From New York Times Bestseller Mimi Jean Pamfiloff comes an Enemies-to-Lovers Romantic Comedy.CAUTION: CONTAINS HOT COWBOY. Do not mix with wine. Avoid watching him do shirtless labor on hot days.SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE: Feeling of extreme temptation, excessive drooling over his abs, elevated heart rate, and loss of coherent thoughts when in his presence.My name is Camila Clark. And that sexy … presence.
My name is Camila Clark. And that sexy cowboy right there? The one with the devilish smile, twinkling brown eyes, and tattoos on his muscular arms? He’s Jed, the guy I turned down flat back in Texas. He just showed up here in Oregon at the winery where I work.
The question is why?
Not that it really matters. I have my reasons for staying away from all that manly temptation. Reasons he can’t possibly understand but seems determined to punish me for.
But the more I fight him, the more I learn about this mysterious, hot-as-hell cowboy. I just don’t know how much longer I can keep pretending to hate him.
The problem is, I’m technically engaged to a guy I’ve never met.
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Mimi Jean Pamfiloff strikes again with Wine Hard Baby; a romance that is offbeat and humorous with a few serious undertones that only she so deftly creates. It’s about finding a balance between duty to family, being true to your own desires and the mental stress caused by juggling the two. If you don’t laugh at the strings of epithets that pour out of Cami’s when she’s nervous, afraid or angry or her mental ramblings and the outrageous situations she and Jed find themselves in, then you don’t have a sense of humor.
First of all, there’s a special kind of appreciation and respect for an indie publisher who dedicates her book, in part, to toilet paper, promising it her undying gratitude. If that doesn’t set the tone for snark and sarcasm with an undercurrent of heart, I don’t know what does.
Camila comes from a very religious background, one where her parents choose a husband for her, so she absolutely cannot be drooling over the charming cowboy with tattoo sleeves from the wrong side of the tracks. Everything is perfect in her life, until said cowboy, Jed, shows up first at Camila’s BFF’s wedding, and later at her job.
Not only is the winery where Camila works in Oregon, and several states away from his home in Texas, but Jed gets a job at the winery and plans to stay for awhile. Camila will be the first to tell you how unfair the universe is, putting all that yummy temptation in front of her every day when she. Can’t. Have. It!
With lots of humor and a deliciously torturous slow burn, this book is also a reminder to look beyond the surface to the heart of a person and to reserve passing judgement at first glance. This captivating, hilarious, heartfelt story practically reads itself and is one you won’t want to miss!
Couldn’t put it down! I read the entire book in one day. It begins with a high tension scene featuring characters from “My Pen is Huge” but throughout the rest of the story, you get a good old fashion romcom full of literal laugh out loud goodness. This whole series tends to tell you to follow your heart, but Camila is torn between two different types of love, so how will she choose? Luckily, each book can easily be read as a standalone so you can done right in to find out.
She’s a numbers loving nerd with a penchant for swearing and he’s a rugged cowboy with a laid back attitude. Put them together and it’s like a lit match and kerosene. The attraction and tension between the two characters is instant explosive. Jed and Camilla are the very definition of opposites and their fireworks are beyond entertaining.
The pair met in Austin, Texas with Camilla helping Jed, a friend of a friend; assess what he can get selling his bar, quickly turned sour when he asked her out and she turned him down in a barrage of insults. 6 months later Camilla is happily settled as the controller at an Oregon winery with her calculator collection, only to have Jed reappear the night of Giselle and Leland’s (of My Pen is Huge) rehearsal dinner.
Camilla is a complex and conflicted character who is still trying to figure out how to break free from the confines of familial expectations while maintaining relationships and not torching bridges. She also has the nervous habit of spewing extensive and randomly foul language in the worst possible moments. She knows what she wants but isn’t sure she can ever have it, Jed is just another wrench in the cogs of her already messy life, as she wants him but knows she can’t have him.
Jed is a multilayered man who is more than he seems with his own host of demons to slay. After spending 6 months traveling the country in his trailer only to land as a handyman at the same winery Camilla works at. The pair are instantly at odds, tripping over themselves trying to put the past behind them and be friendly while trying and failing to not fall back into their cycle of insults and volatile attraction.
The interactions between the two are pure comedic gold as they fumble through innocently trying to make things better, but constantly one upping each other in the oh you think that’s a stupid thing to do “here hold my beer” kind of way.
Wine Hard, Baby is the 6th book in a standalone series of books with some interconnected characters, though it is a complete stand alone you will see characters from My Pen is Huge. Mimi Jean Pamfiloff has successfully built an ever growing world of lightly connected people with a theme of enemies to lovers with a whole lot of nerdisms and sexy thrown in. Her masterful use of Snark, Sass, Sexy, and humor makes for a quick fun read with characters you want to hang out with in real life. Here’s to hoping she keeps them going in the future because they are a one click buy for sure.
I wasn’t sure what to expect but, boy are you guys in for a treat. This book is so beautifully written and I feel so much in love with Jed and Camila. The back and forth banter between these two characters and pent up feelings totally made this book. This book will grip you right from the beginning and there is a hea.