i had no idea i was going to be so lucky to being able to read this book so early, but reading it so close to it happened one summer has made the experience amazing. i have to begin saying that tessa bailey has written a perfect duology for me. these books are perfect and i will never get over piper & brendan and hannah & fox. they will remain at the top of my favorite book couples forever.

this book has squeezed my heart since the beginning. it’s extremely emotional, and in a very different way from it happened one summer. i have expressed a thousand times how much i love piper and brendan, but hannah and fox made a place just for themselves inside my heart. hannah is the sweetest, loveliest girl. and she is the main character she never thought she was. she’s considerate and caring, always showing the people she cares about her unconditional love. that’s big main character energy, and she deserves all the love everyone gives her back.

fox thornton, aka the love of my life, i had no idea what was coming for me. what we see of him in the first book is just the tip of the iceberg. what’s underwater is big and beautiful, but also heartbreaking. my heart was in constant pain for him, but that made this story even more rewarding. this book carries an enormous lesson: being scared doesn’t make us unloveable. fox is one of the most beautiful characters i have ever read about.
hannah and fox have the most beautiful souls ever, and they found each other thanks to music, which makes me love the story even more. in fact, there’s one of my favorite songs that kept coming to my mind while reading this book: this life by edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes.

as i mentioned at the beginning, the bellinger sisters has become one of my absolute favorite series. i know this review comes extremely early and when relase date comes, i will be posting it again as a reminder, but i needed to share how much i loved these books right now.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Thank you to Avon, NetGalley, and Tessa Bailey for a free copy of Hook, Line, and Sinker. This book comes out March 1st.

I knew after reading Piper’s book, It Happened One Summer, that I wanted to read Hannah’s book! I really enjoyed this book!

Some of the things I loved:
💫 Witty banter and 🔥🔥🔥 romance
💫 A unique fishing town setting
💫 That epilogue😍
💫 The male characterization of Fox. His story really breaks down a male stereotype, and how we can believe what we hear at a young age. One of the most interesting and well written male characters I have read in romance!

This is a standalone book. Although for better character reference, I would pick up It Happened One Summer!

This was my first Tessa Bailey book and I really enjoyed it, I thought it was an easy read that was perfect for summer. The characters in this novel were so loveable! This book is written in dual POV so we get both Fox and Hannah’s perspectives which I loved. Friends to lovers isn’t usually my favorite trope but I absolutely loved it in this book, I think it was very well written. Fox and Hannah’s relationship progressed so nicely and naturally throughout the book (but verrry slowly). They work through their many insecurities about themselves and their pasts, but they do so together and it made this a very emotional read but exciting to see them heal and grow along the way. I think their insecurities really added to their depth as characters and made them seem real.

I wish that we saw more sisterly interaction between Piper and Hannah, but overall this was the perfect cute, steamy summer read. I could not put this book down and I would have finished it in one sitting if I had the time! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves forced proximity, friends to lovers, or slow burn tropes. I will definitely be reading anything that Tessa Bailey writes after finishing this book!

Thank you Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyage for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

You guysssssss

Tessa Bailey does it again!! After absolutely adoringggg It Happened One Summer I knew I wanted to get my hands on this one ASAP and let me just say, I lovedddd it!!

If you like friends to lovers, then this is the book for you. I'm not always the biggest fan of that trope because a lot of the time I don't understand why the couple isn't together from the very beginning, but I really didn't have an issue with it in this one.

At the beginning of this story, Hannah comes back to Westport for work and needs a place to stay so she ends up staying with Fox, her friend that she met in the first book. Gotta love a good forced proximity trope.

It's interesting that while the first book had a lot of firey chemistry and banter, this book was much more of a slow build, which felt raw and incredibly realistic. But don't get me wrong, it's still a Tessa Bailey novel so it still had lots of spice and tension.

There was also some great commentary on masculinity and how people can respond to being inappropriately sexualized. As Sarah MacLean would say, she really took the finger with this one!!

I have always liked Tessa Bailey's work, but after these two books, I have decided that I will basically read anything she puts out next.

Fox and Hannah’s story is just stupendous. Separately, they are characters you want to root for, but together you want to fight even harder. I just LOVED them so much!

"You cant live life worrying about what people will think. You'll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy. With her."

Hook, Line, and Sinker is an deeply touching love story that I felt in my bones! Fox Thornton, king crab fisherman and lady-killer of the highest caliber. CINNAMON ROLL. Devilish charmer. Dedicated. Death by Fox. RIP @ me. He earned heart eyes from me.


Fox's backstory is emotional. FEELINGS ™. Toxic masculinity and undervaluing himself. His insecurities. And his journey to overcome the burden of his past.


Hannah is a grunge-headed old soul. It me. Hello, obsessive listening of music. I adore Fox and Hannah's friendship and the evolution of their relationship. They way Hannah so fiercely cares for Fox...


Hook, Line, and Sinker is a story of love and loss. Family. With the most affectionate OTP! Romance readers MUST HAVE Tessa Bailey's Bellinger Sisters duo on their shelves. For squeeze hugs obviously. A hauntingly beautiful story that's like a summer day after a hundred years of winter! If you couldn't tell... I AM WILD HANNAH AND FOX. I most definitely be rereading come March 2022. K, I'm going to go cry again.

READ IF YOU LIKE:
-friends to lovers
-forced proximity
-a little fake dating
-vinyl records
-fishing puns
-dimples & freckles
-piggyback rides
-chocolate ice cream & a sleeve of graham crackers
-#IsThisAKissingBook: "big, dramatic movie kiss and everything." Sweet & spicy!

Song: Trouble by Ray LaMontagne

"To help weave together the atmosphere" and enhance your reading experience, check out the soundtrack to Hook, Line, and Sinker.

Hook, Line, and Sinker TUNES

THANK YOU X 1000 to Avon Books and Harper Voyager for an advanced copy!

Thank you to Avon & Netgalley for an advanced copy of Hook, Line And Sinker by Tessa Bailey.

I absolutely loved It Happened One Summer and was SO excited to get Hook, Line and Sinker. I immediately read it and couldn't put it down! I loved this book just as much as the first.

This was such a slow burn between Hannah and Fox and I loved it. I'm not usually a friends to lovers enthusiast, but I was here for their friendship that had started to bloom in the first book. I loved seeing Hannah feel more confident and leading lady. The connection between her father's sea shanties and her was wonderful. I loved this transformation of Fox.

Plus, you know you're getting a steamy read with Tessa Bailey. While it was a slow burn, she didn't loose the steam.

I loved the pervious book, It Happened One Summer, Piper and Hannah were hilarious and great sisters. I was so excited to learn more about Hannah and see more funny, relatable and sweet moments in this novel, and it delivered! This book needs to also come with a sound track, it was so fun to look up the different songs mentioned to describe the characters moods. I loved the writing, and the growth of these characters. Fox and Hannah truly are meant to be! Honestly the epilogue was my favorite part, I love a good time skip. This story had the perfect balance of love and humor. It left me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside! I would 100% recommend reading this and the previous book in this series. :)

This one is my favorite Tessa Bailey I’ve read to date. I knew when we met Hannah and Fox in “It Happened One Summer” that this book was going to be great, but this isn’t just a great book, it’s one of my heart books. Ever so often I read a book that speaks to who I am as a person and this is one of them. I feel like Tessa somehow got a look in my head and wrote this book just for me.

Hannah is a character that I relate to on every level. She’s someone who’s competent in what she does, is fiercely loyal, and says it how it is. She also has imposter syndrome and feels like she’s a side character in her own life. As someone else who has a sister who is as radiant as Piper, it can be hard to recognize that you aren’t a side character in your story. This book was about not only Hannah finding her voice and story, but about her realizing she is deserving of a story separate from others.

Fox fox fox fox fox. I love Fox. He’s a guilt ridden hero who views himself as if he’s only good for one thing, his sex appeal. It’s my favorite type of hero (I mean, just look at my other all-time favorite hero, Joshua from “The Hating Game”). Watching him fight with every fiber of his being to not go after Hannah was so satisfying. Watching him then try and weaponize his sexuality was something I was not expecting but created so many layers to his character. He’s someone who is deeply scarred by what others have said to and about him, making it hard for him to go after what would make him happy, Hannah.

The pacing of this story is different for what I typically expect from a Tessa Bailey and it has a purpose. We can’t have Hannah and Fox having sex in the first half of the book until Fox understands without a shadow of a doubt that for Hannah, he will never just be sex to her. Their first sexual encounter was so impactful for how the rest of the story goes and is a beautiful example of how intimacy can shape the movements of a romance. But as always with Tessa’s books, this one is HOT. There’s one scene featuring a lunch break and some ginger oil that had me squealing.

Hannah’s complete and total trust in Fox and his feelings for her is what brings him to the realization that she’s in it for the long haul and isn’t going to jump ship when it gets hard. In fact, it’s Fox who jumps ship, MANY times, trying to save himself from the pain of possible rejection in the future. It’s such a nice contrast to have a heroine who knows the hero has been a player in the past being the one who has the full trust in the relationship.

I will most likely be re-reading this before this one comes out to get my thoughts more collected and refined (if I can wait that long). This review is also different from most of my other ones where I do the “down to the nitty gritty what I loved and didn’t love” because for me, this book was nothing but love. I don’t have one bone to pick with this one.

If you’ve been on the fence about this series, do yourself a favor and jump in. “It Happened One Summer” is another 5 star read and this is some of Tessa’s best work. These books will be on my mind and heart forever.

*I received this ARC through NetGalley and voluntarily read this book. my thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you NetGalley, Avon and Harper Voyager for giving me the chance to read an advanced copy!*

As always, thank you so much to the publisher Avon Books and Netgalley for providing me a digital arc in exchange for an honest review, and I'm so sorry this one didn't hit the mark for me!

I had really, really high hopes for this book, these characters, and their story. Ultimately, it all fell a little short of what I dreamed. I didn't love the characterization or development of either Fox or Hannah. I felt their individual stories were very one-dimensional and the resolutions to their independent issues, and issues as a couple could have been achieved in far fewer pages. This book felt so long. Like, waaayy too long.

Overall, I wanted so badly to love this book but instead I found myself wondering when it would end around the 60% mark. I finally finished it, and the ending was cute, but I didn't like the journey, and believe me when I say that no one is more sad or disappointed about this than me.

"It Happened One Summer" was excellent, and I enjoyed "Hook, Line and Sinker" just as much! In this novel, Piper's sister Hannah is the heroine of the story. This was a wonderful, slow burn romance with just the right amount of angst and steam. Another strength is that Bailey develops secondary characters so well, like the sisters' grandmother Opal. My only minor quibble is that I live in the state that the novel is set, and a few things didn't ring authentic, which took my head out of the story here and there.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the arc!

Thank you to Avon and NetGalley for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

CW: slut-shaming, oversexualization as a child, death of a parent (past)

It Happened One Summer was one of my top reads and I was so glad to hear Fox and Hannah were getting their own story.

I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS)

-m/f friends to lovers
-close-proximity
-elements of forbidden relationship
-very sloooow burn
-talking through music
-flirty texts

Hannah and Fox and their build up is friends to lovers gold. The use of the text messages as the first chapter to introduce them and their relationship was brilliant I was sucked in. Fox was just gone on her that was hinted in the previous book and just so confirmed. How he got Hannah, consciously and unconsciously made changes in his life to adapt to her but also because he wanted his life to change. I highlighted so many of the things Fox would say.

They both had issues with how the world perceived them and were ready to be how they wanted to live. I loved how both Hannah and Fox saw each other clearly. Hannah knew that they couldn't lean into their attraction which made this surprisingly a very slow burn despite the very clear chemistry. The use of the music to connect them together, how Hannah saw the world, and also connect her to the father she never knew. It was a really beautiful touch and I loved the music touches. As someone who lives her life needing a soundtrack in the background it was one of my favorite parts and the touches of this throughout the book were so well done.

What stopped this from being a book I loved was the payoff. I have ridiculously high standards when it comes to a Tessa Bailey and somehow (this really pains me to say) the dirty talking wasn't there, the steam was fine and if I didn't know I was reading a Tessa Bailey I probably wouldn't have noticed it. The resolution of Fox's layered issues that were holding them apart seemed to resolve really quickly as well. I also just missed seeing more of the sister relationship with Piper which was a huge part of the first book for me.

I truly enjoyed this one and definitely recommend but I also think my expectations were so high, probably too high which is my own dang fault. I'm sure I'll read again closer to pub date and see if I feel differently.

Rating: 4
Steam: 3/3.5

I have neutral feelings about this book. I loved It Happened One Summer so I had very high expectations going into this book. I found myself bored until about 70% of the way through. For a self proclaimed man whore, Fox seemed tame in this book and the smut was very little. There were a few spots in this book that needed some editing. For example, at the bingo hall there was mention how they kept holding hands but I never read where that was initiated. And it was getting pretty annoying with both of them denying their feelings for each other up until the very end. The “friend” thing felt very forced. My favorite part of this book was the epilogue where we get to see where the two sisters end up in 10 years. But other than that, this book felt forgettable and did not leave me on a major book hangover like the first book. I’m hoping when the book is released and I do a reread I’ll have more positive things to say!

This book would have gotten 5 stars but I had one issue with it. The text conversation at the front of the book seemed too long to me and I ALMOST quit reading it. So if you're reading this review and have the same problem, PLEASE continue reading until Fox is introduced because that is when things get good. :)

I really, really, really loved Hannah and Fox's relationship. They were so supportive of each other and I admired Hannah's perseverance with Fox. It was lovely to see them grow as characters and get rid of some toxic beliefs that they each held about themselves.

And the epilogue? Heartwarming, ooey-gooey splendidly written fluff!

5 stars after making it through the text convo at the beginning!

I think this may be my favorite Tessa Bailey book to date. And that's something something considering I've have read almost all her books.

The second Hannah and Fox appeared on the pages of It Happened One Summer as secondary characters, I could practically taste the tension between them. I was dying to get my hands on their book, so the very second this landed in my grabby little hands, I devoured it in one delicious sitting. I couldn't bear to put it down for even a second and I'm looking forward to more in this series.

Hannah and Fox's friends to lovers story is swoony, sexy, and brimming with feels. It was everything I wanted in their story and yet so much more.
Fans of this author's books will fall absolutely in love with this original read and fans of romance books will certainly gobble this up!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the dynamic of the relationship between Hannah and Fox from page 1. Any book that has text messaging automatically wins brownie points from me.

Tessa Bailey has such a talent for breathing life into her characters. Hannah and Fox feel like real people, living in a real world, making organic decisions that fill out the plot of the book. The romance was written so well. I love a good friends-to-lovers storyline, and this definitely delivered.

Tessa Bailey was already on my list of my favorite authors, so I am so incredibly grateful to have gotten to read an ARC of her upcoming book! Highly recommend.

5 Fantastic ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hook, Line, and Sinker revolves around the story of Fox and Hannah. If you have read It Happened One Autumn, then you already met this couple. Let me just say that Fox and Hannah serves friends to lovers trope excellently. I just loved the relationship between these two. They were so cute together that you can't help but root for them all the way through. The amount of chemistry and connection that these two shared in this book literally proved that they are meant for one another.

Talking about the characters, their characteristics were so much more than I would have expected. All the personas that the characters portrayed in the story made me adore them. Not only that, I loved seeing all the development that the characters went through throughout the entire story. All the insecurities that Fox and Hannah had about themselves made the whole book so much more emotional. Despite that, these two wouldn't stop supporting and be there for each other all the time.

Overall, it was an enjoyable read for me. I think Tessa Bailey has done a great job in delivering Fox and Hannah's story. Everything about this book is just adorable that made my heart flutter. It was a total page-turner that I was able to finish it within one day. If you're in the mood for a cute sweet romance, then this book is definitely for you.

Rating: 4.5/5
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Fiction
Warnings: death of a parent, parental issues, toxic masculity
Read if you liked: The Player or Crazy Stupid Bromance
Steam: 3/5

Thank you to Avon and NetGalley for this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

I generally have mixed feelings about Tessa Bailey novels. It comes down to in previous books, the five others I’ve read, that the steam doesn’t always match the vibe of the characters + storyline and it knocks my reading experience. Y’all this was DID NOT DO THIS!!!! And it was so freaking good and perfect and swoony. Basically, I adore this book and it was the perfect friends to lovers romance novel.

Things I loved: Fox and Hannah are just so adorable. It was such a natural relationship progression and a slow burn for sure! I loved all the music connections. Hannah learning to stand up for herself and ask for what she wanted. The takedown of toxic masculinity, this was a new conflict and I loved this journey for Fox. The conflict wasn’t drawn out and the Epilogue was perfect…the FEELS.

Things I didn’t care for: I do wish we saw more of Piper and Hannah because I love the sister dynamic. And personal note, I hate whenever a “leading lady” plan is mentioned

This was such a great romance and I can’t wait for people to enjoy! Hook, Line and Sinker is out March 1, 2022! Pre-order, add to your TBR or request at your local library!

Tessa Bailey's first Bellinger Sisters book was my favorite release of the year and the second one did not disappoint! Hannah and Fox were adorable as friends and the natural progression of their relationship was amazing. I loved the epilogue at the end! 5/5 stars!

Such an incredibly fun read! The perfect summer romance to escape into! Tessa Bailey delivered yet another steamy, satisfying, beach read!