Merry Ever After by 
Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey is my second Tessa Bailey read of the holiday season and wow. This was not it. I am not sure if it simply because she was given such a short length to work with, or who knows, but this did not hit. It was weird. It felt rushed. It was underwhelming.
There is zero chemistry between Evie Crowe and Luke Ward. He visits her where she works. She gets horny over what a large monster of a man he is. And right then and there, they decide they are in love with one another. There is literally nothing else to it. There is no relating to each other. No real connection built. It’s Luke talking about how he loves his farm and Evie talking about how she’s trying to lead a better life for her newborn. This felt like Bailey was just trying to shove as many tropes as she could in a story that is under 60 pages long with at least a third of that being smut. The ending felt very tradwife and I don’t know. I just did not like this. Could be that I live enough in a small country town now that I don’t want to read about it too. Could be that there was simply not enough substance to warrant smut that felt run of the mill.
I don’t know if I can recommend Merry Ever After by Tessa Bailey. There is a startling lack of romance and the spice is not creative or well written. This is especially disappointing for someone that has been a fan of her prior work. I mean, if you have a size kink and love tradwife life, you might like this. It’s free if you’re an amazon prime subscriber so give it a try but definitely do not pay for this.
