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Title: Beer FestAuthor: Lilo MooreFormat reviewed: EbookSource: NetgalleyPublisher: LM BooksPublication Date: 31st August 2023Rating: 4 Stars
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Title: Beer Fest
Two best friends, a tipsy Oktoberfest dare and one kiss that could change everything.
It’s been fifteen years since big-shot marketing manager Fi first met her bi best friend Max. Living on different continents has had its challenges, but she’s determined that their friendship will be as strong as ever when she arrives in Munich for an Oktoberfest reunion with their study abroad friends. There’s no one she loves like her Max, even if he has finally grown up a bit and now runs a microbrewery.
But instead of lazy conversations and comfortable day-drinking, as they’d always done when they were younger, the reunion is a slightly desperate meeting of disillusioned millennials escaping real life – until Fi’s jetlagged, drunken rant about being a woman working in beer marketing goes viral and they’re roped into a bad-taste beerfest challenge. As she and Max and their friends from the international dorm tackle fairground stunts, physical challenges and bad karaoke, the one dare that changes everything is the simplest: kiss your teammate.
Now she can’t stop thinking about him in a very more-than-friends kind of way. When kissing leads to more and she discovers that her screwball best friend can talk dirty and light the sheets on fire in the bedroom, she can’t help seeing the years of their friendship in a new – and terrifying – light.
As the challenge progresses with thrill rides, pretzels, lots of lederhosen and a little public nudity, the dares are actually fun, when Fi completes them on her own terms. But the truth questions present the biggest danger to her future. What happens to her precious friendship – and her big promotion – when she admits to herself just how much Max means to her?
A spicy romcom with a bit of snark and a lot of swoon, for fans of Helen Hoang and Christina Lauren.
I really enjoyed this latest book from Lilo Moore, set to a backdrop of Oktoberfest.
Now I've never read anything set at Oktoberfest before, nor do I drink beer, or know anything about this annual beer festival, so have no idea how accurate anything is, but if you like doing loads of wacky things in and amongst increasingly drunk people then it could be the festival for you.
Fi hasn't seen best friend Max in a few years in the flesh, and the rest of their group in many years, but its like a reunion for them all.
And they get suckered into taking part in a team contest over the fest that takes in truth or dares in addition to assorted challenges.
And Fi and Max are rather competitive and so we get to see a whole lot of fun and funny activities as they attempt to win.
But in that they grow closer and there is clear chemistry between them, even though they are allegedly just good friends.
Max was easily my favourite character and I would love to see more of him in he future.
And the raunchy scenes were fabulous.
This was a greatly enjoyable romp through Oktoberfest, featuring friends, sex and more!
Thank you to LM Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.
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