🔨 BOOK REVIEW 🔨 @tessabaileyisanauthor's steamy and sassy Hot & Hammered series comes to an end with TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT, an enemies-to-lovers rom-com that features a heroine stifled by her need for perfection and a younger man suddenly faced with caring for his five-year-old niece. . . I have loved all the books in this series, but TOOLS OF ENGAGEMENT might be my favorite one of the bunch. The chemistry between Bethany & Wes sizzles, and I loved seeing inside each characters’ mind as they come to terms with their attraction to one another, and the personal hurdles that trip them up along the way to coupledom. . . Bethany’s desire to put forth that “perfect” persona is especially relatable, I think, given the world we live in today, where everyone is able to “curate” the life they want to project via social media. Everything in their home just so, every outfit styled to perfection (and never repeated), hair and makeup always perfectly coifed, and nothing but utter success in career and life. . . But we all know life isn’t like that. It’s messy, and so are our homes and our clothes, and some days it’s a success just to get out of bed, never mind outfits or hairstyle or makeup. . . Bethany is crumbling under the stress she’s given herself in always maintaining this flawless, perfect image — and it’s when she shows some of that vulnerability to Wes that they truly start to connect on a deeper level. . . Seeing the two open up to each other is a lot of what makes Tools of Engagement so special to read. Sure, there’s some hot as hell sex scenes. (It IS a Tessa Bailey book, after all.) But the relationship between these two characters is what really makes this such a fantastic book. TOOLS OF ENGAGMENT comes out September 22nd. . . #toolsofengagement #tessabailey #hotandhammered #avonbooks #avonromance #romancebookstagram #romancebooks #bookreview #booksiread #booksilove #IReadRomance #romancereaders #romcombooks #whatiread https://www.instagram.com/p/CE60cnfg4IK/?igshid=433k5mmdhwj
