Review of Muffin Top (The Hartigans Book 2) by Avery Flynn
Lucy is Harbor City's best communications specialist (i.e. fixer, PR guru, what have you) and she tells it like it is. She's brash, bold and a pitbull. She takes no prisoners and takes no shit from anyone. Is her nature a way of masking her inner pain? Perhaps. But either way, she's awesome. So when some douche proceeds to tell her her "rating" would go up if she'd eat a salad instead of the jalapeño cheeseburger she was trying to eat, she has had it. And then, a white knight with ginger hair rescues her. Frankie is Harbor City's resident manwhore with a heart of gold. He's a firefighter who's been told in no uncertain terms that he's to take three weeks off because his vacation time has accrued so much and HR wants him away for awhile. When he sees his brother's fiancée's best friend who's also his sister's friend, being harassed by an unbelievably douchey guy, his inner rescuer roars to forefront and he dives headlong into the rescue. And what a rescue it is because not only do the two sit and talk and bond but they decide, well, he volunteers and she accepts, that he'll do her another favor and go to her high school reunion with her.
Gah, I loved Frankie and Lucy together! So much witty banter, and that sexual tension that was obvious from the very first page even though they tried to deny it, to stay just platonic friends. I love how Lucy was mostly strong and confident with herself but of course had insecurities that EVERYONE has, curvy or no. Sometimes it's nice to read about a heroine who isn't model like, because these kind of women are easier for me to relate to. I'll never be model thin and I like that Avery Flynn wrote a hot, hot, beautiful story that features someone who's more like the average woman, more like myself. And being that this is a rom com, I like that the author balanced the rom and the com perfectly, which isn't easy to do. The fun, the witty and the zany are perfectly balanced with the emotional, the love, and the heat. So why the 4.5 stars and not 5? Well it's a tiny thing, but it stuck with me - when they have their inevitable fallout, Lucy was just plain mean, and I do mean MEAN. She dug in where she shouldn't have, and Frankie was the one who made the grand gesture in making up when it should have been Lucy who had to grovel for forgiveness. But, aside from that small but memorable thing, I loved Muffin Top. It's a wonderfully written romance filled with heart, with heat, and a cast of not just fabulous leads, but with equally amazing secondary characters. I cannot wait to read more about these Hartigans!
ARC via Social Butterfly PR.
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Lucy is Harbor City's best communications specialist (i.e. fixer, PR guru, what have you) and she tells it like it is. She's brash, bold and a pitbull. She takes no prisoners and takes no shit from anyone. Is her nature a way of masking her inner pain? Perhaps. But either way, she's awesome. So when some douche proceeds to tell her her "rating" would go up if she'd eat a salad instead of the jalapeño cheeseburger she was trying to eat, she has had it. And then, a white knight with ginger hair rescues her. Frankie is Harbor City's resident manwhore with a heart of gold. He's a firefighter who's been told in no uncertain terms that he's to take three weeks off because his vacation time has accrued so much and HR wants him away for awhile. When he sees his brother's fiancée's best friend who's also his sister's friend, being harassed by an unbelievably douchey guy, his inner rescuer roars to forefront and he dives headlong into the rescue. And what a rescue it is because not only do the two sit and talk and bond but they decide, well, he volunteers and she accepts, that he'll do her another favor and go to her high school reunion with her.
Gah, I loved Frankie and Lucy together! So much witty banter, and that sexual tension that was obvious from the very first page even though they tried to deny it, to stay just platonic friends. I love how Lucy was mostly strong and confident with herself but of course had insecurities that EVERYONE has, curvy or no. Sometimes it's nice to read about a heroine who isn't model like, because these kind of women are easier for me to relate to. I'll never be model thin and I like that Avery Flynn wrote a hot, hot, beautiful story that features someone who's more like the average woman, more like myself. And being that this is a rom com, I like that the author balanced the rom and the com perfectly, which isn't easy to do. The fun, the witty and the zany are perfectly balanced with the emotional, the love, and the heat. So why the 4.5 stars and not 5? Well it's a tiny thing, but it stuck with me - when they have their inevitable fallout, Lucy was just plain mean, and I do mean MEAN. She dug in where she shouldn't have, and Frankie was the one who made the grand gesture in making up when it should have been Lucy who had to grovel for forgiveness. But, aside from that small but memorable thing, I loved Muffin Top. It's a wonderfully written romance filled with heart, with heat, and a cast of not just fabulous leads, but with equally amazing secondary characters. I cannot wait to read more about these Hartigans!
ARC via Social Butterfly PR.
#bookreview #newrelease #MuffinTop #AveryFlynn #curvywoman #firefighter #romance #romanticcomedy #romcom #SocialButterflyPR #ARC
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