Synopsis:
The party is over for bikini model Izzy Alvarez. For six years she’s made a good living by flaunting her God-given assets on runways and in front of cameras, but now as she approaches the big 3-0, the bodacious Latina is shocked to learn she’s aged out of the profession that’s kept her in mojitos, mani/pedis, and designer thongs. What’s a girl with a taste for the finer things in life and no marketable skills to do?
Getting a regular job is too boring to even consider, so Izzy decides to follow in the footsteps of her newly-engaged frenemy and become a trophy wife. Although she’s desperate and too broke to get a chipped nail fixed, Izzy still has standards for her future husband, which means no uggos, no vertically-challenged guys, and no geezers who need to pop a blue pill to perform in the bedroom. Enlisting the aid of her computer whiz nephew and her closest pals, Izzy goes on the prowl for a rich, marriage-minded man, encountering likely candidates in a lot of unlikely places.
The high life she’s dreamed of may be within reach when Izzy meets a charming, successful man who’s not only hotter than a steamy summer night in Miami, but ready to settle down. Now all Izzy has to do is make sure her loud, crazy Cuban family doesn’t scare off el hombre perfecto—oh, yeah, and squelch those pesky, romantic feelings she keeps having for the sweet, cash-strapped guy she's known forever.
Will Izzy’s hunger for money win out, or will her fiery heart demand to be heard?
My Review!
This is the first book I have read by Tracie Banister, I always love to try out and read from different authors. This book is your typical easy read chick lit story and it should be enjoyed while sunbathing round a swimming pool in a warm location!
This book is all about Izzy Alvarez who is nearing 30 years of age and a bikini model. I couldn't stand Izzy unfortunately she was very self centred and she kept making stupid decisions which made me have to stop reading just to calm myself down.. If I could climb into the book and slap her I would have!
Izzy knows nothing but modelling, so after being told that she was nearing the age where modelling jobs were passing her by to younger models she decides to find herself a rich husband to keep herself in designer clothes and spa treatments. Here starts the bad decisions... and breathe..!
I did laugh at some of the dates she went on, they were just disasters straight from the start but she was determined to find her new (rich) husband.
She soon meets Eduardo who is very charming, good looking and of course well off, things between them do seem great to begin with however as the days past I noticed that their relationship wasn't working out and all the money in the world wouldn't solve a relationship when love is not involved. Here I came to see that maybe money isn't everything to Izzy and that having companionship with someone you love would be more important.
Although Izzy was outspoken and feisty she did have a heart of gold and this was displayed a lot with her family and friends. The whole family came across as being really close especially Izzy and her sister Pilar, I did like to see this side of Izzy especially when she helped to arrange her nieces birthday party.
I see that Pilar has her own story and although I will now know the end of the story I am interested in reading Tracie's other books to understand the family and to find more on Izzy through someone else's perspective.
Thank you Tracie for a great read!
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