Lyric and Lingerie by Tracy Wolff and Katie Graykowski

Lyric and Lingerie is a very funny, lighthearted romance. It gets a big slapstick and silly at points which I usually don’t like, but it worked for this novel. We first meet the heroine, Lyric, as she’s rushing to catch a plane from Hawaii to Texas to see her father who is in the hospital. In her hurry she hasn’t been able to change out of the short, sexy dress she was wearing at a cocktail party. The dress rips and a hilarious airplane steward, Tre, wraps her in duct tape to preserve a modicum of decency. Really? There aren’t any sweaters or uniforms on the airplane? Just roll with it because it’s a novel. I would have enjoyed more of Tre - he was a hoot! And, of course, as happens only in romantic novels, she is seated next to Heath Montgomery, the extremely hunky quarterback whom she was best friends with in high school and had a deep crush on as a teenager.

For reasons unclear to the reader, Lyric chose to lose her virginity to him without making it clear to him that she was the one making love with him, not her identical twin, Harmony. Then she felt humiliated when he calls her by her twin’s name. Come on. How can she blame him when she didn’t make it clear? Then she and her twin broke off all contact with him from that time to the present. That part of the plot could have been a little bit more, er...fleshed out. Heath grew up to be a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, but now he’s suffered a career-ending injury. He has to figure out what he’s going to do for the rest of his life. While he’s thinking it over, why not hang out with his former best friend who has grown up to be a very hot lady? She’s also shy and insecure because, as often happens in the world of romance novels, she’s been dumped by her former fiance. She’s a brilliant astrophysicist. You wouldn’t think that a genius-level astrophysicist would have much in common with a former quarterback, but so it is. After all, have I mentioned that they’re both hot. Heath maneuvers Lyric into a pretend engagement so we can hit another romance-novel trope, but it’s very sweet how he’s trying to win her back. What I enjoyed most about the book was the witty dialogue between Lyric and Heath. Heath seems like a very nice man who deserved better than how Lyric and Harmony treated him back in high school. The book is funny and enjoyable.

I received a free review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.