Love Handles A Romantic Comedy (Audible Audio Edition) Gretchen Galway Tanya Eby Eton Field Books
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The world of fitness apparel isn't ready for Beverly Lewis. She hates the gym, is nice to everybody, and shops at Ross Dress for Less. When she's not teaching preschool, she's wearing yoga pants...to nap in. So when she inherits her estranged grandfather's fitnesswear company in San Francisco, nobody expects her to keep it. Fite Fitness needs a heartless suit to save it from bankruptcy, not a thirty-year-old woman who cries when her students leave for kindergarten.
Someone like Liam Johnson. A former Olympic swimmer, Liam is Fite's executive vice president. Unlike Bev, he's devoted his life to Fite's success. Managing one little preschool teacher - and his attraction to her - shouldn't be an issue. Right?
But Bev's tired of being underpaid and underrated, and refuses to step aside as an obedient figurehead. To everyone's shock and horror, she moves up to San Francisco, sets up an office, and dives into the business. Nothing - not mockery, not exercise, not sabotage, not a disastrously hot night with her aggravating VP - is going to scare her away.
As Liam realizes she's tougher than she looks, he discovers that losing Fite might not be nearly as bad as losing her...
Love Handles A Romantic Comedy (Audible Audio Edition) Gretchen Galway Tanya Eby Eton Field Books
Romance is one of my favorite genres to read and a romantic comedy is usually a good bet. Unfortunately, this book doesn't have enough comedy and romance for that matter. To me, a lot of characters with self-loathing thoughts isn't funny. All families have some sort of disfunction and the ones in this book do too. Again, non comedic and not written in a way that could be humorous like a comedy sketch tv show does. I never laughed or smiled from this book. My least favorite part though is how dry and slow the book is to get the reader hooked. I'm optimistic, like to give the author a chance, so I kept reading and turning the page waiting for something to grab my attention. Around the time that Bev's mom and sister Kate arrive in Oakland, the story gained interest. As for location, the traffic and fog rolling in are traits for most of the Bay Area and Northern California in the Winter. Additionally, the Fite office is in San Francisco as is the famous Golden Gate Bridge. So, the Oakland, CA, location in the title is certainly a push and unnecessary. That's just my perspective as a resident of N. California.I won't be reading more from this series. The characters just aren't interesting enough for me. My preference is to get lost in books, take my mind away from daily life and this book didn't. I found my mind wandering away from the book instead. I give it two stars.
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Love Handles A Romantic Comedy (Audible Audio Edition) Gretchen Galway Tanya Eby Eton Field Books Reviews
2.5 stars for the fact I read it to the end. I had hope anyway.
If I don't like a book I usually stop reading it, and therefore don't rate negatively very often. Very rare I read a book to the end hoping I will like it. As in the case of LOVE HANDLES, I was hoping for a story empowering women. Strong women who can have a career, a love interest, romance, so that is not the problem I find here. The problem is this is a story about a sleaze-ball and woman struggling not to be a doormat,although she makes some gains, she fails in the end. It is a story about how gratuitous grouping, and mutual grasping over property gets mistaken for love, with the dysfunctional family thrown in.
Recently unemployed Beverly Lewis inherited her grandfather's sports fashion business Fite Gear, but she had no intention of keeping it afloat. She was supposed to accept her aunt's offer to buy her shares and sell the company, but a good-looking Olympic hottie and her grandfather's protégé convinced her that she could revived Fite. Everyone at the office were feeling discouraged and unconvinced. It was a You and Me Against the World kind of problematic dilemma that they had to go through, but Bev and Liam were determined to see Fite rise again.
I think I found my spirit animal in this book. Plus sized Bev Lewis may not be the typical gorgeous and sexy heroine we all are accustomed to admire, but this beautiful, big and breathtaking lady surely captivated me with her wit, words, wisdom, and love for food and dislike for exercise. Oh no, don't think of me as a slob, lazy, fat girl, because that's not what I am. I admit I am a little plus size, too, i love eating, but I do jog and run about 5 Kilometers every morning starting at 430am. I still hate exercise though. Never had the patience to try on the elliptical and whatnot. The treadmill is fine, but don't force me to do anything else.
Anyway, back to Bev.. She's often misunderstood and belittled by her own family, doubted her abilities. And I always cringe whenever they deemed her incapable of making big decisions in her life. I love Bev because despite the initial brouhaha she'd experienced, she used it to her advantage and got herself up there proving to everyone that she can.
Liam, on the other hand, was quite the hero he was meant to be, except he faltered when he realized he was falling in love. I love how stubborn he was, how unpredictable and flawed. He was a Olympic swimming medalist, that's for sure, an indispensable executive, but he was slowly drowning in the quicksand because of his feelings for Bev. He won my heart when he began eating Cheetos and got hurt physically fighting Bev's sister. That was awesome!
Now, the mystery that surrounded the story was really unexpected. Broken windows, break-ins, sabotaged presentations, office kerfuffle- all these caused by one person I really didn't expect. I couldn't believe that person was capable of doing such things, and when the truth about its identity was revealed, I was on the floor, aghast and appalled. And here I thought I was already an expert in uncovering secrets and whodunits!
Gretchen Galway really did make me wonder all throughout the story and had me wrongly guessed the person involved in the mystery. Gotta hand it to her! Galway is an enigma herself! Now I can't wait to start on Mark's story next!
i like books with plus size characters. they gave me hope. and it said that the main character is a nice person. i swear, this screams me right here! the only difference is that Bev can take risks. i like Bev's character very true and she really believes in love.
Liam is quite a guy with many flaws, nit dark, normal-people flaws like intimidating, harsh and stuff but a total hottie. i'm not very into how he pursued Bev but then again, that's the reality of it. which is a good thing-bad thing.
i like their resolution as a couple though. a lot more emotional than the physical hindrance in their problem. still cute though
if there's anything i don't like... well, just the story is quite boring... it has a 'been there done that" vibe. but then again this was way back in 2011. and the character growth is there but it felt low.
this is still a pretty good read. definitely something on steamy side but not a lot as i expected.
Could have been a great bookif not for use of the f word and explicit sex . Wish I had k own before I bought it. Plot was good and I hate that I could not continue reading. just heads up for next person.
Romance is one of my favorite genres to read and a romantic comedy is usually a good bet. Unfortunately, this book doesn't have enough comedy and romance for that matter. To me, a lot of characters with self-loathing thoughts isn't funny. All families have some sort of disfunction and the ones in this book do too. Again, non comedic and not written in a way that could be humorous like a comedy sketch tv show does. I never laughed or smiled from this book. My least favorite part though is how dry and slow the book is to get the reader hooked. I'm optimistic, like to give the author a chance, so I kept reading and turning the page waiting for something to grab my attention. Around the time that Bev's mom and sister Kate arrive in Oakland, the story gained interest. As for location, the traffic and fog rolling in are traits for most of the Bay Area and Northern California in the Winter. Additionally, the Fite office is in San Francisco as is the famous Golden Gate Bridge. So, the Oakland, CA, location in the title is certainly a push and unnecessary. That's just my perspective as a resident of N. California.
I won't be reading more from this series. The characters just aren't interesting enough for me. My preference is to get lost in books, take my mind away from daily life and this book didn't. I found my mind wandering away from the book instead. I give it two stars.
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