I love nothing more than a new Marni Mann book. she always brings the heat and an addictive story. this one starts off with a bang and Easton meets Drake on his app call. it's instant chemistry between them and instead of wanting to only hook-up Easton is wanting to see if there is more. the only problem is, he doesn't know who she actually is. her user name is SarasLove and when they meet they are masked. Drake is finishing up college and then ends up leaving Boston & leaving Easton. then we fast forward 5 years later and guess who is interviewing to work at his company. at first he doesn't know that it is her, but she knows. eventually she tells him and they cannot stay away from each other. this book had me blushing, there is something about the spice in a Marni book that has me weak. the best word that I have for this book is explosive. I enjoyed the friendship between Drake, Greyson, and Holden. so many times their banter made me laugh. I loved this book so much and cannot wait for the next one. & as always, I am so freaking proud of my girl Marni!

4.5 stars

tropes:
- second chance
- workplace romance
- women in STEM
- billionaire ceo
- forbidden
- forced proximity

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Easton and his friends start an app that helps people find the most compatible one night stand. Easton gets matched with someone named Love, who he’s 100% compatible with. After writing back and forth, she suddenly ghosts him. Fast forward five years and he meets Drake, and they have instant chemistry. But now out of nowhere, Love starts messaging him and he can’t help but see he has a connection with her too.

This was a fun and cute read! The friendships in this book were charming! All the characters were fun and had such a great humor! This had a lot of my favorite tropes. Office romance, forced proximity, billionaire, second chance romance!
The spice was a touch mild comped to some of Marni’s other books, but that being said, there was still plenty of it!!! This was a great book and I can’t wait for the next one!

📘: Mr. Hook -Up by Marni Mann
🗓️: October 3, 2023

Thank you to NetGalley, Marni Mann, and Montlake for this ARC!

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

*Reviewed on NetGalley and Goodreads.

⭐⭐⭐⭐.5/5
🔥🔥🔥🔥 /5

💵Billionaire MMC
💻Forced Proximity
😘Second Chance
💚Fated Mates

Blurb-
While working on finishing his master's degree, Easton Jones and his friends decide to create an app for hook-ups. When Easton (Mr. Boston) matches with Drake (Saara'sLove) with an unbelievable 100% match percentage, he knows he has to pursue it. When they meet in person for the first time, they both feel that this is something that they have never experienced before. But when circumstances force them to part before exchanging names with each other they are both left wondering what if...

Thoughts-
I ADORED this book. It was different from Marni Mann's other novels and I loved that! I LOVED that Drake was everything Easton wanted but never knew he needed. I've said it before and I will say it again, I will read anything Marni Mann publishes. She is one of my favorite writers and I really loved how this new series started!

Mr Hook-Up is book #1 in the Hooked series by Marni Mann.
This was my first book by Marni and OMG!!!! I LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED THIS BOOK!!!! I cannot believe it has taken me this long to read one of her books!!

My rating:⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🔥🔥

If you love these tropes, you will really enjoy reading this book :)
✨ Alpha Hero
✨ Billionaire
✨ Boss/Employee
✨ Forbidden Love
✨ Forced Proximity
✨ Office Romance
✨ Second Chance

Easton Jones and his two best friend's founded the dating app Hooked and he is shocked when he matches 100% with someone called SaarasLove. The reason for the app was to just hook up with people but when he starts getting to know Love via text messages, they truly are very compatible and he starts falling for this girl. When they meet in person its at a masquerade party and they still don't know each others real names or faces. BUT THE CHEMISTRY IS OFF THE CHARTS!!!!!

Then weeks later, she starts to pull away and then she ends her trial with the app and her phone number isn't valid anymore.

Fast forward to 5 years and Easton still hasn't forgetten Love and now he meets his new employee Drake Madden. Something about her makes him feel like he has known her forever and he can't get enough of her. He knows that he made a deal with his friends that he wasn't to hook up with any employees. Just when he doesn't know how to proceed with this attraction he has with Drake, he gets a message from Love and his world is titled on its axis.

My thoughts!
I loved it so much!! Easton was a kind, caring man who is soo loyal to his friends and anyone he cares about. Drake was a strong, independant woman and I loved how ambitious she was.
Together they were FIRE!!!! I loved their chemistry soooo much!!! I loved that they both had tattoos that meant something to them.

There is a bit of a twist in this book that had me in tears and kept me in suspense which I enjoyed.

Overall, I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! I cannot wait for the next one!!!

Easton and his bestfriedns create a dating app for hookups. Easton get a 100% match which is rare. He starts talking to the person he matched with and they immediately hit it off and want to meet. They meet at a masqerade party for the app and wow the amount of cmesitry but then she ghosts him. Years later Easton hires a coder named Drake and has a connection but feels guilty because he still has feelings for his match and can't stop thinking about her.

This story was so good! I loved how the beginning of the book was all in Easton's POV. This book had just the perfect ammount of spice and the chemistry between Easton and Drake...I loved this book so much! Another great book from Marni Mann.

I really enjoyed the plot of this book. Boy starts hook up the app with friends and meets the love of his life, only for her to move before they get to know each others names. Flash forward years, and this same woman comes to work for the company without knowing that he is the guy and creator of said app. These two share a chemistry that is unmatched. They deal with years of unfinished business to get to their happy ever after, but once they commit, they flourish.

Marni is alwaysssss a good spicy time for me. I found this book wildly addicting + unputdownable!! I cannot wait for the next book in the series (but this is a stand-alone!!) as all the characters were so enjoyable. Drake is such a strong female but FUN too. And of course Easton is swooney af!!

𝕊𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 ℍ𝕠𝕥 𝕪𝕖𝕥 ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕥-𝕄𝕖𝕝𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕝𝕪 𝕊𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥 𝕥𝕠𝕠 💋

💞🅑🅞🅞🅚 🅗🅘🅖🅗🅛🅘🅖🅗🅣🅢:💞

💻 Office Romance
📱 Second Chance
💻 He's her boss
📱 Billionaire Romance
💻 Absolutely heart melting connection and bond
📱 On freaking fire hot chemistry 🥵🔥🔥

🅼🆈 🆁🅴🆅🅸🅴🆆:

What happens when you match 100% with someone on a dating app that's like a unicorn occurrence to happen.

Easton along with with his best friends, Grayson and Holden have founded an app that let's people maintain their anonymity but also get connected to people who are not interested in the courtship and the hassle but just in that one thing.

When Easton matches 100% with a user SaarasLove aka Love, he first doesn't believe it to be true. How can there be such a perfect match.
But soon Easton and his mysterious lady start connecting over texts and calls and realise that there is indeed something between them that's both of them have never felt before and is definitely special.

What is more intriguing is that even though they become so close together yet they have no clue about their names nor their faces.

It was fascinating and honestly the raw and real connection between these two made me feel like I was right there falling in love with them. AHH.. The way those scenes are written will make you feel that feeling of Falling for someone and not knowing what to do with all those unknown feelings.

Fast forward now, Easton and his friends have taken their business to new heights and even though 'Love' is in his past now he doesn't do relationships.

But when the new candidate for the Director position walks in, Easton can't help but question the familiar feels that Drake Madden makes him feel.

I absolutely loved the pacing of this storyline, how we are given a complete front seat to how Easton and Love fall for each other.

But also the reveals are so well done... AHH... During that once scene when Love reconnects with Easton all those years later, I felt like I was so on edge wanting to know urgently how and what all would happen.

Easton is SUCH A SWEETHEART, OH MY GOODNESS. THAT MAN MELTED ME, SEDUCED ME AND MADE ME FALL FOR HIM. 💋💋💋
Even though Drake made me question a few things as to why she did the things she did, but I definitely warmed up to her and liked that girl for how she had built her career and was such a confident lady. But what I loved more is Drake was a perfect balance of warmth and competency, the way she takes charge and yet is accommodating where her team or even her ex team is concerned.

The twist towards the end just shocked me and I was so upset for what happens. But once again I loved how our hero proves why he's the hero and the love that Drake and Easton share is definitely something very special.

One of the highlights of this book has to be the UBER HOT, RAW, 𝗌𝖾𝗑𝗎𝖺𝗅 chemistry Drake and Easton share. Trust me the way Easton slowly tastes her, smells her and then the next moment does wild things to her had my head spinning. Definitely another will-melt-you-from-all-the-heat kinda ride. Loved loved this one. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The whole concept of this one was SO fun! I love for a second chance romance and this was so unique!! I was just screaming for them to open their eyes and realize who it was 🤭 they had such great chemistry literally from day 1!!! i loved the workplace forced proximity, it made for such a good time

When Easton and his friends create the ultimate hookup app, naturally they have to try it out . A shocked Easton gets a 100% match . He decides he has to meet his perfect match .

Drake is working and finishing college. She is looking for a hook up , when she gets on the new hookup app , she has a 100% match.They meet , have a mind blowing hook up , then drake disappears.

Five years later, Hooked app is about to launch internationally. Easton finally ready to move on, the problem is now the woman he couldn’t get out of his head is back and wants to meet.

What a story!

Tropes:
🖤Workplace Romance
🖤Billionaire
🖤Forbidden
🖤Second Chance
🖤Forced Proximity

I loved this book! Marni has yet again written a dirty talking, swoony alpha male you can't help but fall in love with. Easton was the perfect mix of sweet and sexy and I just ate it up. He was smart and dedicated, to not only his friends, but the business they created together. He was the guy you could count on no matter what. When he got the perfect 100% match with "Love" a switched flipped, and he found himself wanting more than just a hookup.

I had a feeling when we met "Love" things weren't going to go Easton's way. There were a lot of true, raw emotions between the two of them, and the turmoil Easton faced when things didn't go as planned was so freaking sad.

We find out later who "Love" really is, and it's clear that she thought she was doing the best for herself. She had a budding career and made promises to her mother that she would be the best she could be.

When they finally got together, it was just pure magic. All the feelings and chemistry was just so amazing. It just felt so raw and real coming off the pages. Such an amazing story!

🖤 "She was art. The sexiest form of vulnerability." 🖤

A fast-paced, easy second chance romance about Easton and Drake.
The story is divided in before and after, the former being their texts on the Hooked app and the latter being five years later and them having a boss/employee relationship.
This one can be a hit or miss read, it has it's good and it's kind of a meh moments.

This was a fun different take on a second chance/work place romance! The characters could have used a bit more depth & build up and I was totally confused when we got two part two but it made sense as it unraveled. I didn’t expect the twist at all! And I loved the full circle moment in the epilogue ❤️

Even without the dual POV, the author left an obvious breadcrumb trail for the reader to figure out who's who before we get to the reveal. It started off well enough and then coasted before we got to the obstacle the couple had to overcome. Not a read that will make a mark, OK overall.

Way too insta lust for me! I loved the premise, but couldn't connect with the relationship and how quickly it developed.

14/10 I could not put this book down! When Easton and his friends develop an app for booking up, he never expects to meet Love, his 100% match. Only for her to disappear for 5 years. When his new employee, Drake, comes into the picture, all those old feelings come rushing back. But what happens when Love also comes back into his life?

Wow ! There is something addictive about a hero who falls first, doesn't hide his feelings, and is not afraid to be together with his girl. Marni gave us the best hero ever (and mind you she has given some of the best already) and his name is Easton Jones and you are all going to fall in love with him.
I was intrigued by the plotline and the characters from the get go and it become more interesting as I got deeper in the book. I read it in one go and at the mark of 70% I had to stop and force myself to get some sleep.
I loved the instant connection and chemistry between the main characters and obviously the spice level was signature Marni's style - too hot to handle.
Also enjoyed that their chemistry was not on surface level, they had real talks and great understanding.
All in all I can't reveal much without spoiling the book. Just go in blind like me and you will throughly enjoy it. Trust me!!

3.5 stars.

"Mr. Hook-up" by Marni Mann feels like a thinly veiled excuse to write a book that's 65-75% s3x scenes... not that I'm entirely complaining. *wink* This is my first read from Marni Mann, and I am definitely going to read more of her books in the future. That being said, while the spicy scenes are really, really good, I found this story to be a little lacking in terms of emotionality. It all felt pretty... superficial to me. I never thought I would see the day when there were too many spicy scenes in a book... but here we are. I would have liked to see a bit more connection between the main characters Drake and Easton, not just a bunch of excuses to get them together to do the dirty. The plot is scant. Sparks fly between them in the beginning, but wanes as a the book rolls along. I love a good forced proximity, alpha, billionaire MMC second chance story, so this did enough for me to enjoy it overall. Still, I did find this to be a very fast read, and it kept me reasonably engaged from start to finish. Can't wait to see where this series goes next!

Thank you to NetGalley, Marni Mann, and Montlake for the complimentary ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated for my review.

Not my favourite Marni Mann book 🤷‍♀️ I just couldn’t get into the story and it took me ages to get through. I still enjoy Marni’s writing, but sometimes her character dialogue and choices seems unrealistic.

Plenty of sparks, feels, and emotions to be had as the story unfolds. I thought Easton was really super swoony and the story itself offered a nice balance of cute and heartstring tugging. Altogether, a great book and a solid start for this new series.