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A brand new romantic comedy from New York Times bestseller Tessa Bailey! 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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I love Tessa Bailey but it was really, really hard to get passed the characters occupation as a clown. I thought it was weird and hard to relate to. Made the whole thing feel like a joke.
3 stars
Georgie is tired of being viewed as the immature/youngest/'kid' of the family, so (for reasons that don't make sense) she gets Travis to fake date her--he is trying to appear more wholesome to get a job, they fall in love
-This was fine, I liked the writing well enough; thought it was interesting to have Travis be an injured player and trying to bounce back
-One of my biggest issues was literally the premise--why would a potential employer care who Travis was dating? How would they know this 3 week relationship is Travis having completely changed his player ways? Why would Georgie think that people would view her as more adult for dating Travis? My first thought was what her sister says too: "you're an idiot, he's a player"
-Also, 'baby girl' as the pet name for Georgie after she reveals she hates being the baby and wants to be taken seriously??
-Was steamier/dirtier than I'd expected, was just at the edge for me of power play dynamics being a bit much
-Was underwhelmed with the emotional development - she'd loved and pined for years, but we did get to see her thoughts and feelings dealing with him in the present. But from his POV it was much less clear to the reasons he liked then loved her
-Georgie was great, Travis was meh
-Loved the ladies club and looking forward to them in future books
-Travis' trauma wasn't delved into enough for me to feel like it was handled well or resolved satisfyingly--or that emotional work was started there