Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Sexual Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋
Sex Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Sex Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: Yes!
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine

Should I read in order?
I didn’t and thought it was fine! There are some minor scenes with the characters from book 1. I’m not sure if our hero and heroine from this book are developed in book 1.

Basic plot:
Hannah is returning to Fox’s town for work and soon these just friends are rooming together and hanging out...and so much more.

Give this a try if you want:
- Contemporary romance
- Unrequited love
- Hero loves first
- King crab fisherman hero
- Production assistant heroine that is very interested in music (helps create the music for movies)
- Friends to lovers
- Celibate hero
- Hero is a bit of a delightful naughty talker
- Medium steam – 2 full scenes plus some hot partials and kisses-

Ages:
- Hero is 31, didn’t see heroine mentioned but would guess late 20s?

My thoughts:
I ended up really liking this one! I picked it up months ago and read the first half and was kind of into it but lost my library loan. Just recently decided to finish it and REALLY loved the second half of this novel.

Fox was an amazing hero. I loved his longing for Hannah (I am a SUCKER for unrequited love feelings lately!!) and I adored how close he held everything related to her to his chest. His pain of the assumptions about his character were heartbreaking and I felt for him. I loved how perfect Hannah was for him. I absolutely believed in their HEA!

Hannah was such a fun heroine too. I was a little iffy in the beginning since she had the crush on her boss, and I’m not usually into love triangles much, but thankfully she pretty quickly realized her feelings for her boss weren’t there. I adored how she saw Fox, saw him clearly and like no others were willing to look below the surface at him.

I don’t usually enjoy contemporary, but this one was definitely pleasant to me. I would try Tessa Baily again! It had a touch of a slower start to me, and I was able to stop reading it for months on end so I knocked a star off but still really enjoyable read to me.

A few other notes/quotes:

Text convos

H: Yes. My sister likes to tease me about pining for starving artists.
F: You like them dark and dramatic, huh?
H: Careful! You’re going to give me an orgasm.
F: If that was the plan, babe, you’d have had two already.

Love this

Before she could try a third time, Fox reached past her and opened it wit ha flick of his tan wrist. “You’re having a shit day, aren’t you?” he said for her ears alone.
She exhaled. “Yeah.”
He made a humming sound, tilted his head sympathetically. “Tell me which bag is yours and I’ll bring you back to my place.” Gently, he tugged on a strand of her hair. “Make it all better.”

Scenes of jealousy are my guilty romance pleasure

Oh yea, the guy was looking, all right.
This plan was already working.
He suddenly ached to bury his fist in the wall.
 

 

Content warnings:
 

 
- Mention of death of heroine’s father
- Some trauma the hero works through about being sexualized at a young age and has some relationship hang ups regarding that – he thinks he’s only a good time sexually
- Some talk of cheating in relationships with Fox’s past – he was considered someone’s ‘hall pass’
 

 

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:
 

 
20% - kisses
37% - a really amazing partial scene with an almost heroine masturbation
44% - kisses
58% - kisses
67% - 🔥 kisses, oral for her against a car, missionary inside the back seat of the car
70% - alluded to remembrance of sex
81% - 🔥 her on top (some light spanking)