Love Her or Lose Her: A Novel (Hot and Hammered Book 2)

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How it works is that you date someone but also keep lines of communication (and flirting) open with other girls at the same time.

If you’ve been in a relationship with a girl that frayed her emotions and got on her last nerve, then don’t look for a do-over. As the couple drifted apart, they lost sight of their dreams and themselves. Dominic knows he can not live without Rosies and is willing to do anything to bring her home - even seeing an unconventional therapist. I loved their journey to finding each other again and discovering that they both played a part in the unhappy state of their marriage. Bailey did an amazing job of having them wrestle with their feelings of inadequacy and love.

I really liked how they worked together throughout the book to improve their marriage and to realize what had gone wrong in the first place. There was a lot of development and a lot of healing to be made and it all worked out amazingly. Relationships tend to bring out insecurities and self-sabotage, especially because we become vulnerable to someone we care about. This was...I don't even have words. Perfection! Swoony, sexy, and brimming with feels. It was everything I wanted in their story and yet so much more. It could be an unfair accusation, or it could be true. Maybe you were going through a lot on your own as well.

What was with the pet names? I don't think Dom called Rosie by her actual name in the whole book, it was honey girl this honey girl that, and it annoyed me. I know that some people use pet names, but it was in every interaction 🙄 Fix Her Up pretty much blew up in the book community earlier this year. I loved the adorable fake dating romance and was excited to read a second chance romance from another couple in the series! Being a hopeless romantic can be really disillusioning. As a younger man, I would meet girls in passing and desperately wish to talk to them more, only to be too shy, or to do so once there was no time left. For example, at the end of a school year for someone I’d met now and then but never talked to before then…

But one day at a time you can pull through and find that strength and love inside yourself that you never thought you had. Dominic and Rosie have this special place in my heart now because of the second journey that they both go throw and learn more about each other, things that through out the past ten years they both missed about each other. Most of the romance novels that I have read involving married couples, usually basis on the emotional and physical conflict they have together through out the years of their marriage. Though Dominic and Rosie have that semi-emotional conflict happening through out this novel, the physical connection is one that one hundred and fifty percent is not missing! Dominic's possessive alpha male of a character, is one that had me drooling for a papi like him for myself ;)

Your connection isn’t working out and you’ve let her down so much you might as well be an elevator. The love languages. I'm glad the author read about this concept and it's good she decided to put it in the story, but jeeez, the implementation was so clumsy, it wasn't even funny!! Endless explanations - from Dominic, from the therapist, from Rosie - felt like just putting lots of theoretical examples in the characters' mouths; thus the emotions felt artificial and flat. Rosie is done; her dreams have dissolved and she can no longer bear just existing in a loveless marriage. So she finds the courage to leave. One of the biggest signs you’ve lost her forever is that she felt you didn’t appreciate you and got triggered.Side characters became worst nightmares ever. Stephen and his freak of a wife who thought she needed drama in her marriage to be exciting for her husband... Travis and Georgie became some sort of loons. But Bethany was fun. She was the only one who delivered some fun lines here!! So I'm definitely reading the third book about her and Wes.

Re-read 8/27/20: I re-read this in preparation for book 3 and I don't really have much to add to my previous review. Dominic was an alpha male to the max and that just.. doesn't work for me. I still love Tessa Bailey's writing and I'm excited to carry on with the series, but this book is mostly a miss for me. Meh GOD. You guys. I don't even know how to begin to describe this to you. Dom was easily one of my favorite Bailey heroes. He's a little troubled and a lot obsessed with his wife. He's a dirty talking god, even if he doesn't have much to say in his day to day. He's quite, broody and intense. But the man is captivating and practically sizzling with sexual chemistry. Well, I did... And boy, did it disappoint. I mean, Bailey writes hotness like nobody's business, so yeah, their sexual tension was hot. The writing in general was great, but FML, the story was superficial, unrealistic and so over the top, I can't even!!! This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence. Love Her or Lose Her

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Will she change her mind in five years? Who knows, but it is very unlikely, and holding onto love in this kind of a fixated way is unhealthy and damaging to your wellbeing. I can't express how touched I felt while reading this book. This was a second chance romance at its best. It was poignant, it was funny, heart-warming and so so sexy. It was simply magic.