By: Kate Evangelista
My Copy: Ebook from Author
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Sometimes,
even the best-laid plans can unravel.
It's spring
break, and Tamara Winters would rather stay on campus and read romance novels
than flaunt her size-fourteen body on a beach. But her best friend, Ronni, has
other ideas. Against her wishes, Tamara is whisked away to picturesque Maverick
Bay, where she's wrangled into waiting tables with Ronni at the Shore Shack for
its busy week leading to Maverick's Surf Invitational. There she meets fellow
schoolmate Xavier Solomon, the Invitational's organizer and campus womanizer by
reputation. From the moment Tamara sees him emerging from the waves like a hero
in of one of her romance novels, all she wants to do is run away from the
feelings he inspires in her.
Little does
she know Xavier has been watching her for weeks now. In fact, after failed
attempts at asking her out on campus, he's concocted a crazy plan: fabricating
romantic situations straight out of her favorite books. Xavier quickly realizes
that if Tamara gets a whiff of his designs, he might as well spell CREEPER
across his forehead. Yet as they grow closer, he's convinced it's a risk worth
taking. What he hasn't planned on, of course, is his drug-addicted, alcoholic
stepbrother, who decides to join the fun and put a wrench in Xavier’s scheme.
Spring
break is proving hotter than Tamara expected. Will her romance novels be able
to compete?
Contains small spoilers:
What a wonderful story by Evangelista. It has so many aspects that made me fall in
love with the plot and the characters.
Tamara was my absolute favorite however.
She would have me giggling during her internal monologs and then I would
get so embarrassed for her when she would open her mouth and say something
insane to Xavier. I would have to put
down the book and walk away because I was so embarrassed. There is a time where she is thinking that
she would like to lick Xavier dry after he got out of the shower but then he
responds and she realizes that she didn’t say it in her head, she said it out
loud.
I wanted to worship the ground that Xavier walked on because
he was sex on a stick (or a surfboard) but didn’t give into the thought that
only beautiful women are size zero. He
is very much into Tamara once he gets to know her and immensely intrigued by
her. *le sigh* When the book starts out,
you know there was a plan hatched to get Tamara there but you really don’t know
why until the very end. I was hoping
that it was not hatch maliciously and was very pleased when I found out it wasn’t.
The only thing I can say negatively about Romancing the Bookworm is that I wanted
a few more chapters at the end when the drama settled down. Also, as a side note, the waxing the surfboard
scene was so sexy!
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