Italy Can Bite Me: A Vacation Romantic Comedy (Hot Mess Summer Book 1)

Italy Can Bite Me: A Vacation Romantic Comedy (Hot Mess Summer Book 1)

MéLisa Ryun

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Note To Don’t Fall For Your Tour Guide's "Rock Solid" Tower of Pisa. There are two types of planners and chaos-makers. I, Katie Crawford, am the former—color-coded, laminated, and ready for anything. So when my fiancé dumps me for being too Type A, I do the logical fly to Italy with my cougar aunt’s senior-swingers’-bus-tour to prove I can be spontaneous. The Loosen up. Be fun. Win my fiancé back. The Him. Matteo Monti—ridiculously gorgeous, charming, and smug. My Italian tour guide who treats life like a never-ending holiday. He calls me Checklist. I call him Walking Red Flag. Now, thanks to some highly suspicious booking errors, we’re sharing hotel rooms, stealing kisses under Venetian stars, and fighting over who's in control ( It’s me. Obviously). Tour Guide Rule #1: Don’t Catch Feelings. Ciao, I’m Matteo, and I have a system. Show tourists Italy, flex my forearms, avoid emotional entanglements. Simple, right? Until I meet her—Katie—stubborn, uptight, and impossible to resist. The more I push, the harder she pushes back. And now? I'm forgetting why I ever made rules at all. She's running from perfect. I'm hiding from forever. But on these winding Italian roads, we might just crash right into love. A spicy, laugh-out-loud romcom about desire, detours, and what happens when life refuses to follow the itinerary. Meghan Quinn fans will love this Opposites Attract, Vacation Fling, Road Trip romance with steamy Forced Proximity and Snarky Banter as Foreplay. Come escape to Italy and get your copy today!


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  • bookscoffeeandpao
    Mar 31, 2025
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    "Here lies Katie Crawford, taken too soon by an Italian tour guide's ripped forearms and filthy mouth. May she rest in organized peace."

    ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

    This book is truly one of a kind if you ask me. The amount of humor, laughter, and banter there was truly left nothing to be desired. That's not even mentioning the spice involved. Melisa Ryun did such an amazing job with this book. It was nearly impossible to not immediately fall in love with it and the characters. While I love the main characters with all my heart, I gotta give it to the side characters because they were what made the story stand out more than anything else. I don't think I've ever met quite an array of side characters that just made this reading journey that much more enjoyable and amazing in a long long time.

    You seriously do not want to miss reading this. Not only will you be left wanting to transport yourself to Italy and have your own self-discovery journey, but you'll wish you could bring everyone in the book with you because no one does Italy like them. Melisa Ryun have definitely gained themselves a new fan and major supporter with this book.

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