**You can see this full review and more at Book Briefs: https://bookbriefs.net**My ThoughtsSheesh! This book is all that the title promises and more. Too Hot to Handles is the first book in the Romancing the Clarksons series by Tessa Bailey. Too Hot to Handle is an adult contemporary romance that I more than enjoyed. I just love all of Tessa Bailey's works. (I am practically still fanning myself now!) But if you are thinking this is like every other contemporary romance, you are so very wrong. Tessa Bailey managed to really surprise me with Too Hot to Handle and I can't tell you how much I loved that! This is a book you will want to read!

What I liked the most about this book and this series is the concept. I love a series of interconnected standalone novels, each focusing on a different character. There are tons of books which follow this pattern and it is a big winner for me. Even better if they are books that center around a family or group of siblings. I think that is very interesting and adds another layer of complexity and familiarity between the novels. This series centers around the four Clarkson siblings, but the interesting thing (in my opinion) is the set up. The four Clarkson siblings have not always gotten along, but when they find the journal from their mother, who was the glue of the family, they all head out on a cross-country road trip to fulfill some of her wishes. I love a road trip book, and I love a good, or dysfunctional, family dynamic. So when I found out where this book was headed I was super pumped.

The siblings break down in a little town, which is where the frist sibling- Rita finds Jasper. Too Hot to Handle didn't feel predictable to me. There are a bunch of elements woven into this story and I honestly didn't always know how things were going to turn out. This was not a permanent stopping location for the siblings, so was a romance really going to last? This unpredictability of the story made it feel exciting and new while I was reading it. I loved getting to know each of the siblings, and I really really loved the romance between jasper and Rita. Rita is all over the place. Her relationship with her mother was a bit different from that of her siblings and she always felt a bit in her mom's shadow. Then throw in the siblings differing relationships with each other, lots of hijinks and fun situations and a very hot romance, and you have one heck of a good time. I loved Too Hot to Handle and I can't wait for the rest of the Clarksons' stories.

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