AUDIO REVIEW: Dripped by Charlie Novak (Lick It! #2)

- July 09, 2026

DRIPPED

Lick It! - Book Two

by Charlie Novak

Release Date: July 9, 2026

Review

How could you not fall in love with a guy whose job is creating ice cream flavours!?!

Darcy is the force behind Heather Bay’s newest business. But the stress of running the shop, starting a new business, creating the ice cream…he’s one dropped ice cream cone away from melting down.

Which summer hire, Owen sees. He’s attracted to Darcy, but when he sees how stressed he is, he suggests some fun outside the kitchen.

Darcy is a nomad, never committing. To people or places. So he’s definitely leaving at the end of the summer.

Except, when you find that perfect flavour, you can’t walk away.

Note about the audiobook…it’s narrated by Dan Calley, whom is a dream to listen to. So yes, I highly recommend this as an audiobook, and in truth any book narrated by Dan!

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Synopsis

Drip It All Over Me

Fulfilling my childhood wish of opening an ice cream shop is meant to be a dream come true, not a stress-inducing nightmare. And it’s not meant to make my friends concerned for my health either. But I’ll be fine! All we have to do is survive the summer and then I’ll be able to breathe again.

My employee Owen has a different idea, though.

He’s seen me watching him swim every morning, and he knows I think he’s ridiculously hot, so he proposes a simple solution to my stress: a summer-long, no-strings hook-up arrangement.

It’s the perfect plan on paper. Except, the longer summer goes on, the more I’m developing feelings for the sunshine swimmer who loves my dream as much as I do. But I can’t tell him that. Because Owen doesn’t plan to stay. And I can’t ask him to.

Even if letting him walk away would be the worst decision I’ve ever made.

About Charlie Novak

Charlie lives in England with her husband and a dachshund named Biscuit. She spends most of her days wrangling other people’s words in her day job and then trying to force her own onto the page in the evening.

She loves cute stories with a healthy dollop of fluff, plenty of delicious sex, and happily ever afters – because the world needs more of them. Charlie also believes that love comes in all shapes and sizes.

Charlie has very little spare time, but what she does have she fills with cooking, pole-dancing, reading and ice-hockey. She also thinks that everyone should have at least one favourite dinosaur…

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