Book Blurb:
One hundred days. No hookups. No touching his best friend’s sister. No chance in hell.
Connor Solano has slept his way into a playboy reputation he can’t sand down. To prove he can be trusted with the renovation company he hopes to inherit, the handyman heartbreaker must do the unthinkable: keep it in his pants.
When Sienna Weaver loses her job and apartment in the city on one spectacularly bad day, she comes home to Wisteria Lake with no plan, no confidence, and a long history of freezing up around men. So she asks Connor—her brother’s best friend and star of her teenage fantasies—to help her trade awkward for irresistible.
Connor agrees because even if he’s on the bench, someone ought to be getting off. But Sienna is no longer the gangly teen he remembers. She’s darkly funny, deliciously weird, and already more irresistible than anything he could teach her to be.
Now every flirting lesson tests his restraint, and teaching Sienna how to make another man want her leaves Connor desperate to prove she already has him. But if he breaks his promise, he won’t just risk his heart—he’ll prove his gossipy small town was right not to trust him.
Connor isn’t just screwed. He’s so screwed.
So Screwed is the first book in the Wisteria Lake series, set in a cozy lakeside town filled with nosy neighbours and a downright suspicious number of hot blue collar men. This brother’s best friend spicy rom-com brings yearning, shameless flirting, and a Happily Ever After built to last.
Tropes:
*Indie Author *ARC read *First in series *Brother's best friend *Best friend's sister
*Small Town Romance *Friends --> more *lessons in love *Playboy MMC
*Spice *Slow burn *Rom-Com *family drama *found family *opposites attract
*mutual pining *teenage crush *Blue Collar MMC *Workplace romance *secret relationship
Thoughts:
I really enjoyed this author's hockey series and I was excited to see that they had a new series coming out this book sounded adorable and I jumped at the opportunity to be an ARC reader!
To start with we have Sienna (FMC) she is having a bad day finding out that her company is doing lay offs and she is one of the ones let go she returns home early to find her room mate and her boyfriend "celebrating" their engagement on the kitchen counter of all places... to top things off her room mate owns their condo and she asked her to leave so that her fiance can move in... by the end of the month (which is like a week away). Homeless and jobless she goes to her best friends place (which is closet sized) to figure out what to do before eventually realizing the only thing to do is to ask if she can move in with her older brother and her niece.
Good news is that her brother is happy to let her stay with him her grandmother left her and her brother the home so it is her house too, bad news being she is moving back to the same small town that was so judgemental and made her younger days a nightmare, starting over is terrible but at least she will have some family time.
Connor (MMC) is a jack of all trades type of handyman while he's a hard worker and is good at his job he is also known to be more on the irresponsible side when it comes to showing up late to meetings and he has a reputation for getting around town with the ladies he isn't there for a long time but is there for a good time... unfortunately he is late to an important meeting with his boss and his grumpy best friend Matt (Sienna's brother) giving him a lecture on how irresponsible he is he makes a pact to be on his best behavior for the next 100 days to prove that he is able to commit to the job and become a partner when the owner sells he will do something no one in town believes he can do... become celibate for a short period of time. He can do this right?
Sienna while back home helps her brother with his daughter Ivy, begins to get used to small town living again and since she's looking for work at the moment when her big brother asks if she can come help organize things at his company she accepts... it's something to do and he's paying her so win/win. While there she runs into her first crush (you know who it is already...) her brother's best friend Connor.
Sienna and Connor re-connect and she ends up talking him into giving her lessons on how to get herself out there in the dating world since he has so much experience and her past dating experiences have been less than stellar.
Along the way they grow closer together, learn more about each other and truly see each other flaws and all. Sienna struggles with run ins with the mean girls from high school who are still in town her brother and Connor were popular and on the sports team so didn't have the same issues in that way but Connor has his own internal struggles that involve his self worth and everyone feeling like he is a lost cause just like his father who walked out on his mom... now his mom she is on a whole other level.
I loved the found family aspect, the small town characters that are meddling but mean well and the family dynamics between Sienna and her grumpy brother and her adorable niece and between Connor and his younger brother.
The lead characters are easy to love and from the start I was invested in what was happening to them and wanted them both to succeed.... and finally kiss already! The tension between these two was fireworks!!
This was so cute and mixed comedy, romance and more emotional moments to make it a well balanced story that was easy to get lost in I stayed up way too late reading.
I knew where some things were headed but that didn't take me out of the story at all if you are looking for your next small town, feel good, cozy read pick this one up!
I can't wait for more books in this series!! Book 2 where are you??
Have you read this one yet? what did you think?
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