Why? Why Dominic, why?Īnyway, Rosie is eventually fed up with her life (For real girl.

He does secret sweet things Rosie never knows about, too. He loves Rosie more than ever (they were childhood sweethearts), but makes no attempt to get to know this adult version of her, only shedding his stoic facade when they have intense sex every Tuesday night. He simply clings to memories of long ago conversations about the fictional family home of their future, and he works hard to make that fiction reality. Dominic doesn’t ask Rosie about her life or her dreams or her desires, and he doesn’t share any of his own. DESPITE ZERO PROOF IT’S WORKING and ample evidence it isn’t. Hmmm.) He loves her and wants her, but persists in believing his father’s version of marriage – provide and protect – is the best way to his wife’s heart. Quiet and afraid to voice his feelings, he exists to serve his wife. So what does she do? Absolutely nothing.Īfter a stint abroad in the military, Dominic returned home a different man.

Rosie has generous, loving, supportive friends, a miserable job, a disinterested husband, and money in the bank to make her dreams come true. The group even fundraised a portion of the money needed for Rosie to start her own restaurant Rosie just lacks the confidence to ‘go for it.’ So she spends her days at a job she hates, dressed in heels that make her miserable, and returns home every evening to a silent, stoic husband who only pays attention to her on Tuesdays, when they have incredible sex. She’s a brilliant cook, and dreams of opening her own restaurant one day – and her friends and the Just Us League (the women’s empowerment group started in Fix Her Up) never stop reminding her how talented she is. Rosie works as a perfume salesperson at a big box store and she hates it. This one is a mess, with none of the quirky, sexy fun of the previous book.

Because of it, I had super high hopes for Love Her or Lose Her, but I should have known better based on my track record with Bailey. Reader, it featured a children’s party planner who liked dressing as a clown (I mean, come on!) and I loved it. I never know how I’m going to feel at the end of one of her novels. That was a pleasant surprise since my relationship with Tessa Bailey is hit or (mostly) miss. I loved Fix Her Up, book one in the Hot and Hammered series.

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