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Muffin Top (A BBW Romantic Comedy) (The Hartigans Book 2) Kindle Edition
The only thing about me that’s a size zero is the filter on my mouth. I’ve got a big personality, a big rack, and a big number on the scale. And I’m perfectly fine with that.
But when some random guy suggests I might not be eating alone if I’d ordered a salad instead of a hamburger I’m shocked silent, which is a feat, trust me.
That brings us to one sexy fireman named Frankie Hartigan. He’s hot. He’s funny… And he’s just apologized for being late for our “date” then glared at the fat-shaming jerk. Next thing I know, he’s sitting down and ordering himself dinner.
I have no problem telling him I don’t need a pity date…unless of course it’s to my high school reunion next week. Oops where did that last bit come from? And what do I do now that he’s said yes?!
Because this is no make-over story, and I think Frankie is using me for something. I just have to figure out what…
Each book in the Hartigans series is STANDALONE:
* Butterface
* Muffin Top
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherEntangled: Amara
- Publication dateOctober 29, 2018
- File size3260 KB
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Editorial Reviews
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"What a fun and endearing love story! We loved Lucy's quirkiness, quick wit, AND her curves!" - Max Monroe, New York Times bestselling author
"Muffin Top is classic Avery Flynn! Lots of humor, heat, and heart!" - Erin Nicholas, NYT & USA Today bestselling author
"Avery Flynn brings the laughs, romance, and heat in this second book featuring the wonderful Hartigan family and friends." - Kylie Scott, New York Times bestselling author
"MUFFIN TOP is the exact reason why Avery Flynn is an auto-buy author for me." - Jules Bennett, USA Today bestselling author
"Muffin Top is a dazzling Rom-Com that will make you laugh, make you cry and give you all the feels. I highly recommend this book to every romance fan who loves strong characters and a to die for hero that you will want as your own. I definitely need more of the Hartigan's in my life!" -Sinfully wicked Book Reviews
"Can I start by saying that it's been a really long time since I've loved a plus sized character as much as I loved Lucy. Avery Flynn has really written the "fat" girl to perfection. She understands what goes through that brain. Frankie's character was believable and relatable. The two get into some interesting predicaments and I found myself laughing to tears. The emotions that they go through brought me to tears of a different nature. So far this is my ultimate favorite of Ms.Flynn's. It will be difficult to top!" -Donna S., NetGalley
"Loved this sweet, sexy and sassy story. I found myself relating to Lucy from the start. She and Frankie had such chemistry. Their winding path to their HEA was one I was happy to tag along on." -Robin C., Goodreads
"Muffin Top is a truly inspiring, relatable and unconventional love story that every woman in today's society need to know, read and believe. You will fall in love with Lucy and Frankie. And you will also learn to love yourself just a little bit more!" -Paramita P., Goodreads
"Funny mishaps, and cute little misunderstandings, and some depth rolled into an amazing story that will have you laughing and swoon so hard, that you will definitely be nowhere near ready when the story ends." -Heather B., NetGalley
"This story is fabulously funny!" -Chloe T., NetGalley
"Avery Flynn delivers another hit in The Hartigans series with Muffin Top! Lucy Kavanaugh and Firefighter Frankie Hartigan are heating things up big time in this sexy and engaging romantic comedy. Avery doesn't just give you the laughs, she gives you so much more. I highly recommend Muffin Top!" -Amber H., Goodreads
About the Author
Product details
- ASIN : B07FSJ6SZH
- Publisher : Entangled: Amara (October 29, 2018)
- Publication date : October 29, 2018
- Language : English
- File size : 3260 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 322 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #32,971 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,679 in Romantic Comedy (Kindle Store)
- #2,130 in Romantic Comedy (Books)
- #5,742 in Contemporary Romance (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
Avery Flynn is a USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling romance author. She has three slightly-wild children, loves a hockey-addicted husband and is desperately hoping someone invents the coffee IV drip.
She was a reader before she was a writer and hopes to always be both. She loves to write about smartass alpha heroes who are as good with a quip as they are with their *ahem* other God-given talents. Her heroines are feisty, fierce and fantastic. Brainy and brave, these ladies know how to stand on their own two feet and knock the bad guys off theirs.
Find out more about Avery on her website (averyflynn.com), follow her on Twitter (@AveryFlynn) and Pinterest (pinterest.com/AveryFlynnBooks), and like her on her Facebook page (facebook.com/AveryFlynnAuthor).
Join her street team, The Flynnbots, and receive special sneak peeks, prizes and early access to her latest releases!
Also, if you figure out how to send Oreos through the Internet, she'll be your best friend for life.
Contact her at avery@averyflynn.com. She'd love to hear from you!
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Customers enjoyed the story's cute and well-written storytelling. They found the book easy to read and enjoyable. The humor and witty banter between characters was fun. Readers loved the characters and their great personalities. The writing quality was poignant and well-balanced, with good dialogue and descriptions. The emotional content was heartwarming and heartbreaking, making it relatable.
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Customers enjoy the story. They find it well-written with compelling characters and a strong plot. The book is described as an awkward love story that's more realistic than a fairytale.
"...I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good contemporary romance with a super strong female character, a great circle of friends for support,..." Read more
"...Such good narrators made the book even better. Cute and spicy story...." Read more
"...Lucy and Frankie are both such compelling and complex characters, that also happen to be incredibly realistic. Lucy is smart, funny and successful...." Read more
"This was exactly what I needed - an easy fun read with some drama and a happy ending. I really liked Lucy & Frankie...." Read more
Customers enjoy the book. They find it a lighthearted and enjoyable read with good narrators. The series is well-done and they find themselves endeared to the characters.
"...of which was the plus-size MC representation that I felt was done really well...." Read more
"...Such good narrators made the book even better. Cute and spicy story...." Read more
"...Lucy is smart, funny and successful. She is also a plus size woman with quite the sassy mouth on her...." Read more
"...This is such an enjoyable series and I found myself endeared to the characters in this book very quickly...." Read more
Customers enjoy the humor in the book. They find the witty banter and snark between characters enjoyable. The story is described as an easy, fun read with some drama and tension.
"...It was laugh-out-loud funny with plenty of one-liners throughout that earned its position securely in the romantic comedy category...." Read more
"...Lucy is smart, funny and successful. She is also a plus size woman with quite the sassy mouth on her...." Read more
"This was exactly what I needed - an easy fun read with some drama and a happy ending. I really liked Lucy & Frankie...." Read more
"...A fun, fast paced tale that is laced with humor sizzling romance and a strong story thread that explores how childhood hurts, perceptions and..." Read more
Customers enjoy the characters' development. They find the characters likeable, with great personalities and a lot of dialogue between them. The story has twists and a strong female character. Readers appreciate the realistic heroine and likable characters.
"...to anyone who enjoys a good contemporary romance with a super strong female character, a great circle of friends for support, a good solid Hero with..." Read more
"...Lucy and Frankie are both such compelling and complex characters, that also happen to be incredibly realistic. Lucy is smart, funny and successful...." Read more
"...What a incredibly likeable guy Avery Flynn created. He was the total package ya’ll!..." Read more
"...There is a lot of backstory provided for both characters that explain a lot of why Lucy and Frankie are the way they are...." Read more
Customers appreciate the book's writing quality. They find the dialogue and banter engaging, with a good balance of descriptions that keeps the story moving along smoothly. The writing flow is perfect, and customers love the author's writing style.
"...brought into their impromptu relationship, I also thought was well thought out and made for good conflict in the story...." Read more
"...Definitely recommend listening if you are able to. Such good narrators made the book even better. Cute and spicy story...." Read more
"...After a dinner filled with easy, unexpected good conversation and a lot of laughter, Frankie offers to take Lucy to the high school reunion she..." Read more
"Love the series. Very good books. I'm also glad they have the audible narration with KU. Follows another man from a family who falls in love" Read more
Customers find the book engaging with its emotional content. They find it heartwarming, funny, and relatable. The story explores childhood hurts, perceptions, and insecurities through humor, passion, and romantic moments.
"...Filled with deep emotions, drama, humor and sizzling heat, this book was a delight to read...." Read more
"...with humor sizzling romance and a strong story thread that explores how childhood hurts, perceptions and insecurities affect us all through our..." Read more
"...Their was both depth and exploration of past hurts. As well as discovery and confronting the ghosts of the past...." Read more
"...This book is rich in realism and emotional content. Both characters have painful pasts...." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's intelligence and well-developed characters. They find it entertaining, lighthearted, and a smile-inducing read with advice and encouragement.
"...I felt like that aspect was really well-developed, so I was really happy about that...." Read more
"...Enter Lucy Kavanagh, smart, strong willed, accomplished, large in both body and spirit, not to mention his brother’s fiancé and sister’s best friend...." Read more
"...He was the total package ya’ll! He was sexy and charming and funny and lovable and just plain fun to read!..." Read more
"...It's a well-done story that will leave you smiling and at peace. I would've bumped this up to 4 stars if it hadn't been repetitive...." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's heat level. They find the sparks immediate and the chemistry strong. The story is described as engaging with a slow-burning sexual attraction.
"--"... this was a full-on, fully engaged four-alarm fire, and he was glad as hell to be burning.--..." Read more
"...Filled with deep emotions, drama, humor and sizzling heat, this book was a delight to read...." Read more
"...When these two finally give in, the sparks are immediate and HOT...." Read more
"...A story full of witty banter and a slow burn of sexual attraction. Their was both depth and exploration of past hurts...." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2019--"... this was a full-on, fully engaged four-alarm fire, and he was glad as hell to be burning.--
There was a lot I loved about this book, not least of which was the plus-size MC representation that I felt was done really well. And while Lucy had her hangups and self-esteem issues, she was a bad-ass PR agent who could hold her own.
And Frankie Hartigan made it all believable for me... all six-foot-six of him and his meal cooking, abs-laden, fire-fighting goodness.
When I read the first book in this series, one of the things I thought was a tad lacking was the story showing why Ford had fallen for Gina. He liked her despite her not being what people would consider conventionally attractive as people went, and it was sweet, but I didn't see that story really SHOW what it was about HER that made HIM like her so much. That was definitely not an issue in Muffin Top. I felt like that aspect was really well-developed, so I was really happy about that.
The backgrounds for each of these characters and the baggage they each brought into their impromptu relationship, I also thought was well thought out and made for good conflict in the story.
I listened to this audiobook pretty much in one sitting because it was just that entertaining and fun. It was laugh-out-loud funny with plenty of one-liners throughout that earned its position securely in the romantic comedy category. This is easily a story I could see being made into a Netflix original at some point.
--“Your ego is the only thing bigger than you are. It could use a little downsizing,” she said with a chuckle.--
I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good contemporary romance with a super strong female character, a great circle of friends for support, a good solid Hero with all the endearing qualities a HEA calls for, and a family dynamic that warms the cockles.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2024I liked this book so much I read/listened to it within 48 hours. Definitely recommend listening if you are able to. Such good narrators made the book even better.
Cute and spicy story.
Wished Lucy would have stopped being so hard on herself and second guessing as well.
Frankie…well.. he was trying to figure out not only himself but how he felt about Lucy.
I would recommend. Now I need to go find the rest of the series. It’s ok to not have read the first book, but now I want to know what happened in the first book.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2018This is a wonderfully amazing romance that I just fell in love with. Filled with deep emotions, drama, humor and sizzling heat, this book was a delight to read. Lucy and Frankie are both such compelling and complex characters, that also happen to be incredibly realistic. Lucy is smart, funny and successful. She is also a plus size woman with quite the sassy mouth on her. Now I know that that seems cliched and in some ways it is. However, I feel that when you are singled out and ridiculed about something all the time it pretty much can cause you to react in either retreat mode or defense mode and Lucy went with defense mode. Frankie is such a great guy but he also has his own baggage that effects how he acts and the relationships he has. What starts out as something basic and quickly morphs into so much more when the attraction and chemistry just explodes between them. I will say that there is one spot in the book where I think Lucy really let her mouth get the better of her and at Frankie's expense. This rubbed me the wrong way and I can't say that I was very satisfied with how the whole thing was rectified either. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and am eagerly awaiting book #3.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2024This was exactly what I needed - an easy fun read with some drama and a happy ending. I really liked Lucy & Frankie. They were both so confident in so many ways but not confident when it came to their love life. It was understandable for both of them - Lucy is plus size & has dealt with society’s thoughts & expectations her whole life, and Frankie has been made aware that the local ladies see him as good for a night but not a real relationship. I really liked their chemistry; it was hot both in & out of the bedroom, and I just liked them as a couple.
However, the miscommunication & self-sabotage was strong, and it’s mostly from Lucy’s side. Yes, they both talked at each other & misinterpreted what the other said, but Lucy refuses to believe that Frankie is attracted to her. The third act breakup happened as expected but I did expect more grovelling from her; instead, it’s pretty much all from Frankie.
Top reviews from other countries
- SarahReviewed in Canada on January 31, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Good out-of-the-box romance
I am a big fan of most of Avery Flynn's books. I read Butter Face first and really enjoyed it, so I decided to give Muffin Top a try as the two standalone stories revolve around the same group of girls and circle of friends. I'm still a bigger fan of Butter Face but Muffin Top was still a good read and I'm 100% I bought it and gave it a try. The book has a great quirky plot, lots of great dialogue and Avery Flynn does her usual bang-up job of perfectly balancing description, dialogue, and plot. Definitely worth purchasing if you're looking for a good romance book. A++
- PJReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
A fun book to read. Easy going and light hearted just what you need to pass the time away whilst having a coffee.
- Maria ZReviewed in Germany on April 23, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet though predictable
I enjoyed the read. I found it sweet and sometimes funny though predictable. A little obsessed about the inferiority complex, but as I said, it was expected.
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Cliente KindleReviewed in Italy on November 9, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Carino!
Molto carino, lo consiglio.
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LonoreReviewed in France on November 9, 2020
5.0 out of 5 stars Un excellent moment
J'adore ce genre de livre : bien écrit, on rit, on stress, on ne pleure pas.
On sait cela va bien finir,pourtant on en doute...
Se lit d'une traité, comme tout ce que cette auteur écrit.