I voluntarily reviewed an ARC from Netgalley.

HOW??? I ask you HOW does Lauren Layne do it?? Every.single.time. The Oxford & Stiletto series was absolute magic and the final in the series didn't disappoint and ended on a high note. Yes, I'm distraught that they've ended...but wow, what a way to go.

Yes, I must admit, I'm a huge fan of the "best friends to lovers" scenarios. It just pushes my buttons. "I Think I Love You" was just spot on! I look forward to her 21 Wall Street series! If they're as good as the Oxford & Stiletto
series, I'm in for a heck of a ride!!!!

It’s always sad to see a series end. I Think I Love You, though, was a perfect little bow to put on top of one of my favorite series.

I LOVE LOVE LOVE a great friends to lovers trope and Brit and Hunter were the perfect match!

Brit seems to be in a slump. She can’t seem to keep a boyfriend for more than a few weeks. Things start off great but then it seems like she gets slipped into the friend zone. Is she not sexy enough? Is her game completely off? With all of her friends getting married and starting families, she’s ready for that life. But it seems every guy she tries to move forward with turns around and leaves her with just more questions.

Hunter is her best friend. He dates a lot and even though he could totally be a manwhore, he is respectful and oozes sexiness. So who better to give her lessons on how to snag a man than her best friend. The only problem… not that they’ve started these little lessons, the lines are blurred and she’s starting to see Hunter is a totally new light.

Hunter doesn’t know why he agreed to be Brit’s love coach. But now that he’s started, he’s starting to see Brit in a whole new light. As much as he would love to be more to her, he knows her life is in NYC and NYC has always just been a stopover for him.

The two finally start to give in to these new feelings, but can it last. Especially after Hunter finds out his time in NYC is limited.

Brit and Hunter is my favorite out of the series. You can totally read each book as a standalone – but this series is one of my MUST READ recommendations. Sexy, smart and so much fun!

I think I love you is the last book in the series and is making me sad. I began the Stiletto series back when it was first published and now it's over. I didn't want it to be and I wanted to see more secondary characters getting their happy end.

The book was everything I was expecting it to be. The friends to lovers genre is one of my favorites and the work in this book was well done. There was the awkward transition from best friends to lovers which was understandable and the jealousy. Brit was a good heroine and I liked that she stood up to Hunter and called him on his actions. She wasn't waiting on him, and in the end she made the decision on what she was going to do in her future. She is one of the best heroines in the series. Hunter took too much time trying to decide what he wanted in some departments and in others he knew every single detail. He was hot and cold and that bothered me somewhat. I was expecting them to get together way sooner and I felt like we missed some things in the romance department. I wanted them to be a couple and happy for a while and there were always obstacles.

Overall, the book was satisfying and it was a great ending to the series. The epilogue was lovely and we got a closure on our characters.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Random House/Loveswept for the ARC. I am voluntarily reviewing this book. I believe this is number 3 in the Oxford Series, but it reads well as a stand alone. This is a friend's to lovers romance. Brit and Hunters story. She asks him to teach her how to seduce a man! Then the craziness begins. This is a quick, fun read. I didn't buy into the story, but it was still an easy fun read. I rate it a 4. I think most romance readers would enjoy.

I just adore this author's books! They're fun, witty and have the most amazing female characters and the men? Well, they're just so damn swoony and stupid (when it comes to their women) you can't help but fall in love with them!

Brit and Hunter are the perfect couple! I love them to pieces. They have such a great friendship.

Can't wait for more!

Brit Robbins is frustrated. She's gainfully employed at a successful men's magazine, she's not bad looking, she's extremely fun. But, she's apparently not long-term girlfriend material. So, when her latest boyfriend amicably breaks up with her, Brit decides she needs some advice.

And who better to ask than her best friend and boss Hunter Cross? Hunter is firmly in her friend zone, but also a serial dater and pretty sexy, now that she looks at him.

Hunter can't believe his bestie wants to pretend date him, but goes with it because he wants nothing more than for Brit to be happy. But, as these things do, Brit and Hunter begin to realize maybe it was their friendship all along that was meant to be something more.

Pretty cute contemporary romance. Friends to lovers isn't my favorite trope, as I see it as reinforcing the stereo-type men and women can't just be friends. Plus, the way some of the office politics worked out was just a bit too convenient and super unrealistic. No dating policy for direct reports? I doubt it.

That said, a fun read and I'll definitely go back to read the others in the series which I hadn't read before this one. Don't worry, I Think I Love You completely stands on its own.

Sigh! What a great book! I absolutely loved Brit and Hunter’s story of friends to lovers. This was a slow burn, and all the better for it. The way both characters slowly began to feel their relationship shift felt genuine, and I loved how honest they were about their feelings. Their friendship was so much fun and I really enjoyed watching it grow and evolve into a great love. Sometimes you’re lucky enough to read a book that feels like it flows so smoothly, so effortlessly that you lose sense of time and place. This book did that for me. The author created a rich and interesting world and filled it with people that were fun to get to know. I haven’t read all the books in the Stilleto/Oxford series, but had no trouble keeping up with the various characters introduced. It just made me all the more eager to pick up the other titles and get to know them better. I highly recommend this book and can’t wait to read more from Lauren Layne.

Cute but a little predictable. I had the same issues with this book and the last book, and that is, I've read this before. And I'm not talking about the bestfriend-to-lovers trope, which happens to be a favorite of mine, but rather the characters and their motivations.

There are some authors that you know you smile reading, and Lauren Layne is one of those for me. In the interest of honesty, I’ll admit that occasionally I’ll cover my mouth when reading near my husband because I don’t want to hear any derisive remarks about the creepy but ecstatic smile on my face. (This is all very normal, right? Right.)

Layne’s latest, I Think I Love You, is the friends to romance read that you’ve been waiting for. It’s scintillating and joyful, witty and sweet; a celebration and a goodbye.

This book picks up the story of Brit and Hunter, employees at Layne’s famed Oxford magazine and also best friends. When the book opens, Brit has been dumped again, and she determines that it’s because she’s too much of a friend to her dates. She feels more sweet than sexy, less seductive than girl-next-door one-person-welcome-committee.

In true, amazing rom-com fashion, Brit decides that the answer to her problem is lessons in seduction. Who better to teach her than her best friend Hunter—a Missouri transplant who is hot, successful with the ladies, and a good listener? (Also, he has glasses. Insert any excited face emoji here.)

In a refreshing take on the friends-to-lovers trope, there isn’t a case of long-held unrequited love here. Neither character is initially attracted to the other, and that makes their delicious, sultry slide into romance even more appealing. Of course, we can see that they’re perfect for each other, and so can the assorted other Oxford and Stiletto characters we’ve fallen in love with over the years who make an appearance in this final book in both series.

There’s so much to love about this effervescent read: a true and lasting friendship that’s sweetened and sexified (that’s a word, right?). A family of supporting characters who intervene in every way possible—and remind us of their own wonderful love stories. And a giant HEA that made it a little—and I mean a little—easier to accept that there will be no new characters added to this series.

Pssst! If You Like This Book, Try: Any, and I mean any, of Layne’s other books. She’s a national treasure. Some of my other contemporary favorites are Lauren Blakely and Kate Meader. And I just read and adored my first Emma Chase novel, Overruled, so go ahead and pick that up too.

I was given an ARC of this book from Netgalley, but all opinions provided are my own.

I am a little so-so on friends to lovers romances, but I Think I Love You was sweet, if little underdeveloped. I should probably go back and read the other books in this series because it seems that everyone’s stories make for a wonderful collection and I love it when books make their way through a group of friends. Brit and Hunter are besties until things start to slowly change. I loved the way that Hunter’s realization revealed his desire to really settle down and return home. It gave a different spin on what seemed like basic commitment issues and was really his longing to return home eventually. What I wish is that I had been able to get to know Brit a little better. I felt like I got more insight into Hunter’s family and thoughts which held me back from really loving this story. However, it was fun, romantic and ultimately enjoyable.

Brit Robbins is sick of guys putting her in the friend's zone, so she's decided the only way she's going to get a guy interested in her more is to ask her best friend for lessons on the art of seduction. However, the more she learns from Hunter Cross, the more she finds herself falling for her best friend. Will things work out for the best for Brit and Hunter or will they lose their friendship and their shot at happy ever after?

I have loved this series from the very beginning and I've got to say that this story was another wonderful addition to it and the perfect way to wrap this series up. Really, it was very entertaining, fast-paced and the way this story started drew me in immediately, as Brit needs advice and who better to ask than her best friend. Will Hunter give her the answers she needs?

As for the dialogue, it was very enthralling due to the close friendship Hunter and Brit have since the heroine needs someone to help her and who better to help than a man that's into casual dating, who is charming and knows how to grab the attention of the opposite sex without too much trouble. Will he be able to help Brit? How far is Brit willing to go to get Hunter's help? Furthermore, the hero is confident, charming and I liked how determined he was to help Brit once she managed to find a way to make him understand how much she needs him to teach her the art of seduction. I also liked the tight friendships these two share with their work colleagues, as they desperately need the sound advice several of them offer.

While the heroine, she's resilient, courageous, independent, sassy at times and I liked the challenge she provided the hero, as he begins to see Brit in a new light and finds it harder and harder to resist her. I also liked the heroine's attempts to prove she can seduce a man when she realizes how hard it'll be to convince anyone to help her. Yet, what I liked most of all about the heroine was the decisions she made towards the end that shows how willing she is to go after what she wants and that's a future with Hunter. Really, I love the initiative she shows.

Overall, Ms. Layne has delivered a really good read in this book where the chemistry between this couple was powerful; the romance was hot and had me loving that they gave into their chemistry; and the ending had me loving that both were willing to fight for their happy ever after because these two are meant to be together. However, it was the epilogue that wrapped this story up perfectly, as all the team of Stiletto and Oxford are the best of friends and are so happy with the people they've each found. I would recommend I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne, if you enjoy the friends to lovers trope, the opposites attract trope or books by authors Jessica Lemmon, Tawna Fenske, Miranda Liasson and Jana Aston.

Britt and Hunter have been best friends for years. He is also her boss. She needs him to show her how to keep a boyfriend without being put in the friendzone. Hunter hesitates, so she takes it elsewhere but he doesn't understand why he can't let another guy help her. So they explore, he teaches, he also can't fight his attraction to her, they both can't, so they start exploring each other. I liked this story, I enjoyed Hunter figuring out his feelings for his best friend. They are really cute together. I liked seeing the other characters from the other books in Oxford 5.

This book is the last of the Stiletto and Oxford series and, for just a minute, I need to be sad.

Not that the book was bad, as it definitely wasn't...but at the end, I felt like I was saying goodbye to friends who had been with me in my reading world for a long time. And, well, I am just a little sad. The ending was happy, and I was crying. How does that work? Why am I crying at the happy scene? I think it's because I feel like I know these people, and I was invested in the magazine and the people who worked there, luckily without any fraternization policies.

Lauren Layne is a go to author for me. She has been since I read my very first title by her, After the Kiss and The Trouble With Love is one of the 23 titles I have listed as all time favorite books. So, letting go of this series is...difficult. There's a lot of my reading history in this, and these books are also those I have shared with friends, with my mom, and recommended to other readers as a series you will just plain love.

But, as she says in the notes at the end, the beauty of a book is that it can be read again and again, and like the song says, it will be there for you, even when it hasn't been your day, week, month, or year.

That helped. A little.

It also helped that Brit and Hunter's story was darn good..perfection, really. It was compelling, and it also felt like there was some movement in the Oxford and Stiletto world, with Hunter making a decision at the end, one that you see coming, that changed the dynamic of the office and not just the dynamic of his relationship with Brit.

I could say so much about this book. About how well it is written, about how much I connected with the characters, about how much I loved it. But, really, I think the fact that I was so connected that I was crying at the happy parts...well, that says it all about how good this book is, and how strong my connection was to the characters.

I recommend this book, and this series.

3.75 stars-- I THINK I LOVE YOU is the fifth (and final?) instalment in Lauren Layne’s contemporary, adult OXFORD romance series- a spin off from the author’s Stiletto series- focusing on the men and women who work for the country’s most popular men’s magazine Oxford. This is advertising executive Hunter Cross, and senior product manager Brit Robbins’ story line. I THINK I LOVE YOU can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Brit and Hunter) I THINK I LOVE YOU follows the best friends to lovers / boss and employee romance between OXFORD magazine’s advertising executive Hunter Cross, and senior product manager Brit Robbins. Brit is struggling in the romance and dating department believing she is doomed to be single the rest of her life. Hoping to release her inner seductress Brit asks her best friend, immediate boss, and the man with whom she has lusted after for most of her adult life, Hunter Cross, to teach her the art of seduction. What ensues is the friends to lovers romance, friends with benefits relationship between Brit and Hunter, and the fall-out as Hunter is unprepared for the emotional entanglements growing between himself and the woman he has placed in the friends category for far too long.

Brit Robbins is everybody’s friend; one of the guys but a woman who wants desperately to find love and romance. All of her friends and co-workers at Oxford are falling in love, getting married and starting their families but Brit thinks she is missing that someone in her life, and perhaps it is her fault; something personal and not within her means to reach. Her best friend Hunter Cross is dating his way through most of New York while our heroine struggles to make a connection, one way or another. In a desperate attempt to ‘fix what’s wrong’ Brit asks Hunter to help her in the art of seduction.

The relationship between Brit and Hunter is a friends to lovers/ boss and employee romance that struggles in the face of potential jealousy, and falling in love but Hunter has no permanent plans to remain in New York, especially with most of his family back home in Kansas City. The $ex scenes are intimate and passionate but limited, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful, familiar and charismatic secondary and supporting characters including most of the previous OXFORD story line couples, as well as a few from the author’s STILETTO series.

I THINK I LOVE YOU is a fun, sassy, sexy and predictable story line but entertaining and enjoyable. The premise is engaging; the characters are sweet, flirty and dynamic; the romance is heart warming and intimate. I THINK I LOVE YOU is a light hearted and wondrous romance for you to enjoy

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I Think I Love You was a sweet story that highlighted the importance of friendship and how it can transition into family and love, the former among those who were part of Stiletto and Oxford and the latter between Hunter and Brit. There was no denying the closeness between the two main characters, nor the comfort level that these two had already reached in their friendship. While a lot of the friends-to-lovers books I've read tend to have at least one or both in the couple have had more than platonic feelings for sometime, I liked that Hunter and Brit were seriously just friends before the whole seduction coaching thing started. The chemistry between them was more sedate compared to the other couples in the series, but once these two became more aware of each other in a more lustful manner, well, all bets were off. I appreciated their romance, and I loved seeing the previous main characters all get together here, giving this series that I've gushed and squeeed over the send-off it deserves. I'm giving I Think I Love You five out of five stars, and will be making time to FINALLY read the Stiletto series very soon. ♥

I really enjoy the friends to lovers trope once in a while when it's done right and I can say this was one of those occasions. I loved seeing Hunter and Britt come to terms with their love for each other. I also enjoyed seeing what the Oxford and Stiletto gang has been up to. I'm going to miss this group of characters but I can't wait to see what more Lauren has in store for us. .

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

I think I love you by Lauren Layne is the fifth book in Oxford series. We get a friends to lover romance with this one. I liked the book well enough but I am not a huge fan of what's in front of you stories. They seem over played and lack some of the character that keeps me interested in a book.

This was a fun read. It was heartwarming to see Hunter and Brit become more than just friends. Seems they were the last to see it! I love Lauren Layne books, always a happy ending, Although this is a series, her books always can be read as a standalone, but it's even more fun to read all of the series. I'm off to see which ones I've missed! Thank you, Lauren Layne, I can't wait for your next book out!

I Think I Love You by Lauren Layne is book 5 in the Oxford series. This is the story of Brit Robbins and Hunter Cross. I haven't yet read the previous books, so for me this is a standalone book.
This was a great Friends to Lovers romance. Brit asked her friend Hunter to help in coaching her for a better dating and seduction. But this turns into more than what they both plan.
Really enjoyed this book!

I LOVED this book! I feel like I really got to know the characters as if they were real people! Sometimes when I wouldn't have time to read I would think, "I wonder what Brit is going to do next..."

This is a beautifully written book about two best friends that fall in love.

Brit is a powerful, independent, and successful female working at Oxford alongside her best friend (and her boss) Hunter. Brit seems to be every dude's best friend but yet not anyone's girlfriend. Since Brit knows how much success Hunter has in the love department, she comes up with the wild idea of making Hunter her "seduction professor." At first, Hunter is reluctant to teach her how to seduce other guys due to her request's silly nature but eventually Hunter comes around. Who better to teach her to seduce a man than not only a man but her best friend as well!

The only reason why I give this book four stars instead of five is because of the cliche nature of the book. I feel like two best friends falling in love with each other, or better yet, discovering that they were what each other needed all along, is too played out. Other than that this was a very enjoyable book.

Also, this book is great as a standalone book. It wasn't until the end of the book that I realized that it's actually a part of a series! The Oxford Series. Apparently, each book of the series focused on an individual couple. I think it's very interesting how the author is able to keep us so engaged with every character no matter how secondary they were to Brit and Hunter's story. I will definitely be picking up her other books to learn more about the secondary characters that I crossed paths with in this book.