Looking for a cute read that is full of humor, passion, and some naughty corporate jargon? Take a look at The Fix Up by Tawna Fenske! Check out more about this book, read Tina’s Thoughts and an excerpt from the story, and enter a giveaway to celebrate this upcoming release!
The Fix Up
First Impressions #1
Tawna Fenske
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Uncovering this sexy geek’s charm is easy. Keeping her hands off of him is impossible.
While he may look like the love child of a movie starlet and an NFL linebacker, Ben Langley has the people skills of a half-drowned porcupine. Why socialize when there are chemistry labs and bad sci-fi flicks? If he has any hope of taking the helm as CEO of the family business, Ben needs an image makeover. Pronto.
Enter Holly Colvin, owner of First Impressions public relations and branding firm, and the woman who just saved Ben from the clutches of an over-attentive sales clerk. Holly’s rebranded hundreds of companies in her career, but she’s never rebranded a person. The guy clearly needs help, though, and she’s just the woman for the job.
With the clock ticking for them both, Holly and Ben face off over wardrobe malfunctions and business jargon that sounds a lot sexier than it should. But can Holly make Ben into the man he thinks he should be without losing the man she’s starting to love?
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The Fix Up is my first novel from Tawna Fenske. This book was hilarious, quirky, and hot. It is amazing the creativity of authors to make even the most boring and business like moments sexy and a little bit dirty. Ha! I laughed at the two main characters and their constant flirting, knowing I will never hear those technical terms and CEO jargon the same way again. The Fix-Up is a story of two people thrown together by chance. When they discover that they both have something the other needs, a story is born. Ben needs to revamp his “look” and learn to be a take charge CEO. Holly needs to make some quick money to save her business. Basically a kismet situation of sorts! When these two get together, the attraction is instantaneous. The pull is felt as you read the story and their fling is inevitable, the only question is if they can make it in the long run.
The writing in this story is well done. It flows well and gives the reader a great novel to immerse yourself into. I read it super fast. It is light and sweet but also sexy and smoldering. These two sides balance well and allow for a fun story that is well rounded and exactly what you expect from a Contemporary Romance story. It was fun to watch Holly learn what a real man is like. Not a man who is dominating and harsh, a fact that is portrayed by so many CEO stories are these days. She learns that there is more to Ben than the image he is expected to imitate and the nerdy guy he is. I enjoyed watching how she fell in love with him, learning to leave the past behind and embrace what was in front of her. She has anxiety about what could be and her story adds a certain something to the book. She needs someone like Ben. Ben was a fabulous lead character in this book and his ability to stay true to who he was when learning to adapt was spot on. His personality expands in this story instead of being pinpointed into something he is not. He stays true to himself and just learns how to be confident in who he is and what he is capable of. The transformation is fabulous and sexy as can be.
Ben and Holly are great together. They both have such vibrant personalities and click so well, which makes this story what it is. There is humor (I laughed out loud so many times), passion, romance, and a bit of introspection. All of these things are balanced to perfection in such a way that you devour this story! I am excited for more from this series and hoping to see a few secondary characters get their own story!
The saleswoman turned and scurried away, leaving Ben to stare down at the wife now affixed to his arm. She tucked her hair behind her ear and glanced the direction the saleswoman had retreated.
“I hope I read that right.” The brunette scooted out from under his arm, and he instantly missed her softness. She looked up at him with those odd violet-gray eyes and smiled. “You looked like you were being eaten alive there, but too polite to tell her to back off.”
“Eaten alive,” he repeated, a little mesmerized by the woman’s eyes. “I’m not entirely sure.”
“Seemed like that’s what was going on. Salesgirl sees a big guy with a big budget and big—” she paused, then gave a small shrug. “Well, sometimes it brings out the worst in women.”
“Thank you,” he said, meaning it. “I’ve been flying back and forth between cities all week, so I’m a little jetlagged and distracted. I guess I wasn’t even a hundred percent sure I was being—uh—”
“Hit on? Ogled? Mentally undressed?”
“Right.” He cleared his throat. “Not until you pointed it out. Thanks for the rescue.”
“No problem. Pay it forward sometime.”
“Is that real? It’s huge.”
She blinked, then glanced down at the paperweight-sized rock adorning her ring finger. “Nah, I keep it in my purse for when I want to avoid getting hit on at ladies’ night.”
“Does it work?”
“Not with the real jackasses, which probably defeats the purpose, huh?”
He nodded, not sure what to say to that. “I’m sorry, what was your name again?”
“Holly. Holly Colvin. I’m the owner of First Impressions.”
“First Impressions?”
“We’re a public relations and branding firm that specializes in creating and remaking corporate identities.” She fished into her purse to pull out a business card. She held it out to him and Ben started to reach for it, but Holly withdrew her hand.
“Shit. Vampira the Sales Queen is headed back here.”
Before he could say anything, Holly was sliding her hand around to cup his ass. For a few beats, he thought she was copping a feel, and he hoped like hell she kept doing it. Then he realized she was tucking her card into his back pocket. She grinned and tilted her head back to look up at him.
“Gotta commit to the role, right?”
“Right,” he murmured, staring down into those slate-speckled eyes. “We certainly do.”
“I suppose we could throw in a little something extra if you really want her to buy it.”
“Like what?”
Her lips parted slightly, almost like she was braced for a kiss. Or was that his imagination? It seemed hot in here, and he was getting dizzy, and now all he could think about was claiming those perfect lips.
“I’m sure you’ll come up with something,” she murmured.
Her mouth looked so soft, so inviting, and he could have sworn her lashes fluttered low the way they might if she were waiting for him to make a move. A big move.
He knew what he needed to do. What he wanted to do.
And with that, he bent and kissed her.
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Tawna Fenske is a romantic comedy author who writes humorous fiction, risqué romance, and heartwarming love stories with a quirky twist. Her offbeat brand of romance has been praised by Booklist as “A tame Carl Hiaasen on cupid juice,” and RT Book Reviews nominated her debut novel for contemporary romance of the year. Tawna is a fourth generation Oregonian who can peel a banana with her toes and who loses an average of 20 pairs of eyeglasses per year. She lives in Bend, Oregon with her husband, step kids, and a menagerie of ill-behaved pets. You can email Tawna at tawnafenske@yahoo.com.
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