Monday, April 26, 2021

Blog Tour + Excerpt + Review: "Charming Billionaire: The Thatcher Kelly Collection" by Max Monroe

I'm delighted to participate in the blog tour celebrating the release of "Charming Billionaire: The Thatcher Kelly Collection" by Max Monroe. The novel and two novellas included in this collection are part of the Billionaire Bad Boys series, but the collection works perfectly as a standalone for readers new to Max Monroe's work.
 
Individual reviews for each title in the collection are included below, but in short, I loved all three of these hilarious stories because of the endearing characters and flirty, witty banter between protagonists Thatcher and Cassie. I highly recommend it for all fans of contemporary romance and romantic comedy. Even if you've already read the first two (previously published) stories in the bundle, it's totally worth the price for the new story alone.
 
"Banking the Billionaire" (previously published)
 
"Banking the Billionaire" features billionaire financial consultant Thatcher "Thatch" Kelly and photographer Cassie Phillips, the best friends of Kline and Georgia Brooks from "Tapping the Billionaire." Readers familiar with Kline and Georgia's story will likely recall Thatch as the cocky, charming, playful prankster whose efforts to "help" Kline ended in disaster on more than one occasion. I loved seeing Thatch get a taste of his own medicine from Crazy Cassie in this story. Their efforts to one-up each other made for a lot of laughs, but they both ended up winners when their escalating dares ended with them falling in love. Their chemistry and banter were truly epic, and I enjoyed the way Cassie brought out Thatch's kind, caring, and protective side. If ever two people were perfect for each other, it's Thatch and Cassie, though their friends should probably be afraid now that the two of them have joined forces!

Overall, I absolutely adored "Banking the Billionaire" and highly recommend it, either on its own or as part of the bundle. Cassie and Thatch are my favorite Max Monroe couple, and that's really saying something because they have so many great ones!

"Banking Her" (previously published)
 
"Banking Her" is both a bonus epilogue to Cassie and Thatch's story and a setup for their friends' Wes Lancaster and Dr. Winnie Winslow's story in book #3 of the Billionaire Bad Boys series ("Scoring the Billionaire"). Newly pregnant Cassie has rearranged her schedule to fit in as many photography assignments as possible before the baby comes, but Thatch worries that something will happen to her while she's traveling. The situation comes to a head while Cassie is in Phoenix on assignment for Wes's football team, the New York Mavericks. Overprotective Thatch has secretly followed Cassie from New York to keep an eye on her, but when Kline and Georgia figure out what he's been up to and decide to "help" him, hilarity ensues.

It was adorable to see how Thatch worried about Cassie and wanted to take care of her as soon as they found out she was pregnant. While he certainly took things too far, it was very entertaining to sit back and watch his antics, and his grand gesture at the end was incredibly sweet.

Overall, "Banking Her" was a super cute and funny story, and I highly recommend it.

"Crazy Fluffing Love" (new release)

In "Crazy Fluffing Love," pregnancy hormones have hit Cassie hard, and poor Thatch fears for his life after an unfortunate burrito incident. Desperate to do anything that will make his wife happy, he agrees to Cassie's suggestion to plan their honeymoon. Instead of the relaxing, post-baby break Thatch was expecting, Cassie decides on an immediate trip to Panama City, Florida, the spring break capital of the world, to experience her last bit of wild and crazy freedom before becoming a mom. It's October, so not exactly the height of spring break season, but that doesn't mean that Cassie won't have a few surprises up her sleeve for Thatch!
 
This was another laugh-out-loud funny, sweet story, and I loved getting to spend some extra time with Cassie and Thatch. For those who have already read the previous two stories, it's worth the price of the bundle for this novella alone.
 
*Review copy provided by the authors via Social Butterfly PR. All opinions expressed are my own.
 
 
About "Charming Billionaire"

Players gonna play, but can a wild, untamable, alpha billionaire player fall in love
 
Charming Billionaire, an all-new laugh out loud romantic comedy collection of Banking the Billionaire, Banking Her, and the all new novella Crazy Fluffing Love from New York Times bestselling author Max Monroe is available now!

Meet the most irresistible billionaire of all time in one sexy, steamy, downright hilarious, and binge-worthy romantic comedy collection (all for the price of one novella, too!)

This collection includes the following three books:
  • Banking the Billionaire
  • Banking Her
  • And a BRAND-NEW novella, Crazy Fluffing Love
Banking the Billionaire
Uninhibited. Sarcastic. Confident. Beautiful.
With a thriving photography career that allows her to travel all over the world and capture the hottest of men behind her camera lens, Cassie Phillips is the woman who can’t be tamed.

Adrenaline junkie. Jokester. Billionaire. Hot-as-sin.
At six foot five, with muscles for days, and that perfect playful smile, Thatcher Kelly is the kind of man you don’t want to deny.

Wild for wild.
Prank for prank.
The two unlikeliest of people may be the only ones to see that some personality traits only run skin-deep.

Banking Her
Thatch and Cassie have finally found their perfect balance of good and sweet, crazy and playful, and most importantly, hot and insatiable.

But what happens when they’re faced with a surprise neither of them plotted or schemed?

While Cassie seems to be taking everything in stride, Thatch can’t stop himself from worrying about every little thing revolving around the woman he loves.

How does a man handle that kind of anxiety?

Doing the only thing he can to ease his mind without pushing away the woman he loves, Thatch proves that, once again, when it comes to him and Cass, you’ll never see what’s coming.

Crazy Fluffing Love
MISSING PERSON
Name: Thatcher Kelly
Age: Mid-thirties
Height: 6 foot 5 inches
Weight: A very sexy, lean, and muscular 250 pounds
Last seen: Panama City Beach, Florida
Important Note: This guy is a real good-looking motherfluffer.

Look, I know this might seem a little over the top to already prepare for my face to be plastered all over Missing Persons flyers, but trust me, it’s not.

My pregnant wife Cassie—whose hormones are swinging like a fluffing pendulum—has decided that we need a honeymoon.

Right the F now.

She wants us to go on a celebratory “spring break,” we-just-got-married vacation to none other than Panama City Beach, Florida. But the only problem is, it’s not spring.

It’s not even summer.

It’s October, my crazy-hot wife is pregnant, and things are starting to get really fluffing weird.

If you’re reading this, send help and plan a really nice memorial for my very super, beloved, *ahem* male member, who, for the sake of public decency, shall remain nameless. I’m not entirely sure he’s going to make it out alive.

Note from Author: Every book in this collection ends in an HEA. 
 
 
Read an Excerpt from "Charming Billionaire"

Intro


Thatch 
 
I’m Thatcher Kelly.

Harvard graduate.

Financial Consultant for Brooks Media and its subsidiaries and several other Fortune 500 companies.


What? It sounds familiar? Fuck that.
I can’t help it if Kline went first and stole all of my shit.


Net worth: $1.2 billion. Yeah, perfect Kline is worth more than me. But I have my hands on a lot more things. Important things.

Okay, maybe not important. But they’re…pussies. I have my hands on pussies.

Relax, I’m kidding. Well, mostly.

A man of many talents, I have more interests and jobs than you would expect.

Adrenaline Junkie. Jumps and falls, dives or climbs—orgasms. If it makes the bottom fall out of your stomach and end up in your throat with a wave of pleasure for your whole body to surf afterward, I’m in.

I’m built like a tree, but I’d rather do anything than just stand there.

Get out, get wild, fucking live life.

It’s also probably not a surprise I’m known for going through a laundry list of women. Quite frankly, I won’t fucking apologize for it. They’ve all meant something to me, regardless of the amount of time they’ve been in my life, long or short, and they’ve all taught me something about life or myself that I won’t give back.

But I’ve also longed for the kind of monogamy my friend Kline has for most of my life. A person who does their best to know you in and out and looks out for you when you can’t look out for yourself. The kind of person who wants to live life to its very fullest—but wants to do it with you.

Bottom line, I’m eclectic. A confusing mix of inappropriate jokes and heartfelt sentiment, you can dig and dig, and you’ll still be miles from the bottom of me.

At least, that had always been the case until Cassie Phillips.

She’s crazy and needy and borderline inappropriate at all times.

But she’s got the softest untamed heart when you’re someone she cares about, and fuck if that hasn’t become my singularly most important goal—mean something to the woman who already means all the things to me.

Because for the guy who wants wild and commitment in the same fucking breath, you better believe it’s going to be one bumpy ride.

Fasten that seat belt tight, ladies and gentleman.

This is us.
 
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