New Release: Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey + Review!

Fix Her Up

by Tessa Bailey

About FIX HER UP

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!)

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.

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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Review:

4 stars

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 Fix Her Up was a good book! This book is about Georgie and Travis. They both grew up in the same small town. Travis was Georgie's older brother's best friend. He went on to become a professional baseball player, but a career-ending injury has landed him out of a job and back in town, depressed and at loose ends. Georgie is now a clown who performs at birthday parties. She is the youngest in her family and she feels like no one takes her seriously. Also, she always had a crush on Travis, even though he always thought of her as a pest. So when she finds him wallowing over his circumstances, Georgie decides to help him move on. Travis has a bad reputation as a manwhore in the press. When a new chance at a career as a commentator comes around for him, he and Georgie make a deal. The two of them will pretend to be a serious couple, giving him a more settled down reputation and letting her family know she is not the child they think she is. Of course, as the two spend time together, the game of pretend becomes very real and they fall for each other. 

I really enjoyed this book. Travis and Georgie were both good characters with great chemistry and lots of layers. They were funny, sweet and sexy together. I definitely felt the love between them. Their relationship was fun to watch develop from barely friends to more. I also really liked the small town feel and the side characters of the couple's friends and family. I wish there was an epilogue, but that did not hinder my enjoyment. 

Overall, this was a good read! I am never disappointed by a Tessa Bailey book. I can't wait to see what she comes up with next!

About the author:

TESSA BAILEY is originally from Carlsbad, California. The day after high school graduation, she packed her yearbook, ripped jeans, and laptop, and drove cross-country to New York City in under four days. Her most valuable life experiences were learned thereafter while waitressing at K-Dees, a Manhattan pub owned by her uncle. Inside those four walls, she met her husband, best friend, and discovered the magic of classic rock, managing to put herself through Kingsborough Community College and the English program at Pace University at the same time. Several stunted attempts to enter the work force as a journalist followed, but romance writing continued to demand her attention. She now lives in Long Island, New York with her husband and daughter. Although she is severely sleep-deprived, she is incredibly happy to be living her dream of writing about people falling in love.