This wasn't bad. I had swore off Tessa Bailey books because of her writing style and how cringy her s&x scenes were, THEN she decided to put out a murder mystery and I love stuff like that. I decided to give her a second chance.

nah tessa bailey really handed me a book that has every trope i loved and thought she could get away with it ✋🏻 ps - idk who told this man he has heartburn, sweetheart I think your heart burned near Taylor because of love, not INDIGESTION put those antacids away!!! 😭 when i started adding popular books to my tbr - i put basically half of (the evil side of) tessa bailey's collection on my library request list. i regret this everyday. I´d take a bullet between the eyes before I raised a hand to you, Taylor. The fact that you have to spend a second in pain makes me want to die. Are those the kind of words you´re talking about?" I s2g if Jessa Kane actually sat down and tried to write a full-length book - it would be this, this quote literally confirms Misha's theory of JK being TB for me 🤣

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myles summer (H) meets taylor (h) when she discovers the body of her temporary landlord in the vacation home she was renting. myles was hired by the victims brother-in-law (also myles’s friend) to investigate the murder. i'd immediately call the flop police of this town on him. it also makes sense that he's an ex-cop. (i refuse to elaborate but iykyk)

Myles could've been super hot and those 🌶🌶 scenes could've been really good but it was overshadowed by how bad their encounters were. I felt soo awkward reading them. I couldn't even appreciate the steamy scenes as much as it deserved. On a hunch, I'd go with no, but I'm a practical person who's also a closeted dreamer, and I like to think we're all redeemable, somehow. I don't think it's a bad story, I didn't dislike it, but when you close the book and think of what you’ve just read you realise it wasn't that good. Myles is not that hot and Taylor is a caricature of the classic good girl. Jude chokes and I jump to my feet, prepared to perform the Heimlich maneuver.❞ - the more I read tho the more I just fell in love with her, please this is the funniest thing ever and reminds me of my mum who thinks if I sneeze/cough once = covid 😭See, this could've been something if the murder mystery was the only thing going on, but the romance had to ruin it.

We are so happy to present to you… the ‘My Killer Vacation’ Exclusive Mortal Edition, brought to you in collaboration with Piatkus ( @yourswithlovex) and @tessabaileyisanauthor! Look, I loved It Happened One Summer and so I expected some of that Tessa Bailey brilliance to shine through. Instead, I was met with a super cringey heroine who didn't know when to shut up. Do I like the insta love trope? Not really but what was happening here, it was too much too soon. At points I was like, hang on - they've only known eachother for like half a day 😆😆😆 Seriously, I can't. When she found the dead body she didn't panic, she used her intuition and found some evidence, she put herself in Myles's path and forced him to notice her (although she didn't have to try very hard, her bikini top and shorts did all the talking), she took control of her own sexuality and demanded Myles to show her what it's like to have the type of sex she dreamed of. She never once pushed Myles to change instead, she allowed him to open his own eyes and dream of more! Not to mention this girl was comedy gold, I just loved her with my whole heart. Work it tight, baby. Baby. Perfect for me. Jesus Christ. Don’t you ever get hurt on me again. Don’t you ever.”

Our heroine is second-grade teacher Taylor Bassey, who decides to take her brother on a beach vacation to cheer him up after his favorite panda (from the panda sanctuary he works at) dies of old age. Okay, this part I did love, lol. We had some good side characters, like her brother. He was a great non-stereotypical gay character ( I hate when authors write a gay character to be extra gay. A guy who knows everything about clothes and nails and uses annoying language.) No, her brother was just a random cool guy who happened to be gay and I respect that.