You've Got Hate Mail by Pippa Grant
Series: Accidentally Infamous #1
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Romantic Comedy, Small Town Romance
I should’ve worn underwear that day.
I’d have far less hate mail in my inbox. I’d also still have a job.
But I didn’t wear underwear. And I had a wardrobe malfunction on a livestream.
So now I’m the proud owner of the internet’s most famous… you know.
The good news? I’ve been invited to hide from my sudden infamy at a closed winery with other women who’ve suffered their own five minutes of shame.
The bad news? The winery has a live-in handyman.
A competent, compassionate, patient, sexy, single dad handyman.
Whom I met when I punched him in the face.
Accidentally, of course. But I still get why he’s happy keeping his distance from me.
But when we find out the winery that’s saving my life is in danger of foreclosure, he and I become accidental partners.
No big deal, working with a guy that I’m falling harder for each day.
I’m already the internet’s favorite punching bag. Why not add an unrequited crush to my life?
But what if it’s not unrequited after all?
This book contains toxic family and references to bullying, suicide, abuse, and the off-page cancer death of the hero’s first wife several years before the story begins.
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Cricket became internet famous in the worst possible way. One slip causes her to hide in shame and that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the things she endures. Pippa Grant does an amazing job tackling bullying (both online and in the real world because some of the adult’s parents in this book need to be smacked), shaming, and humiliation. Those are things whether online or in the world that can be so hard to deal with.
Cricket, like many of the women at the vineyard, has faced that and is now trying to recover while hiding away from the world. No judgement at all. She needs time to recover and regroup and that is what she is given. Enter Heath, the vineyard handyman and single dad who has overcome his own sort of internet disaster as well as a real world one.
He is everything you would want in a man and I love how patient he is. What is most enduring is how he never sees himself as the others do. He thinks he is making mistake after mistake. However, Cricket only sees all the ways he is different from her own parents in how he is raising Lavender. Life has left its marks on both of these people.
The romance is a slow burn but as much as I enjoyed the romance part of this book it was the connection and all of the other characters that finally made me understand why readers mark all the pages of their books. If you could see the number of texts and passages I highlighted in my kindle you would laugh.
The whole book had me laughing so hard. Lavender steals every scene she is in. She is a six year old with the vocabulary of an eighty-six year old. The fact that she gets into trouble at camp for dressing like Aunt Pip too often says so much. If you read this book for no other reason, read it for Aunt Pip.
She herself is a bit famous or maybe it’s infamous and the reason why will have you spitting out your coffee. She is proud of it too. She owns who she is and I swear I want to be her when I grow up, although maybe a little more well once you read you will know what that more is. She is hands down the best side character ever written!
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