Sheer delight.

It was a fun read. The trope was love potion or aphrodisiac. Was it silly - yes. Was it hot, right off the bat - most definitely.

Recommend.

I got an arc from Edelweiss and Avon for my honest review.

Delightful, proper RomCom.

It's a RomCom movie in words with a tad more emotional support. Chloe is the best friend of Annie (from the first book), and the basis for the heroine of the movie Annie wrote, and the film is coming out. Since based on Chloe's weird relationship with her boss, who owns the coffee place that she works, it makes for a bizarre work environment, and that underlying, unresolved tension only comes up to the surface when the movie comes out - based on their lives. Tension breaks, and only in the movie scenarios happen. HEA, or at least a path for a couple, is definite and resolved.

The only thing that bugged me and was eventually resolved (out of character for a RomCom Romance book) is that Chloe does get angry (finally, and rightly so) at Annie using her life as inspiration for her screenplay and therefore movie without asking if it was okay. This "fight" is after an entertainment news site kept hounding Chloe for a statement. She stated that Her and her Boss, Nick, were not dating. Annie got pretty annoyed about the bad press for the movie. Seriously, consent is everything.

Other than that moment, that sort of bugged me until the verbal smackdown between best friends, it was a delightful 90s-esque RomCom that would start Tom Hanks as the hero.

I received an ARC from Edelweiss and Berkley for my honest review.

I can see why it is rated so highly, and I can also see why it's rated poorly. I fell into the middle. While I did enjoy the banter of the two main characters, most of it came at the cost of other characters in a book and not in the right way.

Basics, Reduncancy Co-Founder Sam is renting a room, upstairs from a Michelin Star Restaurant, because he needed to close to his current job and possibly for the next. He signs a lease and is working on moving in only to be confronted by his landlord daughter, demanding that he move out. He stays firm using the contract, as is an excuse. Okay, whatever - I found it annoying and not sure why.

Layla was to rebuild her life and her recruitment firm, and her dad promised to cancel the lease he gave, to give her space - but he has a heart attack and goes to the hospital. During the drama with Sam, she finds out that her father put her one a Desi Marriage website, and there are ten men lined up to meet her. Layla follows through (because RomCom needs more conflict than there is currently), and Sam is overprotective (you learn why in the story) and can't handle any of the men Layla meets. They both come to a deal that he will be her male person to the outlook for warning signs on every one of them meets, and if she meets someone, Sam can keep the office.

Here's where I felt weird during these meet and greets when Sam and Layla are flirting and bantering with each other and in the process, sometimes insulting these men sitting across from them. I felt it was just mean. It rubbed me the wrong way, and I didn't enjoy it or found it funny.

I also felt there was no growth Layla at all, and there was some growth to Sam, for which I was glad.

Many have written about what happened 75/80 percent into the book, while I didn't find it as offensive, and it didn't need to go down that way, it was more of an eye roll that I have been noticing these books that want to be a RomCom. I cringed at the things that should be RomCom, but that might be me.

It was alright, I enjoyed most of it till 75 percents, and the end redeemed the book, but not much growth happened between the characters and I am realizing that is what I want - Growth and HEA.

I received an ARC from Edelweiss and Berkley for an honest review.