Happy Endings by Thien-Kim Lam

HAPPY ENDINGS RELEASES 5.18.21! Preorder your copy from your favorite local bookstore!

Firstly, this book had some fun, super steamy sex scenes (warming massaging oils! crotchless undies!) and of course it did when one of the characters sells sex toys for a living! Get ready to get out your vibrator!

Trixie wants to be #1 sales person at her sex toy company for that sweet, sweet bonus. With the bonus she could open her own boutique and prove to her Vietnamese parents that there are other successful careers out there beyond doctor and lawyer. Her new friend, Keisha, invites Trixie to host a bachelorette party pop-up at her restaurant Mama Hazel’s and it’s a huge hit! What Trixie didn’t know is that Keisha’s brother, the restaurants co-owner and bartender is none other than her ex, Andre, who ghosted her years ago. But Andre is juggling the struggling restaurants bills and Keisha’s tuition and the new sex toy pop-up is helping and keeps Trixie around. Now they have to work together and keep a new “friends with benefits” agreement professional.

I liked this book, but I didn’t love it. I read an ARC and this was the first ARC I’ve read that really begged for an editor. My major complaint is that the author set the tone that we would switch perspectives throughout the book and then at a few points would just do it between or within paragraphs, which really pulled me out of the story.

Trixie’s support group of friend, The Boss Babes, are amazing. If you don’t have some of those, get some. Female friends who are working it, being successful, and supporting each other is an incredible thing to have/feel. -Ford