***Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing me with a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***
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This book was filled with music and love. Hannah and Fox were the perfect, quirky characters and they create their own soundtrack to find their way to one another. The book was filled with angst, steamy scenes, and a whole lot of pining. It was wonderful!

I loved this book. I loved that the characters talked to each other and that poor communication wasn't their biggest challenge. There is less of Westport and its supporting characters in this one but it is still a fun setting. Just a really fun summer read.

Thank you Netgalley and Avon for sending me this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Publication date: March 1, 2022

<b> Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

TW: toxic masculinity, slut shaming (focused on a male character)

Reading this book felt like a joyous reunion with old friends. After having read and loving Piper and Brendan in 'It Happened One Summer', it was nice to spend some more time with Hannah and Fox as they now played the starring roles. Personally, I found Hannah a little easier to relate to and thus my adjustment into her voice and point-of-view came to me naturally. I don’t necessarily like comparing books, as they are all unique in their own way, but the angst and slow-burn tension in 'Hook, Line, and Sinker' took the cake for me.

Taking place right after the events of book one, Hannah and Fox have seemingly taken on a platonic friendship, a friendship where the text frequently and relate to each other through song lyrics and vibes. After pitching a idea for the film she’s working on, Hannah finds herself back in Westport, staying with Fox and they are forced to confront the emotion they are both battling. This book covers themes toxic masculinity and slut shaming as we come to learn more about Fox, his reputation, his past, and his hopes for the future. This beautiful man has so many self-deprecating thoughts and it’s hard to read about someone feeling so low due the their environment and the people who are supposed to lift up and support them.

I really, really, wish Fox had sought professional help, as much as he was trying to work on his issues he was extremely reliant on Hannah for emotional support and affirmation. In doses this is healthy, and necessary in any relationship, but while Hannah was strong, and loving, she definitely had the burden of consistently watching her step so that Fox would not falter. That didn’t feel like a full partnership to me, because how can you be expected to always suppress and monitor yourself in favor of someone else? That is not healthy long-term and can lead to burnout and increased issues for the other person. Aside from that, I really rooted for Hannah and Fox, for them to get over their mutual pining that they wouldn’t admit out of fear of what the author would think.

If you’re looking for a lot of sex and early on, you’re aren’t going to get it, you’ll be teased just like the characters are, but overall you need to be patient. Sex isn’t just sex, and the waiting is a lesson and adds to the depths of these characters. It is slow-burn at its finest, filled with raw intensity and deep emotional connections. I was such a fan of this book, which simultaneously made me want to rip out my hair, giggle, and beam with elation as I experienced everything alongside these characters. Fox and Hannah are special, and you really get to witness their growth individually and together in this installment. I will say after book one I thought we would see more inclusion of Hannah and Piper’s mom at least, but alas it was not meant to be. I am sad to part ways with the Bellinger sisters, but their stories were beautifully told and rife with sassy banter, comedic gold, and touching moments of the heart.

P.S. That epilogue was just *chef’s kiss*

This book was a steamy read! From the moment the book starts out, you know that Fox and Hannah have a relationship like no other. You can feel the chemistry ignite, sizzle, and fire up through out the pages of this book. The author does a great job at intensifying the relationship in a way that you feel every movement between the two main characters. Such a good read.

I didn't know that there was a book about Piper's life and I am excited to read how they all tie in together!

12 stars!! I loved this book. I loved the characters, I loved their story, I loved the setting. I had my heart in my throat for the entire book. I have enjoyed Tessa Bailey's books before and this is one of the best. I haven't read the first in this series, but have purchased it for my library and am going to pick it up soon! This is one of my favorite books in recent past. Tessa Bailey is becoming a must-read author for me.

@tessabailey does it again! I’m obsessed 🥰 this sequel is everything I hoped it would be!

These characters are so well written and the chemistry between Hannah & Fox is undeniable. You can feel their relationship come to life and you’ll be turning the pages so quickly to see how it ends. I wish I could follow this journey of the Bellinger sisters forever and ever 😭

PLUS - there are so many amazing songs mentioned that you’ll want to write them all down and create an epic playlist 🎶

thank you so much to @netgalley and @avonbooks for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. PUB DATE: 3/1/22 and you know I already preordered my copy!

Ugh, Tessa Bailey you have done it again and captured my heart!!! I’d dare say that I loved the second book in this series more than the first. Fox and Hannah are both so lovable and you couldn’t help but root for them in this amazing friends to lovers romance. Bailey does a spicy romance better than anyone else and this one certainly didn’t disappoint. Fox is that classic bad boy who has a soft side (doesn’t hold back in the bedroom tho)! Hannah comes back to Westport to film a movie and since Brandon’s parents are in town she cannot stay with her sister Piper, conveniently fox has an empty room for her. If you read the first one you know that fox and Hannah became quick friends and that friendship continued even from LA. With fox’s past they both kind of knew that a relationship was off the table. But as we all know a little forced proximity and a close friendship, things can get spicy real quick!! I loved that Bailey also addressed a few harder topics and issues within this relationship not just what’s on the surface. Overall, a well done romance and I highly recommend you pick this one up in March and it happened one summer if you haven’t already!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishing team for providing me with this ARC!

This was such a cute read!! I liked Fox and Hannah’s vibe from book one and they really shined in their own. It’s between a 3.5-4 just because some parts with their relationship felt like Hannah had to do more emotional pushing for Fox to get moving. After a few chapters of his insecurities repeating itself, it can get a little grating BUT I will say, his growth was really nice to see and he started pulling his weight in the emotional labor of the relationship. Hannah’s growth was also wonderful to see as she found her leading lady spotlight! Overall, their romance was really cute because they started as friends and really pushed each other to do what needed to be done for themselves!! It also had a lot of moments that made me laugh out loud! The epilogue made my heart so damn full!!!!

I....liked it? Maybe not as much as It Happened One Summer, but I did really enjoy Fox. I'm liking that with this new series, Tessa Bailey seems to be dropping the toxic-male-lead trope and having them be at least semi-decent human beings. I do think that this one was a bit long and drawn out - not the slow burn part, but them taking so long to get their stuff together.

Also, Piper and Brendan completely treated Hannah and Fox like children, and it was annoying. They're fully grown humans.

THIS BOOK WAS ADORABLE. Throughout the whole story, you could tell how much Hannah and Fox cared for each other. The banter the tension everything about this book was so good. Huge thank you to net galley and the publishers for letting me read this ARC.

If you like friends to lovers this book is for you!! It was so well-paced I could not put this book down especially at the end. (Speaking of the end... THE EPILOGUE WAS SO ADORABLE IT MADE MY HEART MELT.) This book had everything emotional heartbreaking moments, steamy and romantic moments, and just overall adorable moments.

Seriously this book had me on an emotional rollercoaster and I loved every minute of it. Definitely recommend :)

As I turned to the first page of this book, I realized that it was a sequel to It Happened One Summer. I thought that would make the beginning hard to understand without the missing pieces. However, one chapter in and I was hooked. Bailey did an exceptional job with vivid descriptions of the town of Westport. I read this book in a day but I still found myself having to take breaks because I felt like I was in the scene with these characters and invading their privacy. I give this book 4.5 stars because it was a telling story about how the toll harsh assumptions can take on a person. Now I am excited to read about Piper and Brandon's love story!

Thank you @netgalley for sending me this e-arc! 🙌🏼

I think I may love Hannah and Fox's relationship more than Brendan and Piper! Brendan still has my heart but Fox and Hannah are so perfect for each other! I loved reading about their love.

Again another perfect summer read! I was rooting for them the ENTIRE time, since the first book. I also think that this is something to think about when people judge men so quickly! Fox is a good representation of that and I'm glad that people and himself, started to see who he really was and who he could be!

I also wanna just be best friends with Hannah. She seems like the most down to earth and cool girl! I'm so glad she didn't give up on Fox or herself. It also shows that a couple doesn't have to give up the things that they love individually just to be together! I love that she became this badass successful woman! 5🌟

Holy fucking shit. Christ. Really? Is it even legal for a book to be tooth-achingly sweet and mind-blowingly heart wrenching at the same time? Is it? Because if not, someone needs to stick the Feds on Tessa Bailey as soon as humanly possible.

Hook, Line, and Sinker is the eagerly-anticipated follow up novel to Tessa Bailey's sexy, Schitt's Creek inspired rom com "It Happened One Summer"—only this time, Piper's cool, music-loving sister Hannah Bellinger takes the driver's seat as our irresistible leading lady. When her current film project moves to film in Westport last minute, Hannah finds herself crashing with Fox Thornton, local flirt and maybe possibly also Hannah's best friend. While they've built an earnest and genuinely endearing long-distance friendship over the last 6 months, both Fox and Hannah find it increasingly hard to deny their electric attraction to one another once they finally see each other in person—even while they both obstinately try to convince themselves that they are "just friends." Yeah, right.

At the risk of spoiling too much ahead of time, I'll stop at this but y'all. Y"ALL. This book has everything we love.. Slow burn romance? Friends to lovers? Sexy love interest with secret pain? Genuine emotional moments between two people who love and trust each other desperately, but are too terrified of letting the other down to say it out loud? Oh, and a panty-melting car fucking scene? Yes, yes, yes, yes and oh god just like that don't stop y e s. I adored "It Happened One Summer," and will be the first to admit I was hesitant that this book would live up to that expectation but holy shit—it actually fucking incinerated it.

This book was an absolute delight and I'm itching to get a hard copy in my hands as soon as possible. With a delightful mix of wit, charm, angst, romance, and adding an extra 4 million points for that sucker-punch of an epilogue, Hook, Line and Sinker earns a...non-numerical rating, actually. This books feels like listening to You're Still the One by Shania Twain in your car in the pouring rain. Just try it, you'll see what I mean.

ARC received from Netgalley.

Oh my! The conclusion to the Bellinger sisters did not disappoint! I am a sucker for Friends to Lovers and I knew throwing Hannah and Fox into the mix was going be good. I related to Hannah so much in this story. This “supporting” cast star of It Happened One Summer struggles with being a “leading-lady” in real life? Seriously it felt like Tessa Bailey pulled my deepest emotions out of me and put them on paper.

I absolutely loved going back to Westport. The fact that they there was the element of so much music and film references was just infinitely better. Plus getting to see Piper and Brendan, Opal and so many more people was so great. I’m sad the Bellinger sisters are over but this confirmed that Tessa Bailey is an instant buy for me!

Hannah and Fox have a friendship. A completely platonic friendship. They text almost daily and haven’t seen each other in a few months. They met when Hannah and her sister relocated to a small crab fishing town in the PNW for the summer. Hannah works as a production assistant on a movie set and gives the director - who she has a deep crush on - the idea to move the location to Westport. The director runs with the idea, but why is Hannah all of a sudden nervous to see Fox again.

Fox was a goner for Hannah the moment they set eyes on each other last summer. So when he finds that she’s coming to Westport and will most likely be staying in his guest bedroom - he’s excited. The bond that Hannah and Fox share is special to him. And he wouldn’t do anything to mess that up. So what if half the town thinks that he’s a manwhore, as long as Hannah believes in him - it’ll be okay. But the closer these two are in each other's presence the more they want things that might end up hurting their friendship. Are they willing to take that chance?

Oh, how I loved Fox and Hannah. From the very first pages with their sweet back and forth text messages I was a goner. Their friendship was so sweet and vulnerable and I loved how they slowly - oh so slowly - became more than just friends. The relationship was never one sided and the way they balanced each other out was always perfect.

I felt Hannah and Fox’s insecurities. Imposter syndrome is real and most of us feel it on a day to day basis. But the support that they both got from their friends, family and most importantly from each other made them stronger and I loved the journey both of them took to get there.

Hook, Line, and Sinker is definitely one of my favorite Tessa Bailey romances. I feel like she does friends-to-lovers so well. So if you’re looking for a book that will put a silly grin on your face, make you feel some angst and have you swooning - definitely pre-order Hook, Line, and Sinker!

Oh, how I love Tessa Bailey books! Hook, Line, and Sinker was a fantastic read with some steam, some romance, a great soundtrack., and totally relatable and loveable characters.
I am rating this book five stars! Fox Thornton, a king crab fisherman meets Hannah Bellinger, a PA for a film producer meet in a lovely fishing town. They are friends and grow their friendship via songs of their days and texts while Hannah leaves to head back to LA. Hannah’s next film assignment brings her back to the fishing town and she stays with Fox and their relationship grows during their time living together. I just loved Hannah’s patience with Fox’s issues with himself and his self-worth. They were such a lovely complement to each other.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

I adored this book. You never know how a second book is going to go in a series and I think I loved this one even more that It Happened One Summer. I loved Hannah in the first book and was dying to see how her story would be and just fell even more in love with her and Fox. I love their characters and their growth. I was so happy with the communication and how Hannah made it happen. It's one of the best books I've read so far this year.


Thank you to NetGalley and Avon/Harper Voyager for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

**Thank you HarperCollins publishers for providing this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All quotes are taken from the ARC and are subject to change.**


“ I didn't know what right felt like until you, I’m holding on to the good you give me. I'm holding on to you”

The banter, the chemistry, the conversations, Fox and Hannah have that all consuming attraction that we all dream of finding one day!

Tessa Bailey has a way of pulling you in, she is the queen of feel good romance! Opening a Tessa Bailey novel and immersing yourself in the word she has created always feels like a warm hug or a cool breeze on a hot summer day. You never want to leave the comfort of the pages. Finishing any book by Bailey is always a bittersweet moment, knowing that you have to leave these characters behind and go back to the real world!!

I love this book so much, because often in life or in romance novels the female character is always the one with these insecurities that people deem ridiculous. Like does he want me for who I am and not just for my body? I am just a pretty face with no substance? Will anybody ever take me seriously? And in this book the roles have been reversed, and the male character is the one dealing with these insecurities and the way they work through it as a couple is absolutely astonishing. His pain is valid because men have feelings too! They are taught from a young age that men don’t cry, that they can’t be sensitive and that is toxic masculinity at its finest and in this book Tessa Bailey just destroys that frame of mind.

Hook, Line, and Sinker, is friends to lovers done right! Thank you Tessa Bailey for reminding us that we are all the leading ladies in the movie that is our lives which is why I’m rating this book a 5/5! By far one of the best romance novels I have read this year

Hook, Line, and Sinker is #2 in Tessa Bailey’s Bellinger Series.

HL&S follows LA rich girl Hannah in a friends to lovers romance with king crab fisherman and “playboy” Fox. Hannah met Fox the previous summer while keeping sister Piper company during Pipers banishment to Westport, Washington and state friends via text. Fox had been warned by best friend Brendan (Piper’s fiancé) to stay away from his future sister in law Hannah.

This book was AMAZING! I love alternating perspectives in a rom-com so I can get inside the male leads head too. Learning more about Fox was everything I wanted and seeing how Hannah handled it was inspiring. This one has so much steam mixed with so much backstory plus a lot of music references. I laughed, I cried, I made a playlist.

Both books were wonderful, but HL&S was definitely my favorite of the two. I was so invested in watching Fox evolve into a good man and seeing badass Hannah become the leading lady she always dreamed of. I could go on and on, really. This book was perfection. ❤️

Forget to mention there’s an epilogue featuring a moose 😂.

Thanks so much NetGalley for allowing me early access to this great read. I’ll definitely be preordering a copy.

Tessa Bailey really delivers in her sequel to It Happened One Summer. This is a fun and sexy, friends to more romance. Hannah is the quiet sister. The one who is never the star of show and happy to be on the fringes. Working as an assistant on an independent movie she suggests filming in the small fishing village where her sister now lives. She ends up staying in King crab fisherman Fox Thornton's spare room. They became friends last summer when her sister fell in love with Fox's fishing captain.

Fox is the local hot stud. He is handsome and has always gotten girls without trying. But it makes him insecure wondering if he is worthy of something real. He is happy to help Hannah pursue a work crush but is less confident when attraction flairs between them. For me Fox was one of the best characters written as he demonstrates that all that masculine boys talk and encouragement can have negative effects. The communication is open and honest between Hannah and Fox and it is delightfully refreshing. They trust each other as friends and it is natural to progress to more. His concern that her reputation will be tarnished by his past is something not brought up much in contemporary romances.

I really love and understand these two characters. Hannah's love of music and her continually making playlists is a plus for music loving readers. I was also happy to catch up with Bailey and Brendan from IHOS. This can be read as a stand alone but to get the beginning of the friendship between the two MC's you need to read the first book. The epilogue is a wonderful bonus too. Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for an ARC ebook in exchange for an honest review.