A single dad, an underwear model, a baker, and baseball-loving former boy band member find love with four fun, incredible women in this compilation of the first three books and a spin-off from Pippa Grant’s Copper Valley Bro Code romantic comedy series.
I finally finished all 4 stories! In case you missed it, my review of Flirting with the Frenemy is here.
Flirting with the Frenemy is a rollicking fun romantic comedy featuring a single dad military man, an irritatingly attractive blast from his past, pirates, cursing parrots, and a wedding gone wild.
America’s Geekheart is a rockin’ fun fake-dating romantic comedy featuring a billionaire fashion mogul who got his start modeling underwear, the geeky girl next door with a secret the size of California, and more superstitions and secrets than you can shake a baseball bat at.
Dirty Talking Rival is a deliciously fun friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy featuring a smooth-talking baker, the one who got away, and a goat with more matchmaking tendencies than a nosy old grandpa.
Liar, Liar, Hearts on Fire is a competitively fun office romance between a single dad obsessed with baseball, an heiress with secrets, baseball pants, a rundown team, and rabid ducks.
All four of these romantic comedies stand alone and come complete with swoony happily-ever-afters. They’re presented in chronological story order for the best reader experience.
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Remaining reviews:
America’s Geekheart
Though the premise of this one is a little silly–how incompetent do you have to be at social media to publicly send a message to an account your sister follows instead of DMing your sister?–this was a really cute rom com. Sarah and Beck are all kinds of cute together (once she’s over the whole wanting to eviscerate him for making her go viral, at least–though even before that they were really fun) and I loved that even once their relationship had veered into “real” territory from “fake” that she didn’t let him get away with anything, no matter how charmingly he smiled at her.
Most of the time, anyway 😉
Though she never did stop wearing his branded underwear, even though she kept threatening to–apparently, it’s just *that* comfortable.
America’s Geekheart is the second in the Bro Code series and connected to the Copper Valley Fireballs and Copper Valley Thrusters series, but it can be read as a standalone. Many other characters from Copper Valley play roles in Sarah and Beck’s story, though, and don’t you want to know every single detail of their stories too?
That’s what I thought 😉
Same narrators, and once again they did an absolutely fabulous job. 10 out of 10, no notes!
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A-
Dirty Talking Rival
Though I wasn’t the biggest fan of the whole “we have to pretend to be enemies for the publicity” aspect of this book–especially the part of it when they had to keep their relationship secret to benefit their businesses(?!?) I did appreciate the chemistry between Grady and Annika and the ending was really satisfying. And of course seeing all the series characters here again is never a bad thing.
Though be warned–there’s a whole lot of talk of baked goods here. Don’t read when you’re already hungry 😉
The narrators did a lovely job of reading this one–they definitely kept me listening even when I was aggravated with the characters themselves.
Rating: 3 1/2 stars / B-
Liar, Liar Hearts on Fire
This one was a re-read for me–zero complaints, because I loved it the first time too.
I read this the first time during the pandemic (and I work with the public and it’s once again cold/flu/Covid season), so it was still hard to really be critical of Tripp’s hand sanitizing, hand washing obsession felt pretty on point to me. I get why it was a problem, but is it really?
But I digress.
Did I love Tripp a little more because of his slavish attention to personal hygiene? Maybe. Honestly, though, with how much he loved and took care of his kids, family, and friends I was always going to be a goner for him. Plus he’s a prime example of that troupe that I’m seeing more (but not enough yet!) of–the widow/widower who had a perfectly lovely previous relationship and manage to find love again after. (His first wife died from the flu–and his baby girl almost did as well–which also felt a bit too close for comfort, in today’s environment. But you can’t argue that it’s not realistic.) It’s a good thing that Lila is a more than worthy match for him (and, I guess, that he’s fictional…), otherwise I might have been tempted to take her on and get him for myself.
But I loved Lila too! Her secrets had secrets (and the doozy took me completely by surprise! Even on the second read, as I didn’t remember all that many details from the first time around. There’s been a lot of books in between) but it’s hard to argue with what a wonderful person she really is beneath all of the prevarications, and of course she and Trip are absolutely perfect together.
Once again the narration was absolutely on point for this one—even if I had remembered more about the story from my first read through I wouldn’t have minded at all listening to them read it to me a second time. And I can absolutely see myself listening to it a third or fourth time as well 🙂
Long story short: Read this book. It’s an enemies-to-lovers, workplace romance, single dad (with the most Adorable. Kids. Ever.) romance that will make you laugh, make you cry, and only occasionally make you want to throttle a character or two…but in the end it will make you smile an absolutely goofy, this was so good smile.
Rating: 4 1/2 stars / A
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
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