Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey

Fix Her Up (Hot and Hammered #1) by Tessa Bailey, 400 p.

"Georgette Castle’s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven’t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she’s over it. Georgie loves planning children’s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She’s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World... whatever that means.

Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.) Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?) Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)

Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn’t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody’s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that’s for sure. Maybe if people think she’s having a steamy love affair, they’ll acknowledge she’s not just the “little sister” who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite?

Travis Ford was major league baseball’s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he’s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can’t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his… bat. And then there's Georgie, his best friend’s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme—that they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job—he agrees. What’s the harm? It’s not like it’s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there’s nothing fake about how much he wants her..."--Goodreads blurb

This was a fun little read. I like to read easy romances as a "palette cleanser" between big series, and this was just the ticket. Story was fun, though not a huge amount of plot. Tessa Bailey is a great contemporary romance writer. 

 

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

 

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare - 346 pages

Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning.

Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who are desperate to make Kettle Springs great again, and on the other are the kids, who want to have fun, make prank videos, and get out of Kettle Springs as quick as they can.

Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until Frendo, the Baypen mascot, a creepy clown in a pork-pie hat, goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to cull the rotten crop of kids who live there now.

For those that like action and a little bit of gore this book is for you.  I really liked that this book didn't fit the typical horror story, it is absolutely different than every other horror book.  There are twists and turns that will make you put the book down and say "Whaaat?"

Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare

 

Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare - 406 pages

Set a year after the first book, it looks at how the surviving characters are dealing with fame and infamy when a new threat, wearing an old clown mask, reaches out to upend their lives.

How are Quinn, Cody and Rust handling things a year after the massacre that forever changed their lives?  Things are going well until a new threat enters.  What harrowing ordeals could they possibly go through next?  

This book was just as good as the first Clown in a Cornfield.  The action, the drama, the gore; this book has it all. 

MSCHMITT--- Circus Train and the Clowns by Adria Klein 31

MSCHMITT--- Circus Train and the Clowns by Adria Klein 31

The Circus train has arrived in town and it has brought a colorful bunch of clowns for a big a top show.