My Killer Vacation

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Flash forward to a couple chapters later, when Delicate Flowers and Broody Creep start spending a lot of time together -because it's perfectly normal for Delicate Flower to parade around crime scenes like she gifted Horatio Caine his first pair of sunglasses-, and two seconds after they've met, she starts going all femme fatale on him, rebuking to his provocations like a proud teenager who just learnt how to flirt and feeling cool about it. He goes all alphasshole ten minutes after they've introduced each other and I'd lie if I said the way he grew super proective of her, so quickly, didn't make me roll my eyes. But actually the more we got to know Myles, the more we saw his personality, he is so protective of the ones he loves. A brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary schoolteacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on my life, we're stuck together, come hell or high tide. None of that happened here, there was no dramatic conflict between the couple, yeah Myles had issues but Taylor fought for him and simultaneously supported him regardless of whether his final decision would've left her heartbroken.

One thing about Tessa’s books is that the heroes are always very (VERY) over the top - just growly, broody, very tall humans who become completely obsessed with the heroines within seconds of meeting them. This man meets her, and immediately thinks about her in sexual scenarios, but it's not even that, it's that it's not sexy, and it's supposed to be sexy, since this is a romance novel. At first, he came across as a harsh asshole, who made it seem as if he had a failed detective career, marriage, and overall has no interest in forming healthy relationships seeing as he hasn't spoken to his parents or brother in 3 years since "the incident".

Taylor is a second grade teacher who wants to have a relaxing vacation with her brother in Cape Cod. Even though he is uncertain of getting her help, he also does not seem to be able to stay away from her.

in sweet, sunny Cape Cod - just me and my beloved brother - but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning schedule. I thought I'd be here writing about how awful her FMC was, and how cringe the relationship was but, not really.I loved the main characters, the fast-paced plot, the smut, the range of suspects, the writing was objectively TB's best compared to her other romcoms and older work, I feel like TB has worked hard over the years to establish herself as a great and reliable romcom author. I'll certainly continue to read Tessa Bailey in the future, but this book is going in the donation pile posthaste. And Taylor uses racially-coded language when describing Myles, saying he looks like a “criminal” and a “gorilla” on separate instances early in the book.