Author: Tessa Bailey
Series: Bellinger Sisters #1
Genre: New Adult/Romance/Comedy
Publisher: Avon
Publication Date: July 13th, 2021
Edition: Kindle Edition, 379 pages
Source: Library
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Synopsis:
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington.
Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.
Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.
Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.
Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.
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After hearing nearly only positive things about this and in desperate need for something lighthearted after finishing the last book in An Ember in the Ashes saga... I decided it was time to pick this book up.
Piper is a wonderful character. Even at the start of the book, I wasn't really bothered by her. I understood why she was the way she was, although I kept thinking she was a lot younger than her 29 years. She was pampered her whole life, then blamed for not having any goals. Kind of hypocritical. You know that she is a good person for how she treats her sister and how she treats the strangers of that small town she ends up in. She isn't disdainful of them doesn't think she is any better than they are.
I got kind of mad at her mother for not telling her daughters about their past, being so incredibly selfish about it because she as in pain. I could understand that if she had done that for a couple of years, but 20+ years just not telling her children about the other half of their family was in a way, cruel. Had Piper not messed up at the start of the book, she never would have known anything about her father, or his family.
Brenden was a great character as well. He had just as much growth as Piper did. I really dislike in romance books when only one side of the pair has any kind of growth. Where one is in someway changing themselves for the person they are falling for. But he doesn't ask her to change, he starts to fall for her for who she is, frilly dresses and all. But she has started to "grow up" a little and take some initiative with fixing up her father's bar, he starts to fall for her more and more each day. And as he does he starts to come out of his shell that he put himself in as a coping mechanism.
I really loved this book and plan on picking up more Tessa Bailey. Especially the companion sequel to this book about Piper's sister, Hannah.
Piper is a wonderful character. Even at the start of the book, I wasn't really bothered by her. I understood why she was the way she was, although I kept thinking she was a lot younger than her 29 years. She was pampered her whole life, then blamed for not having any goals. Kind of hypocritical. You know that she is a good person for how she treats her sister and how she treats the strangers of that small town she ends up in. She isn't disdainful of them doesn't think she is any better than they are.
I got kind of mad at her mother for not telling her daughters about their past, being so incredibly selfish about it because she as in pain. I could understand that if she had done that for a couple of years, but 20+ years just not telling her children about the other half of their family was in a way, cruel. Had Piper not messed up at the start of the book, she never would have known anything about her father, or his family.
Brenden was a great character as well. He had just as much growth as Piper did. I really dislike in romance books when only one side of the pair has any kind of growth. Where one is in someway changing themselves for the person they are falling for. But he doesn't ask her to change, he starts to fall for her for who she is, frilly dresses and all. But she has started to "grow up" a little and take some initiative with fixing up her father's bar, he starts to fall for her more and more each day. And as he does he starts to come out of his shell that he put himself in as a coping mechanism.
I really loved this book and plan on picking up more Tessa Bailey. Especially the companion sequel to this book about Piper's sister, Hannah.
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