I loved, loved loved this book! It had all my favorite aspects of a romance novel, both characters' perspectives, chemistry, cute moments, family and more.  I loved the main characters and Georgie's siblings. Some of the other secondary characters were a little incomplete to me but it didn't take away from the story. The sex scenes were very descriptive and hot, so maybe only for mature audiences, Definitely recommending this to my fellow romance lovers!

Boy howdy does the heat sizzle in this one... and it literally starts with the first page.

Georgette Castle is refusing to let Travis wallow in self deprecation. He is her older brothers best friend and first guy she ever had a crush on. She is determined to see him succeed and not let this setback keep him down. She loves what she does, a clown/entertainer for children's birthday parties.... but she wants more, and she wants Travis to expand his horizons too. For him to see he is more than baseball.

Travis' professional career in baseball is over. It's the only thing he's wanted his whole life. Now he is back in his hometown, and his best friend's little sister won't leave him alone. Sucking it up he works for Georgette's families real estate company. 

Getting Travis out of his funk is hard work but Georgette is determined to succeed.  The more they work together, the more Travis sees Georgie in a different light.

What happens? You'll have to one click to find out

I really enjoyed this story! It was a fun, sweet read about a baby sister and her brother’s best friend. There were some great comedic moments, sweet and sexy, and some serious mixed in. Travis is a complicated man who has some demons to deal with, even though he projects cocky and confident to the world. He’s figuring out what’s next in life, since his injury that took him out of his career in baseball. Georgia has always been stuck in the comedic, baby sister role in her family (and in life, since she is literally a clown at kid’s parties), but is ready for everyone to take her seriously. I loved how the relationship between these two developed. I’m looking forward to reading more about the other characters in the next books in this series! I voluntarily reviewed an ARC through Netgalley.

Thank you Netgalley for providing me an ARC from one of my favorite authors!

Georgie just wants to be taken seriously… kinda hard in her profession, but the heart wants what it wants.

Oddly retired pro baseball player, and Georgies older brothers best friend, Travis is looking for pretty much the same thing.

Antics between the two follow. We wouldn’t want anything else, would we? For real!

Tessa Bailey is in the top of my one click list for a reason… she writes characters with so much depth and heart that they draw you into their lives until you never want to leave their world!

I’m thrilled that this book is #1 in her new Hot and Hammered series. I need more of these spunky, sweet heroines and gruff, adorable heroes!
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Fix Her Up will be available on June 11th from HarperCollins! So be ready! You dont want to miss this one!!!

Loved this. So much. I was sold on the tropes from the get go (older brother’s best friend, friends(ish) to lovers, fake relationship) but I was not anticipating this book. It knocked me upside the head with its sweetness, its steam, its banter. Once I started it, I couldn’t put it down. Did I mention the steam?

4 Baby Girl Stars ⭐️ 

Travis Ford moves back to his hometown Fort Jefferson after an injury ends his baseball league career. Seeing his future implode before his eyes, he has no immediate plans apart from drinking himself into a coma.

Georgie Castle is Fort Jefferson’s resident party clown extraordinaire; literally. Being the youngest of the Castle siblings, Georgie is used to being belittled and overlooked by her family. Even as a party planning businesswoman; no one really takes her seriously. 
That is until Travis Ford returns to town. 

With everybody handling Travis with kid gloves, Georgie takes it upon herself to draw him out of his slump. Even though he doesn’t appreciate her meddling, he can’t help but be impressed by her, although it’s evident that nobody else is.

“They could be friends, him and Georgie. That’s what was wrong. He didn’t want one-especially her. She was too young, too positive, and too related to his best friend.”

When Travis lets her down, its just another thing to add to her never-ending list of disappointments. Except this one hurts the most…

“The pressure in her chest had been growing stronger since this afternoon. By now, it felt like a pair of pliers was digging into her heart. God, I’m such an idiot.”

As both realize they have questionable reputations, they decide to enter a fake relationship to achieve their lifetime goals. There is no questioning that Travis and Georgie have undeniable chemistry, but can they overcome their hang-ups to admit that they can be more then friends?

Fix Her Up is a friend to lovers’ romantic comedy but with more depth then you would expect from this trope. Both characters were witty, compassionate and hot together. With Travis’s dirty talk and Georgie’s laugh out loud personality, these two burned up the pages and kept me smiling.

“I want your hands all over me. Your mouth on mine. And next time you get out of bed without giving me both, I’m going to find you, pull your pants down, and backhand that little tush you had tucked up in my lap all night. We clear?”

‘Arc’ provided by Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Fix Her Up was absolutely delightful! Tessa Bailey develops real depth to her characters. They are likable even if they have some faults.  

I read this in one sitting!

Talk about a rom-com to get you into the genre!😍 Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey is a fast paced romance that made me giggle uncontrollably and swoon like a leaf in the wind. 

I had heard about this book through bookstagram and by some miracle I got approved for the arc on Netgalley and it pulled me from a FOUR MONTH BOOK SLUMP. This book is just... it's all the heart eyes you could possibly have and more.

This books follows a few familiar tropes,  fake relationships, best friend younger siblings, lifelong crush, etc.  Georgie Castle, has had a crush on Travis Ford forever.  He’s moved back in town because of an injury that ended his baseball career.  After sulking around and feeling sorry for himself, Travis attempts to adjust to his new life.  He starts to work with his best friend’s home renovation business and soon has an opportunity to be a baseball announcer.  To clean up his previous playboy image, he enlists Georgie to be his girlfriend until he secures the job.

I thought this story was okay.  It did make me smile that this takes place on Long Island.  I found the supporting characters more interesting than Georgie and Travis’s relationship, and look forward to their story.  But overall, I would just rate this book as okay.

Thanks for the opportunity to read this one early. I read enough to know I wanted to purchase it for our collection, and will recommend it in Readers' Advisory. I love all the entertaining contemporary romances being published lately, and so do my library customers, so keep them coming!

Georgette and Travis go way back.  He is her brothers best friend.  She is the "pest" in his childhood.  But she's never taken seriously, which is really sad to see.  She never shows her hurt feelings, makes excuses for people hurting her feelings. 

I love Georgette's no holds barred attitude when she tried to shake Travis out of his depression funk.  It was really cute to see she didn't give a crap what he dished at her.  I really enjoyed this book.  I loved his slow realizing love for her, it was sooooo darn cute.  I would definitely recommend.

I received an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Travis Ford was still a rookie with a bright career ahead of him when an injury quickly ended his career in major league baseball. Moving back to his hometown to nurse his wounds in solitude, he never would have expected his best friend's little sister to be the one to drag him from his melancholy. However, after just one encounter with Georgie, he finds himself accepting a job with her family's home renovation business, determined to move on. When his agent calls with a new job opportunity as a sportscaster, Travis realizes he doesn't have to abandon baseball entirely. Unfortunately, the gig is with a very family oriented network, and Travis' reputation as a womanizer makes it obvious that he needs to the public's mind and fast.

Georgie Castle has never been taken seriously in her life. As the youngest in her family, she has always been seen as the annoying little sister, and her job as a clown for children's birthday parties probably doesn't help. Despite this, Georgie wants nothing more to take her job further and create her very own party entertainment business. So when Georgie hears of Travis's predicament, she suspects the two of them can kill two birds with one stone with a fake relationship. With the public believing them in love, Travis will become the loving boyfriend instead of womanizing bachelor, while Georgie is known as the woman who tamed Travis "Two Bat" Ford. Complicating matters, however, is that Georgie loved Travis for years as a teenager, and her feelings haven't gone anywhere.

While the fake relationship trope has very nearly been done to death, it's one of my favorite rom-com tropes, so I went into to this novel expecting to be pretty satisfied, and I really was. Both main characters were incredibly likeable, even with their many flaws, and they were practically perfect for each other. I'm not normally a fan of romances where one MC has been in love with the other for years, as usually they're too "I was friendzoned wah wah wah", but Bailey did a great job with Fix Her Up. It makes perfect sense as to why Travis didn't have any feelings for Georgie before now, and I loved watching Georgie fall even deeper in love. 

In addition to this, I loved how genuinely funny this book was, as well as how supportive Georgie, her sister, and her friends were with one another. I loved how they were all able to admit to one another the mistakes they've made with each other, apologize, and grow even closer. I'm really happy to find out Rosie and Dom are getting their own story, and I really hope Bethany does too! I would happily recommend any fans of romantic comedies to read this book (as well as Tessa Bailey's other books)!

4.5/5

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this digital ARC.
Was this a perfect book? No. Do I care about that? Not at all! I have been struggling to get through books lately and I read this one in a day. I'm literally craving more already and I just finished this. When a book gets you out of a big slump, it deserves all the stars.
Not only does this book have pining and angst, there's also fake dating and the main characters have known each other since they were kids. I mean, what more could you ask for? The cover is completely deceiving because I expected a very cutesy romance with possibly a fade-to-black love scene around the end. Nope! There's actually more love scenes sprinkled throughout and they're pretty explicit. Not that I minded. It was tastefully done, even when it was pretty dirty. 
Travis and Georgie had some great banter throughout the book and the build-up was fantastic. Travis is a washed-up baseball player who can no longer play from an injury and Georgie is a professional clown. That is the most interesting profession I've read in a book in a while. I loved these two when they butted heads, I loved them when they were teasing each other, and I loved their revelations. The conflict that temporarily tears them apart is not the strongest but it makes sense. The climax is very movie-worthy. The supporting characters really round out this book! The Just Us League was funny and I could immediately see myself getting invested in their stories as well. I'm happy to see that there will be a sequel with the supporting characters and I will definitely be reading those as well. Tessa Bailey really knows how to write a sexy romcom and pull you in really early on. I was attached to all the characters from the get-go and rooting for all of them to have happy endings. Tessa Bailey hits a home run with this one and I eagerly want to read more from her.

Can a sweet childhood crush morph from fake dating into something real?  That's the general premise of this book, the first in the author's new Hot and Hammered series.

Georgette "Georgie" Castle has had a crush on her brother's BFF, Travis "Two Bats" Ford since childhood.  But given her status as the "young sister", and Travis' larger than life status (in more ways than one, hence the nickname), there has never been the slightest possibility of a romantic connection between them.  However, things take a turn when Travis' baseball career comes to a grinding halt.

From the beginning, I liked Georgie's spunk.  She gives Travis the much-needed kick in the ass and forces him to stop the pity party of one.  Once doing so, Travis reconnects with Georgie's brother, Stephen and decides to work on with his home reno business, until he can find a better gig.  That gig eventually leading the two main characters to plan a fake relationship to improve both of their images (we romance readers this "fake" relationship plan always backfires).

I had mixed feelings about Travis as a character.  I liked how he eventually comes to realize his feelings for Georgie were far from fake, but I don't like that he didn't even consider her until she did a personal makeover, in her quest to be taken more seriously by her family.  Despite my mixed feelings, the physical chemistry between Georgie and Travis is smokin', not a surprise given that is the author's forte.

"You make me better and I wish - I fucking wish I could do the same for you, but all I can offer is me."

The author does a great job of setting the stage for the series, with a number of side characters to have their own stories in following books.  Several of those characters we come to learn about in Georgie's women's group, the Just Us League (great play on words).  I loved the whole idea of this group, encouraging each other to achieve their dreams.  Rosie and Dominic are up next, and based on this book, I think their story will be a good one.  Overall, this was a fun and sexy read, and I look forward to more in this series.

3.5 stars - This was a fun read, but it was different than what I was expecting. I loved the story of Georgie and her childhood crush, Travis (who also happens to be her brother's best friend). They reconnect as adults, after Travis has to retire from baseball due to an injury, and the hot and heavy romance starts up. Georgie was so wonderful & quirky, and I loved her personality so much. She had me laughing on multiple occasions with her antics! I don't know why, but I wasn't expecting the amount of steam that there was in this book. It definitely is on the hot & heavy side with the steamy moments, just as an FYI to all of you who don't enjoy that! Overall, I did think that this was a cute romance book, but there were some parts that were just a little off for me personally. It was a fun book, though!

Do not be fooled by this cute cover, Tessa Bailey brought the heat! (baseball jargon, anyone?) This was my first Tessa Bailey read and I definitely need to get my hands on some more. I have heard her books are nice and steamy but this cover looked super cute… no worries, it was the perfect blend! I absolutely adored Georgie in this book. She starts out as the epitome of a little sister who is just starting to navigate adulthood at 22 and grows throughout the book. Travis also has a great story arc, he goes from baseball star to free agent due to injury, losing all the wind from his sails. As Georgie and Travis form a friendship and fake relationship to help each other get something they want, they both learn more about what they are capable of. I found parts of this to be really funny (lo mein incident) and also heartfelt, two things I love in romance reads!

4.5 stars! I loved so many things about this book, the evolution of Georgie and her family, her fight to be seen as more than the youngest Castle sibling was emotional and I loved how the relationships developed. But more, I loved the way she knocked Travis clear off his feet and helped him to see himself differently. This book was so well written and the perfect blend of humour and light drama. I cannot wait for the next book!

Fix Her Up was the first novel I've read by Tessa Bailey, and it certainly won't be my last! It's fun and flirty, making me speed through the novel even though I wanted to bask in the world Bailey's created. However, it also has a great amount of depth, as both protagonists must overcome the assumptions others make about them, whether it that Georgie is not an adult to be taken seriously, or that Travis is a one-dimensional player for other's entertainment. I love a good fake-dating plot, and Travis and Georgie's chemistry was off the charts. The novel did a great job of setting up its companion novel, Love Her or Lose Her, without being too over the head. My only issue was with the ending. I wish there was a bit more angst before everything got sorted out. Nevertheless, Fix Her Up is a novel I'm recommending to everyone who likes to read romance, whether novice or newbie.

This was too cute. And also funny. And also sexy. The whole package! Fix Her Up was a fun read that I enjoyed throughout.

Fix Her Up is the first book I’ve read from Tessa Bailey. This romcom follows Georgie, a young woman who wants to be taken seriously despite her age and profession, lands herself fake dating Travis, her childhood crush / her brother’s best friend / former baseball star. Initially the cute illustrative cover and premise intrigued me to read this novel. It wasn’t at all what I expected. The novel was definitely steamier than I anticipated it to be which I didn’t mind. The story started off pretty strong, however as I kept reading further, most of the scenes ended up being cringeworthy and too cheesy for me which I couldn’t overlook. I also wasn’t a big fan of the typical virgin female and player male main characters which I feel is overused and pretty dull to me. Unfortunately, this wasn’t my type of romance, but if you like the whole dating your best friend’s brother and fake dating sort of romance then this is for you.