Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey on March 1, 2022
Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Fiction / Women
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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“You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy.”
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.
I very much enjoyed Bailey’s first novel in this series and was excited for the second. While I did still enjoy it, it didn’t quite live up to my expectations. The first was much better to me, in my opinion. The novel as a whole just did not quite do everything that I was hoping it would and I am pretty bummed about it. I liked both characters , and the chemistry was great but I felt like I was missing something in between. Not to mention that Fox’s constant struggle with being recognized as the ‘ladies man’ was his big reasoning for wanting to stay away from Hannah. Lame excuse. It felt like she couldn’t think of an actual reason so she just through that in for dramatic affect. Also, Bailey’s smut is known to be top notch, but again, it was like I missed it in the book.
I gave this novel a three star rating. Though it was a fun read, it just did not live up to my expectations of what I was wanting when I went into the book. I also tended to get confused a bit on the character development. She portrays Hannah to be one thing, but then she writes a chapter with her acting completely out of her norm without an explanation as to why. It all just comes back to how I feel like I kept missing chapters to explain the depth of what was truly going on within themselves.