Tattle Tail by Nancey Cummings [Review]

Tattle Tail (Tail and Claw #4) by Nancey Cummings
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: August 11, 2023

Tail and Claw
1. Have Tail, Will Travel
2. Pulled by the Tail
3. Tail, Dark and Handsome
4. Tattle Tail - Paperback | Kindle
5. Tail Me No Lies

Nancey Cummings
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Just a little lie… a fake fiancé fib.

Peaceable needs a man to get her parents off her tail and stop their matchmaking. Desperate, she blurts out a made-up, surprise engagement to the worst, most aggravating man in the galaxy: Joseph Moonquest.

Instant. Regret.

The problem is that Joseph is the most insufferable, arrogant and wildly attractive human male she’s ever met. Worse still, he takes news of their surprise engagement in stride.
He’ll play her games.

Joseph and the stunning alien woman have been circling each other for months. Peaceable is the least fun, most goody-two shoes person he knows. She’s so prim and proper, colder than the stars in deep space.
He might ask why she’s so desperate for a fake fiancé but he’ll enjoy tempting and teasing the uptight alien. She’s the one woman he’s never been able to charm. He'll melt that icy exterior and make her come undone.

Her little lie? He’ll play along until she’s at his mercy and the fussy female is in his bed.

He’ll be the best fake fiancé in the cosmos.
Game on.

Thoughts on Tattle Tail: Oh man. Mari's brother (who was attacked by Mari's honey is a hilarious case of overreaction on Winter's part in their book) and the very logical Peaceable are up and LOLOLOL. Joseph is a little bit of a chaos gremlin (the guy loooooves riling poor Peaceable up) and Peaceable tries very hard to stay calm and collected in the face of, well, everything.

As it turns out, Peaceable needs the riling up. She needs someone to shake things up for her and remind her that she doesn't have to be the one who always gives and gives and gives to keep the, well, peace. She can be selfish on occasion. She can push back if she needs to. Joseph likes that she lets her true emotions show with him and soon their fake fiancé thing is feeling a whole lot less fake than it did at the beginning.

Complicated family dynamics (on Peaceable's side, as it turns out. Who knew?!?!), a little time spent for our couple alone on a spaceship, a kind of squicky proposition from a friend of the family that was very NO THANKS, a super slimy guy who shouldn't be trusted ever, an uninhabited planet, a little danger, and two people who might seem very different but who fit together in the best way.