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Review: Full Exposure by Thien-Kim Lam

Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing? Review: Full Exposure by Thien-Kim Lam #NewRelease #FullExposure #Romance #ThienKimLam #NewReads #MardiGrass #BookReview

Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing? Cover Design by: Diahann Sturge Happy Endings author Thien-Kim Lam is back–with a rom-com set during the divine madness of Mardi Gras as two lovers ask: Can a Big Easy fling become the real thing? Boudoir photographer Josie Parks never ever takes a vacation. But when a client cancels a New Orleans shoot at the last minute, she decides to fly out from…

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New Release: Happy Endings, by @msthienkim

New Release: Happy Endings, by @msthienkim

With her debut novel, Thien-Kim Lam serves up a sexy second-chance romance about exes with unfinished business. When working together reignites their passion, will these former flames sizzle or get burned all over again?  Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She’s made a…

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read my full review of happy endings by thien-kim lam here.

With her debut novel, Thien-Kim Lam serves up a sexy second-chance romance about exes with unfinished business. When working together reignites their passion, will these former flames sizzle or get burned all over again?

Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She’s made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well—until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note.

The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still scorching, but he’s desperately trying to save his family restaurant from gentrifying developers. The solution? Partnering with his ex to turn Mama Hazel’s into a vibrator pop-up shop for hungry and horny clients.

Thanks to their steamy truce, both businesses start to sizzle and their red-hot desire soon reignites deeper feelings. But when Trixie receives an incredible career opportunity, will pride ruin their second chance at happiness?

my review:

There’s relatively little Vietnamese-American representation in books, particularly in romance, so I was so excited when I heard about this book! Happy Endings is a second-chance romance with lovely characters and sex positivity.

After flunking out of pharmacy school, Trixie moves to Washington DC where she pursues her dream of opening up her own sex toy storefront. Her first pop-up goes well, and she’s excited until she realizes that her ex, Andre, co-owns the restaurant she held it at. Andre is stressed about keeping his late mother’s doesn’t expect to run into Trixie either, but once they see each other again, neither can deny that they still have chemistry.

The romance was very hot! It’s also a second-chance romance to friends-with-benefits to lovers. The second-chance romances that I usually read don’t have the couple get back together so early, so that was a bit of a surprise. This book was also very sex positive; Trixie sells sex toys and has, over time, become very comfortable talking to people about sex and their bodies.

read my full review here.

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Happy Endings sounds SO good and I was very excited to win the goodreads giveaway from Avon 🤩

Happy Endings is a second chance romance! Trixie is trying to make her sex toy business a success and Andre wants to save his family restaurant. They team up to create a vibrator pop up shop for “hungry and horny clients.”

This really just sounds like the best time. Once I clear out my current reads a bit, I’m gonna start this one!

It comes out May 18 so check it out!

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Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam: A Review

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyage and Netgalley for the ARC for an honest review.

Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well—until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still scorching, but he's desperately trying to save his family restaurant from gentrifying developers. The solution? Partnering with his ex to turn Mama Hazel’s into a vibrator pop-up shop for hungry and horny clients. Thanks to their steamy truce, both businesses start to sizzle and their red-hot desire soon reignites deeper feelings. But when Trixie receives an incredible career opportunity, will pride ruin their second chance at happiness?

Happy Endings is an #ownvoices second chance romance novel featuring Trixie Nguyen, a 1st generation Vietnamese-American who works teaching people about sex and pleasure, providing education on their sexuality and sexual health while giving them the tools (sex toys) for a more satisfying sex life regardless of gender or sexual orientation. We have Andre Walker, a bartender/chef who - with his younger sister - took over their mother's restaurant after their mother passed away from cancer. After Trixie runs a pop-up demonstration at Mama Hazel's, her and Andre become reacquainted after he broke her heart two years ago. She wants to own her own business, he needs to save his business so they're willing to try and leave the past behind them to work professionally to help each other out.

I enjoyed the characters, especially Trixie. She knew what she wanted in life, and although her family (mainly her very traditional Viet dad) do not approve of her career choice, she was going to do what she wanted and brought her joy. I did find her a bit wishy-washy when it came to Andre, especially with how quickly she forgave him for his shitty behavior. I wanted a little more tension between them, especially when he all but accused her of ruining HIS life as if she had anything to do with gentrification and other nonsense he kept spouting off at her. However, in the grand scheme of things that was just one character flaw that I was willing to overlook as characters cannot be perfect.

That goes for Andre, who I did like, but he frustrated me to the point where I wanted his sister to knock him into next week. The way he treated his younger sister was grossly insulting, and I'm glad she put him in his place several times. Perhaps it was a typical man thing, but if stereotypes were going to be broken with this book, I'd have love to see the stereotype of a man's inability to ask for help be broken. So many issues could have been solved if he just asked for help, but no. It worked out in the end, but Andre still frustrated me more often than not.

The chemistry between Trixie and Andre was pretty hot, and I did enjoy their scenes together, especially when the sexy bits started to get a bit silly. I also really enjoyed how Trixie took charge of her own pleasure and how things happened between them in the sheets, and it's not often we see women take charge in the bedroom (or office or bar).

I also really love the friendships in this book. These ladies were ride or die for each other, and I'm always always always down for bad ass women supporting each other and fixing each other's crowns. And the fact that the cast itself was diverse as well was *chef's kiss*.

I did like this a lot, but the writing was a little stiff at times. This is the unedited version so I'd be interested to see what the edited version will look like. If we can get more #ownvoices romance novels out there, where the interracial couple is light skinned person with white person, I'm all for it.  

Goodreads Rating: 4 Stars Expected Publication Date: May 18, 2021

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LOTS of great romance novels from BIPOC coming at you for the remainder of 2020 into 2021! 

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Would You Like Me To Ravage You?

Would You Like Me To Ravage You?

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by Madeline Iva

She’s baaaaaaack! You liked her Madame X post so much that we’ve asked Thien-Kim Lam to come back for another guest post.  Happy Friday!

A couple of months ago, my husband interrupted my animated retelling of the sex scenes in Tessa Dare’s Any Duchess Will Do. (The scenes are quite creative, and the power dynamics between the main characters heighten every movement.)

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Would You Like Me To Ravage You?

Would You Like Me To Ravage You?

Click to buy.

by Madeline Iva

She’s baaaaaaack! You liked her Madame X post so much that we’ve asked Thien-Kim Lam to come back for another guest post.  Happy Friday!

A couple of months ago, my husband interrupted my animated retelling of the sex scenes in Tessa Dare’s Any Duchess Will Do. (The scenes are quite creative, and the power dynamics between the main characters heighten every movement.)