TITLE: Dirty Talking Rival
AUTHOR: Pippa Grant
GENRE: Romantic Comedy
TROPE: Friends to Enemies to Lovers
COVER DESIGN: Najla Qamber
RELEASE DATE: June 27, 2019
BLURB.
Despite growing up in rival towns, Grady Rock and I were high school best friends.
But now?
Now, he’s my biggest enemy. My dirty-talking, master-baking, grudge-holding, hot-as-sin enemy.
All I wanted was to help my mom run her bakery after a family emergency left her unable to do it herself.
Never mind that I can’t bake. Or that I never wanted to move home again. Or that this is the hardest thing I’ve ever done and I could use a friend right now.
All Grady freaking Rock cares about now is that I’m his competition.
It’s town against town. Bakery against bakery. Old friend against old friend.
Until Grady finds out why I’m back home.
And suddenly, Mr. Get Out of My Way is more like the boy I knew in high school. But older. Wiser. And infinitely more irresistible.
I resisted his charm in high school for the sake of my future. But if I give in to it now, am I sleeping with the enemy?
Dirty Talking Rival is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa. It stands alone with no cheating or cliffhangers.
PURCHASE LINKS.
Free in Kindle Unlimited.
ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO
MY REVIEW.
5 Stars from Tiffany!
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
So Sweet and Hilarious!
What an excellent story Pippa Grant gives readers with Master Baker (or Dirty Talking Rival-not sure of the title at the time of this review). While the cover model isn't what I pictured him to look like, we get to meet Grady Rock and Annika Williams, former high school best friends that are now bitter rivals. Well, not really, but it makes for a good story.
Grady Rock is the master baker of his town, Shipwreck. He is from a tight-knit family, who all seem to own or run a business in the small town. Shipwreck’s biggest rival is Sarcasm, yes that is the town name, Sarcasm. If that doesn’t tell you what kind of humor is in this book, keep reading. Grady’s family isn’t huge, but they are a huge presence in his life and are hilarious, especially the family pets. There is a foul-mouthed parrot Long Beak Silver and of course I can’t forget the playful goat, Sue. Who by the way, is a male goat.
“She snuck into my head when I was fourteen, and I found the woman I’ve been soulmates with from the dawn of time.”
Annika is home to help her mother and younger sister. Her mom has been a rock throughout her life, so Annika has no qualms about putting hers on hold for now. Seeing Grady was a bonus she didn’t need right now. He was her absolute best friend all four years of high school, however she felt she needed to do something for herself and left him behind.
“I pretend he’s the enemy. We are such a hot mess.”
I loved both Grady and Annika’s personalities. He was such an easy-going, fun-loving guy that wanted to pick up right where they left off. Annika was written perfectly for him and if I had one complaint about her, it was the “I don’t want to end up like my mom rap”, that almost felt like a drinking game as many times as she said it. To help Annika, Grady risks it all and hopes for the best and pure hilarity ensues. While this seemed like it was going to be a heavy read, it was anything but. Pippa Grant did a fabulous job at using humor to get through the pain for these characters. There was so much smack talking between the families, it was difficult to choose whose team I was on most of the time.
The book is well written and funny as all get out!!I enjoyed the relationships between the family members on both Grady and Annika’s side. They loved each other, however loved a good ribbing even more, which made it quite the entertaining read.
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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