*KINDA SPOILERY*
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late fatherās dive bar… in Washington. Piper hasnāt even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she wonāt last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper canāt do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? Sheās determined to show her stepfatherāand the hot, grumpy localāthat sheās more than a pretty face.
I think Piper was a good mix of delusional and realistic. She lives in a completely different world in LA than when she comes to Westport and she is very much aware of her privilege. Seeing her having to deal with the consequences of throwing that party and being arrested when she obviously thought she could get away with it was satisfying. I really enjoyed the gradual shift in her persona as she became more and more interested in Brendon and finally succumbed to her feelings.
Brendon is everything I want in a guy and more. I love the grumpy/sunshine trope in romance and this couple just encapsulated it perfectly. For a man that is so set in his ways for him to be willing to change all of his routines and patterns to make room for Piper was heartwarming.
This started off so nice and soft that by the time we got to the spicy scenes I was taken aback. This got very steamy and naughty pretty quickly once these two gave in to the temptation and it was fun! No fade to blacks here and the language had me feeling a little warm for sure.
āļø5/5 stars I LOVED THIS!!
Amy Leigh Reads 