I loved this story. Molly and Sean were well developed characters with really fun interactions. Molly's older brother is once of Sean's best friends... and Molly and Sean have been best friends for years prior to the start of the book. Watching them fight their attraction for each other, as well as the "predefined roles" that they feel they are expected to live up to, made for a great story. I also laughed out loud a few times as they tried to one-up each other in the way that friends do. This is a great friends to lovers story.

I enjoyed this book. A friends to lovers romance that has a cute storyline, likable characters and a good dose of steam. It is did seem somewhat of a slow burn to start for me, but maybe that was just because I had not read any of the previous books in this series. With drama, humor and emotional turmoil to keep your attention, this book is a very good read.

I was very excited to finally get Sean’s story and his friendship & romance with Molly did not disappoint. I love a good best friend’s little sister story and this one was everything you wanted. Sean and Molly were best friends and had been since she was a lost teenager that came to live with her older brother, Max, who is Sean’s other best friend. But with Molly Sean got to be himself, he didn’t have to act one way because of his family obligations. And of course between those obligations and keeping the relationship a secret because of how it would affect Max and the rest of the group of friends it caused some issues for Sean and Molly. I loved how Sean dealt with his family and work and how Molly finally realized that Sean wanted her more than anything in his life. These two were so hot together and even the looks they sent each other sizzled.
I have loved all the couples so far and can’t wait for Brody’s story next. I will definitely be rereading this book, it was fabulous!

He can’t have her.
So he moves in with her…
What could possibly go wrong?

As heir to a chain of luxury hotels, Sean Wyse III always gets what he wants. So when he sees a freeloading roommate taking advantage of his spunky best friend, Molly Brandt, he doesn’t hesitate to step in. He kicks out the roommate…and moves himself in.

Molly loves quality time with Sean, but spending nights with him one wall away threatens to wake the crush she thought she’d gotten over. A crush Sean knows nothing about, which might be a problem…considering how hard Sean’s been working never to think of Molly that way.

Loved Sean & Molly's story! Flawlessly written and heartfelt! Such a good best friends to more read! Highly recommend!

Sean and Molly have been teasing us since May the Best Man Win and now in Just This Once we get their story...and whoa is it a story!!! Friends to lovers, opposites attract, brother’s best friend and some serious chemistry are all there right along with witty banter and sense of family that this group has in spades. Be warned if you’ve enjoyed this series this one will almost definitely make you cry, like I did for the last 20% of the book!

I really enjoyed this book and the chemistry Sean and Molly shared, both emotionally and physically. It was their strong bond as friends that really made the idea of them becoming more really work. There wasn’t some magic aha moment or long drawn out descriptions of longing for each other but rather a slow build to giving into an attraction that’s kind of always been there.

One of my least favorite things in books are uppity families and the heroes and heroines who let them control their lives. Needless to say this aspect of the story was my least favorite. However, I very much appreciated that Sean, despite his years of letting his family’s expectations rule his dating life, didn’t let them control him when he finally had a reason and want to ignore those expectations. Exploring his feelings for Molly and realizing that he might want more than just someone who fits a mold was sort of what made me fall for him, really.

I also tend to get annoyed with the whole overprotective big brother scenarios that get overdone in brothers best friend romances. I understand that any big brother just wants to look out for their siblings, especially when it could affect their friendships but thankfully, Mira Lyn Kelly didn’t go over board on this aspect of the story.

There were a few surprises in this book that I wasn’t expecting and that could’ve been eye-rolling, cliché moments but I never felt that way while reading it. I’ve been waiting for Sean’s story from the beginning of this series and I’m happy to report that I wasn’t at all disappointed.

And now we wait to see how Brody get his HEA!!

sean and molly finally get their story in just this once, we really got to know them in the wedding date bargain, and even then it was obvious that there was something there.

when things become undeniable, they decide to cross the lines of best friendship and try and get their feelings out of their system. it's just sex.

except it's not just sex. it's everything. they've been a couple without being a couple for so long. they don't know how not to be. distance and boundaries aren't their thing. and it's messy and it's everything they never thought they wanted.

but it's also them and it's perfect. molly gets a little too stubborn in the end, because she keeps turning this guy who is telling her he wants her and is showing up every day for her, because she'd rather believe something he said before. so that was a challenge, especially because there's this scene where he is so utterly wrecked and beside himself and so freaking in love that it makes no sense that she resists him at all.

because sean is totally perfect and dreamy.

**just this once will publish on october 2, 2018. i received an adance reader copy courtesy of netgalley/sourcebooks casablanca in exchange for my honest review.

Sean Wyse and Molly Brandt have been best friends for years, so when her roommate stops paying her rent, and basically free-loading off Molly, Sean sees red. He takes over, packs the guy’s things, finds him a temporary place to live and gets him a job. This all happens during her brother’s wedding. When Molly gets home after the wedding, not only is she pissed, but now Sean has moved in. Molly has had a secret crush on Sean since they were teenagers, having him as a roommate, is proving very difficult. They are best friends, how can she stop from crossing that line, of friends to something else. All of a sudden, their chemistry is off the charts. Sean tells Molly they should see where this takes them, since he knows that the feelings he has are meant to be forever. Sean realizes that he’s always told her that the perfect woman for him has to have breeding, education, and money. This of course is more of what his parents have been telling him for years, than what he really wants. So he truly understands how Molly, who has none of the traits, is leery of his feelings for her.
How can two people so much alike yet so different, find true love and happiness.

Loved this! Sean's a bit pushy but you have to love him for it. In this fantastic friends to lovers story Sean and Molly will definitely have you chuckling and you really see how great they would be together if they would just admit it already! This is a fun sexy read that will keep you entertained all the way through. I highly recommend it.

For years Molly and Sean have been the ideal best friends. Even if, at one point, they've each entertained the idea of "what if", they know not to cross that line. Not only is Molly the little sister of one of Sean's best friends, Max, but Molly knows she also doesn't meet the "ideal" that Sean is going for in a woman. Someone who can hold up the name of Wyse Hotels in society and understands all the duties that come with it. Sean has been vocal about his search for the future Mrs. Wyse, and Molly would just never fit the bill.

But when Sean moves in with Molly to help her out of a bad roommate situation, seeing each other day in and day out in all sorts of situations, and you can't deny the sparks that fly. When they decide that they'll cave "just this once" their relationship goes from best friends to something more. Something neither of them are prepared to give a name to as they're scared of losing more than their hearts.

Just This Once is one of, if not the, best friends-to-lovers romance I've read. Mira Lyn Kelly is wonderful at establishing the closeness / bond that Molly and Sean share as friends before their potential feelings for one another change their perspectives. I loved Sean and Molly the friends, and I loved the care that Mira Lyn Kelly took when deepening the love between them and all the complications involved. The reader is right there with Molly and Sean as they fear what the loss of their friendship would mean, but you also want to see them reach the next level of their relationship because you know that they would be wonderful together.

Being the third book in the series, Mira Lyn Kelly deftly weaves Molly and Sean into the group dynamic. I mean, they've always been part of the group as we've seen in both May the Best Man Win and The Wedding Date Bargain, but obviously the group has changed a bit as new significant others have been brought in, you see how a romantic relationship would change the group interactions, but you also see how close these friends are in the first place. I loved how much revolves around the group in the story. The little day to day things like going to lunch, going out for a drink after work, etc. You see how the status quo has been met as Molly and Sean remain friends, but you see what changing their relationship status could mean for the group as a whole. It's an interesting dynamic.

I really have nothing bad to say about Just This Once. It's a book I wish I could read again for the first time over and over because it's just delightful. I didn't want to leave these characters behind, but there's not long to wait for The Decoy Date to be out in a couple of months.

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JUST THIS ONCE – Mira Lyn Kelly
The Wedding Date, Book 3
Sourcebooks Casablanca
ISBN: 978-1-4926-7075-9
October 2018
Contemporary Romance

Sean Wyse III and Molly Brandt are friends through his longtime friendship with her brother, Max. As the heir to his family’s hotel fortune, Sean is expected to marry well. That means someone his parents approve of. For now, he’d rather hang out with his blue-collar friends like Molly. She is softhearted and currently has a roommate who is late with his share of the rent and abuses her kindness. Sean figures he’ll interfere without her consent and evict the roommate, then move himself in temporarily to help her with the rent. Needless to say, Molly isn’t happy when she finds out.

Sean sticks to his guns and remains living with her, which soon leads to something neither expects: a building attraction that threatens to explode into sex between them. They’re friends, not potential lovers! Yet, the more they fight the attraction, the harder it becomes to resist. Finally, Sean and Molly decide to have sex. Just this once. They figure once they do the deed, then they can go back to being just friends. But their plan goes awry…

Welcome to the inner circle of friends that hang out together. Four have already found love and you can find their tales in MAY THE BEST MAN WIN (Jase and Emily) and THE WEDDING DATE BARGAIN (Max and Sarah). While the stories are connected as part of The Wedding Date series, JUST THIS ONCE can be read as a standalone.

Sean isn’t exactly on good terms with his parents. Oh, he works for the company and communicates with them, but he refuses to commit to a woman that they approve of. If they knew that Sean was lusting after Molly, they’d freak out. She works hard—three jobs in fact—but their idea of a good wife for Sean is someone with money and good social standing. As such, when Sean isn’t working he spends a lot of time with his friends, Molly included, at a local bar. They have a nice camaraderie that neither wants to spoil. Yet, it’s hard to ignore this intense attraction between them.

After their one round of sex, Sean and Molly try to ignore letting it happen again, but after going on a group camping trip, they finally give in. Of course, they try to keep it a secret, especially from Max, who’d likely freak out if he found out his sister was having sex with Sean. Yet, as much as they try to pretend there isn’t anything going on, it’s a little bit too obvious. What will happen in JUST THIS ONCE when the gang learns Sean and Molly are secretly boinking each other? Is it a fling…or something more?

A cute friends-to-lovers romance, JUST THIS ONCE will have you rooting for Sean and Molly to fall in love despite the obstacles that are placed in front of them.

Patti Fischer

Reading Mira Lyn Kelly is like basking in sunshine. Whether full on exposure or flickers of light hiding below the surface, I always have a good time. Just This Once feels like a been there moment. There's a little Molly and Sean in us all waiting to break free. Molly is searching for solid ground but afraid to take the leap. Sean needs to learn how to breathe without a fear of being left behind. With a deep friendship like theirs when emotions get in the way, will falling in love prove a challenge too great to survive? With sassy dialogue, flirty chemistry and laugh out loud scenarios, I couldn't help but fall in love.

Just this Once is a great friends to more kind of story. Mira Lyn Kelly once again gives us great characters in Molly and Sean and the rest of their crew, many who have already had their own stories told, provide the support and fun when needed most.

I enjoyed getting their entire story, with moments of reflection when Molly was just Max's baby sister and Sean looked at her as nothing more. However, it took a bit too long for the real story to get going, where Sean and Molly finally see each other as their true one and only. There was almost too much back and forth in such a short period of time. A good 50 pages could have been deleted imo. But the chemistry is there from the start and their adorable friendship is really sweet and genuine and I was rooting for them to 'see the light' where the other was concerned and hoped Molly wouldn't get her heart broken again.

I was happy that the author doesn't waste time with immature characters, ones who run at the first sign of trouble. I felt both Sean and Molly had definite reasons for avoiding being together and the grand gesture at the end was one that had me smiling huge! This is a great cast of characters and I'll be looking for Bruno's story next.

3.5 stars.

A great series to get into. This being book three can be read as a standalone and reading the first two only gives you the background of the people mentioned. You feel like you are part of this group who seems to all be close. Molly and Sean have such a comfortable friendship they can joke around and watch out for their friends. A well written perfectly paced story pulling you in from the start.

Sean and Molly are best friends. And when Sean sees a freeloading roommate taking advantage of Molly, he kicks him out and moves in himself.
Molly has a crush on Sean that she has been able to hide till now. But now with Sean living with her maintaining the only friends look is proving to be difficult. And with Sean suddenly noticing her things are going to get hot fast.
Just this once was a fun, entertaining, hot friends to lovers read. It was emotional enough to touch my heart strings. And romantic enough to make me swoon. I enjoyed reading this book and look forward to reading the Decoy date.

4.5 - "You’re my favorite!" Stars!

I am loving the books in The Wedding Date series. Book three; Just This Once gives us a mix of Brothers-Best-Friend & Friends-to-Lovers, with a few added surprises in regards to the tropes used, and I absolutely loved Sean and Molly’s story because of it.

The wild crush of her youth was almost completely tamed these days-and had been for years. Sure there was the occasional flare-up, but she knew better than to give it too much room to breathe…

Being forced into close proximity with Sean, when he forcibly evicts her layabout roomie, and then moves himself in to stop him reappearing again, brings to the fore all sorts of long ignored feelings in Molly, especially when he has a penchant to walk around in shorts and nothing else...

She remembered what it had been like… the last time they lived together… no way could she go back to that.

This is a guy she has idolised since her early teens, and has managed to ignore her attraction to him over the years due to keeping things strictly in the friend-zone, it’s also helped that she has known unequivocally that Sean has only ever seen her as a sort of pseudo surrogate little sister due to her pretty much living with his best friend Max(her brother) in their college dorms and becoming part of his social circle of friends and acquaintances as they have grown and moved onto adulthood.

"Only you…"

"…Don’t you forget it."

"Never."

It doesn’t take long for those very defined lines that they have both had in place to start blurring when Molly decides to push back in regards to their new living arrangements, and use her womanly attributes mixed with a heavy dose of flirtation to try and force Sean to move out, but instead of cutting and running, he has an involuntary manly reaction to her sitting in his lap, and pretty much gives the game away in regards to the fact he may also see her as more than ‘just-friends’ too.

"Our friendship is too important to risk screwing up with… screwing…"

This is one of those ones where both characters have a classic case of not seeing the woods for the trees. They are perfect for each other, despite their differences in upbringing, social standing, salary bracket and so on, and I loved going through the wringer with them as they both worked out, what you as a reader see from very early on.

"Are you going to let me go..?"

"...I’ve been trying… But the truth is, I’m not sure I want too anymore… I’m not sure I even can."

Entertaining, emotional, funny and sexy, this book ticked all the romance reading boxes I have, and I loved every minute of reading it. Looking forward to book four; The Decoy Date, this is Brody’s book, and I am itching to sink my teeth into it!

"The knitting isn’t working…"

Holy hot and sexy Sean! After meeting him in the first two books, I could not wait for this one!

Molly...the little sister of Sean’s best friend, Max.
A big no-no.
They’re just friends.
GOOD friends.

GAH. They love each other SO MUCH... as friends.

Their relationship is sweet, fun, and so friggin adorable.

And then...

Then he moves in with her.
The awkwardness began.
And the ogling.
And those lines started blurring.
Then the knitting began... (Read it, you’ll understand.)

Their chemistry was full of sparks - I absolutely loved these two together. Their story has passion, humor, and plenty of spice.

This was yet another fabulous read from Ms. Kelly! I’m a big fan of her writing and storytelling skills!

Gah!

I have been, not so patiently, waiting for this story since meeting Molly and Sean in May the Best Man Win way back in 2016. Two years was a long time to wait, as their story was the one I was most excited for.

Although, the wait was long it was well worth it. Mira Lyn Kelly did not disappoint. Just This Once was everything I wanted for Sean and Molly and so much more. No one writes sweet and sultry quite like Ms. Kelly and this story was all kinds of sweet and sultry.

Ms. Kelly kept me on the edge of my seat with this story! The will they or won't they certaintly kept the story entertaining, nevermind the quick witted dialogue between our hero and heroine. I do enjoy a story when two best friends find themselves catching feelings.

I felt ever every emotion pour off the page and couldn't wait for the final outcome. This was certainly my most anticipated story but also my absolute favorite of the series and it makes me super excited for the next installment!

The Story in a Nutshell: When Sean sees that a freeloading roommate is taking advantage of his best friend Molly, he takes charge of the situation by kicking the roommate out and moving into her apartment. Molly loves hanging out with Sean but that’s only because he lives in a room in one of his father’s luxury hotels but now that he’s moved in with her she’s afraid that the crush she had on him years ago might just come back with a vengeance. As for Sean, he’s worked really hard NOT to see Molly as anything more than his best friend.



Overall reaction to the book? You know what I really loved about this book? How silly and fun Sean and Molly were together. I’m talking goofy faces, voices, and jokes that made them seem so real to me. Most friends to lovers romances that I’ve read leave out those ridiculous moments that you assume go on between two people who have been best friends for a long time. Friendship is more than just being there for each other and clearly Mira Lyn Kelly wanted to show the less serious moments between them as well as show the growing attraction. I really loved their friendship’s quirky moments as much as those hot and heavy scenes.


But I had issues with Just This Once. The plot was fine and like I said, Sean and Molly’s quirky friendship had me a bit jealous but I had a hard time buying that Sean, a grown a** man would let his PARENTS control who he was with and why. Yes, he was rich and the heir to a chain of hotels but this is a contemporary romance and yet here was Sean who could find work elsewhere if his parents cut him off financially but he let them have their way and manipulate his love life by throwing “suitable” women at him. Come on dude, grow a spine! You’re an adult with options, not a child dependent on his parents for everything! Geez.


Actually, thinking back on Sean and Molly they were a tad immature. I had moments of wondering if I had picked up a New Adult novel because of their silly logic and behavior sometimes. Sean was way too patient with Molly’s insistence that they keep their budding romance a secret, she didn’t have any real reason after a while to keep it quiet and she got way too upset at Sean over trivial things like him defending her against the snobs in his parents’ social circle. It was their lives and no one’s business. I don’t recall previous characters in this series being that way. But the one thing that had me going “What the actual…” was towards the end.



Click It or Skip It? All in all Sean and Molly came off more like kids than adults and while their friendship was aces, the way they handled their romance felt like I was reading an adult romance between two 15 year old kids.

Review scheduled for Oct 2

Friends to lovers is my favorite trope, so I am both easy AND hard to impress when reading books of this theme. Having not read book 1 of the series, which evidently introduces us to Sean and Molly, I was meeting them with a clean slate.
I loved their humor and connection to each other. The years they’ve known each other adds to the chemistry that I felt while reading their story. I adore strong, funny women characters and Molly definitely fit that bill! Sean is not a product of his upbringing at all, being far from the entitled snobs his parents are. He’s a dirty talking, funny and sexy guy...who’s also very easy on the eyes! What girl could resist that?
I finished this book in one sitting, it was just too great to put down! Loved the dialogue, the pacing was perfect...I never felt the need to skip ahead (I admit to doing that when a story slogs along to much). Great use of secondary characters, too! Just This Once is everything I expect and enjoy from a Mira Lyn Kelly book!

I received an ARC for an honest review...all opinions are my own