would be too obvious to make Hannah a bard. I stand corrected. Hannah IS a bard. She would have a specially curated playlist for using her class abilities. After deliberating over what race to pick, she goes with Piper's idea of playing an aasimar too so they can be sisters in-game too.

I had trouble thinking of what character Fox would play. I don't think he'd be a straight up fighter/wizard/rogue/cleric. I considered bard, paladin and ranger, but after watching the Critical Role Campaign 2 opening credits I could see him getting enthusiastic about Beau's fighting style, so I'm going with monk. He plays a halfling for the dexterity bonus (and maybe Tolkien homgae?). I think he'd be a good role-player, and be the one who thinks of interesting uses for his abilities - like out of the box problem solving.

Hannah and Fox would definitely be the ones with the well thought out backstories who get properly into the setting, whereas Piper would be the one to keep an eye on and a bit of a DM's nightmare. Brendan would just be interested in achieving the goals of the adventure. He certainly wouldn't be a a Munchkin power gamer (he'd hate people like that) but he would totally be just focused on optimising his character.

Taylor decides to go all out and picks the barbarian class. Ignoring Myles' suggestion that halflings were made for her, she plays a goliath. She goes out of her way to talk to NPCs, and rages with utter glee.

Myles plays a Life domain cleric and is constantly loaded up with healing spells - because even at the gaming table, he can't help but do everything to protect his girlfriend. He plays a hill dwarf for the Wisdom bonus, which after his halfling comment, Taylor finds hilarious. She makes sure to mention how she towers over him at every opportunity. If anyone's seen Lord of the Rings and the "dwarf tossing" moment gets mentioned, every possible joke ensues.

At Julian's urging, Hallie agrees to play, partly because she wants a ringside seat to his utter nerdiness. I originally thought "druid" would be an obvious parallel to her profession, but now I think she would play a rogue. Her gnome charms everyone at the table, before unleashing an absolutely lethal mischievous streak as she settles in to the game.

Julian might make a good Dungeon Master, if the planning didn't stress him out. Otherwise I feel like he'd be the kind of guy who creates a really powerful character build AND thinks of role-playing reasons to justify it. Maybe a wizard? I also feel like he'd be looking over Hallie's shoulder, trying to help her out and tearing his hair out if she made a "non-optimal" choice. Also, one word - "lore".

I haven't read Unfortunately Yours yet, but I feel like Natalie would just embrace a certain side of herself as a tiefling warlock. She and Piper wreak havoc together and have earned a "duo nickname" by the third session.

Sadly I don't know enough about August yet either. We could assume he's the DM, since no one else is. From the little I know about him and Natalie, that could prove... interesting.

If anyone else has any thoughts on this... I need to hear them.

#tessa bailey #dungeons and dragons #it happened one summer #hook line and sinker #my killer vacation #secretly yours #Headcanon #It's an odd combination I know

[ismahanescorner]

It Happened One Summer | Book Review

Author: Tessa Bailey

Genre: Adult Romance

Publisher: Avon

Release Date: 19/08/2021

Rating: 3/5 🌟🌟🌟

Synopsis:

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face. Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.

Review:

this was a run of the mill story; definitely not worth all the hype (at least for me!). i’m pretty meh about the romance. i didn’t relate to either character, but i did like seeing piper grow into herself. brendan is alright i guess; although i’m a bit miffed about him judging the men in piper’s life for treating her like an airhead when he did the very same at the start! i liked that he included hannah in his plans with piper tho! oh yeah, this will be my one and done for this author!

#booknerd #bookworm #bookstagram #booklover #books #book review #bookish #goodreads #bookaholic #reading #it happened one summer #tessa bailey #brendan taggart #piper bellinger #summer reading

[animadistelle]

@withxrebelyell​‘s hannah bellinger sent for piper bellinger ( meme here ); accepting.                   “You’re dead.” 

“it’s only for like,    two days,   hanns.”       piper moves to sit onto her bunk,  putting her weight onto her hand as she sits,   hand bending at the elbow.    she looks at hannah,   admiring how her sister has stuck by her through this entire thing.     how she’s literally never left her side,  ever ever.    she owes her big time,    even more after this proposition.     “think of it as like,    research for yourself.    it’s a convention, right?    a whole networking deal and you’ll be a great buffer for me and i’ll be one for you and fox.”

#withxrebelyell #( i couldn't q this sorry ) #&. * piper answers / asks.

[lyrashub]

𝑪𝑨𝑵𝑶𝑵 𝑴𝑼𝑺𝑬𝑺

TELEVISION.

BETTY COOPER (lili reinhart)  —  riverdale

BLAIR WALDORF (leighton meester)  —  gossip girl

CAROLINE FORBES (candice king / sydney sweeney)  —  the vampire diaries

CLARKE GRIFFIN (eliza taylor)  —  the 100

KATHERINE PIERCE (ana de armas)  —  the vampire diaries

QUINN FABRAY (dianna agron)  —  glee

LITERATURE.

ALLIE HAYES (lili reinhart)  —  off-campus

AMERICA SINGER (kennedy mcmann)  —  riverdale

ERIKA FANE (scarlett leithold)  —  devil’s night

FEYRE ARCHERON (danielle rose russell)  —  acotar

HANNAH WELLS (danielle campbell)  —  off-campus

PIPER BELLINGER (margot robbie)  —  it happened one summer

SYDNEY SAGE (kathryn newton)  —  vampire academy: bloodlines

#tipo: canon

[cassianandfenrysaremyboyos]

Fox and Hannah have only been in each other's company for five minutes and he is already so gone for her!

#it's cute #hook line and sinker #fox thornton #hannah bellinger #tessa bailey #he still has a way to go to make up for the no female friends thing but this is an ok start

[enternecers]

new muses added: cresseida (acotar), cindy burman (stargirl), harper, josephine and octavia (the 100), lily evans (harry potter), kourtney, maddox, val and ashlyn (hsmtmts), aneesa and devi (nhie), alex and poppy (people you meet on vacation), hannah bellinger (bellinger sisters), mirren sinclair (we were liars), aaron and catalina (spanish love deception), victoria martinez and daniel cranshaw (fandomless ocs) & helena, kelly and gwen (the society)

#brb time to update my carrd #* ･ﾟ◞ OOC POST.

[brisownworld]

Fox Thornton is known for two things: avoiding responsibility and seducing ladies. It was practically a birthright, as his father spent his life seducing his way through the country to the point that Fox’s own mother winces whenever she sees her son, his spitting image. So you could say he’s got some Baggage about his sex appeal. Enter Hannah Bellinger, the naive younger sister of the retired social media scandal Piper (whose book I recommended last week), who finds herself back in the small Washington fishing town where she was born, hoping to gain experience in music supervision while on the film set of her long-time crush, an LA-based director. She rooms with Fox while there, having met him a year earlier while his BFF and her sister were falling in love, and they both have to overcome the expectations of those around them that have seeped into their own self image in order to let themselves fall in love and move forward.

“Reforming” “Rakes” is a big theme in Tessa Bailey’s backlist (aka, virile heroes with complexes about how everyone sees them as a piece of meat) so if this is your jam, you should also check out Fix Her Up!

Rating: 5/5

How hot? 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Read the two other reviews of romances with reformed "rakes" as their heroes on my Forced Proximity Substack! New recommendations every Friday afternoon!

#tessa bailey #romancelandia #romance novels #hook line and sinker #contemporary romance

[viraegos]

@sororanimarum​​ gets bellinger sister things !

                   “     pipes . . .     ”         hannah starts,     pulling out her airpods and shoving them into the pockets of her hoodie.     this is a serious conversation and it requires all of her attention.     even if pressing pause on bowie physically hurts her.          “     it’s okay to want to stay,     y’know?     ”         the younger bellinger scoots closer to her big sister,     giving her back a gentle rub.          “     and it’s okay to want to be with him,     too.     ”

#sororanimarum #𝐢𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 ⠀ 、 ⠀ hannah bellinger . #𝐢. ⠀ ⠀˛ ⠀ * ⠀ 。゜ ✻ ⠀ ⠀ 𝐎𝐎𝐂 ⠀ 、 ⠀ closed starter . #idk what this is but look at h.an being all wise

[inaredflush]

like this post for a starter from one of my underused muses!

as always please specify muse - full list under the cut

television

alexis rose - schitt's creek

amy santiago - brooklyn 99

baela targaryen - house of the dragon

gloria delgado - modern family

rosa diaz - brooklyn 99

movies

gaby teller - the man from uncle

mythology

aphrodite - goddess of love

hecate - goddess of magic

psyche - goddess of the soul

literature

hannah bellinger - hook, line, and sinker

jules ambrose - twisted hate

stella alonso - twisted lies

mixed media

kate sharma - bridgerton

penelope featherington - bridgerton

original

aurora drake - mafia oc

delaney thomas - villain oc

sadie hallstrom - political oc

#and ill write your name | starter call #i have like hella muse now??

[rockislandadultreads]

Read Alikes: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey

King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time - in bed and out - and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his... personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom. She knows he's a notorious ladies' man, but they're definitely just friends. In fact, she's nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and Fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. Armed with a few tips from Westport's resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker's eye... yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants him instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost. Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she's walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and... and... man overboard! He's fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he's all in, she'll choose him instead?

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

A wedding planner left at the altar. Yeah, the irony isn’t lost on Carolina Santos, either. But despite that embarrassing blip from her past, Lina’s managed to make other people’s dreams come true as a top-tier wedding coordinator in DC. After impressing an influential guest, she’s offered an opportunity that could change her life. There’s just one hitch… she has to collaborate with the best (make that worst) man from her own failed nuptials. Tired of living in his older brother’s shadow, marketing expert Max Hartley is determined to make his mark with a coveted hotel client looking to expand its brand. Then he learns he’ll be working with his brother’s whip-smart, stunning - absolutely off-limits - ex-fiancée. And she loathes him. If they can survive the next few weeks and nail their presentation without killing each other, they’ll both come out ahead. Except Max has been public enemy number one ever since he encouraged his brother to jilt the bride, and Lina’s ready to dish out a little payback of her own. But even the best laid plans can go awry, and soon Lina and Max discover animosity may not be the only emotion creating sparks between them. Still, this star-crossed couple can never be more than temporary playmates because Lina isn’t interested in falling in love and Max refuses to play runner-up to his brother ever again...

Talk Bookish to Me by Kate Bromley

Kara Sullivan’s life is full of love - albeit fictional. As a bestselling romance novelist and influential bookstagrammer, she’s fine with getting her happily-ever-after fix between the covers of a book. But right now? Not only is Kara’s best friend getting married next week - which means big wedding stress - but the deadline for her next novel is looming, and she hasn’t written a single word. The last thing she needs is for her infuriating first love, Ryan Thompson, to suddenly appear in the wedding party. But Ryan’s unexpected arrival sparks a creative awakening in Kara that inspires the steamy historical romance she desperately needs to deliver. With her wedding duties intensifying, her deadline getting closer by the second and her bills not paying themselves, Kara knows there’s only one way for her to finish her book and to give her characters the ever-after they deserve. But can she embrace the unlikely, ruggedly handsome muse - who pushes every one of her buttons - to save the wedding, her career and, just maybe, write her own happy ending?

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young - but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

#fiction #contemporary romance #bookrecs #book recommendations #reading recommendations #library books #tbr #TBR pile #to read #booklr #book lovers #readalikes

[teenageread]

Review: It Happened One Summer

Synopsis:

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face. Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.

Plot:

Piper Bellinger was a socialite of LA. Her job was to sleep all day so that she could party all night. Her step-father, Daniel Q. Bellinger has been in her life since she was four, and her little sister Hannah was two. Before that, her mom lived in this little seaside town and left after Piper’s father died, found Daniel, and is happy being a millionaire's wife. When Piper’s longest boyfriend ever, dumped her after three weeks of love, claiming Piper’s an airhead, Piper decides to get him back by tossing a pool party. This pool party landed her in jail, and almost cost Daniel a financial supporter. Wanting to teach his step-daughter a lesson, Daniel ships Piper, and through volunteering Hannah, off to Westport, the city of their father. Giving them the upstairs apartment of a bar they apparently own, Piper had to make her own way in town with no financial support and no rescue until Halloween. Sticking out like a sore thumb, Piper and Hannah were the new girls and caught the eyes of all the locals. One of them was sea captain, Brendan Taggart who told Piper she was not made for this town. Determined to survive and stick it to all those who doubt her, Piper begins to find herself and makes a place for herself in Westport, and within Brendan, a surprisingly soft heart. 

Thoughts: 

Tessa Bailey wrote this book so that they can write an explicit sex scene. A true classic summer read, nothing about this novel is remarkable, except for the four explicit sex scenes that Bailey writes Brendan and Piper in. Our characters are pretty two-dimensional, Piper is an LA wild child who has to learn responsibility while still being her fun-loving sparkly self, and Brendan is a cold, stoic sea captain, who learns to bend their strict routines to accommodate their loved one. Classic lesson learned so our characters are not completely the same, but nothing to write home about. For our side characters, Bailey made Hannah Piper’s sister, rather than her friend, but only kept them at friend surface level conversation. Our sisters are literally in the town of their dead dad who they know nothing about, yet they would rather talk about Brendan’s bed performance than talk about their dead dad? Same with Opal, a family member our girls meet, but Bailey never has them have an emotionally charged heart-to-heart, which could have led readers to tears. Yet the only tears I was shedding were from laughing at the awful smut writing. Seriously, Brenard has never called Piper a nickname, but as soon as her pants are off the “honey” and “baby” start to come out. Horrific, and insulting, Bailey really went off four times when our characters hooked up, only to bring them back to their minor problems with minor solutions. Overall, if you want a cute summer small coast town book, others are way better to read. However, if you want some smut, there are also other books to read. This book is trash with no real substance and mediocre sex, and it's a forgettable novel.

Read more reviews: Goodreads

Buy the book: Amazon

#It Happened One Summer #Tessa Bailey #Bellinger Sisters #book review