Isadora Bentley is on the search for happiness - she's close to an internal breakdown as she hits her 30th birthday, so she does the thing that she does best. Creates a hypothesis of 31 ways to find happiness and sets on researching if these 31 ways actually do bring her happiness.

Found family, love, and finding confidence in herself - Isadora's journey was a joy to follow along with. I was rooting for her to stand up to her ex, believe in her friends, believe in love, and most of all, believe in herself.

While I do have the e-ARC, I was also lucky enough to be able to get the ALC. This was narrated by Jorjeana Marie and she had me smiling throughout the whole book. I loved her energy as she told Isadora's story and she made it even more delightful than I could imagine.

Huge thank you to NetGalley & Thomas Nelson for the ARC in exchange for my honest review! Also, thank you to LibroFM for the ALC in exchange for my honest review.

Violet is an American interning at a fashion house in Rome, Italy. She’s determined to bring her A-game, until she has a disastrous meet cute with her professors son.

We follow Violet through a summer of interning, but also a summer of adventures, falling in love, and ultimately making the decision of whether she wants to find love or win the Internship.

I thought this was a super charming story - full of witty banters but also growth & development with the characters as they figured out what they wanted out of life, including a relationship with each other. I loved not only the chemistry between the two MCs, but also loved the friendship & relationships with the side characters as well.

I love rom-coms that take place abroad and Ciao for Now was no exception!

Huge thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing and NetGalley for the e-ARC. And huge thank you to UpLit Reads for a finished copy and allowing me to participate in this campaign!

Christina Lauren can do no wrong.

That was a huge mind fuck. 10% of calm and 90% intense. I’m torn on the ending.

The whole book was intense but it was too predictable. Give me more twists. Keep me confused. Give me shit that I don’t expect.

Probably the most unpredictable part was that for a VERY short moment I thought that Deek was a person to be trusted. It didn’t last long…

Katie is determined to save her small Irish Village of Ennisbawn from a developer that wants to turn it in a touristy area. Callum is working as part of the construction crew with the developer, but after meeting Katie, he's had a change of heart and wants to help her as she makes a decision to bring back an old village tradition of a Matchmaker festival.

I previously read Holiday Romance from Catherine Walsh and I was smitten from the first page. The Matchmaker took a whopping 50% before I felt like I was actually interested in reading the book.
I almost DNF'ed at 40% because I struggled with just not feeling interested. Katie and Callum had very little chemistry, I was actually more invested in the relationship of the side characters.

Overall, just eh about the finished book.

However, huge thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the ARC. The opinion is 100% my own.

Margo and her best friend, Jo, run a podcast sharing rules for how to take control of relationships to prevent getting a broken heart - basically, don't fall in love and don't get into a committed relationship.
But then Jo falls in love and now they are spending 2 weeks on Cataline Island, full of activities paid for by podcast sponsors specifically as a wedding trip.
Now they have to figure out how to explain to their listeners about Jo's change of heart while also figuring out new content. So they have an idea for Margo to start a social experiment - break her own dating rules to show why the rules matter. The guy? The groom's best friend and her high school nemesis.

I didn't go into this book expecting much but I was hooked from the start. I loved the chemistry between the characters and it's always so nice when a book's side characters are just as memorable as the main characters. I really loved the growth and character development. I was rooting for Margo and Declan to admit their feelings for each other because I loved their interactions so much.

Thank you to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for this ARC. My opinions are 100% my own.

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Because 5 stars is not enough.

Sadie has been diagnosed with acquired face blindness and now has to make sense of her life - a life that was already giving her some bumps and bruises. Grief from the loss of her mom, an emotionally absent father, an annoying step-mother, and a vicious step sister. Along with all this, she’s a finalist in a painting contest and she also has to make a romantic decision between two guys that she can't even see their faces, she just has to go with her gut feeling on who she likes more.

Hello Stranger was utter perfection. I loved the relationships - I loved the growth and the fact that they did not immediately resolve at the end, but you at least saw progress. I loved Joe SOOOOO MUCH and I may have absolutely cried my heart out at the end once [long spoiler statement redacted].

Katherine Center can literally do no wrong and I've decided that I want to be a character in one of her stories.

In all seriousness though - this was an absolutely beautiful story and so incredibly full of emotion & depth. It's one that I will highly recommend and makes me absolutely angry at goodreads for not letting me rate higher than 5 stars.

Huge thank you to NetGalley and St Martins Press for the ARC in exchange for my honest review. It had no impact on my opinion and I can guarantee that no matter when/how I read the book, I would rate it as high as I did.