{"id":28040,"date":"2022-03-03T06:34:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/?p=28040"},"modified":"2022-10-16T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T12:03:27","slug":"review-hook-line-and-sinker-by-tessa-bailey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/03\/review-hook-line-and-sinker-by-tessa-bailey\/","title":{"rendered":"Review \u2764\ufe0f Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-28040\" data-postid=\"28040\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-28040 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    \t\t\t<!-- module_row -->\n\t<div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_row themify_builder_row tb_bbbcac8 tb_first tf_w tf_clearfix\">\n\t    \t\t\t<div class=\"row_inner gutter-narrow col_align_top tb_col_count_2 tf_box tf_rel\">\n\t\t            <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-1 tb_49667e8 first\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module image -->\n<div  class=\"module module-image tb_7036296 rounded drop-shadow customBorderRad_top image-center auto_fullwidth tf_mw\" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div class=\"image-wrap tf_rel tf_mw\">\n\t\t    <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/hook-line-and-sinker-tessa-bailey.jpg?resize=332%2C500\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" title=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey\" alt=\"Review \u2764\ufe0f Hook, Line, and Sinker by Tessa Bailey\">\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<!-- \/image-wrap -->\n    \n    \t<\/div>\n<!-- \/module image --><!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_a1982ef customBorderRad_bottom repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">King crab fisherman Fox\u00a0Thornton\u00a0has a reputation as a\u00a0sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he\u2019s a guaranteed good time\u2014in bed and out\u2014and that\u2019s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She\u2019s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his\u2026 personality? And wants to be\u00a0<em>friends<\/em>? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Now, Hannah&#8217;s in town for work, crashing in Fox\u2019s spare bedroom. She knows he\u2019s a notorious ladies\u2019 man, but they\u2019re definitely\u00a0<em>just friends<\/em>. In fact, she&#8217;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\u2019s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker\u2019s eye\u2026 yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants\u00a0<em>him\u00a0<\/em>instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can&#8217;t deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she\u2019s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and\u2026 and\u2026 man overboard! He\u2019s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox\u00a0can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he\u2019s all in, she&#8217;ll choose him instead?<\/span><\/p>    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/module text -->                    <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                        <div  data-lazy=\"1\" class=\"module_column tb-column col3-2 tb_23787e9 last\">\n                                                        <div class=\"tb-column-inner tf_box tf_w\">\n                        <!-- module text -->\n<div  class=\"module module-text tb_2d1ea91  repeat \" data-lazy=\"1\">\n        <div  class=\"tb_text_wrap\">\n    <p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25880 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-diamond-banner-1.png?resize=296%2C72\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Mar 1, 2022<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<i>It Happened\u00a0One Summer<\/i><br \/><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>2<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0HarperCollins<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Avon\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Aah sigh. Fox. Is. Fabulous.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first book was all things wonderful in a year where everything was awful. This second story is like the flaky crust of a perfect pie. I&#8217;m talking the full piece.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hannah Bellinger<\/strong>, younger sister to the previous heroine, is back in the crab town of Westport, but this time she&#8217;s brought a film crew and is here based on a movie directors\u2019 vision. Same director she&#8217;s been pining over for years. Not wanting to barge in or intrude on her sisters happily wedded bliss she decides to stay with consummate ladies\u2019 man, Fox.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fox<\/strong> has his own rocky backstory, but he\u2019s starting to come out of his shell and even venturing into territory he\u2019s never attempted before. Sharing a living space with a woman. Nope. Captaining is own ship. Nope. The journey is half temptation, and half overcoming is own issues.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two in the months since the end of book one, <strong>It Happened One Summer<\/strong>, have cultivated a friendship between these two through text and music. No one expected it would go anywhere, except for me and other readers, of course. Let\u2019s just say it\u2019s amazing how interaction with a single person can change how the other engaged individual acts and reacts. In the case of Hannah and Fox, it\u2019s all about re-invention and becoming more like the people they are instead of what they\u2019ve always thought they needed to be.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fox was such the bad boy in book one and he makes this complete 360 I did not expect to happen. I honestly wasn\u2019t sure Fox could be redeemed from his typical one-night stand, lothario status. But Bailey found a way and that way is Hannah. 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Everyone knows he\u2019s a guaranteed good time\u2014in bed and out\u2014and that\u2019s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She\u2019s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his\u2026 personality? And wants to be\u00a0<em>friends<\/em>? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox\u2019s spare bedroom. She knows he\u2019s a notorious ladies\u2019 man, but they\u2019re definitely\u00a0<em>just friends<\/em>. 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\u2019s resident Casanova, Hannah sets out to catch her coworker\u2019s eye\u2026 yet the more time she spends with Fox, the more she wants\u00a0<em>him\u00a0<\/em>instead. As the line between friendship and flirtation begins to blur, Hannah can't deny she loves everything about Fox, but she refuses to be another notch on his bedpost.\u00a0<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Living with his best friend should have been easy. Except now she\u2019s walking around in a towel, sleeping right across the hall, and Fox is fantasizing about waking up next to her for the rest of his life and\u2026 and\u2026 man overboard! He\u2019s fallen for her, hook, line, and sinker. Helping her flirt with another guy is pure torture, but maybe if Fox\u00a0can tackle his inner demons and show Hannah he\u2019s all in, she'll choose him instead?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/smitten-diamond-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"72\" \/><\/p><hr \/><p><strong><br \/>Release Date:<\/strong> Mar 1, 2022<br \/><strong>Series:<\/strong>\u00a0<i>It Happened\u00a0One Summer<\/i><br \/><strong>Book:\u00a0<\/strong>2<br \/><strong>Heat Level:<\/strong> Hot<br \/><strong>Publisher:<\/strong>\u00a0HarperCollins<br \/><strong>Imprint:<\/strong>\u00a0Avon\u00a0<br \/><strong>Price:<\/strong> $10.99<\/p><hr \/><p><br \/><br \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>Aah sigh. Fox. Is. Fabulous.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first book was all things wonderful in a year where everything was awful. This second story is like the flaky crust of a perfect pie. I'm talking the full piece.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hannah Bellinger<\/strong>, younger sister to the previous heroine, is back in the crab town of Westport, but this time she's brought a film crew and is here based on a movie directors\u2019 vision. Same director she's been pining over for years. Not wanting to barge in or intrude on her sisters happily wedded bliss she decides to stay with consummate ladies\u2019 man, Fox.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Fox<\/strong> has his own rocky backstory, but he\u2019s starting to come out of his shell and even venturing into territory he\u2019s never attempted before. Sharing a living space with a woman. Nope. Captaining is own ship. Nope. The journey is half temptation, and half overcoming is own issues.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two in the months since the end of book one, <strong>It Happened One Summer<\/strong>, have cultivated a friendship between these two through text and music. No one expected it would go anywhere, except for me and other readers, of course. Let\u2019s just say it\u2019s amazing how interaction with a single person can change how the other engaged individual acts and reacts. In the case of Hannah and Fox, it\u2019s all about re-invention and becoming more like the people they are instead of what they\u2019ve always thought they needed to be.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fox was such the bad boy in book one and he makes this complete 360 I did not expect to happen. I honestly wasn\u2019t sure Fox could be redeemed from his typical one-night stand, lothario status. But Bailey found a way and that way is Hannah. She\u2019s everything unexpected and different with her tendency to rely on music to guide her way through life and emotions, she teaches Fox how to open up.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Add in a little jealousy, a crazy bingo night, and plenty of interference from friends, grandma\u2019s, sisters and more... Bailey gives us another rom-com romance with plenty of laughs, heartaches and swoons. If you love <em><strong>Jill Shalvis<\/strong><\/em> or<em><strong> Lauren Layne<\/strong><\/em> you would enjoy this one. Note: This book is a standalone, but is better enjoyed if you read book one.<\/p><p><em>~ Landra<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Mn9e5J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geo.itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/wedding-cake-crumble\/id1260340886?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iBooks<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/hook-line-and-sinker-helen-bailey\/1107765303?ean=9780063045705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">B&amp;N<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/hook-line-and-sinker-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kobo<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/books\/details\/Tessa_Bailey_Hook_Line_and_Sinker?id=ddswEAAAQBAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28982,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions\/28982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smittenbybooks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}