Take Me Home by Lorelie Brown

Take Me Home
by Lorelie Brown
Pages: 110
Date: November 7 2016
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Series: Belladonna Ink (2nd in series)

Review
Rating: 5.75 out of 5.0
Read: August 31 2016


How do I wait until November 7th to put up a review? mmphs.

Okay then - I'll just put notes here for now. Then.

Keighley and Brooke, sitting in a tree, kissing. Wait, there were not trees. hmms.

Keighley is 23 and an accountant. Brooke is somewhere around the same age and a tattoo artist. Book is from POV of Keighley.

A week and one day before Thanksgiving, Keighley is both looking forward to and cringing from the family gathering that will occur on Thanksgiving day. Because it is the all family party day. And while she loves her father, mother, and sister (17 year old Sierra), she doesn't particularly like her cousin Trisha, and especially doesn't like her fundamentalist aunt Daphne.

After asking her mother if they could just not invite Daphne and her side of the family, and becoming resigned to the idea that they will be joining the party, Keighley decides to get a ringer. Well, that's the word that would be used in a sporting context, not sure what to use here. Using a ringer is liking having a 'friendly' amateur competition between two companies, and one brings in a professional athlete and pretend that athlete is an employee. In this specific situation, Keighley decides on bringing a date to the party - a fake lesbian girlfriend. To thrust in the face of Daphne.

An advertisement on Craigslist is spotted. Pink haired tattoo artist ad - 'Feeling hemmed in by parental expectations? Are they disappointed by your sapphic proclivities? I can help! The only pay I want is the holiday meal!' Keighley contacts said artist, who goes by the name of 'Brooke', and a deal is struck.

There's some family events, dogs, angst/drama, meals and drinks, and lots of sex.

Kept on the edge of the seat I was. I couldn't stop reading. I gave the first book I read by Brown 6 stars. I want to give this one the same, though I can't really. While we learn a ton of information about the two main contestants in this game of pigeon (okay, I couldn't think of what to put there), but still, book is super short. Still, I'm on the edge of putting it on the six star shelf anyway.