The world’s sexiest firefighter is about to get a second chance with the virgin next door… virgin gamer geek suddenly in charge of running my sister’s sex toy factory. Too bad both are written in my stars.
Yeah, I’m the world’s oldest virgin code-writing nerd.
And he’s the world’s hottest firefighter.
And even though he intimidates the heck out of me, I can’t seem to control my libido when he’s around.
Where is my dignity? My self-respect? My panties?
Seriously…. Have you seen them? Anyone?
Maybe they’re hiding in his bedroom. With my heart.
Yeah, I know. I’m hosed.
So hosed.
Hosed is a steamy, fun romantic comedy between a firefighter and the virgin nerd next door, complete with a pet raccoon, scandalous gossip, and dildo football. (No, really.) This romance has no cheating or cliffhangers, and ends with a banging hot happily ever after.
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What did I just read? The funniest story ever!! When ever I see Pippa’s name on a book, I know I’m in for a hilarious treat! Hosed was just that, hilarious with a bit of a love story mixed in. My absolute favorite character is George Cooney, what more could you ask for in a secondary character. The goings on in Happy Cat, Georgia, just make you laugh, the town is full of gossip, pet raccoons, and lots of sex toys!!! Even some football thrown in. Can we say, pee your pants funny? YES, it is that good.
Loved this sweet and funny read!
OK I love Pippa’s books and this one didn’t disappoint. With Lili Helping with it as well, it added that much more to the book.
However, I’d have to say this book is a bit far fetched, but what book isn’t right? It’s a bit left field with some things happen, but it all comes together in the end.
A racoon who is a pet, who can do things for Ryan and understand him at all times. Cassie is the virgin next door who is covering for her sister from a nasty breakup, who fled to Europe. Cassie is running the Sunshine Toys Factory while she’s away and meets Ryan, again. LOL!
Ryan is the local firefighter, and never got over Cassie, but he doesn’t know that she’s still a virgin OR who is trying to kill her and burn down the factory.
One thing leads to another, and they start talking again, and so many twists which are great! The book is so funny as well!!!
They find out who is behind everything, and catch him with the help of George, the racoon.
My fave quotes from the book
1. “He earned that dildo beating.” – I was on the bus reading and about died laughing at this one. I got some funny looks from people. LOL!
2. Fuck me with a spoon. I should’ve seen the resemblance. – ROFL! I love all the sayings in this book!
3. Though I’m pretty sure I could work up the lingual fortitude to lick several parts of him-repeatedly. – YES!!!! I’m telling you Ryan sounds HOTT!!!
4. in a huffing-and-puffing, can’t-keep-up-with-fit-people kind of way. – This is legit me! LOL!
5. Can I ask Ryan to my Tonsil Hockey Tutor? – This was Cassie after their first kiss!! LOL!!! I loved it!
6. Can I pretty please have your blessing to bang your neighbor? – Cassie thinking about getting her sisters permission, and yep, they’re neighbours! Can you imagine living next to that. I wouldn’t get anything done, cause I’d be spying on him the whole time!
This was a great book and hopefully the start of a series??!! I love all of Pippa Grant’s books and now it looks like I need to check out Lili Valenti, too. I’d love to see more books featuring other residents of Happy Cat like Jace & Olivia. I feel like we were teased with them or the potential of a them. Also would love to see someone else near Jace r-u-n-n o-f-t. 🙂
In Hosed, we have firefighter Ryan and gamer Cassie. I thought their story was cute and rooted for them all the way. There’s a little whodunit going on which adds to their story. The epilogues are sweet but the best is the bonus epilogue you can get featuring George Cooney!
Fun time, fun times. I chuckled quite a bit throughout this book. Seriously, a pet raccoon named George Cooney? Stop it. I can’t stop giggling over that name. I hope we get more from Happy Cat, what a quirky little town to live in.
It was such fun to listen to Jacob Morgan and Virginia Rose’s narration of Hosed. Ryan and Cassie are both very likeable and George Cooney steals the show. The story is light, warm and quirky.
I just can’t get enough of Pippa Grant’s quirky writing style.
I’ve never had the pleasure of reading one of Lili Valente books but it is now on my tbr list.
Hosed is about a girl, who is a gamer, that comes home to helps her sister’s sex toy company out. Savannah, has left the country with no intention of comeing back anytime soon, after her boyfriend is caught with fornicating sheep, who he says the sheep is in love with him.
When a fire breaks out at the factory, it becomes apparent that it is arson.
Cassie and her sister Savannah become suspects.
Cassie, is staying in Savannah’s house who just happened to live next door to Ryan O’Dell, the sexy fighter fighter that she has a past with from highschool.
He doesn’t realize that he broke her heart in highschool and now she wants nothing to do with him.
He will do whatever it takes, to get back in her good graces.
Along with George Cooney, his pet raccoon, they work to win her over and solve who is setting the fires.
A cute and laughable, story that will have you falling in love with the characters.
This was such a fun book! I knew going in that this story between a shy, slightly nerdy virgin forced to take over her sister’s sex toy company and a hot firefighter who once broke her heart was going to be entertaining, and it really was! Add in the antics of the small town folks and an adorable raccoon who walks around with a leash and what we get are so many laugh out loud scenes. I do have to say that George really stole the show on this one.
The sweetness factor in this story is very high. I loved Ryan so much! Not only is he this sexy firefighter where protecting people is ingrained in him but he adopted George Cooney, the scooter riding raccoon!! Cassie’s character is a hoot! This poor girl!! Having her deal with all things sexual is so uncomfortable for her but she is there to help out her little sister, who is going through a meltdown. Cassie and Ryan have some history, they knew each other in high school and they both have differing memories of those days. Cassie remembers him as the crush who broke her heart, it took Ryan a little longer recognizing her and does not remember what happened to make Cassie so angry with her, but he wants her now. Once all miscommunications and secrets are aired, what ensues is a bit of sweetness with a whole lotta hotness and an intriguing storyline of who is plotting against the Sunshine Sex Toy factory.
I had such a great time reading this book and I can’t say enough about George Cooney, I want one!!! And the bonus epilogue (by subscribing to Pippa and Lili’s newsletter) to see George Cooney’s happily ever after was awesome!!
4.5 stars
Hosed by Pippa Grant & Lili Valente was fun, witty and so freaking steamy. This romantic comedy gives us a hot and sexy firefighter and the sweet, nerdy girl next door and some fun antics. Seriously, what is there not to love! I laughed and swooned throughout the entire story.
Cassie is happy with her life. Yes, she may be the oldest virgin around and a bit of a nerd, but she loves her job and is content. She lives in California and writes code for a living. Yet somehow, she finds herself back home taking care of her sister’s sex toys shop and living in her home. Across the street from the boy who broke her heart. Ryan O’Dell takes one look at Cassie when she comes back to town and is smitten. He definitely wants more with her.
I loved Ryan. He was so strong, protective and caring. Cassie is sweet and a bit on the naïve side. Together their chemistry is undeniable and steamy. I had so much fun reading Hosed by Pippa Grant and Lili Valente. The characters, their story, chemistry and the town and side characters were so much fun to read. A lighter read that will leave you smiling!
~ Liz
It gave me all the happy dopey feelings. Fun, giggles, sweetness, love, steamy, so many good swoonworthy moments, so many laugh out loud cackling moments with Ruthie May, Maud, Gerald, Jace, Olivia, Savannah, George.
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Lili Valente Pippa Grant
I was hooked from the start by this sweet, funny and oh so Hot rom-com. Start with a nerdy virgin and a sexy sweet-talking firefighter, add in a pet raccoon with a propensity to steal the show and some naughty toys, and you have the makings of an amazing story.
Cassie is a code writer and perfectly happy with her life just the way it is. When her sister leaves the country to get away from the stress of a crazy divorce, Cassie comes to Happy Cat to help run her sister’s sex toy factory.
Ryan is the sexy firefighter that Cassie has crushed on since highschool. When it appears someone is trying to destroy the factory Cassie and Ryan are thrown together, and the sparks start to fly.
I absolutely loved this one! Hosed is so full of amazing characters that I found myself wanting the side characters stories as well. I so so hope this is only the beginning from the small town of Happy Cat. I can’t wait to go back!
Okay HOLY HELL is this story HILARIOUS!!!!!!!! I mean I was laughing ans smiling throughout the whole book because there were times that was funny and there were so many times I can’t count that were so swoon worthy I just wanted to jump through my kindle and into Happy Cat Georgia. Pippa and Lili did a phenomenal job creating and crafting this world that I could not tell who wrote what so major KUDOS to them for that because that is not an easy thing to do.
Cassie oh my poor Cassie is living her life minding her business when her sister calls and tells her she needs her to run her company while she is away. Her sister has just got a divorce and she is in dire need of a vacation. So Cassie being the awesome sauce sister she is goes back to Happy Cat to run her sisters company. As she is running her sisters company she sees her high school crush Ryan. Every feeling she had comes flooding back and she realizes she never let go of that crush.
When there is trouble at The Sunshine Sex Toys Factory Ryan comes to the rescue and when he sees who is there he is blown away. He can’t believe it is Cassie and he is smitten right away only he doesn’t realize that Cassie still harbors anger towards him. Once they get everything sorted out these two become explosive and the chemistry they have is off the chart!
This is a must read rom-com that will have you laughing and smiling and swooning over Ryan. So go on ahead and one click this book you will not regret it!
I had to read this book twice to try find the right words to explain how amazing it is. But I am a reader and not a writer 🙁 so here goes….. Awesome! You will laugh, cheer, fall in love with George Cooney and the town of Happy Cat. There’s a sexy firefighter who isn’t sexing up everything in a skirt and a virgin nerd taking control of her sisters sex toy factory. Yip the perfect recipe for a laugh out loud, no cheating Happily Ever After – my perfect escape to read.
Book Review: Hosed
Authors: Pippa Grant and Lili Valente
FIVE STARS
Laugh out loud funny. There are times that you have to wipe your eyes from the laughter.
I can’t get enough of George Cooney either, even though I HATE trash pandas, George is a special little guy that gives me some hope that all raccoons aren’t a$$holes.
Some of my favorite parts that you should watch out for:
Bicycle description including the one-of-a-kind special made handle bars
Raccoon riding a tricycle
Welding in the back yard
A full day of seeing the town (so sweet and romantic)
A park full of toys and teenagers making up new games.
Just see how many of these things you can sit through without snort/laughing. They are the greatest scenes ever.
I have yet to find a Pippa Grant book that doesn’t have me reading it cover to cover just to get all the laughs. This is a first book by Lili Valente but oh man I can’t wait to discover her other stuff just to become a fan.
Once you read this book sign up for the newsletter and get the Bonus Epilog. OMG its all about George Cooney and it is AMAZING.
Kelli Harper
Hosed by Pippa Grant and Lili Valente is on the top of my Romantic Comedy favorites. If you have ever lived in a small town you know that these authors have nailed it with how everyone is in everyone else’s business and lives. Small town living is a family not just a community.
Ryan O’Dell is a fireman in the town of Happy Cat, Georgia, and his first day back from vacation and he’s called out to a fire at the Sunshine Sex Toys factory. It’s a first for him, actually it’s a first for the entire crew. At the fire he bumps into Cassie Sunderwell, a girl he went to high school with, she is helping her sister Savannah, who is the owner and CEO of the Sunshine Sex Toy factory. Savannah is currently out of the country getting her life back in order*.
*GET THIS BOOK, if for no other reason than to find out what has happened to Savannah, all I can say is what the heck and OMG at the same time!
The attraction is HOT and sweet between Ryan and Cassie, Cassie is awkward in regards to anything sexual, at 28 years old she’s still a virgin, and while she is temporarily running a sex toy factory, she blushes just walking through the warehouse, let alone talking about the products. She’s never done anything sexual except kissing until Ryan…
Weird things are happening at and around the factory. Find out what is happening and who is trying to close the sex toy factory. What is Savannah is going to do? What’s up with Steve, Savannah’s ex? Will Cassie stay in Georgia or go back to San Francisco? Why are there sex toys being thrown around by the Happy Cat town’s people? Why does George Cooney, Ryan’s raccoon like the “Cat Whisperer show” so much? What’s up with Ryan’s brother Jace and Savannah and Cassie’s friend Olivia? So many questions that can only be answered by getting your copy of this book!
This book was toooooo cute. And hot. And sweet. And I loved it!!!
Meet hot firefighter, Ryan.
Hot nice guy extraordinaire…
Enter, Cassie, funny cute sweet girl from his town.
She thinks he’s an asshole due to something that happened back in high school.
He thinks she’s the one.
Mix in a George Cooney (psst: he’s a raccoon) and some serious dildo misuse and maybe 1 inappropriate reference to sheep all blaster on the town social chat site and you’ve got 1 hilariously fun, sweetly endearing read!!
PS: there may be some virginity losing in this book two.
AWESOME book!
Lili Valente
Pippa Grant
What do you get when you cross a scene stealing raccoon, a hot and sexy firefighter, a geeky and smart and beautiful virgin, a sex toy factory and small town, sometimes small-minded people? Shenanigans, wild and crazy shenanigans.
Such wild and crazy shenanigans that you find yourself grinning like a fool, laughing aloud at the outrageous of some of the hilarious situations Cassie and Ryan find themselves in. Seriously, I need those rules for dildo football STAT. And someone make a book with all the texts between Cassie and her sister ASAP.
Hosed is by far the funniest book I have read this year—yeah, it’s early, but the bar is set very high to surpass my enjoyment.
Pippa Grant and Lili Valente, WOW what a writing team. I pre-ordered this book on my kindle and as soon as it was released I couldn’t wait to read it. I finshed the book in two days, yes it was that good.
This book was entertaining from start to finish in more ways than one. There are wonderful, quirky, sassy, loveable characters, including a pet racoon named George Cooney (LOL). There were many laugh out loud moments but also sweet, sexy, steamy, suspenseful moments.
This book has a very unique plot and I loved it! It was so refreshing and different from my usual reads. I highly recommend reading this book! I loved the authors separately but together they are gold! Grab this book! You won’t be sorry!!!
***ARC generously provided in exchange for an honest review.***
I am recommending this book as I just read it, but your could insert any of Pippa Grant’s titles in here and I would recommend them as well. She is one of my favorite authors! Her books are romantic, funny, and real world. I started with The Hero and the Hacktivist and ended up getting most of her books within a week. You can never go wrong by picking up one of her books!!