Chase Me: A Broke and Beautiful Novel (Broke and Beautiful)

by Tessa Bailey

• ISBN10: 0062369059
• ISBN13: 9780062369055
• Publish Date: 17 March 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: eBook
• Pages: 304
• Language: English

Reviews

[Cocktails and Books]

This Tessa Bailey story is light hearted with many laugh out loud moments. Roxy Cumerland is a struggling actress living in New York. She needs money desperately and is willing to do just about anything to earn it, even agreeing to wear a bunny costume and sing for the sixty bucks someone is willing to pay her for a singing telegram. On her first assignment, Roxy meets Louis McNally, a young, attorney enjoying his carefree bachelor lifestyle. He’s a nice guy and even though he comes from a wealthy family, I was impressed with his altruistic motives for becoming an attorney. He does a lot of pro bono work and wants to help as many people as he can.

From the moment Louis sees Roxy in her bunny costume, he can’t forget her and does everything in his power to spend time with her. Louis pursues Roxy, but she keeps pushing him away. She likes Louis, but wants to keep things light. For the first time his life, Louis wishes a girl wanted more. Most girls want a commitment and now that Louis has finally found a woman he really likes, she is commitment averse. Roxy is different from all the other girls Louis has known. She’s tough, independent, hard working and vulnerable. I enjoyed this playful, sweet story and it was fun getting a behind the scenes look at the life of a struggling actress. This is the first book in the Broke and Beautiful series and each on is a stand-alone.

Reviewed by Karen for Cocktails and Books

[leelu92]

Louis McNally the Second is officially on my list of Book Boyfriends.  It's true!  I've always trusted Ms. Bailey's writing abilities, even when she writes in genres that I've had less than stellar experiences with.  But you know what?  I learned something this week about the New Adult genre this week.  While watching a Spreecast with Katee Robert and Tessa Bailey this week, she clarified a really great point about the New Adult genre - you can see the video clip- HERE. This conversation completely clarified how I felt about the genre and why I love and loathe NA.

First, let me say that this is not a crazy, angst- ridden self-involved new adult book.  Thank God for that.  Chase Me is so funny and so sexy and I loved all of the characters that Ms. Bailey introduced.  Louis and Roxy have incredible chemistry from the moment Louis opens his door to Roxy standing there, dressed as rabbit, ready to deliver a singing telegram.

Roxy is a tough chick.  I really like her, she busts her ass in order to follow her dream of being an actress and she doesn't want to take favors from anyone.   Enter Louis, who when we first meet him, he comes off as a manwhore.  I mean, the singing telegram is from the chick he slept with the night before! But, he really is a good guy and that becomes clear not that long after he and Roxy meet.  While he certainly shared one  of Bailey's trademark leading man traits- DOMINANT, he wasn't overbearingly so.  Quite frankly, he was downright endearing and he just stole my heart.  Of course, the sexytimes between Louis and Roxy are ridiculously hot.  Duh.

Oh and just wait until you meet his sisters!  Crazy.

This is the first book in the Broke and Beautiful series and we are introduced to the rest of the B & B crew.  Roxy's roommates Abby and Honey, Louis's friends, Russell, and Ben.  Luckily, we don't have to wait long for more of Ms. Bailey's brand of funny and sexy new adult books, Need Me (Honey and Ben's book) releases 4/21/15!  Yaa!

 

Her sarcastic bubble burst over her head when the door swung open, revealing a guy.  A hot-as-hell guy.  A naked-except-for-unbuttoned-jeans guy.  Being the shameless hussy she was, her gaze immediately dipped to his happy trail, although, on this guy, it really should have been called a rapture path.  It started just beneath his belly button, which sat at the bottom of beautifully defined ab muscles.

 

 

 

 

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This review was originally posted on Straight Shootin' Book Reviews