Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey - A Book Review
Synopsis:
After losing her job and her fiancé in one fell swoop, Natalie Vos returned home to lick her wounds. A few months later, she’s sufficiently drowned her sorrows in cabernet and she’s ready to get back on her feet. She just needs her trust fund to finance her new business venture. Unfortunately, the terms require she marry before she can have the money. And well, dumped, remember?
But Natalie is desperate enough to propose to a man who makes her want to kill him—and kiss him, in equal measure.
August Cates may own a vineyard, but he doesn’t know jack about making wine. He’s determined to do his late best friend proud, no matter what it takes. Except his tasting room is empty, his wine is disgusting (seriously, he once saw someone gag), and his buddy’s legacy is circling the drain. No bank will give him the loan he needs to turn the business around… and then the gorgeous, feisty heiress knocks on his door.
Natalie has haunted August’s dreams since the moment they met, but their sizzling chemistry immediately morphed into simmering insults. Now, a quickie marriage could help them both. A sham wedding, a few weeks living under the same roof, and then they can go their separate ways—assuming they make it out alive. How hard could it be?
There’s just one thing they didn’t account for: their unfortunate, unbearable, undeniable attraction.
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Tropes:
- Marriage of Convenience
- He Falls First
- Enemies to Lovers
- Opposites Attract
- Forced Proximity
Being back from my holiday meant the resuming of completing my A-Z Reading Challenge, which I’m very determined to finish in August *I did finish it in August, I just got really lazy with doing these reviews*
Resuming meant picking up my choice for letter U which I regretfully picked Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey.
I’m very familiar with Tessa Bailey’s work and in previous posts, I mentioned how I liked Hook, Line and Sinker & It Happened One Summer which I read in 2022.
Since then I’ve read, Wreck the Halls and My Killer Vacation which I wasn’t overly a fan of and I remember saying in the My Killer Vacation review that I don’t think Tessa Bailey’s writing is for me – especially since a lot of it is in third person.
I know what I said, but I couldn’t find an alternative for letter U (maybe I wasn’t looking hard enough) it’s done now though. This is my written confirmation that I am done with Tessa Bailey’s work for a while (if ever).
I just can’t get into her books, especially since they’re majority written from third person.
In hindsight, I should enjoyed this book because it had all the tropes I love, but it’s the third person writing that stopped me. I also couldn’t connect to the characters (possibly because of the third person).
I strugggllled to read this book and have motivation to pick it up. I had so much motivation on holiday and I knew this book was upcoming and I had a feeling it would make me feel the way it did.
I don’t think the number of days should be a reflection on the enjoyment of a book because I’ve been known to devour my favourite books in a day but also stretch them out for numerous days because I don’t want to finish them so quickly. This book though, there were days I just physically couldn’t bring myself to pick it up and also nights where I was half falling asleep trying to get it finished.
I felt like a whole lot of nothing was happening through the book, which also was a factor for me not being motivated. It was made a theme for Natalie to help August with improving his failing winery since she had knowledge and the upbringing of being around a winery, but they didn’t work together until the last 80% of the book and it wasn’t even a page worth of detail how how she helped. I was envisioning them on a journey together, growing closer together as they worked on improving August’s winery.
The rift between Natalie and her mother (how she was left out of the family business) was just briefly brushed past and quickly solved in a recap manner and through Natalie’s inner thoughts, rather than detailing the conversation that the had.
Overall, I just couldn’t enjoy this book (or others by Tessa) even though I enjoyed Hook, Line and Sinker & It Happened One Summer – I’m putting that down to change in taste and also it being a while ago (don’t know how much I trust past Georgia). Yes I do like Colleen Hoover books over Tessa Bailey, that may change in the future.
I don’t see myself actively reaching for anymore Tessa Bailey books and I’m tempted to remove books I do have on my GoodReads off (The Au Pair Affair). You never know I may revisit her in the future, if when I’ve got nothing left on my TBR 😂.
My Rating: ⭐️⭐️
Georgia
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