THIS BOOK WAS ADORABLE. Throughout the whole story, you could tell how much Hannah and Fox cared for each other. The banter the tension everything about this book was so good. Huge thank you to net galley and the publishers for letting me read this ARC.

If you like friends to lovers this book is for you!! It was so well-paced I could not put this book down especially at the end. (Speaking of the end... THE EPILOGUE WAS SO ADORABLE IT MADE MY HEART MELT.) This book had everything emotional heartbreaking moments, steamy and romantic moments, and just overall adorable moments.

Seriously this book had me on an emotional rollercoaster and I loved every minute of it. Definitely recommend :)

As I turned to the first page of this book, I realized that it was a sequel to It Happened One Summer. I thought that would make the beginning hard to understand without the missing pieces. However, one chapter in and I was hooked. Bailey did an exceptional job with vivid descriptions of the town of Westport. I read this book in a day but I still found myself having to take breaks because I felt like I was in the scene with these characters and invading their privacy. I give this book 4.5 stars because it was a telling story about how the toll harsh assumptions can take on a person. Now I am excited to read about Piper and Brandon's love story!

Thank you @netgalley for sending me this e-arc! 🙌🏼

I think I may love Hannah and Fox's relationship more than Brendan and Piper! Brendan still has my heart but Fox and Hannah are so perfect for each other! I loved reading about their love.

Again another perfect summer read! I was rooting for them the ENTIRE time, since the first book. I also think that this is something to think about when people judge men so quickly! Fox is a good representation of that and I'm glad that people and himself, started to see who he really was and who he could be!

I also wanna just be best friends with Hannah. She seems like the most down to earth and cool girl! I'm so glad she didn't give up on Fox or herself. It also shows that a couple doesn't have to give up the things that they love individually just to be together! I love that she became this badass successful woman! 5🌟

Holy fucking shit. Christ. Really? Is it even legal for a book to be tooth-achingly sweet and mind-blowingly heart wrenching at the same time? Is it? Because if not, someone needs to stick the Feds on Tessa Bailey as soon as humanly possible.

Hook, Line, and Sinker is the eagerly-anticipated follow up novel to Tessa Bailey's sexy, Schitt's Creek inspired rom com "It Happened One Summer"—only this time, Piper's cool, music-loving sister Hannah Bellinger takes the driver's seat as our irresistible leading lady. When her current film project moves to film in Westport last minute, Hannah finds herself crashing with Fox Thornton, local flirt and maybe possibly also Hannah's best friend. While they've built an earnest and genuinely endearing long-distance friendship over the last 6 months, both Fox and Hannah find it increasingly hard to deny their electric attraction to one another once they finally see each other in person—even while they both obstinately try to convince themselves that they are "just friends." Yeah, right.

At the risk of spoiling too much ahead of time, I'll stop at this but y'all. Y"ALL. This book has everything we love.. Slow burn romance? Friends to lovers? Sexy love interest with secret pain? Genuine emotional moments between two people who love and trust each other desperately, but are too terrified of letting the other down to say it out loud? Oh, and a panty-melting car fucking scene? Yes, yes, yes, yes and oh god just like that don't stop y e s. I adored "It Happened One Summer," and will be the first to admit I was hesitant that this book would live up to that expectation but holy shit—it actually fucking incinerated it.

This book was an absolute delight and I'm itching to get a hard copy in my hands as soon as possible. With a delightful mix of wit, charm, angst, romance, and adding an extra 4 million points for that sucker-punch of an epilogue, Hook, Line and Sinker earns a...non-numerical rating, actually. This books feels like listening to You're Still the One by Shania Twain in your car in the pouring rain. Just try it, you'll see what I mean.

ARC received from Netgalley.

Oh my! The conclusion to the Bellinger sisters did not disappoint! I am a sucker for Friends to Lovers and I knew throwing Hannah and Fox into the mix was going be good. I related to Hannah so much in this story. This “supporting” cast star of It Happened One Summer struggles with being a “leading-lady” in real life? Seriously it felt like Tessa Bailey pulled my deepest emotions out of me and put them on paper.

I absolutely loved going back to Westport. The fact that they there was the element of so much music and film references was just infinitely better. Plus getting to see Piper and Brendan, Opal and so many more people was so great. I’m sad the Bellinger sisters are over but this confirmed that Tessa Bailey is an instant buy for me!

Hannah and Fox have a friendship. A completely platonic friendship. They text almost daily and haven’t seen each other in a few months. They met when Hannah and her sister relocated to a small crab fishing town in the PNW for the summer. Hannah works as a production assistant on a movie set and gives the director - who she has a deep crush on - the idea to move the location to Westport. The director runs with the idea, but why is Hannah all of a sudden nervous to see Fox again.

Fox was a goner for Hannah the moment they set eyes on each other last summer. So when he finds that she’s coming to Westport and will most likely be staying in his guest bedroom - he’s excited. The bond that Hannah and Fox share is special to him. And he wouldn’t do anything to mess that up. So what if half the town thinks that he’s a manwhore, as long as Hannah believes in him - it’ll be okay. But the closer these two are in each other's presence the more they want things that might end up hurting their friendship. Are they willing to take that chance?

Oh, how I loved Fox and Hannah. From the very first pages with their sweet back and forth text messages I was a goner. Their friendship was so sweet and vulnerable and I loved how they slowly - oh so slowly - became more than just friends. The relationship was never one sided and the way they balanced each other out was always perfect.

I felt Hannah and Fox’s insecurities. Imposter syndrome is real and most of us feel it on a day to day basis. But the support that they both got from their friends, family and most importantly from each other made them stronger and I loved the journey both of them took to get there.

Hook, Line, and Sinker is definitely one of my favorite Tessa Bailey romances. I feel like she does friends-to-lovers so well. So if you’re looking for a book that will put a silly grin on your face, make you feel some angst and have you swooning - definitely pre-order Hook, Line, and Sinker!

Oh, how I love Tessa Bailey books! Hook, Line, and Sinker was a fantastic read with some steam, some romance, a great soundtrack., and totally relatable and loveable characters.
I am rating this book five stars! Fox Thornton, a king crab fisherman meets Hannah Bellinger, a PA for a film producer meet in a lovely fishing town. They are friends and grow their friendship via songs of their days and texts while Hannah leaves to head back to LA. Hannah’s next film assignment brings her back to the fishing town and she stays with Fox and their relationship grows during their time living together. I just loved Hannah’s patience with Fox’s issues with himself and his self-worth. They were such a lovely complement to each other.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

I adored this book. You never know how a second book is going to go in a series and I think I loved this one even more that It Happened One Summer. I loved Hannah in the first book and was dying to see how her story would be and just fell even more in love with her and Fox. I love their characters and their growth. I was so happy with the communication and how Hannah made it happen. It's one of the best books I've read so far this year.


Thank you to NetGalley and Avon/Harper Voyager for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

**Thank you HarperCollins publishers for providing this ARC through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All quotes are taken from the ARC and are subject to change.**


“ I didn't know what right felt like until you, I’m holding on to the good you give me. I'm holding on to you”

The banter, the chemistry, the conversations, Fox and Hannah have that all consuming attraction that we all dream of finding one day!

Tessa Bailey has a way of pulling you in, she is the queen of feel good romance! Opening a Tessa Bailey novel and immersing yourself in the word she has created always feels like a warm hug or a cool breeze on a hot summer day. You never want to leave the comfort of the pages. Finishing any book by Bailey is always a bittersweet moment, knowing that you have to leave these characters behind and go back to the real world!!

I love this book so much, because often in life or in romance novels the female character is always the one with these insecurities that people deem ridiculous. Like does he want me for who I am and not just for my body? I am just a pretty face with no substance? Will anybody ever take me seriously? And in this book the roles have been reversed, and the male character is the one dealing with these insecurities and the way they work through it as a couple is absolutely astonishing. His pain is valid because men have feelings too! They are taught from a young age that men don’t cry, that they can’t be sensitive and that is toxic masculinity at its finest and in this book Tessa Bailey just destroys that frame of mind.

Hook, Line, and Sinker, is friends to lovers done right! Thank you Tessa Bailey for reminding us that we are all the leading ladies in the movie that is our lives which is why I’m rating this book a 5/5! By far one of the best romance novels I have read this year

Hook, Line, and Sinker is #2 in Tessa Bailey’s Bellinger Series.

HL&S follows LA rich girl Hannah in a friends to lovers romance with king crab fisherman and “playboy” Fox. Hannah met Fox the previous summer while keeping sister Piper company during Pipers banishment to Westport, Washington and state friends via text. Fox had been warned by best friend Brendan (Piper’s fiancé) to stay away from his future sister in law Hannah.

This book was AMAZING! I love alternating perspectives in a rom-com so I can get inside the male leads head too. Learning more about Fox was everything I wanted and seeing how Hannah handled it was inspiring. This one has so much steam mixed with so much backstory plus a lot of music references. I laughed, I cried, I made a playlist.

Both books were wonderful, but HL&S was definitely my favorite of the two. I was so invested in watching Fox evolve into a good man and seeing badass Hannah become the leading lady she always dreamed of. I could go on and on, really. This book was perfection. ❤️

Forget to mention there’s an epilogue featuring a moose 😂.

Thanks so much NetGalley for allowing me early access to this great read. I’ll definitely be preordering a copy.

Tessa Bailey really delivers in her sequel to It Happened One Summer. This is a fun and sexy, friends to more romance. Hannah is the quiet sister. The one who is never the star of show and happy to be on the fringes. Working as an assistant on an independent movie she suggests filming in the small fishing village where her sister now lives. She ends up staying in King crab fisherman Fox Thornton's spare room. They became friends last summer when her sister fell in love with Fox's fishing captain.

Fox is the local hot stud. He is handsome and has always gotten girls without trying. But it makes him insecure wondering if he is worthy of something real. He is happy to help Hannah pursue a work crush but is less confident when attraction flairs between them. For me Fox was one of the best characters written as he demonstrates that all that masculine boys talk and encouragement can have negative effects. The communication is open and honest between Hannah and Fox and it is delightfully refreshing. They trust each other as friends and it is natural to progress to more. His concern that her reputation will be tarnished by his past is something not brought up much in contemporary romances.

I really love and understand these two characters. Hannah's love of music and her continually making playlists is a plus for music loving readers. I was also happy to catch up with Bailey and Brendan from IHOS. This can be read as a stand alone but to get the beginning of the friendship between the two MC's you need to read the first book. The epilogue is a wonderful bonus too. Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for an ARC ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I read this too quickly, but Tessa Bailey is too much a master in the contemporary romance genre. Her characters always feel so alive, grounded, and hilarious. Banter doesn't feel stuck on a page, but directly pulled from the funniest person you know. Although Piper is a radiant heroine, I did enjoy her quiet, loyal sister Hannah. Her imposter syndrome felt real, and although Fox was wishy-washy beyond compare, I wasn't bogged down or taken out of the story at any point. Hannah will inspire you to stick up for yourself and the people you care about more. This will definitely be a yearly reread for me.

This is much more of a slow burn than I'm used to with Tessa Bailey! This book follows Hannah and Fox, who we met in It Happened One Summer. After Hannah went back to LA, she and Fox continued to send some flirty texts, but they kept telling themselves they're just friends. When Hannah comes up to Washington to work on a movie set, they have to reckon with their in-person relationship and what that's going to look like. Just friends or more?

Hannah and Fox are held back from each other by their own insecurities about how everyone perceives them and the identities thrust upon them. It took a lot of the book for them to work this out though. They both were able to see each other's true selves though which was really sweet. But I didn't feel as connected to them as Piper and Brendan in It Happened One Summer which made the slow, slow, slow burn difficult for me.

This didn't have the same steam that the rest of Tessa Bailey's books have though and it comes much later in the book (like about 70% in!). That said, when it's steamy, it's steamy, and I can appreciate that.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the ARC.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5 stars

I didn’t think Tessa Bailey could top It Happened One Summer, but she did. Obviously I was excited for this book because I just read it about 8 months before the release, but I have no regrets. I was invested from page one and I. Was. Obsessed.

This book tells the story of Hannah, Piper’s sister, who dreams of making film soundtracks. She forms a friendship with Fox, who has a well-known reputation as a player. When Hannah returns to Westport to film a movie, she stays with Fox and realizes he is not anything like he seems.

So Fox is a giant cinnamon roll and I LOVED him. This had the sweetest friends to lovers storyline full of banter and a healthy dose of angst. I could not put the book down and swooned along with Hannah. I love the town of Westport and how it was just as prominent in this story. Hannah was an excellent main character and I already miss her, Fox, and the whole gang. Basically, anything Tessa Bailey writes, I will love. All the stars.

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Full review to be posted closer to release date.

Thank you to Avon and Netgalley for an Advanced Readers Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. This was the perfect, light hearted summer read! The characters were relatable and you couldn't help but root for this friendship to blossom into a romance.
This book was told from both perspectives so you are able to really delve into the characters and understand their motivations. It made the romance feel deeper.
I also really loved the small town by the water setting where everyone knows everyone. It added another dimension to the story that felt quaint and warm.

THANK YOU Netgalley and Avon for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

THIS BOOK. I really enjoyed It Happened One Summer, but THIS BOOK sjafbskjdfbkas. I loved it 100 times more than IHOS. Fox and Hannah's relationship is literally everything you could ever want from a friends-to-lovers story.

I really loved how we got to see their friendship form and bloom. I feel like some people don't like the friends-to-lovers trope because it can feel like the author is telling you they are friends without actually showing you. Not the case here at all. You're shown from the very beginning that these two are friends, and that theme is repeated throughout as the characters navigate their personal struggles with each other.

One thing I LOVED about this book was the way the characters COMMUNICATED with each other. There were many moments throughout this book where it would have been easy to see the characters keeping their thoughts/feelings to themselves, but instead they openly communicated with each other. It's amazing how much more you can enjoy a story when the characters don't shy away from open and honest communication.

If you loved IHOS, I guarantee you'll love this one too!

(Note - while this book can definitely be read as a standalone, I highly recommend reading IHOS first as that sets the stage for Fox and Hannah's friendship.)

i had no idea i was going to be so lucky to being able to read this book so early, but reading it so close to it happened one summer has made the experience amazing. i have to begin saying that tessa bailey has written a perfect duology for me. these books are perfect and i will never get over piper & brendan and hannah & fox. they will remain at the top of my favorite book couples forever.

this book has squeezed my heart since the beginning. it’s extremely emotional, and in a very different way from it happened one summer. i have expressed a thousand times how much i love piper and brendan, but hannah and fox made a place just for themselves inside my heart. hannah is the sweetest, loveliest girl. and she is the main character she never thought she was. she’s considerate and caring, always showing the people she cares about her unconditional love. that’s big main character energy, and she deserves all the love everyone gives her back.

fox thornton, aka the love of my life, i had no idea what was coming for me. what we see of him in the first book is just the tip of the iceberg. what’s underwater is big and beautiful, but also heartbreaking. my heart was in constant pain for him, but that made this story even more rewarding. this book carries an enormous lesson: being scared doesn’t make us unloveable. fox is one of the most beautiful characters i have ever read about.
hannah and fox have the most beautiful souls ever, and they found each other thanks to music, which makes me love the story even more. in fact, there’s one of my favorite songs that kept coming to my mind while reading this book: this life by edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes.

as i mentioned at the beginning, the bellinger sisters has become one of my absolute favorite series. i know this review comes extremely early and when relase date comes, i will be posting it again as a reminder, but i needed to share how much i loved these books right now.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 Thank you to Avon, NetGalley, and Tessa Bailey for a free copy of Hook, Line, and Sinker. This book comes out March 1st.

I knew after reading Piper’s book, It Happened One Summer, that I wanted to read Hannah’s book! I really enjoyed this book!

Some of the things I loved:
💫 Witty banter and 🔥🔥🔥 romance
💫 A unique fishing town setting
💫 That epilogue😍
💫 The male characterization of Fox. His story really breaks down a male stereotype, and how we can believe what we hear at a young age. One of the most interesting and well written male characters I have read in romance!

This is a standalone book. Although for better character reference, I would pick up It Happened One Summer!

This was my first Tessa Bailey book and I really enjoyed it, I thought it was an easy read that was perfect for summer. The characters in this novel were so loveable! This book is written in dual POV so we get both Fox and Hannah’s perspectives which I loved. Friends to lovers isn’t usually my favorite trope but I absolutely loved it in this book, I think it was very well written. Fox and Hannah’s relationship progressed so nicely and naturally throughout the book (but verrry slowly). They work through their many insecurities about themselves and their pasts, but they do so together and it made this a very emotional read but exciting to see them heal and grow along the way. I think their insecurities really added to their depth as characters and made them seem real.

I wish that we saw more sisterly interaction between Piper and Hannah, but overall this was the perfect cute, steamy summer read. I could not put this book down and I would have finished it in one sitting if I had the time! I would recommend this book to anyone who loves forced proximity, friends to lovers, or slow burn tropes. I will definitely be reading anything that Tessa Bailey writes after finishing this book!

Thank you Netgalley and Avon and Harper Voyage for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

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Tessa Bailey does it again!! After absolutely adoringggg It Happened One Summer I knew I wanted to get my hands on this one ASAP and let me just say, I lovedddd it!!

If you like friends to lovers, then this is the book for you. I'm not always the biggest fan of that trope because a lot of the time I don't understand why the couple isn't together from the very beginning, but I really didn't have an issue with it in this one.

At the beginning of this story, Hannah comes back to Westport for work and needs a place to stay so she ends up staying with Fox, her friend that she met in the first book. Gotta love a good forced proximity trope.

It's interesting that while the first book had a lot of firey chemistry and banter, this book was much more of a slow build, which felt raw and incredibly realistic. But don't get me wrong, it's still a Tessa Bailey novel so it still had lots of spice and tension.

There was also some great commentary on masculinity and how people can respond to being inappropriately sexualized. As Sarah MacLean would say, she really took the finger with this one!!

I have always liked Tessa Bailey's work, but after these two books, I have decided that I will basically read anything she puts out next.