Review: Mimi Jean has done it again!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2014
Happy Pants Café by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff is book one in the Happy Pants series.  I love a fun, sexy romance but I love it even more when it turns out to have that hidden secret, that something that makes it more.  And that is exactly what I found with Happy Pants Café.Harper Branton is a writer for the San Francisco Tribune.  She loves her job, I mean, her job is her life.  She feels like she will eventually marry, but her future husband will have to agree that the marriage is not for love but for mutual companionship, regular sex, and friendship.  You see, Harper does not believe in true love.“Love – the lasting, romantic sort – was a huge hoax perpetuated by Disney movies and fairytales shoveled into little girls’ brains from day one of life.”When Harper is trying to get a story at the wedding of a celebrity, she finds herself competing for the story with the sexiest man she has ever seen.“The man was a living, breathing, talking, walking hunk of manly goodness.  He gave new meaning to the words “Holy mother of all things erotically mantastic!”Austin Royce was also a reporter, working for a rival newspaper to the Tribune.  Doing these fluff pieces was not his idea of journalism.  He wanted to move on into politics.  So he was willing to do whatever he had to do to get promoted.  Austin has just been through a bad break up and is most definitely not looking for a girlfriend.  But, he does believe in love.  Little did he realize the way his life would change, though, that day at the wedding when he first laid eyes on that gorgeous red head.Austin and Harper both find themselves heading to St. Helena, California to find the place that they heard Christina, the celebrity whose wedding they had attended, talking about.  A place where the patrons go to find their true love.  They find themselves in a beautiful little city surrounded by miles and miles of scenic vineyards.  And, in St. Helena, they find The Happy Pants Café.  It is a little tiny shop that sells only coffee and big cookies with yellow frosting and a happy face.  The story is that if you eat one of these cookies, you will find your true love within seven days.  They both want to score the story from the owner of the shop. Luci, but she refuses to give them the interview.  And chaos ensues.  The next few days are filled with hilarious mishaps as both Austin and Harper try to unravel the mystery of those cookies.  Both Harper and Austin discover, though, that they have a hidden connection.  And this connection uncovers a forgotten event in Harper’s past.This book is a hilarious, sweet and sexy story but as I said before, I found it to be so much more.  I loved watching Harper and Austin as they battle with each other and with their own demons.  Can Austin convince Harper that true love really does exist?“You can’t fake love, Harper.  The heart knows when it’s real and when it’s not.  I can’t believe I’m having to explain this to a woman.  I sound like such a wuss.  You’re not going to tell my friends, are you?”Mimi Jean Pamfiloff, you’ve done it again.  Happy Pants Café is fantastic.  I loved every page and can’t wait for book two.