3⭐
Genre ~ contemporary fiction
Series ~ Tickled Pink, #1
Setting ~ Wisconsin
Publication date ~ July 12, 2022
Publisher ~ Montlake
Est Page Count ~ 397 (38 chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 11 hours
Narrators ~ Savannah Peachwood, Sebastian York
POV ~ dual 1st, present tense
Featuring ~ small town, grumpy lumberjack, spoiled socialite, single dad, slow burn, crappy 3rd act breakup, some steamage
My review:
Phoebe (30) & Teague meet when she’s forced, by her grandma, to move to his small town, Tickled Pink. How a 30 year old can be forced to do something is beyond me. Anyway, they do not get off on the right foot, but he’s a pretty good grump, my favorite trope, for most of the book….until the dreaded 3rd act crap.
Oh my gosh, this might be one of the most unbearable families I’ve ever read. Phoebe was awful and it took a hot minute, as in pretty much the whole book, before she became bearable. Entitled and rude and ‘I deserve everything because I have money’ way of thinking. Her mom…oye. Dad…for Pete’s sake. Brother…yikes. Sister is kinda okay. Grandma tops the list, though, big time. Family drama galore, which really overpowered the romance.
I did like how it was a story about figuring out you are not who you really want to be, but man it was a long journey getting there. Enjoyed Teague’s relationship with his ex wife and her wife, and how they all raise their daughter, Bridget, amicably. The twist with him was surprising, but that led to the 3rd act, which was one of the crappiest I’ve read. I don’t know why she called him a lumberjack either ~ because he lives in a tree house maybe? All he does is fish.
Overall, I wasn’t a super big fan, unfortunately, but there was some good banter here and there. Also, don’t mind the fella on the cover, but he does not give me grumpy lumberjack who lives in a treehouse vibes at all. Maybe squeeze my tree size bicep vibes. Lastly, you know when a phrase is so overdone and you want to just smash your kindle? Well here it is “oh my Oprah,” “thanks Oprah,” oof! 24 times. Is she trying to get a free car name dropping like that?
Yay me for ✔ing an old one off the list even if it took me over a month to read it.
Narration notes:
I did not listen to this one, but am just giving the above info for reference.
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Book blurb:
From USA Today bestselling author Pippa Grant comes a fabulously sharp-witted romantic comedy about a socialite’s fall from elitist grace to backcountry purgatory—and her accidental tumble into love.
If the Upper East Side had an evil twin, it would be Tickled Pink, Wisconsin. This run-down, backwoods town isn’t worthy of the footprint of my Louboutins, never mind all of me.
But when my grandmother has a near-death experience and realizes we Lightlys can’t buy our way into heaven, she relocates the family to Tickled Pink to work on improving our souls. And that’s how I trade my heiress existence for gigantic bugs, dishwater coffee, and a cranky single dad named Teague Miller.
Teague spends his days fishing, raising his spunky teenager, and after an unfortunate incident involving cheese curds, living rent-free in my head. The one thing he and I can agree on is that I don’t belong here. He’s willing to help me escape—until the unexpected happens.
I kind of like him. I might even more than like him.
But am I ready to give up the life I adored for a man I love to hate?
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