When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. I’m about 1/2 way through Hook, Line and Sinker and I already like it a lot more than It Happened One Summer.Tea for this book : Peppermint- Indian Masala Overall a good read if you’re looking for something quick, sexy and funny.
But getting there was kind of cringy at times. And she figures out what she wants out of life, and that’s really nice. She does really sweet things like bonding with Opal, doing makeup tutorials for the local ladies, and walking a elderly man to his reading spot. Piper does eventually get to a more self aware state. That’s a lot of progress to make in 5 weeks. And that coming from a woman who had earlier in the book considered a $4000 dress a steal. It really just feels like Piper goes from her stepdad indulging her to Brandon taking over. After getting it on in the dressing room, of course.
Piper ditches her sister to start boning the hot Capitan of Crab, he helps her fix up her father’s bar, and then in order to win her heart Brandon splurges on a fancy hotel and then says “Baby, I’m taking you shopping,” after which Piper exclaims that she’s learned the value of money because she just tried on a pair of $100 jeans.
Refurbishing a bar with the money your dad put into a debit account for you after he cancelled your credit cards isn’t really “making it on your own”. Her sister, Hannah, comes along since she bailed Piper out of jail in defiance of her pursestrings holding stepdad. In an effort to teach her a lesson, her step father ships her off to her father’s hometown. The whole premise of the story is that Piper is being punished for taking her party girl ways one step too far. Her getting an actual job and getting her first paycheck. More of Brandon helping her navigate her new reality. More of Piper almost burning the house down. Notice the 4 pepper rating.ĭon’t get me wrong. Other than that, it was instalove and humping. There are really only a couple of silly heiress moments in this book. When I read the summary I was expecting Paris Hilton The Simple Life vibes. I really enjoyed Window Shopping (my first Tessa Bailey book) so I had high hopes for It Happened One Summer. I received an ARC copy of the next book in this series, so I figured that I should probably read the first one before diving into the second.
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