It’s All Sun and Games by Portia MacIntosh
My Rating: ★★★★
Quick Note: I applied for the advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for a review on Netgalley.
About: Robin works in marketing and is going on a big work trip to Italy where the team will fight to stand out and become the boss’s favorite. Robin is looking forward to the chance to win the heart of her co-worker and long time crush, James, and potentially winning against her work rival. As an added bonus, she is finally getting to visit the city where her old pen pal lived and still lives. Except Andrea is not the person she is expecting.
What to expect/tropes:
Fake dating
Childhood friends
Fade to block/Closed door
My Thoughts:This was yet another book I really enjoyed, but it wasn’t my usual type of book (closed door/clean romance). Once I really got into the “meat and bones” of the story, I will admit to a fair amount of cheesin’. The MMC was perfection and the two of them together? Chef’s KISS! They had so much chemistry, it was an absolute swoon. If you want a happy, fuzzy, adorable Summer vacation read with no smut, look no further. If you’re looking for a funny, lighthearted book and have dreamed of Italy and Italian men, you’d like this for sure. I read this in a day and felt zero shame. By the end, I was dreaming of a hot, Italian chef falling in love with ME and was 100% translating the Italian lines (okay those made me blush).
I couldn’t give this book 5 stars because of how much I didn’t like James and wanted to skip the beginning of the story.
