Review: Runaway Girl by Tessa Bailey

BLURB It’s Naomi Clemons’s big day. Her dream wedding. And she’s outta here. One moment. A chance meeting of gazes through the church window pane with someone familiar who radiates intrigue. Independence. It’s the final push Naomi needs to realize...she’s boring. A blonde, cookie cutter, well mannered trophy wife-to-be. How can she expect to lead a fulfilling married life when she’s never lived? Special Forces diver Jason Bristow needs a beauty pageant coach. Not for himself—although the tattooed bruiser could definitely use some charm. For his little sister who he has returned to St. Augustine, Florida to raise. When a beautiful southern debutante lands on his doorstep, she awakens a hunger that won’t be ignored. If only she wasn’t planning on winning back the ex-fiancé she left at the altar… Despite the potential for ruin, heat continues to build between Naomi and Jason beneath the sultry Florida sunshine, consuming them both. But they’re on borrowed time…and it’s about to run out.   

MY REVIEW: 

After reading Getaway Girl, I fell in love with the little town of Charleston. And ofcourse with Addison and "got junk in the trunk" Captain DuPont. I have read all of Tessa Bailey's books, but Getaway Girl was something special. When I found out that Naomi (the woman who left Elijah at the altar) was getting a story I wasn't sure whether to be excited or to be apprehensive. I didn't really want to read about Naomi, I'll be honest. Nothing in the previous book had shown me anything promising about her character.

But ofcourse there are two sides to every story. 

Runaway Girl sucked me in straight off the bat. What made Naomi Clemons runaway from her fairytale wedding to a little town in Florida? What made her ditch her comfortable life? And more importantly what's keeping her from going back? 

I was surprised how much I felt for Naomi. She was a grown woman, but she'd never really lived her life. Her mother had been controlling her every move, and just before she's walking down the aisle,  she realizes that she doesn't love Elijah. Not because he's not a good, honourable man, but because she doesn't even know him. Hell, Naomi Clemons doesn't even know herself. I sympathized with her plight, and was rooting for this sweet, confused girl to figure her shit out from page one. 

Now, the thing that I loved the most about this story was Jason. Jason Bristow. Special Forces Diver. Giant man extraordinaire. 

Jason is trying to raise a teenage sister all the while juggling a million other responsibilities. He's trying to help his blue haired, ripped leather toting sister do the one thing she wants  to do: take part in a beauty pageant. Jason is to his core a Tessa Bailey hero. He's a good guy, who when he meets the woman he loves sees no one else. And Jason and Naomi together? The brash, tatooed diver, and the sweet southern belle? FIREWORKS.

And the dirty talk? Let me tell you, this is one of Tessa's best yet.

If you love grumpy, sexy, men and sweet women, with bucketloads of sexual tension thrown in, along with some smoking hot sex, this is the book for you. 

Five stars. 

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