This books was an emotional roller coaster and it depends on the reader if it’s a bad one or a good one.

Unfortunately Yours is the second book in Tessa Bailey’s A Vine Mess series following siblings Julian and Natalie Vos as they find love.

Unfortunately Yours follows Natalie Vos as she gets back up on her feet after losing her hob and being dumped. She’s founding a new business venture and all she needs is her trust fund to fund it, the catch is she needs to be married and employed to actually receive and she has neither. Enter August Cates, owner of a failing vineyard, ex Navy SEAL, and Natalie’s number one enemy. The bank won’t give him the loan he needs to turn the business around. They both need something marriage will provide. The only problem is that they hate each other and their attraction is too hard to handle.

This book was an acquired taste. Going in I was definitely concerned I was going to hate Unfortunately Yours. But the more and more I read it, the more I came to care for the characters and like them.

The miscommunication was strong in this one, which is something I’m not particularly fond of but I managed to get over.

The characters were complete opposites and have very strong personalities, combine that with the miscommunication and very often, it’s the recipe for disaster. I mean it when I said it depended on the reader who was reading it.

But August and Natalie manage to make me stay with them and end up loving them. August is just one big doofus and a completely unserious person but he absolutely adored Natalie. Like awestruck in love. And he loveddd to push all of Natalie’s buttons. It was so funny. August is like a brainless golden retriever sometimes, imagine that one Tik Tok sound “Not a thought behind those eyes” that was August 60% of the time but it made me so lovable.

Natalie was stoic, cold and pretty guarded. She’s screams parent issues, like both of them. Which you will see throughout this book. But I loved seeing her let her walls down thought out the book especially because August loves her so much and making her smile became literally his life’s purpose.
Their love was what made this book so much more enjoyable. I really liked it and I’m so glad I did because Secretly Yours was a big meh for me which I am still bummed about.

Overall I recommend you at least try the book, I can’t guarantee you will like it but at least give it a shot, I think you could really end up enjoying it!

Tessa Bailey will remain a hit or miss author for me but I’m excited to see what’s next in her writing.

Thank you to Avon for providing me with a review copy in exchange of my honest review!