DNF Quick Thoughts: It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters #1) by Tessa Bailey

It Happened One Summer

(Bellinger Sisters #1)

by Tessa Bailey

July 13, 2021

Goodreads Summary:

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 father’s dive bar... in Washington.

Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face.

Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.

Review

Unpopular Opinion but I kind of hated It Happened One Summer? Maybe not hate but I strongly disliked the main characters and how cliché the whole story was. Both Piper and Brendan felt very stereotypical. They barely knew each other but were constantly having lusty thoughts about each other. I wanted to see more of a connection between them. It makes me sad to put It Happened One Summer down but at the end of the day, I was just not enjoying the story. I do like Hannah and Fox intrigues me so I may give their book a try.

"I don't try things. If I make the decision to eat the pie, I'll have to eat the whole thing. I don't just go around sampling shit and moving on. That's indecisive." (p. 86)