REVIEW: Make You Blush by Macy Beckett

In Make You Blush by Macy Beckett, Joy has been looking for love in all the wrong places. She is tired of the hook ups arranged by her politically driven mother and father that are all about image. She is tired of being someone she’s not. When she seeks a little help from a cupcake baker/voodoo priestess then winds up in a tattoo studio, she finds Ryan who is “Spiced carrot cake..with lots of sprinkles.” compared to what she feels like is her “vanilla”.

Joy wants “…my outside to match who I am inside.” And Ryan might just be the man who can help her do that. The attraction is immediate, the chemistry is sizzling – “…they had enough chemistry to steam the ink off his skin.”, and the dialogue is witty. Ryan makes Joy feel alive, makes her feel like the person she knows she is deep inside…the one she’s been hiding to be the appropriate, good daughter. But she’s still hiding from her parents, who she is and who she’s seeing, despite the strong feelings Joy and Ryan share.

Will Joy find the courage to be true to herself and Ryan? Or will she bow to the pressure of a father who’s not the same one she grew up with, pushing Ryan away and hurting them both?

Macy gives us a fun, fast paced novella in Make You Blush. Joy and Ryan captivate you and make you really hope they get a happily ever after. They bring out the best in each other, and Macy’s descriptives, smooth writing and easy flow will make you really glad you picked this novella up.

Make You Blush is a prequel novella to Macy’s new series The Dumont Bachelor’s, an enjoyable introduction to the series that will make you eager for more.

I highly recommend this novella to any romance reader, you won’t be disappointed!

Book Info:

Published April 1st 2014 by Signet

Welcome to the Louisiana Bayou and the world of rising star Macy Beckett’s newest series, where hopeful hearts will go to great lengths to change their luck in love…

On the surface, Joy McMasterson has everything—a steady career, a trendy French Quarter townhouse, and high-society parents who fill her schedule with a rotation of trust fund hotties. But despite her good fortune, Joy is suffocating beneath the pressure of her father’s political campaign. Every detail of her life is scripted, from her sensible Tiffany hoops to the men she’s permitted to date.

To assert control over her love life, Joy visits The Sweet Spot bakery—home to Allie Mauvais, third-generation voodoo priestess and renowned matchmaker. Armed with love potion and a newly-found nerve, Joy walks out of the bakery and into Ryan Gibson’s tattoo shop. One look at the gorgeous owner and she knows two things: they have enough chemistry to steam the ink off his skin, and he’s not the kind of guy she can take home to her parents. But if Joy wants to escape her father’s shadow, maybe Ryan is exactly who she needs…