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Title: The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob
Series: Bro Code #4
Authors: Pippa Grant
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: January 7, 2021
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You don’t know me, but you do know me. I’m your neighborhood hot mess single mom, doing my best to keep my head above water while running my little slice of heaven and keeping my youngest from shoving marbles up his nose, which is exactly what he’s doing the first time Levi Wilson, pop star god, world’s sexiest man, and my all-time number one celebrity obsession, walks into my bookstore.
Related: I’m writing this from beyond the grave, because I’ve died of mortification and am now residing in an alternate universe.
I have to be.
Because Levi Wilson came back.
And we had a moment.
Like, a moment moment. The kind that makes me remember that adult pleasure isn’t all about hoping the lock holds in the bathroom so your kids don’t interrupt on the rare occasion you feel like taking an extra-long mommy-time shower.
So when he proposes a no-strings fling?
Count. Me. In.
Thrill of a lifetime, right?
Surely, nothing will go wrong…
The Hot Mess and the Heartthrob is a
rockin’ fun, sexy romantic comedy featuring a celebrity panty-melter who
doesn’t know what he’s been missing, a sassy single mom hanging on by a string,
three adorable children who would never burst in on a woman when she’s on a
toilet (ha!), and shameless ovary-busting moments between a guy who never
thought he’d be a dad and a family who thought they got along just fine without
him. It stands alone and comes complete with a happily-ever-after (though you’d
never go wrong to read the other Bro Code series books first).
Levi is the pop star with ll of the awards, fame, money, and
security that comes with it. Ingrid is a
single mom with a business and three kids who is juggling her life and barely
getting by. This fairy tale rom com has
the pop star meeting the hot mess and being utterly enchanted. This novel is written in first person from a
dual POV.
I laughed out loud till tears streamed down my face multiple times while reading this book I could not put down. I empathize with Ingrid in her motherhood quest of trying to do it all and not having any time left for herself. Her children are more than adorable, and they grabbed my heart and squeezed. I loved seeing Levi fall hard and fast not only with Ingrid, but with her kids too. The interactions between him and her kids are priceless and often funny. I understood the hesitation Ingrid has in believing that what Levi is offering her could be a reality. I love the passion and the humor between them. I love Levi’s ability to see beneath the surface to help meet Ingrid’s day-to-day needs in ways only he can. I love that his support system becomes hers as well: it was beautiful. I love the cameos of the other Bro Code members, their families, and other members of the Pippa-Verse. I would love to live in Copper Valley and hang out with these wonderful characters that have been created there. This was a fantastic book and I hated that I reached the ending because I want more from all of these characters. *sigh* I will just have to wait until the next fantastic story from this author is available to get my fix.
EXCERPT
One day. I would
like to go one single day without someone in my orbit making a poor life
decision.
“Stop
squirming,” I order my four-year-old son, who should be at preschool, but who’s
been banished for the week because of lice.
Yep.
Lice.
Heaven forbid
we have one issue at a time.
Adding to my
list of issues? Being that mom who can’t get her shit together while Levi
Flipping Wilson is watching. And not only watching, but actively engaging in
trying to help. “Hey, bud, I bet I can hold still longer than you can. Wanna
see?”
I know my
agenda on any given day will include interruption for something my children do
that I never would’ve expected in a million years, but that’s a lot easier to
deal with when I don’t have an audience.
Especially an
audience made up of one famous man whose songs get me through the day—and
night—when I don’t have enough free focus to read or listen to an audiobook,
and who keeps stealing glances at me like he’s trying to figure out what kind
of rabid creature I am. Normally, customers aren’t allowed back in the
stockroom with me, which is where I dragged Hudson when I realized what he’d
done to his nose, but leaving Levi out there with the customers who’d figured
out who he was seemed like a bad idea.
Especially when
his date skewered me with a look that clearly said get him out of here or I’ll
burn this place down.
It’s a
bookstore.
Highly
flammable.
Not taking
chances.
Especially if
there was a reason they were looking at maternity and early childhood
development books. His date doesn’t look pregnant, but god knows that’s when
pregnancy is hardest.
Hudson finally
stills, and I manage to smear a little more Vaseline gently around his nostril.
“How did you get a marble in your nose?”
“I pushed
hard.” He beams. “I gots stars in there too.”
I squeeze my
eyes shut and count to two, because I know if I get as high as three, he’ll
find a way to suck the marbles deeper into his sinus cavities, and I don’t know
how a doctor will get that out without having to cut his nose open, and oh my
god, he’s four and he’s about to be disfigured for life because I thought he’d
actually sit still and listen to Yasmin reading books for neighborhood
storytime while I re-stocked a few shelves.
“How many
stars?” I inquire through clenched teeth.
“Four. Or maybe
seven. Or maybe one. I forgets.”
“You are so
lucky you’re cute.”
“Do you have a
vacuum?” Levi asks.
I twist my head
to gape at him.
He shoots a
help? look at his date, then shrugs at me. “If he won’t blow it out, maybe you
can suck it out. Like with one of those sucky tools the dentist uses.”
“That’s…possibly
not a terrible idea.”
“Happens on
occasion.” He grins, which makes my heart basically stop because he’s stupidly
gorgeous.
I could stare
at him all day, but I have a preschooler with marbles up his nose to attend to.
“Mama,” Hudson
says, “look.”
He scrunches
his nose, which makes his nostrils swell, closes his mouth, and blows, and one
shoots out and lands on Levi’s shoe.
My son has just
snotted my favorite musician’s Italian leather loafers.
“I win! I
holded still!” He breaks into his preschool dance routine, but the poor kid got
his moves from me, which means to a casual observer, he probably looks like
he’s having a seizure while choking on a piece of gum and tripping over barbed
wire.
Levi Wilson,
however, is not fazed. He squats down to Hudson’s level. “Rematch.”
AUTHOR BIO
Pippa Grant is a
USA Today Bestselling author who writes romantic comedies that will make tears
run down your leg. When she's not reading, writing or sleeping, she's being
crowned employee of the month as a stay-at-home mom and housewife trying to
prepare her adorable demon spawn to be productive members of society, all the
while fantasizing about long walks on the beach with hot chocolate chip
cookies.
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