Get It Now Happy Endings Illustrated By Thien-Kim Lam Disseminated As Softcover

really enjoyed this! It was heartwarming, fun, and had so much emotion and great food! Yes, the ending was a little too easily wellwrapped up, but I didn't careI wanted Trixie and Andre and everyone else to end up happy and whole and financially stable, with their dreams coming true for themselves, each other, and their community.


Full RTC.

I received this ARC from NetGalley for an honest review Sigh, I was thoroughly bored during this one, Honestly, the one thing they would keep pulling me back in a little was Trixie's sex toy discussions especially when she hosted a pop up foryear olds.
But other than that, this was just blah,

I'm not crazy about the break up postit just because it feels like it was directly lifted from Sex and the City.
She even mentions the show somewhere in this book so it definitely felt intentional,

The relationship between Trixie and Andre didn't do anything for me, It felt cheesy quite often and it kind of bugged me that Andre was immediately head over heels for a girl he broke up with on a postit and never tried to see again or make amends with.
And suddenly she's there and he's in love and is talking to his friend about asking her to be his girlfriend.
Yeah. There were honestly things in here that felt veryth grade, It alternated between feeling like middle school and then lots of sex so it was just jarring,

Not a hit for me, I liked the sex toy education stuff, but the relationship and the plot itself did nothing for me, Wow I really loved this book, it's the perfect steamy light summer read! But with a Viet main character!!! Read my full review sitelinkhere!!! :

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Steamy, heartwarming, sweet, fun, sexpositive, delicious, and witty

Happy Endings was truly a delight.
This book was so easy to read and so fun I was in love with it from the start, The writing makes it so easy to breeze through, the characters are hilarious and provide such fun depth, and the sexpositivity was so refreshing to read.
I really loved this book, its a perfect combination of steamy and sweet!

Quick Summary: Trixie is determined to make her sex toy business a success to prove to her parents that she can be successful in a nontraditional career.
Andre is struggling to keep his familys soul food restaurant afloat, and the last person he expects to see in his restaurant is the girl he left behind in New Orleans without a word, Trixie.


I really loved Trixies friend group, the Boss Babes, Im

not sure how much I love the name, but I love the friend group, They are a group of women entrepreneurs, and they have weekly meetings to keep each other accountable for their goals and to cheer each other on.
I love a good found family, but a business family of women entrepreneurs Incredible, Every woman needs a group of friends like this, Especially women entrepreneurs! sitelinkKeep reading, . .

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I think this is the QUICKEST I have ever clicked to request a book and my fingers were crossed that the publishing Gods would bless me and they did! My book loving heart just knew that this diverse mix is what I needed! A bad ass Vietnamese heroine and a strong black hero Own voice author, Count me in!!!

I was in heaven with all the culture and representation  in this story and the constant mention of Phở and soul food Yum! Yes please!

Trixie was dumped a la "postitnote" Yep.
A note! Just like Berger did Carrie on Sex and the City, . . smh. That immediately put Andre on my shit list, like who does that to someone! That wasyears ago when he up and disappeared from the life they shared in New Orleans.
Now Trixie has pulled herself together and has a new life in D, C. She does private pop up shows where she empowers women by selling sex toys and paraphernalia in hopes of having her own sex toy boutique one day.


Trixie is preparing for a pop up show at a local restaurant when she looks up and sees Andre.
Awkwardddddd!! He's just as shocked to see her in HIS restaurant that he co owns with his sister, From there we follow these two through their journey of getting to know each other again,


My favorite part about this book besides the look into Trixie's thoughts and experiences as being a daughter of immigrants and of being raised in and by a Vietnamese community and family.
. . and the dynamics and expectations of that is Trixie's girlfriends! There'sof them and with Trixie they call themselves the Boss Babes.
Theseare goals!!  Brilliant, vibrant, smart, supportive and protective of each other, There's Josie, she's black and runs a boudoir photography business, Zoe her roommate who is also Vietnamese and runs a plussize lingerie shop, and Reina, my favorite fiery redhead runs a male burlesque club.


Their bond saved this book for me, I was WAY more invested in their frienship and hilarious conversations and indepth talks then Andre and Trixie, Even with their sometimes hot sex, I just didn't feel it which saddens me to say but the misunderstandings, his reasoning for ghosting her, and Trixie's flip flopping decisions from literally page to page drove me crazy and kept me rolling my eyes at them often.


Read this for the own voice experience, The food. The sex toy education. The fierce and fun Boss Babes! Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an EArc in exchange for an honest review!

DNF

I feel slightly bad DNFing an arc, but as you can see I REALLY tried to finish this book, but I was genuinely so bored I had to put it down to move to greener pastures.
I thought it would be beneficial to show my pros and cons for this book,
Pros:
Great sex scenes, Trixie sells sex toys, and they made the sex scenes really different from what I've read before and I loved them! They were better than many other romances I've read but obviously, a book needs more going for it than that.

Delicious food. I was so hungry reading this book! It was a mixture of Vietnamese food and soul food, and it all sounded amazing, it may have even inspired me to try a few recipes myself!
Cons:
The writing was so flawed.
So much dialogue felt very robotic and a means to an end advancing the plot, Obviously dialogue should be relevant to the plot but it was SO robotic and awkward I didn't enjoy it, It also felt like things were overly explained to us, like their breakup they are exes at the beginning was brought up and explained sooo many times and it made this book very repetitive and boring.

The characters and their motivations were boring, I feel like this goes hand in hand with poor writing, because I feel like they could have been made interesting if the plot and writing was improved, but I'm reviewing this book and this book was hard to pick up because I did not care what happened to the characters and their relationship.

This is nitpicky, but the main character has a friend group that calls THEMSELVES the Boss Babes, Not only are they giving themsleves a TITLE for their friend group, but it's Boss Babes I cringed every time I read it.


Overall, I was really underwhelemed and bored by this book, I ended up reading it for the sex scenes and sloughing through everything inbetween them, It's honestly a shame because the premise of this book was very exciting and different, but it was poorly executed.
I personally feel like there are much better romance STORIES that also have great sex scenes that are more worth people's time, but give this a go if you really like the premise! I'm going to be honest.
. . I could have put this up and completely forgotten to finish it, And I would have missed nothing, Unhappy beginnings, middles, and endings

Hey hun I LOVE your page and I noticed you liking my posts as well.
Are you on a sexual rediscovery journey like me what Trixie would most certainly DM her followers on Instagram because she was totally in a sex toy MLM.
Seriously, her company was offering a car for the most sales and she had to buy all the product and it was totally a shady situation.
Did she win the car I literally have no clue my soul left my body and floated back after I returned this book so its all a blur but I really hope she did and drove the hell away from Andre.


If anyone would invite me to be a boss babe I would run for the hills, Oh yeah didnt I mention that she has a group of girlfriends who call themselves The Boss Babes UNIRONICALLY, Gag me with a spoon, Somebody get the iodine!

Andre, dear sweet mess of a character Andre, What a dick on a stick, Nope on a rope. Nob on a cob. Andre has what I like to call the “redeeming dick” character arc, He can do all wrong and still be forgiven because his penis is magical and shoots sparkles and can be bought in five different colorsat least the heroine seems to think so.
THE PEEN REDEEMS. He messes up She needs to climb him like a tree, He has a temper both drunk and sober Make like a train and rail her, Hes so controlling and manipulative and hypocritical with all of the women in his life including the elders in his community by thinking he has the right to control whether or not they get vibrators because he cant fathom them as sexual beings because theyre old and already had “enough sex” Paris Hilton voice ᵀʰᵃᵗˢ ʰᵒᵗ

Seriously his character was so flawed I am not sure how he got past editorial.
Maybe hes that Night Fox dude from Oceans Twelve and very good at parkour, I seriously could not handle his tantrum about Trixie wanting to rent that space, No, that lovely womanowned coop was not the culprit behind Mama Hazels lack of success, Maybe your unwillingness to change and intense pigheadedness were to blame, Curiosity killed the cat Well hubris killed the fucking VIBES of this book, His pride was unmanageable and intolerable,

Also maybe instead of hating gluten free and vegan restaurants, try to offer some alternative options at your restaurant to counter them Also tell your damn sister about the restaurant troubles and dont make her go to college if she doesnt want to.
Or maybe just move to Antarctica and go bother some penguins, Andrearctica has a lovely ring to it, Further, maybe get a community grant or something because giving out free meals from a restaurant that has no money makes no sense.
Its a lovely tradition but there will be no meals if you go out of business,

He needed to stop trying to be fucking Fixit Felix and just keep to his damn self, He had an opinion and overreaction for EVERY little situation and person he thought he was “helping” when he just wasnt listening to what they wanted.
He left Trixie in New Orleans because he thought he knew better than her, I absolutely hate it when someone makes decisions for the other because they “know whats best, ” Patronizing to the max. Also him leaving was literally so pointless and solved nothing and was RUDE,

Bonus: Xaviers poem Im sorry but my god that was painful,

The sex was hot yeah but there was so much wasted potential, Plus it would have been severely hotter if Id have actually liked Andre and wanted him to thrive, Trixie wanted to be the one in control but it wasnt all that hardhitting or explored to the lengths it could have been.
Plus with the amount of sex toys mentioned the fact that they only used one was criminal, Well one and some weird lube that seemed terrible idk idk,

The writingespecially the dialoguewas stiff, repetitive and very unnatural at many moments, Dont get the audiobook. So many of these issues were exacerbated by hearing them out loud, I ended the audiobook at,x speed and I could comprehend it alldo with that what you will, I had more issues with Andre than the overall written book but coupled together this was kind of a disaster.
I didnt care about much of anything or anyone and wanted it to be over,

Overall, this book did not spark joy,

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.s deducted because fuck Andre, man, I dont want him getting lucky, .