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HOT MESS LOVE (formerly titled BOINK'D) - A Contemporary Romance Novel

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#Schzammy-Fabulosa! OMG this book! Every single person needs this book in their lives... The world needs these kinds of sweet-adorkable-belly-laugh-inducing-lighthearted-romantic-dirty-sweetness-like-everything-good-in-the-world-all-rolled-up-in-a-Fantastic-rom-com-book.

I loved Conchita and her inner mind snarky brat. When she meets a man with a sexy British accent at the sweet shop she works at, her life is about to get a lot more complicated. Especially when her brother-in-law Harvey gets her a another job at BOINK, a struggling sex toy company as the social media manager. Conchita is perfect for this job since she is one of Boink’s biggest customer and a social media whiz.

Christopher Griffin or “Studlandia” as Conchita nicknames him is handsome, sophisticated, sexy, and has a sexy British accent. He is taken by Conchita and her refreshing, uninhibited, daring, and impulsive personality. But as these two try to have a one night stand life keeps tormenting them by keeping them apart. When Christopher has to return to England he keeps pursuing Conchita.
These two are spontaneous, passionate and so right for one another. But what will happen when Conchita finds out that her new man crush0 is her biggest arch enemy?

Warning!! Please be very careful eating or drinking anything when reading this book. Sudden hilarity may cause a choking hazard. Cheesy, snarky, crazy, sexy comments can be extremely sexy and dangerous! #Love-it!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thought and opinions are my own.

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Absolute cheers for a great ending. Fun rom-com overall. 4.5 stars
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There were a few things in the story that really got to me. Boink’d is written with a YA style but the characters are late 20s and 30s – I trying to remember. It was fine with Christopher’s character but Conchita got a little out of control.

The story is a fun rom-com with great characters. Conchita lives her life on her terms. She even had her own alter ego in the book. Bit strange sometimes. LOL

She was given a dream job in social media and took it to the max. That meant hashtag sayings were #SprinkledThroughoutTheEntireBook!

While it’s part of the humor of the story and her great sense of snark, it was extremely distracting to have so many. 99% of them I skipped over.

In the beginning of the story we were kind of tiptoeing around trying to get these two together. However, it was the last third of the book that really turned the story around for me and brought the goods.

I adored Christopher. His sense of decency, emotion, and his incredibly talented bedroom skills really made the story what it is. Spicy!!

Hawthorne worked hard with the story. It certainly shows through her fun loving and careful crafting of two great characters that truly were made for each other. It’s definitely a story that you will want to read again and again.

I can see why Hawthorne is a much loved contemporary romance author. Fun stories with hot connections that seem like your friends. Boink’d is a perfect example!

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Review from NetGalley

I received a free, advance copy of this book and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

Ah sex toys, who can't get enough of them. Conchita is offered a job helping to bring a Sex Toy Company called Boink'd into the twenty first century by using her social media expertise to help bail the company out. What she doesn't know is that the man she becomes attracted to after one night of sex after a couple of tries that is, is the same man who is going to close it down.
Christopher is an American who was raised in Britain, he finds that Conchita is the one he never thought he would find.
Neither of them ever thought that marriage was in the cards for them. Working through everything that is thrown at them they finally see a happy ever ending for them. You will love Snarky Brat and all of her comments too.

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I read tons of Romance, some Erotica and, some Romantic Comedy. This is the first Erotic Romantic Comedy I've ever read and, I'm SO GLAD!!!!!
This is a story about Conchita, a woman who refuses to keep any job for long because, she's not good at staying with things, until she becomes, by accident, the Social Media Director of BOINK, a sex toy company, that is fast going under until she comes on board.
Christopher is the owner of BOINK and, is about to shut them down because, they have lost money the last 3 years.
Conchita decides that she is going to bring this company back to life on her own. Even after she meets Christopher, the first man in a long time that she has immediately fallen in lust with. Problem is that she has no idea that Christopher is the owner of BOINK and, Christopher has no idea that Conchita is the new Social Media Director of the company that he is going to close.
This Hilarious Romp is just the kind of read you need to make you smile, laugh and, fall in love with two bull headed people who are never going to end up with the real thing, ie: LOVE======Or, will they???!!!
I absolutely LOVED reading this book and, you will, too!!!!

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#FunAndFlirty #Hate2Love #HotAndSteamy

This was an extremely contemporary book which brought in some of the fun of social media. Parts of it reminded me of that hilarious hashtag skit on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon where Jimmy and Justin Timberlake go back and forth talking in hashtags. In this book, the heroine of the story is named Conchita and she works part time at a Candy store, but her brother in law Harvey gets her a second job working at a sex toy company named Boink that is behind on the rent in a building he owns.

He thinks Conchita can help their business by being the social media director. She takes to the job immediately, posting all over various sites with pictures of their products and funny hashtags. However after only a few days she hears from the company’s owner that the man that backed them with the funding, Mr. Griffin, is closing things down. Conchita pictures a stuffy old dude, so she starts to hassle him by tagging him in all her posts and calling him names like #CrustyBalls.

Conchita and Mr. Griffin end up in bit of a social media war. Little does Conchita know, that Mr. Griffin is the same guy she met as Christopher at her candy store job and she has been flirting with him and is planning to go out with him when they can align their schedules.

The book has some really funny parts and when Christopher and Conchita discover that they have been having an online war with each other, the story really starts moving forward. I genuinely liked Conchita, she has this inner voice she calls “Snarky Brat” and it is Snarky Brat who thinking all of these hilarious hashtags and funny nicknames even when she doesn’t happen to be posting online. She calls Christopher the Earl of Studlandia because he is British and she has a ton of names for herself.

The romance between the two main characters is super hot. Snarky Brat comes up with plenty of awesome hashtags to prove it. Conchita gets a pug puppy from Christopher and names it Mr. Barney Snuggles or Mr. Snuggles for short, because that is the kind of person she is. I have wanted a pug puppy for quite a while, so I was extremely jealous of her (yes I do know it is crazy to be jealous of a fictional character), but everybody goes a little mad sometimes, right?

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Conchita irked me with her constant hashtags every few paragraphs. I was about to give up on this book because she was a lazy and immature slacker. I finally powered through to the end and it appeared to me that the ending was much better than how it started. Christopher had to be a saint to put up with her constant silliness. I voluntarily read this book via NetGalley for my honest opinion.

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The attraction between Conchita and Christopher is instant when they meet at the sweet shop she works in. The same day Conchita gets a job offer to work as the social media director for an women's intimate accessories store website, the same company that Christopher plans to stop funding. Will Conchita be able to convince him otherwise?
I absolutely loved the banter between Conchita and Christopher when they both are unaware of each other’s role in the company, Boink. It was witty and hilarious. And their chemistry is super hot. For two people not looking for anything permanent I liked the fact that they didn’t really fight they connection. Boink’d is a fun and smexy read, that I immensely enjoyed. My only suggestion would be a little less #tags.

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What a cute, adorable, and fabulously funny story! I absolutely loved Conchita as a heroine. She was super sassy who had no shame. She owned her sexuality and spoke her mind. She was refreshing.

Her hashtag thoughts were perfectly timed and brought great amusement to this story. Her twitter war with @crustyballs had me rolling. And...this girl had a sex toy shrine. #bowtothequeen

Oh Christopher, what a British hottie you were. As hot as you are, you may have been outshined by your lover, but that's ok. You have an awesome accent and you are a billionaire. Enough said. Ok, I liked him more than just as Conchita's loverboy. Their first encounter was smokin, and all the sexy times after? even hotter.

I get such a kick out of a playboy falling helplessly in love for the first time. Especially when they own it. This couple was such a treat. They were open and honest with each other while still having some mystery to uncover. They had fun and played as a couple. That's a rare gem.

This was funny, sexy, romantic, and a dash of seriousness. I highly recommend!

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Kindle Copy for Review from NetGalley and French Kiss Press LLC.

I received a free, advance copy of this book and this is my unbiased and voluntary review.

This is about a romance comedy about thirty something girl in something meets a guy looking for a one night stand. But things end up being more as they end up combining their work and personal relationship into a string of missteps.

Can they sort through their situation in order for their no strings relations to be more than just a sexual hookup? It’s a typical rom com with sex innuendos.

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Mmmm this book was ok I guess just not really for me?! It has waaaaay to many hash tag little cutesy one liners in it that for me it interrupts the flow of the book to much! It was funny here and there but just didn’t flow like I like a book too?! Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!

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Conchita just got a new part-time job doing social media for an adult toy company ... and the same day she meets Christopher. Christopher is a billionaire Brit who has come to America to deliver some bad news to a company that he has been floating for 3 years ... an adult toy company. Can Conchita save her new job? Will she be able to convince the Krusty old Brit to re-invest?

I liked how Conchita and Christopher didn't know who each other were ... because they acted so differently in person and by email. I just found all the hashtags distracting from the story ... I know it's because she was a social media expert, I just found it too much. Otherwise the story was a cute, sexy and funny romance.

I received an early copy courtesy of French Kiss Press through NetGalley in exchange for a hones review.

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