Lyric and Lingerie
Wow!!!!! I don't think I have laughed out loud at a book as much as this one. Having been a Tracy Wolff die hard fan since I was first introduced to Ethan Frost...Ahhh....Ethan Frost... Sorry lost it there for a moment. I was really looking forward to reading this self pub by her and Katie Graykowski.
Lyric and Lingerie was flat out amazing. I could not put it down. I was actually upset when I had to stop so I could drive home from work and as soon as I was able to get the kiddos fed I was right back in my comfy spot finishing this book.
Lyric Wright is a astrophysicist who lives in Hawaii. She is brainy and quirky. The perfect nerd girl. We first meet her standing at the security checkpoint at the Honolulu Airport in 6 inches of fabric one may or may not call a little black dress and mile high leopard print red sole heels. She was suppose to be at her company's satellite launch party, hoping to shock her ex fiancé who left her for a hula dancer slash astrologer into regretting leaving her. Not standing in line getting ogled by passengers waiting to board flights. Having received a emergency phone call from her sister telling her, her father has a had a heart attack and is in the hospital. She rushed to the airport to get on the last flight to Dallas with no time to change or grab a bag. Getting eyed strangely by the security personnel, she attempts to stop fidgeting long enough to get through the metal detectors.
Here is where the lingerie begins. While walking through the metal detectors the machine goes nuts. The Agent Provocateur corset that is pushing her double d's up is causing the machine to go off. This gets her the standard "please step over her ma'am." Knowing that she is already running late and going to miss the last flight out she begs them to let her through, but only thing that does is slow them down. After being patted down and finally approved to get through. She runs as best as she can in her skin tight fabric and Louie's. Arriving at the gate she learns that it is too late and pleads with the attendant to please let her get on the flight, he agrees and lets her take off running for the tarmac. While the gain-way is rapidly pulling further and further away from the planes open door she makes a drastic yet not so graceful ballerina type leap toward the opening to not only have the 6 inches of fabric she calls a dress rips, but to face plant into the doorway of the plane.
Here is where we meet Tre. The Flight attendant that will make you laugh out loud.
“Nice shoes, Wonder Woman. Is there a dress to go
with them?” With a roll of his eyes, the flight attendant
turned and yanked open the drawer beside him. “This calls
for duct tape.” He eyed her. “Lots and lots of duct tape.”
Having realized that her dress was now hanging from the doorway and she was all but hanging out of her corset and nothing else. Did I mention that she thought going commando was a good idea.
Thank God she’d sprung for the full Brazilian bikini wax-Lyric
Thanks to Tre, the flight attendant with delusions of couture, she was now the proud wearer of a one-shouldered tube dress in duct tape silver. Or as Tre had called it, Luminous Steel.
Problem solved right? No not so much. When she finally is able to make it her seat and who oh who is beside her. All she sees is a newspaper covered person trying to hide out like he is in the witness protection program. Tre returns with a blanket to cover her and then asks if she wants anything else. Asking for water, he informs her that she has earned more than H20. Brings her a basket full of assorted liquor. Thinking that this might be the best way to make this 8 hour flight bearable and to try to forget the day. She asks for a cranberry juice. His response was and I have to admit this is one of my favorite passages in this book.
“Great idea. Give your liver a vitamin infusion before hitting the hard stuff …
like breaking the fall from a ten story building with a pillow.
Just for fun, I’ll bring you some tomato juice too.
I’d hate to have to slap your forehead later because you coulda had a V8.”-Tre
Finally meeting her mystery newspaper neighbor. She is shocked to see that it is Heath Montgomery. The boy that was her next door neighbor growing up, and also the boy that took her virginity and then called her by her twin sisters name. Now would be a good time for that forehead slap coulda had a V8 moment. Twelve years and still it stung.
"Heath is an …” she made air quotes, “‘old friend’ who was in
love with my twin sister but couldn’t tell us apart when it mattered.”
At this moment you wanted to hate the cocky NFL superstar bad boy. I wanted Lyric to tell him off. .
When issues arise that cause delays in landing, Lyric starts to panic and this is where Heath starts to redeem himself. He becomes her savior, her friend all over again. When she tells him that her father is ill and in the hospital. He wants nothing more than to be there for her and the man that took him under his wing as a boy. Heath decides that Lyric is what has been missing from his life and wants to hang on to her and try to repair the relationship that they had lost years ago, Still not fully understanding why Lyric turned her back on him all those years ago, he knows the best way for him to do this is to stay by her side while she deals with her fathers illness.
There is some major craziness in this book and I loved it. Crazy cars, crazy wedding planners, a mother that Lyric can never live up to, a twin sister named Harmony that is identical on the outside and poplar opposite on the inside, and a father that loves Lyric just the way she is and thinks the sun rises and sets on the hometown hero Heath Montgomery.
This love story is the second chance love story that we all love. Falling in love with the boy next door. Mistakes were made in the past and trust can be earned again and the HEA is worth it.
I can't wait for the next book in this series.
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Blurb:
From New York Times
Bestselling author Tracy Wolff and International Bestselling author Katie
Graykowski comes a sexy tale of love, laughter and lingerie …
Lyric Wright is an
off-beat astrophysicist whose life is falling apart around her. After losing
her fiancé to a hula dancing astrologer and losing her dress to an ill-fated
leap of faith, she’s sure there’s nowhere for her life to go but up. At least
until she sits down on a trans-Pacific flight next to the one man she never
wanted to see again—the boy she’d lost her heart and her virginity too back
before she’d learned that friendship and football don’t equal true love.
Broken down
quarterback Heath Montgomery is on a plane ride to nowhere. Dodging the phone
call he’s certain will end his professional football career for good, he might
be Texas bound, but he knows there’s nowhere for him to go but down. But that’s
before his childhood best friend and confidante plops back into his life
wearing nothing but duct tape and a bad attitude. Determined not to lose her
again (especially since he isn’t sure why he lost her the first time) and
desperate to outrun his own shadowy future, Heath sets out to take Lyric on the
ride of her life. Too bad she only dates men who actually know what her
butterfly nebula is … and can find it without the help of a star chart.
Add in one
passive-aggressive flight attendant with delusions of couture, a cherry red car
with a crush on Neil Diamond, an over-protective sister with a black belt in
Krav Maga, two parents determined to marry their spinster daughter off to the
hometown hero no matter the cost, and a whole lot of lingerie popping up in all
the right places at all the wrong times and you’ve got an unforgettable love
story that fans of Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Rachel Gibson won’t want to
miss!
