I found the writing hard to follow and the characters were just awful. Caleb was a jerk and while I sometimes enjoy forced proximity, not everything is as it seems romance, this book just didn't do it for me. I found myself not caring if the main characters ended up falling in love much less tolerating/liking each other. This book was not for me.

Bellamy's character is relatable to some people where she sees book characters as being real and her own little world and how it is so common for introverted people to read books and not explore the world around them.

She progresses towards the end of the book being more confident. I find the bucket list emphasises this when this is added in. Maybe she wouldn't have done everything on the bucket list without caleb with her Anxiety and overthinking.

I love the quote in the book about overthinking, I find this very relatable:
"My guess would be acknowledging your feelings; ask yourself if you have any control of the situation. If you do, then do something and stop worrying. If you don't, then stop worrying because whatever happens is going to whether you stress about it or not."

I expected bellamy to fall for caleb as he looks like her dream guy that she made up from her book, how great is that to see your dream guy in real life?

I really liked that bellamy and caleb weren't friends at first and didn't get on with each other as their opposite personalities clashed.

Bellamy, her best friend, Caleb and his manager were all living in each others pockets you'd think that they'd argue a bit more. Even Bellamy and l her best friend didn't really have an argument after living with each other for months on the book tour and being her manager they wouldn't have agreed on everything.

The odds of her best friend falling for the models manager/best friend too and all being around the same age. It wouldn't really happen where both best friends liked the other best friends in the group with it being just the four of them.

Beauty and the Book Boyfriend was exactly what I wanted from an adult cheesy romance novel. I identified so much with Bellamy Strong and her anti-social attitude that just got 100x worse when she became famous. The romance was cheesy as hell but it was adorable too, so obviously I loved it. Highly recommended.

I love when the heroines are writers and write/dream about book boyfriends which is what we like to gush about when talking about our "book boyfriends." This was a cute, sweet story. The mental health rep was portrayed accurately which is appreciated.

Something about this just didn’t work for me. I don’t know if it was that I just couldn’t ‘believe’ the story line and that made it hard for me to really engage with the book or if it was more to do with the pacing of the story that just didn’t work for me. I was unable to post a review of it as I didn’t enjoy it. Thanks

I didn't find this quite engaging. The use of offensive words from the leads make it less romantic. Maybe that was how the characters were meant to be but it isn't pleasing to read.

This book was kind of odd in the sense that it could be very unrealistic...but somehow was also very endearing. I went back through and read all of my favorite parts several times.

I was so excited for this after reading the blurb but was left feeling a little disappointed. I enjoyed it but was left feeling like their relationship was very rushed. It was still a very enjoyable sweet story though and would definitely read more from this author.

Right from the beginning I was sucked in and could not get enough of this book! Bell and Caleb have the most amusing banter and I love how much I could really relate to Bellamy, she is so shy and afraid to be out of her comfort zone. And even though Caleb starts out being a Grade A Jerk off, I actually grew very fond of him and how he takes it upon himself to bring Bell out of her comfort zone.

Such a good love story and I’m looking forward to reading more from K.M. Galvin, since I have seen she has more books out there that I never knew existed!

Bellamy/Bell had severe social anxiety. It started in H S as she was a very awkward teen and ended up a very awkward adult. It didn’t help that Bell’s parents had been prom king and queen and were very social people Bell felt no one was understanding of her problems she had deep fears going out in public and doing social things. Bell has one best friend Nate and two imaginary characters as her friends.As a way to cope with her loneliness she writes about her alter ego Makyla who is a vampire slayer. This turns Bell into a best selling author. Bell got drunk on her birthday and ended up signing a contract that she would go on a book tour. So Bell meets with Nate who is her roommate, best friend, and assistant. But Nate tells Bell there is nothing she can do she has to go on the book tour. Nate will go on the book tour with Bell and Nate points out it would be good for Bell to meet her fans. It is to be a three month tour and the publishers came up with the idea Bell will pose as Makyla and a model will be picked by the fans that they feel best portrays Max the hero of the series. Then the fans get it right Caleb looks, acts, and speaks like Max. Caleb hates his job and he has to pretend he is someone he isn’t. Even though Caleb has looks. money, and praise Caleb is still a lonely man. Caleb was used to people seeing him as someone else . He was to scared to follow his dream. Scared of what people may think of him. Caleb is intelligent but people only take him for his looks. Caleb was a butt at first bad Bell was rude right back. But as time goes on they become friends then lovers. Logan is Caleb’s personal assistant and will be traveling with them also. Bell learns to see the real Caleb and he helps Bell get past her social anxiety and let go of the old things and be herself. Bell learns to do what she wants and not care about what others think.
I really loved this book. But there were mistakes that were a little difficult to overlook like one time Caleb's hair is described as being dark auburn then another it is mentioned about his light hair. It can be a little confusing but I got past it. This book had a good plot and I liked the pace. I loved that Caleb and Bell didn’t jump right into a sexual relationship and love but first their relationship was a little rocky became friends and it went from there.to lovers. It was more realistic that way. At times I choked up while reading this book and at others I chuckled. I loved how Caleb and Bell worked on their issues together . I liked the characters in this book a lot as well as the ins and outs and I recommend.

Interesting idea, took far too long to get into the story.

Really didn't connect with the characters in this one and wound up stopping about 45% through it.
It felt like YA fanfiction.

Some of my notes: Why is there so little about their interactions? Dialogue felt too. Everything is very thrown together feeling and disconnected. They are already falling in love after bickering for a bit and talking a litgtle about themselves? Also quick how they went from hating each other to BFFs....

Very fun, sweet story. Bellamy has always seen herself as weird, so much that she created a friends and world to keep her company, she turned them into a series of books. She and her best friend set off on a book tour, one glitch, she is joined by Caleb, the model for Max the hero of her books. Bell sees Caleb as a shallow pretty boy, she struggles to play Makyla to Caleb's Max, the couple in her books, Caleb rubs her the wrong way. As the trip continues their best friends quickly get together leaving Caleb and Bell as a couple. She wants to fight her feelings for him but Caleb turns out the be a lot more thoughtful than his persona would lead you to believe.
I enjoyed the story, Caleb drew me in quickly with his sense of humor. Bellamy took a little longer because she seemed to be walled off, slowly it was chipped away. I enjoyed the word play between Bell and Caleb as well as the humor through out the book.

I just couldn't get into this book. I made it about 15% into the book before calling it quits. It just seemed really hard to like the main guy, since he was so rude to her when they first met. Some books just aren't for me.

A great story about self discovery and finding love. Opposites can attract with explosive chemistry and steamy sex! Must read.

What a hilarious book. The characters in this book were just so much fun to get to know. They were like peeling the layers of an onion, a little at a time, and a whole new dimension came to you about them. You never knew what you would get and that made you want to keep reading. A few tears, or a lot of laughs all good in the end.
Each character was unique in the way they acted yet they were home and familiar if that makes sense. You see the story revolves around the author of a book series that is coming to an end. She started it when she was in high school and a very awkward teen and now she is just an awkward adult. But unknown to her, on her birthday, when she was drunk, she signed a contract saying that at the end of the last book coming out her, Bellamy Stone, would do a book tour as her character.
She wouldn’t mind that too much in general because of the fact that her character is kickass and brave. But she also looks like a rocker chick in black skin tight leather, black goth makeup, blown-out hair, and a lowcut top showing cleavage. So, not her. For most of that might not seem like a lot but for Bell who has not shown herself and stayed out of the limelight it is a panic attack waiting to happen.
So, she has to meet with the roommate, best friend, and assistant Nat Porter to go over her options. Nat tells her she has none. She also tells her she has to stop drunk signing. Bell is not laughing. Nat says she will have to take the trip and it will be good for them to take the road trip to meet her devoted fans. Plus, it will give her time to cozy up to the model counterpart of the character she wrote as her lead male Max.
Let the meltdown begin. She is just outraged. How could they possibly find someone she made-up? None the less not include her in the process. Nat says, “Her trusted fan base picked the guy that not only looked spot on but, acted, and spoke like Max the character does. She doesn’t believe it.
Until she literally runs into him, Caleb Pace, he mistakes her for an awestruck stalker fan and is rude to her. Now pissed. Then, she is more pissed after a Beauty transformation and they meet to go on the trip and he acts like he doesn’t know her and he is traveling with Logan his own personal assistant. Really?! She thinks…why? When he starts capping on her she says, “You’re just the eye candy why do you need an assistant?”
Caleb has his own ghost in his closet to contend with and Bell is just the girl to stir up every messy emotion that will bring them to the surface. Yet, at the same time, she brings out the protector in him as well as all his old insecurities. It becomes a toss-up as to who has the most issues to resolve or who can be the rudest. But before you know it these two have set up their own set of rules to get through the drive.
From the minute the door closes on the SUV, it’s on. The kid gloves are off and these two have the fight to settle. Who will win? Or will it be a draw? You will have to read to find out. Just know you won’t be disappointed. I give this book 5 ++++ stars.
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"Light golden skin is stretched tightly over his muscles, and even though he is wearing a loose work out tank and track pants, I can tell he’s hard all over. I can tell because that’s how I wrote him. I’ve known him for almost ten years now."

Okay, this book was stinking cute. To be honest, as soon as I read the synopsis I was like eeeek yay. Bellamy Strong is a successful writer and is setting out on a tour for her series for the first time. Her publishers decide that along with book signings they would have her star as the heroine and find a model that looks like the hero of her book for the tour. Shy Bellamy has to deal with her expectations of her come to life hero and how to get out of the shell she has built around herself and grow.

The idea of the story was stellar. The entire time I pictured someone like SJM getting to go on tour with a Rhysand look alike. *The most beautiful man she’s ever seen* Gosh, just the idea is swoon worthy. Can I please have a three month tour with a hottie of my making by my side? I loved that the book boyfriend was nothing like the character that Bellamy had imagined and in fact had his own personality.

Caleb, the guy who is hired to model as the character Max is a hottie & the sexual tension that builds between him and Bellamy is hot. I love that they didn’t hit it off and have to be friends before they can even move onto romance. The initial hotness of course is scoured as soon as he opens his mouth. But it’s not until they are forced to sit in a car together for the lengthy road trip that they get along by some sort of peace treaty.

One of my qualms with the story is that their relationships progressed rather quickly so there was a slight lull in the middle. Luckily, the last 20% skim by really fast, and not in the ‘well that ended abruptly’ sort of way. In a, eek, this is hot, flip flip flip, awwwww, flip flip flip, ending. And though it ended the way I anticipated it ending, it was still rather sweet.

My other qualm with the story was the lack of bickering. I would expect that spending nearly every minute with the same set of 4 people would cause some sort of animosity. Instead, the characters just grew closer and closer. But really, even with the people I most adore, you have to have some personal space. I would have liked it a little bit better if tempers rose and people got a little tired of being with each other. It would have seemed a little more realistic.

I'm a sucker for fairy tale re-tellings - even if they are very loosely based. Beauty and the Book Boyfriend is one of those loosely based on the story of Beauty and the Beast. What I found kind of great was that Bellamy aka Bella (aka beauty) took the traits of both Beauty AND the Beast as does Caleb.

This book was a lot longer in length than I expected, but it flowed smoothly. The reader is given enough time to really enjoy and appreciate the characters and their growth. I love when you get to see characters actually evolve.

Bellamy is an anxious and lonely girl who grew up to be an anxious and semi lonely woman who writes a best-selling series. It's finally time for her to tour and she, drunkenly, agrees to tour with a model who looks like her book's love interest. When Bellamy first meets Caleb - it's confusion at first sight (because he really looks like what she envisions her leading man to look like), and then hate at second sight. Unfortunately, Caleb seems to be an arrogant and petulant man. Bellamy has to get over it, however, because she's playing the role of Makyla, the lead character of her books. Yay.

Aside from the awesome character development, what I thought was truly the best part of this book was the care taken with Bellamy's anxiety problems. The author did not gloss over Bellamy having an anxiety problem, or didn't make it disappear easily. Bellamy's anxiety evolved just as she did. And how much did I love that Caleb tried to understand and, therefore, helped her with that anxiety? A LOT.

This is a great love story that showcases character growth - major plus for the inclusion and understanding of anxiety in the lead character's part!

I enjoyed this book I was hooked from the very first page and I couldn't put my kindle down while reading this. I loved the writing and I will be reading more of this author in the future. I loved the main characters as a couple and I loved them as indivuals as well

I was pulled in right away, and I could not get enough!
The back and forth banter was so much fun and had me laughing from the start.

I loved how I could relate to the main character Bellamy. How she is shy and scared to step out of her comfort zone, anxiety ridden, but with one drunken night everything changes. In her drunken state she signed her self up for a book tour to promote her last book in her mega series; Makyla & Max - as a kid Bell did not fit into the world she was born into, with a her mother being prom queen and her father prom king it was like a barbie and ken world and she was the quite, meek girl who wrote adventures about two friends who conquer the world together. Makyla and Max become Bell’s friends in the time she has no real ones.
Through out the book you will see how Bell overcomes and breaks out of her shell, with the help of her real life Max (Caleb).

Caleb’s has a stand off-ish vibe, the jerk at first glance and he plays into it well, with years of practice. Trying to work through his own struggles, he takes it upon himself to help his new (boss AKA Bell) as the model for her book series during her book tour. He helps pull Bell out of her shell and in the process you fall in love with him.

This adorable love story makes me wish it was my own.

Plus Natalie & Logan are an added bonus of laughs and love. The both help enrich the story and keep things fun.


Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this book!
It is a new Favorite <3