Too Hot to Handle
2016 • 302 pages
Ratings6
Average rating3.5
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Ratings6
Average rating3.5
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of Hook, Line, & Sinker comes 'a sparkling romcom that will have readers hooked' (Publishers Weekly). The road trip was definitely a bad idea. Having already flambéed her culinary career beyond recognition, Rita Clarkson is now stranded in God-Knows-Where, New Mexico, with a busted car and her three temperamental siblings, who she hasn't seen in years. When rescue shows up - six-feet-plus of charming hotness on a motorcycle - Rita's pretty certain she's gone from the frying pan right into the fire . . . Jasper Ellis has a bad boy reputation in this town, and he loathes it. The moment he sees Rita, though, Jasper knows he's about to be sorely tempted. There's something real between them. Something raw. And Jasper has only a few days to show Rita that he isn't just for tonight - he's forever. 'One of my all-time favourite authors!' Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game
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4 primary books5 released booksRomancing the Clarksons is a 5-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Tessa Bailey.
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I'm giving this 2.5 stars. This was my first Tessa Bailey read, and I'm a little disappointed. This book is written well, and I can definitely see why Tessa Bailey is the queen of dirty talk. I like the idea of the premise and the characters have some real struggles. Despite all that, I wasn't invested in Jasper, Rita, or the siblings, and I didn't buy the chemistry between Jasper and Rita. There were a lot of complicated backstories in the relationships between the siblings, and there were too many mysteries that weren't addressed at all throughout. The characters and the story, for me, lacked a sweetness or a charm that felt really necessary in a book that centers on the journey of two people who grow to be each other's saving graces. Jasper felt a little overbearing, overprotective (especially when he barged into the family's trust building campfire exercise), and pretty over-reactive (like when he angrily threw his coffee cup after he thought Rita had left town for good after they'd only known each other maybe a day). The story went on about 50 pages too long, far past the happily-ever-after moment, which I think could have been fixed with moving some of the events around. All in all, this one was a ‘meh' for me.
