Unfortunately Yours is a predictable marriage of convenience book. I enjoyed the story. The sex scenes and discussion seemed a little forced. I really liked the epilogue, but the rest of the book was just ok.

August is trying (for reasons reserved close to his heart) to open a winery... and he is miserably failing. He has exhausted all his capital and maybe all his will?
Natalie, a wine empire princess chased her dreams and struck on her own, made something of her self without her family's shadow. But one mistake costs her everything. To start over she will need her trust fund... only thing is daddy's stipulations says she has to be married to receive it. Maybe these 2 could get fake married and pull it off long enough to get some cash? Problem is they hate each other... maybe they won't survive it.
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Guys!! I feell so hard for August!!! He is an ex Navy SEALS but contrary to what these characters are typically portrayed as... he is the biggest goofball ever!! He is a loose cannon of crazy nonsense and joy and I absolutely adored him for it!! He had me laughing, swooning and even tearing up! He was so true to himself with absolutely zero filter and it was everything. He falls first and he falls hard!
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It was so much fun to read these 2. Their banter was so on point, I laughed multiple times and kept wanting more. I enjoyed Natalie letting go of herself a little and letting this ball of sunchine just rob on her a bit.
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No 3rd act brakeup up for the win guys!!
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I absolutely enjoyed this read and absolutely recommend it!! Tessa Bailey never fails to provide us with fresh humor and swoony moments to fill our hearts desire. Reading her work is such a fun and satisfying ride!
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Thank you @avonbooks for finally giving me a opportunity to read a Tessa Bailey ARC through @Netgalley! 😅 You guys made my day!!💜 Hopefully this won't be the last🤞

Thanks to the publisher for an advanced copy of Unfortunately Yours by Tessa Bailey. I didn't really like book one in the A Vine Mess series but I have enjoyed a bunch of Tessa's books so was ready to start a new one and I'm my opinion it was only marginally better than Secretly Yours.

I'm always down for fake dating or marriage of convenience and mix it with enemies to lovers and Tessa Bailey's banter I was excited for this but it was super cringy. I liked the plot more but otherwise it was okay.

I'm not sure why The Bellinger Sisters series was so different for me but since she wrote those I haven't enjoyed any of her more rece books....

Hooked from the first sentence! I really enjoyed the second book in the series A Vine Mess. This book follows Julian’s sister Natalie. Natalie is back home after losing her job and fiancé at the same time. Natalie needs money to open her own company and the only way to get it is from her trust fund. There is one condition, she must marry. August is a retired navy seal who is trying to open a winery in the name of his belated best friend Sam. He is out of money and is going to have to give up on the business. The two enter into a marriage of convenience! Wonderful. I really enjoyed these characters more than those in book 1. The chemistry was fantastic.
*thank you to NetGalley for an arc.

There’s a fine line between loathe you and can’t live without you in Unfortunately Yours. Tessa Bailey gives Natalie Vos her happily ever after in this second Vine Mess book that, unfortunately, was not my cup of tea (or glass of Cabernet, if we’re going to be on-theme).

Natalie has long been an outsider, even among her own family. She’s both worked hard and acted out all her life to not be ignored but there’s a core of loneliness to her that broke my heart. I liked seeing the vulnerable side of Natalie whose smarts and insight had a lot to offer, and I really wish I’d seen more of that developed because it gave her character depth. August Cates is the one man who sees her and he drives her absolutely batty. The former Navy SEAL is now running a winery in memory of his best friend, but he sucks at it. When Natalie needs access to her trust fund (hampered by archaic terms) and August needs to be taken seriously by the wine community to get a small business loan, they decide on a marriage of convenience. A sham wedding and close quarters mean it’s impossible for these two stubborn people to go from locking horns to…well, you get the idea.

I wanted to love Unfortunately Yours as much as I’ve loved other books of Bailey’s. However, I simply struggled with this one. August just didn’t work for me. No matter how many times Bailey reminds readers that he’s huge and a former Navy SEAL, August came off as a caricature of a giant, protective alpha male to me. Between his cringy jokes and absurd horniness he came off like a teenager rather than a thirty-something veteran. The banter between he and Natalie didn’t work for me at all and the whole book just came off as hyper-hormonal rather than hot, shallow rather than believable, and the insta-love strained credulity to the breaking point. There were some good points to the book (Menace the cat) and some opportunities for more development that were sadly missed (Natalie’s relationship with her family). Not every book will be for every reader and Natalie and August’s story is a case of the characters just not being for me.

Let me start off by saying I love anything that Tessa Bailey writes and Unfortunately Yours is now my favorite (sorry It Happened One Summer). This enemies to lover, marriage of convenience is full of funny retorts and spice.

I absolutely enjoyed it and I hope there’s another book in this realm; maybe mama Voss?

I love a marriage of convenience book, but I felt like August’s insta-love of Natalie was missing something. Maybe it would’ve helped if I’d seen more of their early interactions/when they met? I liked August, but he was not quite self aware enough. I was frustrated over and over by his justifications for keeping secrets. And the way he wanted to do everything himself and somehow didn’t understand that he was doing the exact thing that he was mad at her family for doing to her? And that it was a colossal waste of money to keep doing something he’s bad at and refusing help. This book was okay overall but there are many other Tessa Bailey books that I’ve enjoyed more.

This is my second Tessa Bailey book that I’ve completed. I still have yet to read the Bellinger Sister series, but it is next on my list!

I absolutely adored Unfortunately Yours. The banter between August and Natalie was so fun and you could really feel a connection with them. They both had their own ghosts, but they worked out everything to be with each other. And that’s exactly the dreamy romance Tessa Bailey excels at. So far, this is my favorite book of hers - 10/10

Really excited about this book. It was an Absolutely phenomenal read. High will recommended to others to pick up as soon as it was released. Tessa Bailey never lets me down.

Unfortunately (ha), I didn't like this quite as much as Secretly Yours. While it wasn't my least favorite Tessa Bailey I've read, it definitely left a lot to be desired. The book features a marriage of convenience trope-a favorite-but it just didn't work here. The pacing felt off, there wasn't enough angst to convince me of anything imho, and sadly I did not like August. He gave off big himbo/goofball energy and I was not about it. I don't know, I just found it lacking honestly.

I am a Tessa Bailey fan, there's no denying that. I read the first book in this series and felt very underwhelmed by the plot and characters, but this premise intrigued me so I was determined to give it.a go and.... I am glad I did. This is my favourite MMC of hers to date. This book is full of booktoks favourite tropes and the usual Bailey humour. Third person stories aren't my fave but Bailey does them well. A great read and one to add to the TBR pile if you need an easy read!

I enjoyed this book more and more as I continued to read through it. I personally did not care for the characters at first and their personalities due to the childish pranks at their age. However, it was nice to see the love between the two bloom and see how they each embraced themselves and the other. I did wish I read the other book in the series first but still enjoyed the book.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for the opportunity to read and review this book. I received a copy of the ebook in exchange for my honest review

I enjoyed this fun read. A plethora of incandescent sparks and razor-sharp barbs fly between August and Natalie as their story unfolds. It is a very cute, funny, steamy, and a bit over the top, easy to read romance that was simply a great way to get my read on.

I loved this book. It had me laughing hysterically at times. August and Natalie couldn’t be more opposite but also more perfect for each other. Their banter and little digs that were playful had me cracking up. The pranks they pulled on each other. So good.⁣
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But even amongst the laughs, enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience story; they both were dealing with some of their own demons, being afraid to let your guard down, having a hard time trusting people, allowing others to see the pain you hide behind spiteful digs sometimes; when these two finally let their walls crumble for each other, their softer sides came out and they were truly beautiful together. August only ever wanted to see Natalie smile and she saw him for the broken man grieving his best friend, who was also a hunk and a hero like captain America. ⁣
I adored their story.⁣
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This book was 100 times better than Secretly Yours.. which I had basically DNFed. Natalie and August were so much more likable and relatable. The enemies-to-lovers in this story was done SO WELL. August wasn’t a huge asshole, and I loved how playful he was with her in a smart ass, I just want to push your buttons to see you pissed off, kind of way. Secretly Yours definitely missed the mark for me, but Unfortunately Yours redeemed the series imo.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon for the digital and finished copies of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was everything I wanted and needed! Brooding hero trying to honor a friend and a strong woman who is finding herself after a large setback! I love how she is it for him. He knows that there is no one better for him than her. She finally realizes that what she needed was right in front of her. HEA and everything!

This was such a step up from the first book in this series. I loved both main characters and I liked how there was clear development both for their characters and for the romance involving them. I really enjoyed this one.

I went into this book knowing it was Tessa Bailey, a marriage of convenience, and there's a cat on the cover. All of which can be a lot of fun.

This is a perfectly entertaining read. But there's not enough <i>there</i> there for me. I didn't really get why the characters were into each other. I was shocked when the FMC made a big move physical move - I didn't understand what was going on in the character's head to make her do that.

Actually, there's a lot of motivation I don't understand. The MC is an ex-army dude who opened a winery to honor his dead buddy's dream. Which could work, but I just didn't get it. Then again, I also don't go for armed forces/cop heroes in general these days, so maybe that's just part of the genre.

The MC was protective/care-taker to an extreme, which is partly trauma and partly (I assume) a hard leaning into tropey-ness.

Was it spicy? Yes. Was there good dirty talk? Yes. Will I ever read this again? No.

Meh. YMMV.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Tessa Bailey is one of my all-time favorite romance authors. Her books never disappoint. Unfortunately Yours is the companion to Secretly Yours, which is the book in which Julian Vos and Hallie found their happily ever after.

This book focuses on Natalie Vos, Julian's sister--the family disappointment, the daughter who left New York without a job and an ex-fiancé in her rearview, and who is currently crashing in the guest cottage at her family's winery, day-drinking and plotting her triumphant return to the city. She needs capital in order to return to New York and start her own investment firm--all she needs is her trust fund, and she'll be good to go. Unfortunately, her father requires her to not only have a job in order for it to be released to her--she also has to be married. Enter August Cates--ex-Navy Seal, the maker of the WORST wine in the valley, and the hottest mistake she almost made. He needs a loan from the bank in order to save his business, so she proposes. Literally, proposes. A marriage of convenience to last a month in order to secure his loan and her trust fund. But in order for that to work, they have to convince the town--and more importantly the crotchety trust fund trustee--that their marriage is legitimate.

They get married, she moves in, and well, things heat up from there. They can't seem to stop fighting, but they also can't seem to stop kissing. This marriage of convenience starts to feel very real, very quickly.

I LOVED IT. It was one-hundred-percent, absolutely, incredibly delightful. Tessa writes books that make me laugh out loud, and cry, and also need to fan myself and hydrate afterward. Don't let the illustrated covers fool you. She is the QUEEN of dirty talk and bedroom antics. If I thought Julian and Hallie's story was incredible, Tessa outdid herself with Natalie and August. They're maybe one of my favorite Tessa Bailey couples. And that's saying something considering I've read almost her complete backlist.

Thank you so much Avon for sending me a finished copy, and Netgalley for my e-ARC.

Unfortunately Yours! The second book in the Vine Mess series by Tessa Bailey.

You'll love this book if you love:⁠
💍 marriage of convenience
😒 enemies to 😏 lovers ⁠
🌩️ grumpy girl and ☀️ sunshine boy
💞 guy falls first ⁠

Loved the book but I didn't marathon read it so 4.5 stars!
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rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨⁠
trope: see above⁠
genre: contemporary romance⁠
spice: 🌶️⁠ ⁠🌶️🌶️

Thank you sm to Netgalley and the publisher for the early e-copy and paperback! All thoughts are my own, duh.