Thank you so much to Putnam for an advance copy!
Thank you so much to PRH Audio for the complimentary audio!  

This will be published on Feb 27th, 2024.

This is a 3peat 5 star win for me! I already knew after reading Lease on Love that Falon would be an autobuy author for me but after loving Just My Type it solidified it. And then this one, just another absolute perfection!

"Don't deny yourself something beautiful because you're already thinking about what happens if it goes wrong."

I had reached out to the author when I blew through 50% of this in my first sitting advising that I know she wrote the book for her but I felt like she was writing it for me.  I already knew that Falon had a love for pop culture/Hollywood and this was where she threw her love for that in. Its been a hot minute since I read a celebrity romance so this definitely itch the scratch I didn't know I had. 

I absolutely love that this started with Oscar winner Emmy being a writer trying to cast her new rom com and she had to get over her self doubt and try acting again as the lead in the film. And after the original male lead had to back out of the film, the movie was replaced by action star Grayson West.

I will say the first 30% of the book Emmy was very immature and annoying towards having to work with Grayson. I think that was Ballard's point as we had to know how much Emmy disliked Grayson and how unhappy she was to have to work with him. And I love her journey throughout the book, removing those layers of distaste for Grayson. Or put two uncomfortable actors on a closed set for a love scene and that is when it allll changes for them!  Ballard knocked it out of the park with the spice in this. Definitely her most ambitious compared to the other two and I was so here for it!!!!

"You stayed."
"I stayed."

I just could not stop reading and absolutely fell in love with Emmy & Grayson's relationship. I don't really see too many one night stands or an on the call buddy (if you know what I mean) so that was refreshing to read. Plus I just knew that they would be so hot together given their history and chemistry. What also was refreshing to see is that we actually got to see them as a couple. I just love that they had that conversation about what was going to happen to them out in the real world. 

I love the relationship Emmy had with her mom and how she often turned to her when she needed that extra reassurance (as most do with their moms).  And with Emmy being a nepo baby, her mom could give her that insight on dealing with being in a public relationship and just relationships in general. 

I paired my reading with the audiobook and thought that the main narrator Rachel L Jacobs did a great job as both Emmy and Grayson! I love when there were text exchanges towards the end, it had both the female voice as well as the male narrator, Curt Bonnem (who was used during the mixed media parts). There were 2 other female narrators listed but I couldn't really tell who from who apart. 

I am finding it harder and hard to write reviews for books I love. And I just really loved this one. 

Definitely check this out if you love enemies to lovers, movie behind the scenes with a celeb romance!