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BOOK TOUR: Hot To Go by Kristen Bailey

 


The vacation ended. The heat didn’t…

Meet Suzie French teacher, newly single, newly heartbroken. After an awful break-up, she heads to Mallorca for a much-needed holiday with her cousins, expecting sun, sangria, and siestas.

She isn’t expecting to fall in love – especially not with the handsome Spaniard who rescues her when she gets separated from her group during an ill-judged midnight skinny dip.

But what starts as a steamy holiday romance built on white lies and mistaken identities turns into something more complicated when “Carlos” shows up at the school she works at.

Except his name isn’t Carlos. It’s Charlie Carter, and he’s the new Spanish teacher.

Now they’re stuck in department meetings pretending they haven’t seen each other naked, both feeling thoroughly duped, both wondering if that hot holiday fling can exist in real life? But when they’re thrown together again on a school trip to Seville, the heat between them proves impossible to resist.


The Queen of Chaos is back, baby! You already know that any day we get graced by a new Kristen Bailey title is gonna be a good one. 

The fabulous Mrs Bailey has such a way of taking everything cheesy, cliché or a little cringy that we love about romcoms and turning them into one of the most fun things you can do with your clothes on. (Or off, I'm not telling you how to read!) So just let yourself enjoy the drama and get the damn book. 

Think of one-bed tropes, frustratingly stunning book boyfriend love interests, intensely stupid choices, inappropriate oversharing, shout-at-the-page frustrating misunderstandings and one night stands who reappear - of course set in a little slice of sunny paradise that would make it hard not to fall in love or into bed. 

OG fans (me included) are going to go feral for this one as we revisit the Callaghan sisters from Baileys previous pentalogy, meeting Suzie and her dickhead husband before she embarks on a trip to a wedding in Mallorca where she can escape the life she's leaving behind for a while and enjoy being reckless, single and stupid for a while. Until of course, Charlie appears again in real life and - say it with me now - chaos ensues. The whole storytelling gives me 'drunk talks on garden furniture' vibes'; it moves at a quick pace, but the narration feels conversational, personal, friendly - making it far too easy to connect and fall in love with the characters even when you want to grab them and shout at them a little bit with each perspective bringing something new. For quick readers who might miss POV switches, at times it moves a little too rapidly but it's easy to get back into the flow and into the story. 

In between some sickeningly sweet romance and a lot of steam, there's also that lovely undercurrent of a woman walking away from a bad life , trying to unlearn the expectations weighing her down and trying to figure things out through in a beautifully messy way. 


⭐⭐⭐⭐



I received a reviewers copy of this title - thank you to Kristen for inviting me to the tour! 


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