I liked Tessa Bailey's Fix Her Up, but I LOVED the sequel Love Her or Lose Her. Even though Rosie and Dominic should be living their HEA, their marriage is struggling. Somehow, they've stopped communicating and Rosie's had enough. Dominic's committed to do whatever it takes to fix their relationship and make Rosie's dreams come true. Their story is moving and will resonate with couples trying to keep the spark alive.

This was a second chance romance about a married couple facing misunderstandings due to a breakdown in communication. The story line was believable & I felt for both of the characters from the get go! Dominic & Rosie had fierce chemistry which made for some steamy scenes! Some of my favorite parts were when they were trying to connect outside of the steam, in an attempt to get back to where they had once been! Love Tessa Bailey’s Alpha males, and strong heroines!

Thank you to the publisher for an Ecopy via NetGalley

Rosie and Dominic's book is real and special, and really special. They aren't perfect, either together or apart, but this story about how they find their way back to the love they always had for each other IS perfect. It's also not predictable, and that makes it all the much better! I can't recommend it enough!

I was nervous to read the follow up to Fix Her Up because I really liked it but OMG Love Her or Lose Her blew that right out of the water for me!! This book was such a fun and STEAMY read, whoa. The was their sexual chemistry is written is so fantastic, you can feel it. I can't wait to read the next book in this series! Will definitely be buying myself a copy of this book when it comes out!

This was a quick and enjoyable read. Like a lot of couples, Dominic and Rosie have become complacent in their marriage and for too long have been running on auto-pilot. Rosie is fed up and decides to do something about it which makes Dominic wake up, take a good look at what has happened and recommit to their marriage. There is a good message here that reminds all of us to not take our spouses for granted. This is the story about how Dominic and Rosie find their way back to each other and make their marriage better than it has ever been. Pick it up! You won't be disapointed.

This is Rosie and Dominic book, they are high school sweethearts, best friends, and the chemistry between them is off the charts!! But they’re definitely going through a rough time lately! Dominic is a great provider but the man Rosie fell in love with is nowhere to be found! When her friends talk her into taking what she wants for a change, she decides to demand more out of her marriage! She goes with: marriage boot camp! She knows her husband will never go! But Dom surprises her and agrees to meet with the weed smoking hippie! I was really surprised how much I liked this book! I kept putting it off because I really don’t like reading about already together couples I usually enjoy that first meet-cute feeling but Tessa really put a great story together here! I highly recommend reading this one! Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!!

Such a heartbreaking story with some bits of happiness. It was kinda hard to read because of the tone of the book. Just the sadness in the words make you feel it all.

I really liked this book!
I felt like I knew what decisions the characters would make, and how they would react to other people's choices! I felt like it picked up where the other book left off. I liked how it showed how relationships change. The book could have also been a stand alone, but I liked reading it after Travis and Georgies book. I loved the continuation of Travis and Georgie’s story in this novel!! I loved their book and the only thing I didn’t like was that there was no epilogue, and they kind of got an epilogue in this book! I love when authors continue the story of other characters in the background but they don’t mess up the previous characters happily ever after they just give you a glimpse into the future! Overall, this book showed a real relationship, and how your own baggage can impact your view of the relationship! Go Dominic and Rosie!

Love Her or Lose Her is the second book in Tessa Bailey’s new Hot and Hammered series, preceding Georgie and Travis’ hilarious love fest.
We are reintroduced to the uncommunicative, married-since-high-school, never-been-on-a-date-with-anyone-else duo Rosie and Dominic who are at the end of their 10 years married rope. Writing a romance story about a troubled marriage is never easy, especially considering that reading about couples falling in love for the first time is mostly a magical experience. It’s not only new and exciting for the couple, but the reader as well.
In Love Her or Lose Her Rosie has finally had enough of her silent partner’s mute existence and tells him she wants out. Dominic is devastated by Rosie’s confession, he thought their life was filled with contentment as he provided for her and she never complained. To Rosie’s surprise, Dom puts up a fight for her and she responds with couples therapy. Rosie and Dominic’s story then proceeds their counseling sessions and rebuilding of their relationship.
I liked that Rosie and Dominic found their voices with each other again and showed that your love story doesn’t have to end after saying I do. I find myself leaning from sappy, over the top finales in romance, therefore I rushed through the end because of the overt sentiment.
I did enjoy seeing the affianced Georgie and Travis with their ups and downs; Bailey also sets up Bethany’s love foil in Love Her or Lose Her in cowboy Wes to whet your appetite for more in this series.

I received an ARC from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

I love this series! Fix Her Up was so good and I couldn't wait to get my hands on Rosie's story. I'll be anxiously waiting for Bethany's story next.

This is the second Tessa Bailey romance novel I've read, the first being "Fix Her Up," the first novel in this series. I enjoyed that one well enough, although I did have issues with the male lead being quite controlling. Unfortunately, that continued into this second book, too. I was intrigued by Rosie and Dominic in "Fix Her Up," so I was looking forward to their own story. I do appreciate that Bailey featured a Latinx couple and made frequent mentions of their culture throughout (plus, the cover!!). It was clear from the synopsis that this was going to be a "marrieds overcoming issues" trope, which isn't my favorite usually because so often the issue is that the husband is way too controlling. Dominic is that husband. Everything he did was because "he knew what was best for Rosie," and using intense sexual chemistry as an excuse for such behavior does not work for me. I liked Rosie as a character a lot, particularly her independent nature, and I wish we had been able to see her take more control in the story.

I did think the marriage therapy sessions and emphasis on learning how to communicate with one another were well done. But it would've been nice to read an interaction between the two of them that didn't always include how they wanted to jump each other's bones. I don't mind dirty talk at all, but sometimes it's just too much!! It would've been nice to see some more banter and communication between the two of them that didn't always involve sex. I also realized another issue I have with Bailey's books is that the secondary characters are quite...silly. The humor doesn't land for me and the "humorous" antics the characters go through just feel over the top and cliche.

Overall, I thought this was an okay romance novel and addition to the series. Would recommend for those interested in reading a more explicit, alpha-male type romance read with some slow-burn.

I enjoy Tessa Bailey and I liked this book. The sex was scorching and I enjoyed the married couple angle. It was a little cliche in parts but overall enjoyable. Thank you to netgalley for the ARC.

YES! When I saw this in my email, I may have screamed a bit! I have been waiting for Love Her or Lose her since we got glimpses of Rosie and Dominic in Fix her Up. Married couples are one of my favorite tropes, and Tessa knocked this out of the park. Tessa is one of my all time favorite authors, so it's no surprise that I loved this book. Dominic was a broken hero, but his love for Rosie was perfection. These two together brought some very hot moments. Tessa always delivers on sexy times in her books, and she definitely brought it for these two. Wow, they were hot and the chemistry was off the charts. I loved this book, and definitely a favorite of mine by Tessa.

I was waiting and waiting for this!! Please tell me that you started with the first book, you have too and you will love it. This book was Dominic and Rosie, I have to say I loved Dominic more than Rosie in this one. Dominic and Rosie have been together forevah but have stopped talking to each other, they barely knew each other anymore they only had good sex (yeah I know there is no only) so Rosie decides she has had enough. In a last ditch approach they go to a marriage counselor and they start re-discovering themselves and that I liked because Rosie was blaming everything on Dom until she realized she was also to blame. I loved the previous characters, Trevor and Georgie were so cute, I can't wait for Bethany's and Wes's story I am imagining that that is going to be off the charts, I have to say that in the book it was the guys who were the funniest and I was excited when they would get together they were literally the best times in the book. I didn't like Stephen in the last book but he totally won me over with this one his wife Kristin, yeah I still don't like her, I find her selfish and feel she treats Stephen like crap, even her reasoning didn't convince me...Enjoy!

Maybe I've been reading too many 'meet-cutes' lately, but I was absolutely refreshed by this story. Rosie and Dominic Vega are soulmates, high school sweethearts, #relationshipgoals... until they're not anymore. Ten years in love and these two are in need of a relationship rehabilitation. This is their story.

I received an ARC from the publisher and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Love Her or Lose Her was my first married couple romance and, I'll be honest, I wasn't sure how it was going to go. Weirdly, it ended up with me wondering about my own marriage and analyzing the way my relationship with my husband works. Not exactly the outcome I expected from a romance novel, but not entirely unwelcome either. Let me explain...

This book wasn't perfect, but that's because the characters weren't perfect. I think I was crying ten pages in and frantically texting my romance-loving friend about how ridiculous I was being because the characters were fighting. And not, like, sexy pre-sex "I'm pretending to hate you" fighting. Like, really fighting and breaking up and I wanted to curl up in a ball and toss the book against a wall.

So it was weird. Instead of the relationship starting hot and heavy and ending with some drama Love Her or Lose Her started with more drama than I could handle and ended with warm fuzzies. A backwards experience, to say the least, but I didn't hate it.

Rosie and Dominic are a typical Tessa Bailey couple. They love the dirty talk, they have fiery tempers when challenged, and they are entirely devoted to each other. The passion was off the charts but, despite the fact that the hot sex is usually my favorite part of Tessa Bailey books, I found myself flitting through the sex scenes to get to the parts where Rosie and Dominic were working on their relationship outside of the bedroom. So weird. Especially for those who know me. And I loved that it wasn't just Dominic who needed to appreciate Rosie more (like I thought it was going to be), but rather the two of them who needed to work on loving each other more which was much more exciting than watching Dominic grovel for an entire book (which probably would have just made me feel bad).

The therapist was, minus a few good points, absolute shit--I have my doubts about his credentials--but some of the things he said struck home in my own relationship and weirdly have struck a match in me to put more effort into my marriage. Rosie and Dom were fictional characters, but the struggles they experienced were more real to me (as a married woman) than the issues that characters in romantic suspense or historical novels have ever faced. So...if there was any part about this book I didn't like, it was just that it made me uncomfortable with the reality that I've gotten too comfortable in my marriage. Sorry, if that's too much... but I think that's why the book was such an emotional read for me (so be warned married peeps).

People might not like this book (in fact, I've read a couple of reviews to that effect), but I think that's because it's different from what we might have grown to expect from the explosive-sex, plot goddess Tessa Bailey. It's just as good, but in a different way. And I didn't mind it one bit actually, but I already knew that it was going to be a divergent from her usual stuff.

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For so long I haven’t read so sweet, meaningful, poignant, emotional, romantic book pushed me make so much” awwww” sound, fill my eyes with happy, smiley tears, warm my heart, ring into my ears a lyrical, hopeful love song and give me the biggest reason to do my happy dance (as a change I mixed my Travolta-Beyonce moves with Swayze, Despicable me minions-Rosie’s imitation with her mouth fulled with marshmallows inspired me- and walk like Egyptian moves by creating weirdest dance type on the earth!)

My final decision giving this book 5 stars (4.5 rounded up) I unhappily cut my half star because at some parts stubbornness, blindness to see her husband’s affection levels of Rosie made me pissed off and earned her small and quick slaps, strong shakes on her shoulders!

It was one of my quickest read. As soon as I saw my email and check out my NetGalley shelf, I saw this shiny, beautiful book winks at me and calls my name and I was drawn into it mumbling: “Your ppppreeeciousss!” like Gollum finally found her ring! So I started to read and cut my connection with the outer world, hired private chief to cook for us and waiters to serve my Chardonnay and send the bill to my sister in law who is banging on the door now as I pretend not to hear that by listening death metal at maximum volume! So my isolation and focusing on book problem are automatically solved.

I loved this couple and Dominic is everyone’s dream husband. He’s loyal, devoted, sexy, passionate, trustable, hard worker and he’s pushing so hard to make his wife happy. Rosie is also adorable and their undeniable, hot, pant melting chemistry as a couple is amazing. They grew up together. As Dominic left her love of his life for serving for his country, their love endured against the war, traumas, long distance, emotional suffering and harsh realities of the world.

But slowly they drifted apart, they lost their dreams, they lost themselves and as they were about to lose each other completely, Rosie felt like she fell out of love with her husband. As soon as she left him, Dominic opened his eyes and realized one more time he made wrong decisions about his priorities in his life and now he was determined to take his wife back even it meant too much groveling or something worst like: ACCEPTING TO SEE A HIPPY MARRIAGE COUNSELOR AND APPLYING HIS UNCONVENTIONAL METHODS TO TEST THEIR MARRIAGE!

So they took a journey to their past to realize how they fell in love at the first place, how they meant for each other and they started to know each other from the beginning. Now Dominic is falling in love with his wife over and over again! ( Dominic’s letter to his wife so breathtaking and tear-jerking, even a robot could start to cry or tear up his metallic pieces to show his sorrow after reading it!)
They danced again. They skated again… They became the high school lovers who fell for each other again…Going back helped them to going forward and planning a proper future for their relationship!

I love those kind of dysfunctional marriage stories as the couples begin to question what they did wrong and slowly when they found out their faults, wrongdoings, they got back together stronger by discovering new truths about themselves and their relationship. So as long as I read the blurb, I knew I will love this book so compassionately.

I didn’t read Georgie and Travis’ book but Bethany and Wes already took my attention because of their witty dialogues and frenemies to friends story theme. So I think I am not gonna wait for 2020 fall to take a piece from their stories. I should read it ASAP!

I already start to add other books of this author on my tbr list. I am specially thankful to her because this year so many good authors was so far disappointed me with the romance releases. Even though this book is going to be released on 2020, it still gave me hope next year is going to be so much better and this author put a big smile on my face with her heartwarming story which I fully appreciate it!

Thanks to NetGalley and Harper Collins Publishers to send me this entertaining, swoony, amazing ARC COPY in exchange my honest review.

YAAASS!!! I CAN'T BELIVE IT! AFTER 6 MONTHS OF READING BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN EITHER 4 STARS OR LOWER (AND A LOT OF THOSE WERE LOWER) I FINALLY, FINALLY READ A 5 STAR BOOK!!!

I was legit at a place where I thought I'd never read a book and fall so completely in love that it would be a 5 star, a perfect read for me. But I'm so, so happy that "Love Her or Lose Her" gets to be the book that broke my 6 month drought.

"Love Her or Lose Her" is about Rosie and Dominic, a married couple who have been together since they were in middle school and two people we met in the first book "Fix Her Up". I fell in love with Rosie and her quiet strength in the first book and reading this book only made me fall more in love with how awesome she is. And Dominic...my god did this guy steal my heart away. I swear, I think I cried no less than 5 times while reading their love story because I just could feel how much they loved each other and the angst of their marital troubles was killing me and I just fell so much in love with them. I needed them to be happy and whole together again but the angst was so deliciously slow burn, I couldn't stop reading and I really didn't want to stop either. This book shows the couple really working to fix their relationship and falling in love all over again, one step at a time. Neither person is perfect and I loved being able to watch them work through their issues both individually and together as a couple. There was never a moment in my mind where I didn't know with absolute certainty that Rosie and Dominic belonged together and were soul mates.

Something else I loved about this book? The DIVERSITY. We have Rosie, who is biracial: Half African-American, half Argentinian and we have Dominic who is Puerto Rican and we get so much details about their culture. It's not just a passing thing where it's mentioned once that they aren't white and never talked about. It's in the details of the way they look, we learn about their families and growing up in a predominately white neighborhood, and IT'S ON THE COVER. This cover means so much to me and the fact that the content in the book matches that just meant even more. I think I can count on one hand the amount of books I've read where both the hero and the heroine were POC and I was incredibly happy that Tessa Bailey added that to this book.

This book also has such great friendship and girl power scenes! We get to see Georgie and Travis being so freaking cute together, Bethany and Georgie and the rest of the Just Us League kicking ass and being so supportive and great together. I appreciate how there is no girl hate in this book and how these women are in each other's lives to life one another up and support each other. And there's also the Travis/Dominic/Stephen friendship which was equally amazing and had me cracking up more than once.

I can't believe that out of the very few books I've rated 5 stars this year, I get to say that not only was "Fix Her Up" on that list, but this book as well. Finally, a highly anticipated read that lives up to my expectations! Fans of this author's books will fall absolutely in love with this original read and fans of romance books will certainly gobble this up!

I was looking forward to reading this book, the description & cover were great but the book was not at all what I was expecting. It was definitely more erotica then romance so I really think they need to advertise that better. The relationship between Rosie & Dominic was confusing and concerning. The author made an effort to make Rosie a strong independent woman but her husband's character was dominating & borderline abusive. I felt a strong woman wouldn't have put up with his behavior and that no woman should think it's ok.

This is starting to become one of my favorite authors and I want her to write faster...lol.
It was so good I was anticipating this one since I finished reading the first one and I wasn't disappointed I'm here for more!