{"id":6491,"date":"2014-05-23T19:56:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T02:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=6491"},"modified":"2016-12-22T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T22:40:42","slug":"review-frenched-frenched-1-by-melanie-harlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=6491","title":{"rendered":"Review: Frenched (Frenched, #1) by Melanie Harlow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“I had no idea what I was doing.
\nI just knew that I liked it.”<\/i><\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OMG, I love this book! Love, love, love it! Sweet, funny, romantic and fun\u2026 and oh, so freaking HOT! Mia and Lucas\u2019 story is fast paced, engaging, and great fun.<\/p>\n

Mia is a fantastic heroine, I loved her from the very start. She is a chronic planner and list maker, and her frequent use of lists throughout the book had me in hysterics – I am dedicating the majority of my quotes to Mia\u2019s epic list making, starting with the very first line of the book.<\/p>\n

Top Five Reasons (Out of 100) I Am NEVER Coming Out Of This Blanket Fort.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She has just been jilted by her stinking rich, playboy fianc\u00e9 (by text, no less) one week before the wedding. In an effort to drag her out of her funk, her best friends talk her into taking the trip to Paris that was to be her honeymoon.<\/p>\n

Paris has always been her dream, but Mia is suffocating under the embarrassment of her called off wedding, and the fact that her carefully planned life has been thrown into disarray. But she reluctantly heads off on her own, only to find herself surrounded by all things romantic and thinking she\u2019s made a huge mistake.<\/p>\n

Things and People That Can Fuck Off<\/i><\/p>\n

Things I Like About the Trip So Far<\/em>
\n 1) Seeing the Eiffel Tower<\/em>
\n 2) This glass of wine<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the end of her tolerance, and ready to fly straight back home, she storms into a bar only to run into messy-haired, scruff-covered bartender, Lucas. Half American and half French, he is in Paris for the summer and is definitely not her usual type of man, but the two of them get chatting, and he makes her a deal that if she lets him act as her tour guide for one day around Paris, he\u2019ll change her mind and make her want to stay. And here begins the awesome.<\/p>\n

Aaaahh, Paris\u2026 Melanie Harlow does a fantastic job of setting the scene, because I swear to God, I felt like I was right there with Mia and Lucas as they wandered the streets of one of my favourite cities on earth. Seeing the sights, wandering the streets, coffee, wine, shopping and baguettes\u2026 it\u2019s absolutely magical!<\/p>\n

And as Mia and Lucas get to know each other amidst some epic flirty banter and absolute honesty, they realise that they share a sizzling attraction. With no game playing or stupidness, they are both completely and refreshingly open about what they are feeling and pretty soon its\u2026<\/p>\n

5 Awesome Things About Lucas<\/i><\/p>\n

5 Reasons I Fucking Love Paris<\/em><\/p>\n

Things I Want To Do With Lucas<\/em><\/p>\n

4 Insanely Glorious Things I Realized In The Shower With Lucas<\/em><\/p>\n

5 Appropriate (And Yes Also Wildly Inappropriate) Thoughts You Are Allowed To Have About Lucas<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lucas is pretty much perfect. He\u2019s a genuinely good guy \u2013 a gentleman who is respectful, kind, sweet and funny. I absolutely adore him! He\u2019s not tortured, nothing horrible has ever happened to him, he\u2019s just an ordinary guy – although he\u2019s got a wickedly dirty mind and is hotter than all hell in the bedroom\u2026 on the couch\u2026 floor\u2026 kitchen counter\u2026 shower\u2026 up against the wall\u2026 you get where I\u2019m going with this.<\/p>\n

Yeah, this book is hot. Like, STEAMING HOT! Mia and Lucas have electric chemistry from the very beginning, and it doesn\u2019t take long for them to act on their feelings, and when they do, it\u2019s freaking phenomenal! And we get Lucas\u2019 dirty talk and Mia\u2019s inner monologue to add to the awesome.<\/p>\n

“Just lie back and relax, love.” He slid my legs apart, planting a kiss on my left inner thigh, then my right. “Tell me if something feels good and scream all you want.”<\/i><\/p>\n

“Kissing in the rain is fun, but making out with Lucas in his shower is fucking outstanding.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The romance is definitely the key driver for the book, but it ties in beautifully with Mia\u2019s journey as she learns to let go of her plans, and her lists and let life take her wherever it will.<\/p>\n

“He was teaching me things about my body and desires I\u2019d never known. He was teaching me about the beauty of living for the moment. He was teaching me not to worry so much about what things looked like, what other people thought, what <\/i>I thought I should be.
\nI loved who I was when I was with him. And I loved him.”<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m not going to say much else about the story, because there is so much awesome to discover! It\u2019s funny, it\u2019s hot, it\u2019s romantic, and it\u2019s deep. I think this is one of those reads that I picked up at exactly the right time for me. It was exactly what I wanted, and I fell in instant love with both Mia and Lucas, and am so excited that there is going to be a follow up novella to their story Yanked<\/a> because I need more!!<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s not talk about the past. Or the future. Where we came from and where we\u2019ll end up don\u2019t matter to me as much as being here right now with you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I loved it – 5 stars.<\/p>\n

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The Frenched series<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"Frenched\"\u00a0\u00a0\"Yanked\"\u00a0\u00a0\"Forked\"\u00a0\u00a0\"Floored\"\u00a0\u00a0\"Frenched<\/p>\n

Frenched (#1)\u00a0<\/strong>(Mia & Lucas)
\nReview<\/a>
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Yanked (#1.5)<\/strong>\u00a0(Mia & Lucas)
\nReview<\/a>
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Forked (#2)<\/strong>\u00a0(Nick & Coco)
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Floored (#3)\u00a0<\/strong>(Charlie & Erin)
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Frenched:\u00a0 The Wedding Night (#3.5)\u00a0<\/strong>(Mia & Lucas)
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