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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Rating:
Dirty and fun with terrific characters!”
I love Mimi Jean books and this one was no different. The main character, Camila was the perfect blend of funny, cooky and a dash of crazy. Camila is best friends with Giselle from the book My Pen Is Huge. They call Gisselle’s guy Mr. Big Pen (a.k.a. Leland) and his best friend is a cowboy named Jed. Jed was interested in Camila a while back but she turned him down and called him some names like trailer trash in order to make him angry and not be tempted by him.
That was prior to her moving away and starting work at a vineyard in California. Camila has very strict religeous parents who attend a church with ways that are a bit backward and she knew they would never approve of an outsider, especially one like Jed. Jed was a military sniper, has tattoos, doesn’t care what other people think and doesn’t go to church. This book isn’t religious in nature, just the parents of Camila are.
Camila’s parents church has a tradition of arranged marriages. They believe that selecting a compatible guy of their religion will lead to a long and happy marriage and love or lust isn’t something to build a relationship on. They think that religion and compatibility will turn into love once marriage occurs. Camila wants to marry for love, but knows that if she does, she will lose her parents forever. She had a great and loving upbringing so doesn’t want to lose them.
Jed comes back into the picture at the dinner before Giselle and Leland’s wedding. When an escaped killer is holding a gun on Gisselle and Camila, Jed saves them. He then signs on to help out at the ranch/winery where Camila is an accountant. Camilla is terrific, especially due to her conservative upbringing. At some point she rebelled by learning dirty words and now has a tourette’s like habit of saying every filthy word that comes into her head when she is nervous. It is both cute and hilarious.
Camila keeps either putting her foot in her mouth or making mistakes when it comes to Jed and it is fun to read. I had a great time with this book and these characters and it makes me want to read more. I truly enjoyed everything about this book and now I want to go back and pick up the books in this series that I hadn’t yet read.
I voluntarily read & reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts & opinions are my own.
Two people. One man. One woman. Both have dreams and desires. Their lives and backgrounds are so different. Can they both break away their pasts and a parents’ rigid worldview to make a future that will bring them love and happiness? That’s what they want. What they get is mayhem, blood and fainting. That doesn’t work well with working at a vineyard. Never thought wine making was so blood thirsty.
“Wine, Hard, Baby” is rollicking fun from Texas to Oregon. I give it six glasses filled with Merlot, because everyone needs a stiff one when the boss makes you a mental mess. Salute!
This is one of my favorite books in the OHellNo series to date. The frenemies to lovers, comedy, and romance were a perfect combination, and the story was so fun and entertaining to read.
Camila is a hoot! If you’re turned off by foul language, she is not the female lead for you. But oh, what fun!
Camila is a foul-mouthed lady from a religious family, facing an arranged marriage. Jed is cowboy that values family above all else, and chickens that clearly rule the roost. The combination of these two characters is fun, funny and so entertaining! Laugh out loud, think “no way can this outrageousness be topped” and then be prepared for Mimi to top it!
A very fun, funny read, but not for those with delicate sensibilities.
My Rating:
3.5
Favorite Quotes:
I know a man like him doesn’t have that kind of swagger if he’s packing a ramen noodle.
Just because you’re a surgeon and smart and you’re super pretty, doesn’t mean you can walk around all “I’m so perfect.” Bet she farts in bed. A lot. I once read that doctors eat more takeout than any other profession because they’re too tired or too busy to cook, and everyone knows unhealthy food gives you the toots.
You have to look. Doesn’t even matter if you’re into someone else, that man is a snack. Like a walking, talking piece of gooey chocolate cake. The kind that even if you just ate twelve tacos and are exploding at the seams, you still can’t help appreciating how yummy it looks when it floats by on the dessert tray.
The detective eyes me suspiciously. “I’d give you a citation, but poor judgment on its own isn’t against the law.” “Thank goodness for that! Because I’d be behind bars for life.” I snort.
My Review:
I struggled with this one, it was funny and amusing with the main character of Cami having foot in mouth disease and swore like a sailor with Tourette’s Syndrome, but she wasn’t endearing or likable to me. Cami was immature, selfish, thoughtless, chronically dishonest, prone to game playing, and flippantly judgmental, even when she claimed she wasn’t. In many ways, she was as awful as her weirdly religious parents, and believe me, I know ALL about that!
Wine, Cowboys, Math, and Swearing…
…it doesn’t get any better than THAT! Laugh out loud funny as always, in book #6 of the OhHellNo Series, we’re treated to the story of Jed and Camilla in a true opposites attract slow burn saga that proves there are some things that are TRULY worth waiting for!
Jed is a hot, sexy cowboy with a heart of gold and a moral compass pointing true north at all times. He’s dealing with a lot of past baggage, including abandonment issues. Camilla is an a calculator-collecting math nerd with a strict religious upbringing to overcome, and a knee-jerk sailor-mouthed defense mechanism designed to keep everyone at arm’s length. Between my giggles at the antics of these two characters and their support networks, there were times I was almost concerned these two were not going to manage to get their act together…
I loved the inner dialogue that we get from both viewpoints, and the struggles for each of them to find their way to center and really understand what they want/need so they can get it together and work on their HEA. Both of the main characters are real and fun – flawed and funny and TRUE in a way that’s so very relatable. One of my favorite things about Mimi’s writing is how invested you get in the characters and their stories – from page 1. I’m always so invested that I feel like I’m riding out the highs and lows, laughs and tears right there with them all – book after book!
There is SO much chemistry between these two, and as the story unfolds we see it was been there, simmering, for a long time. It was mental blocks on both sides that make them shy away from what they KNEW they wanted/needed – full on proof (in awesome romcom story form!) that opposites attract – and come complete with fireworks!
This is a stand-alone book with NO cliffhanger. There are passing references to characters from other books in the series but you don’t need to have read them to read this book (but really, you should because they are all excellent and very, very funny). I really enjoyed the fact that this book built a bit on characters from My Pen is Huge (since Cami was Giselle’s roomie in the last book, and Jed & Leeland are friends) – so we got a peek into where things were at for them during this story. That was EXCELLENT!
My general rating rationale:
3 – Perfectly fine story, perhaps some minor editorial errors. Entertaining. Typically with this rating I feel like there could have been MORE – be it believably/relatability, character development, internal dialogue, explanations or depth, richness to the overall storyline, etc. May lose a bit of engagement here and there but always finish reading.
4 – A very good book. Engaging, with well-developed characters, a great plot, relatable scenarios; keeps you invested to the last page. Would recommend to reader friends.
5 – Can’t say enough amazing things, loved the characters, fabulously detailed plot, a quick hook, intense investment in both story and characters (including supporting characters) throughout the book. Will tell anyone who will listen that they should read it (if they won’t listen, I’ll be louder).
This is my first book from the author and I don’t know where I was before that I didn’t read anything from her. This romantic comedy is so funny, that at some point I had to stop reading because I was crying with laughter.
Enter Jed, a handsome cowboy with a hidden past. He wants to create a legacy, help others, be more than his mom, without getting any credits, but with lot of morals. Then we have Camila, she is a nerd girl, who loves numbers (and have a calculator collection), but different from Jed, she comes from a lovely family and a very religious parents. She is so afraid of disappoint them, that now after she grow up, her parents wants to chose her husband with the same beliefs as theirs.
First of all, Camila is the best! She is so strong and I was so glad to read the discussing between her and her parents about their religious conviction. She believed in the same religion but wanted to be free to marry someone she loved, to be able to do little common things but to not be crucify by them. And I was so sad that her parents couldn’t see who she really was, past of what they wanted! It was heartbreaking. But more then that, Camila was freaking funny! I promise you, her swear rants was to die for, totally epic! Just to remember I’m laughing!
And Jed… he had a golden heart, a guy with good intentions, but hell he was too stubborn! First, his acting skills when he bought the winery were terrible which lead to an even more horrible situation for him, poor guy. And with his fixation on not wanting to break up a family did not take into consideration Camila’s feelings and knowledge.
I’m glad that she put him in his place and he got to see for himself on what she was dealing with. And more I was so happy that she finally decided to chose herself over anyone! You go, Camila! I loved the ending and wish it was just a little bit more developed. But you won’t regret reading this book at all.
Wine Hard, Baby is book #6 in the OHellNo series, and as always with Mimi’s books I loved it. I fell in love with Jed and Camila’s story. It was for sure a page turner that I wasn’t able to put down. Mimi never fails to entertain you with each book. I loved how much of a sailors mouth Camila had when she was nervous or anxious. Jed well there are just no words for him, I just adore him and his caring ways. I couldn’t stop laughing at the banter between the two. This book came at the perfect time, when we could all use a good belly laugh. It’s for sure a must read.
This is the 6th book in this awesome series and is Camila and Jed’s story. Jed is a cowboy cum bar owner, and Camila can curse like a sailor despite coming from a religious family whose parents choose a husband for her. This is a well written story which is a slow burn heartfelt romcom story which is entertaining and humorous throughout. I highly recommend for all.
I struggled with my rating on this, I mean it has the usual fun and quirky humour of the rest of the OHellNo series. It also has a sexy cowboy and a nerdy girl, lots of banter and plenty of crazy moments too. I read it all, I smiled and swooned, so it wasn’t terrible but I just wanted… more. The authors writing voice and quality is a 4 but the story was nothing more than an ok 2. In fact I would describe this as cotton candy, very sweet as it melts on the tongue, but ultimately there is very little substance to it.
The characters whilst pleasant were quite one dimensional, the funny moments more like random sketches in a comedy show and I’m not sure if I ever really found a plot in there. I wish I had liked it more, because on paper it had so much to like about it, but it just somehow missed the mark for me. I also have to question how they fell in love because there weren’t that many interactions between them, nor any genuine getting to know each other moments. The whole story was just one long rinse and repeat of nothing much really, too much deliberate miscommunication.
Maybe I was looking for too much from this book, it’s a quick, easy and very light read, and perhaps that’s all it needs to be.
Camila has the craziest foul mouth when she gets nervous. Enter the deliciously gorgeous cowboy, Jed. Poor Camila and her foul mouth don’t stand a chance against this polite, scorching hot gentleman. From start to finish their relationship, or lack of, is one hilarious mishap after another. Camila comes from a traditional family, with certain rules she must follow. As tempting as the perfect cowboy is, she must resist in order to comply with her family values. Unfortunately for Camila, her heart as well as some other parts didn’t receive the memo.
I really enjoyed this romcom. It was pretty fast-paced, a little crazy, and has such a funny heroine.
“His stare is intense and carnal, maybe sprinkled with some concern, too.”
Camila is savoring her freedom whilst living away from her loving but devoutly religious parents and avoiding an arranged marriage. She also needs to avoid men that her parents would never accept because although she wants to marry for love, she also wants someone who her parents would approve of. Not someone like the gorgeous Jed, no matter how much she’s attracted to him. In an effort to push him away, she’s callous and cruel towards him.
“There was just something about her nerdy smile, quick wit, and dirty mouth that pulled me in.”
Jed is a simple guy who works hard but has a secret or two. He finds Camila absolutely gorgeous but the minute she opens her mouth, she tends to spew vitriol at him. He’s baffled by the discrepancy between how she looks at him and what actually comes out of her mouth.
“I think about him and the volcano starts erupting – lust, want, worry, and the unshakable feeling that my world will blow up if I get any deeper.”
I really enjoyed this story. Camila is a desperate woman trying to deny her attraction to Jed. She’s nerdy and actually a good person and swears like a sailor, which is hilarious considering her religious upbringing! LOL Jed has the patience of a saint but also has a little mischievousness about him. Overall, I liked the pace of the story but I wished there’d been more relationship development between the two main characters. They almost went from nothing to something because Camila suddenly switched tracks. I would have liked to have seen them in more positive exchanges that really showed that they were falling in love. Otherwise, still a fun, amusing read.
I could sum up this review with just two words: hottie cowboy. In all seriousness though, Wine Hard, Baby is a fun and quick read that features a drool-worthy male lead, a sassy pants heroine, and a whole lot of zany antics. This book was exactly what I needed to lift my spirits as I’ve been feeling down and anxious during this pandemic. I was laughing to the point of crying, thus causing my husband to give me the side eye. What can I say? This author tickles my funny bone.
Camila is a quirky numbers nerd who is at times a hot mess with a conflicted heart. She makes some rather bone-headed decisions that create a bit of chaos and while I found some of her actions to be a bit over the top, it is one of the reasons that I love this author’s writing so much. As for Jed, I found him positively endearing. This charming Southern boy has his own secrets and he is inexplicably drawn towards Cami. Some the scenes between them had me spewing coffee all over my kindle, but there was also sweetness and a good underlying message to the story. If you are looking for an entertaining romantic comedy, then you will want to check out Wine Hard, Baby and the rest of this author’s OHellNo series!
She’s done it again! Ms. Pamfiloff has consistently satisfied my hunger for all things fiction. This is another rom-com that is a quick, light read, yet thoroughly entertaining. It’s book six of the Oh Hell No series but can be read alone- but if you want more entertainment DEFINITELY read the rest of the series!
I did love Cami and her nervous potty mouth. Jed was a bit of a contradiction but he was likeable enough. I did feel a bit of a disconnect with their story. I wasn’t quite sure what the main focal point of the story should be…the winery? Cami’s parents? Jed’s past? It kind of made my head spin. But I did laugh and there were a couple tear-jerker moments and the ending was great!
I gave it 4 stars!
Jed and Cami were so good together! Cami is the good girl who wants to please her parents who have picked her husband to be based on their religion. The only problem is Cami is attracted to the tatted cowboy who has stolen her heart! Oh and this nerd owes $90,000 to the winery she is working for, she just has to break it to the new owner!
I love the “Oh-no!” series. Mimi has a beautiful, creative mind that she translates into a funny, emotional, quirky, romantic comedy. Camila is best friends with Giselle and is attending Giselle and Leland’s wedding. Chaos unfolds, literally, the moment Camila steps into the room. Luckily, Jed, whom Camila turned down for a date back in Texas, saved the day. At least, saved the day so no one else was hurt. The next day Camila learns that Jed will be working at the same winery. Camila takes one look at this shirtless cowboy and regrets her decision not to accept his invite to dinner. So, she tries to let him know that she would go on a date with him now, but Jed is being a stubborn mule with a chip the size of Oregon state on his shoulder and tells Camila that he finds her repulsive. From here, “The Days of Our Vines,” ensues.
I love the character of Camila. She is one girl that will bust your balls and not back down. Knock her down, and she gets right back up again. I can’t decide what I enjoy the most about her. She is like a windup toy that bursts all her energy in the beginning, but this toy spews colorful words, and you can’t decide to put more batteries in or duct-tape it shut! She’s a feisty pistol that is too much inside her head. Jed is a hottie cowboy that works hard. It’s impressive that he is attracted to the whirl-wind that is Cami. However, she is his perfect match because she does not let him get away with anything. You will laugh, snort, cry, snot, and cringe with all the loopy antics that make up this hilarious story!
I received a free copy in exchange for my honest opinion.
Three and a half
Ok I love this authors quirky, sexy, imaginative paranormal stories and yes I don’t mind occasionally dipping into her more contemporary, funny stories but sadly this didn’t quite hit the mark for me. The combination of a religious group that ostracized any who thought for themselves and a cowboy hero who really wasn’t that spectacular in my mind left me wanting more. Camila and Jed just have so much miscommunication issues that their romance kind of stutters along. Yes I liked that they FINALLY actually were open enough to have a happy ending but still I found this story to leave me wanting more. I do recommend this authors work but alas this story isn’t my favourite by her
This voluntary take is of an advanced copy and my thoughts and comments are honest and I believe fair
This book made me smile hard while it twisted tropes and mixed genres into a romantic stew. Here we meet foul mouthed Camila, who taught me swear words that I’ve never heard before…And I’m grateful. I’m not sure I can envision a world anymore without “Fucktart” or “Shitbiscuit” or “crackwhore cracker” among others. Camila is a repressed math geek who has a irrational love of calculators and a fear of angering her parents. How can she possibly have a chance with Jed, the cowboy bar owner with secrets?
“I walk over to the side of his bed and notice he’s reading a book about tax law. Oh God. So hot! I wonder if he wants to play with my abacus.”
These two have a push a pull that will make your head spin. Jed is a “tasty snack” that turns Camila inside out. And he has barged his way into her life and employment so she just can’t get away. I love the term “Jedsturbation” that she comes up with (I don’t think I need to explain further). His personality and sex appeal jumps from the page, while misunderstandings and fear rule their interactions.
““Yup. We’re like a regular Days of Our Vines around here.”
I loved how Camila finds her voice and the path of her choosing. Her parents are strict, conservative and loving. It was wise how Pamfiloff didn’t make any of the main characters inherently bad. It would have been easier for her characters…But she doesn’t go the easy way. Camila has to work for it.
““Because if you honestly believe I would ever choose a man who’d keep me from my family or from doing the things that make me happy, then you don’t know me at all.” I stand and look down at them. “I get that the church is the center of your world, and I would never fault you for that, because you managed to bring me up in a loving home. But up until sixty seconds ago, you were proud of how I turned out, so why can’t you just trust in that? Why can’t you trust that you raised me right and that I’ll pick a good man who will respect me, my beliefs, and yours, no matter what?””
And Jed has some realizations of his own and demons to put to rest. Again, nothing is easy for them and it makes the story more relatable. We also learn about some life lessons that Jed learned and tattooed on himself. It’s heartwarming how Camila realizes just how they have influenced each other.
“He points to his right arm, the phrase that says, Never forget to stop and drink the wine, to smell the roses, and to bed your woman well. Definitely my favorite of them all.”
Girl, same here.
Oh how wish for a cowboy!
I really enjoyed this book but than its a Mimi book so that means its gonna be a wild, fun ride. Camila and Jed are truly a picture of opposite attracts in wine vineyard. With their own ways, Cami and Jed were friends of friends who met in Austin. For Cami, Jed is everything you would want in a partner and then some. But with her family, the possibility of something more is can never happen. She has find a guy who shares the same beliefs as them. Jed is not that guy. He’s strong, smart, sweet, charismatic guy who turns peoples head and doesn’t even care. He’s laid back nature is attracting and calls to her. But their interactions together are always fun to read. MImi weaves their story just right and gives you all the feels.