Review: Dream Girl Drama

February 23, 2025October 27, 2025 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: Dream Girl Drama
Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: Big Shots
Release Date: February 4, 2025
About this Book: Here
Source: My bookshelf.
Would I buy it for someone else? Absolutely

My Thoughts?

How much do I love a Tessa Bailey book? Let me count the ways (all the ways). This book, the third in the Big Shots series, involved two characters I had been hoping to get more information about from the get-go.

Yes, I’m talking about Sig Gauthier and Chloe Clifford. The “tough as nails” hockey player, and the girl who everyone underestimates.

These two could not be more different and maybe that’s why I love them so much. Sig drives an old vehicle which is constantly threatening to break down and Chloe has grown up never knowing what public transit might be like.

Sig is a big softie when it comes to her, when he should be firm, and firm when he should be soft (not in that way, although…)

Chloe is learning how to do things without her mother, who, to be honest, needs to learn how to loosen the reigns on her wild-hearted child. She is the epitomy of living through your child and god, I hated her so much.

Will everyone like Chloe? No, probably not, but I definitely had a soft spot for her. Did I identify with her? No, but it was really good to see how the other half lives, and what it could be like to no longer be able to do so.

Can’t lie, the plot of step-siblings feeling romantic feelings toward each other will always make me think of Clueless, and I’m not even mad about it. Is it taboo? Yes. Do these two deserve to be together more than their parents do? Yes. (Sorry, Chloe’s mom.)

This book is an easy read, and the banter is always world class when it comes to Tessa Bailey, and I’m so glad these two got their day in print.

And as with all Tessa Bailey books, this was spicy af.

Book List 2022 · Reviews

Review: It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

August 9, 2022August 5, 2022 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: It Happened One Summer
Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: The Bellinger Sisters
Source: Library
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Explicit? Oh boy is it.
Summary: 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.

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Book List 2021 · Reviews

Review: Fix Her Up (Hot & Hammered) by Tessa Bailey

April 13, 2021October 26, 2021 Ashley LPLeave a comment

Title: Fix Her Up

Series: Hot & Hammered

Author: Tessa Bailey

Rating: Adult

Genre: Adult contemporary

Summary:

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…

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