seriously romantic: fully dressed by geri krotow

on paper this book has it all. the perfect location. the city girl meets southern boy/opposites attract conceit. and don't get me wrong, fully dressed is enjoyable. it's just that for most of the book i thought maybe i was missing something?

the book feels very much like the second book in a series. like we should already know the lead characters somewhat because we've gotten snippets of their stories in an earlier book. except fully dressed is the start of the series.

and then poppy and brandon also have family drama and business drama and relationship drama, and they each also have an alternate name, poppy is also amber and brandon is gus and at a certain point it's almost a bit too much. i don't know.

as a contemporary, opposites attract love story, fully dressed totally works. i really liked both poppy and brandon. but part of me also wonders if this book is really where this series was meant to start. and i also wonder at some of the editorial choices made during certain scenes in the book, because there were so many times poppy and brandon would be having a seemingly normal flirtatious conversation and then it would go off the rails spectacularly and i wasn't always sure why. like maybe i missed something? i also didn't love the business subplots for either of these characters, they already had enough going on, their financial woes didn't really interest me or make their story more compelling. they had enough family drama for that.

**fully dressed will publish on march 13, 2018. i received an advance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/kensington books (lyrical caress) in exchange for my honest review.

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