Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Julia Kent - Fluffy review and excerpt


Release date:  April 30, 2019
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer:  Hang Le
Editor: Elisa Reed
Audiobook narrator: Erin Mallon

An all-new STANDALONE from New York Times bestselling author Julia Kent

It all started with the wrong Help Wanted ad. Of course it did.

I’m a professional fluffer. It’s NOT what you think. I stage homes for a living. Real estate agents love me, and my work stands on its own merits.

Sigh. Get your mind out of the gutter. Go ahead. Laugh. I’ll wait.

See? That’s the problem. My career has used the term “fluffer” for decades. I didn’t even know there was a more… lascivious definition of the term.

Until it was too late. 

The ad for a “professional fluffer” on Craigslist seemed like divine intervention. My last unemployment check was in the bank. I was desperate. Rent was due. The ad said cash paid at the end of the day. 

The perfect job! 

Staging homes means showing your best angle. The same principle applies in making a certain kind of movie. Turns out a “fluffer” doesn’t arrange decorative pillows on a couch.

They arrange other soft, round-ish objects.

The job isn’t hard. Er, I mean, it is — it’s about being hard. Or, well… helping other people to be hard.

Oh, man…

And that’s the other problem. A man. No, not one of the stars on the movie set. Will Lotham – my high school crush. The owner of the house where we’re filming. Illegally. In a vacation rental.

By the time the cops show up, what I thought was just a great house staging gig turned into a nightmare involving pictures of me with an undressed naked star, Will rescuing me from an arrest, and a humiliating lesson in my own naivete.

My job turned out to be so much harder than I expected. But you know what’s easier than I ever imagined?

Having all my dreams come true.

Buy links:

AmazonUS: mybook.to/fluffy
Nook/BN: bit.ly/2CGtnBE
Apple Books: apple.co/2RmE159
Google Play: bit.ly/2COKLmQ

Audible: adbl.co/2KRgFGR


Goodreads: bit.ly/2TjDjqS 
Bookbub: bit.ly/2ThoLrZ



My Review

Fun, sweet, funny read! Poor Mal, while she was super smart, she didn't get some things. And they were important! Life hasn't been treating her kindly and she's found herself at the bottom of the barrel, not to mention has the attention of the boy in high school who captured her heart. This book was laugh out loud funny and swoony. I was captured by Mal and Will. They had to get to know each other as adults and the attraction was palpable. This was a unique, fast-paced story and I couldn't put it down! Be sure not to miss this read.

Author Bio:

New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Julia Kent writes romantic comedy with an edge. From billionaires to BBWs to new adult rock stars, Julia finds a sensual, goofy joy in every contemporary romance she writes. Unlike Shannon from Shopping for a Billionaire, she did not meet her husband after dropping her phone in a men's room toilet (and he isn't a billionaire). She lives in New England with her husband and three kids in a household where Julia apparently is the only one who possesses the gene necessary to change empty toilet paper rolls.

Social Media Links:

Website:  jkentauthor.com/
Newsletter:  bit.ly/2PIBi9n


Keywords and Themes:
Reunion romance
Second chance romance
Romantic comedy
Office romance

Excerpt:
Do you use the proper terms for everything, Mallory?” He makes an inarticulate sound as I peel the gauze off the cut, wiping gently. “You call your pretty place a vulva, right? And you use the word vagina.”

'Pretty place'?”

He shrugs.

And yes, I do. Vulva and vagina. And then there’s the clitoris,” I say primly.

What’s that?”

What’s what?”

A clitoris. Never heard of it.”

I freeze and look down at him. Bright eyes meet mine. Is he serious?

The clitoris is a nerve cluster above the opening to the vagina,” I begin, taking a breath to continue my impromptu human sexuality lecture, because when a man tells you they don’t know what a clitoris is, you educate them immediately.

For the sisterhood. All the women Will is going to sleep with from here on out will thank me later.

He starts to laugh. I’m so tempted to pour the small bottle of isopropyl alcohol directly on his wound, but I’m a kind, compassionate woman, so instead I dab it on with a swab.

OW!” he bellows.

Sorry.”

You’re not sorry at all.”

I’m sorry for your sex partners that you have no idea what a clitoris is, Will.”

I know what it is. And my tongue knows how to find one. Blindfolded.”

Why would you blindfold your tongue?"

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