I was really excited about this book because the premise is really cute, and then they had to go throw around a bunch of fat shaming right from the get-go. Not cool.

I love reading romantic comedies. This one did not disappoint. I liked the concept. It definitely reminded me of How to lose a guy in 10 days but with a different twist.

New to the City, Empire Magazine fact checker, Lucas can't believe his luck at meeting a hot, sexy, older woman, Carmen, at a bar one evening and going home with her for his first one-night stand. That is until a few weeks later, Carmen disparages him in her weekly sex column, dubbing him, Mr Nice Guy. Taunted by others on social media, Lucas anonymously responds to Carmen, starting a joint weekly column called Screw the Critics. Lucas keeps his anonymity for months, canoodling with Carmen and reporting it to the public, until the Empire Editor tries to fire him over another story. What happens when Lucas becomes infamous?

Laugh out loud funny, I enjoyed this as a change from my normal thrillers and historical fiction choices. Little warning here, this book is about sex, with many hilarious references and details. It was never offensive or crude and did not distract from my enjoyment of the story. In fact, it felt necessary to the story. If you are need of an easy, light hearted read, with big impact that will make you feel just a little bit better about yourself and your life, this is the one.

Once I read the blurb to this book I was hyped and excited for it. I love me a good Enemies to Lovers story. With that being said I ended up "DNF" this book. It was nothing like I expected it to be and I found it lacking. I really wanted to enjoy this one but sadly it just didnt live up to its hype. .this also reminded me of a hallmark Valentines movie as well 🤔

This was great rom-com that had me in stitches from the get go. I really enjoyed this novel and would recommend it to any romance reader.

Super fun read! Def a great book to throw in a beach bag and read by the pool or on vacation! I highly suggest picking this up if you need a good one!

Where to begin. Imagine trying to pick up someone at a bar, hooking up and finding out they are also a journalist writing an article about your one night stand! As if you aren’t humiliated enough from the article talking about how bad you are, you’re offered a series with her where you continue your tryst once a week and try to learn how to please this woman. You stay anonymous of course because your boss used to sleep with her. How complicated right? Then you find someone who will help teach you how to please a woman. What a whirlwind of mixed emotions and learning about yourself after coming out of a serious relationship. This isn’t your typical romance novel. I loved it.

Oof. This was a pretty rough read, and honestly it was a DNF for me after struggling through about half the book.

I think my biggest problem with the book was the characters and how unlikeable they were. Believe me, I don't need characters who are perfect or good, but when they're as mean and cringe-y as the two main protagonists in this book, we have a problem. This is even more of a problem since this book was supposed to be a romance. If I can't root for either character and want to see them suffer instead of get together, then the romance aspect isn't going to work.

I will say that the concept of the book itself was pretty interesting, as the two characters hooked up and then wrote editorials critiquing the skill of the other person. I feel like this could've been the perfect set-up for a romance, but again, it fell on it's face when the characters were horrible and had absolutely no chemistry together.

I just didn't enjoy this book and won't be reviewing. There'were some cute parts and the storyline is smart. I just never really connected or felt invested in any part of it.

Mr. Nice Guy was a great read! It was definitely a sweet and easy read to get through! The characters and the plot made this such a fun easy read!

I went into this book thinking it was a romantic comedy. It was not. The writing wasn’t the problem for me with this book, the blurb was. I was expecting something wholly different than I got. The narrator is a young man, Lucas, newly arrived in NYC and starting a career at a magazine. He hooks up with a woman one night, and low and beholds she turns out to be the magazine’s sex columnist and she writes about their lackluster experience. Angered, Lucas writes a rebuttal and the magazine prints it. Soon, Lucas and his erstwhile companion, Carmen, are tasked to with having sex each week and then writing about it in their columns. If this had been a true romantic comedy I would hope that there would have been more driving the two characters to agree to such an outlandish setup. As it was, their only real motivation was fame and fortune. Definitely not romantic, if you ask me. There really was no real romance in this book, and I found that I just couldn’t relate to the characters or the situations, either. This one turned out to not only NOT be a romantic comedy, but also not something that I enjoyed or would recommend.
Note: I received a copy of this book for an honest review.

I've always felt that there are two types of authors; one kind that sucks you in and makes you forget that this is all fiction and you have better things to do and worry about. the kind that makes time and pages fly by. And then there's the kind that you read because they're fun but even if they are extremely mundane, you still have an awareness that all this is fiction and you keep putting the book down every new chapter.

This author is the latter. for me, her characters failed to suck me in. I just did NOT like them
there's just something about her writing that makes me feel like she's trying too hard to be funny but I'm not gonna deny I still read them the day they come out.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an e-arc in exchange for an honest review. This was a great book. Cute and fluffy. It’s just what I was in the mood for.

Nice enough man trying to make it in the big city after tumult with his family and intended bride? Working at a prestigious publication, but as a lowly fact checker, making nowhere near enough money, miserable and scrambling and trying to find love and a new place for himself in the world? It could have been a great story--and maybe for some it is. It did not grab me by the throat, did not intrigue me enough to get me past 40 pages. There are sparks of fantastic writing, hints of wonderful mayhem to come, but they weren't enough for this reader.

This book has such a unique story line and being co-authored by a married couple is so cool! I enjoyed the premise of the story along with taking place in the journalism world that one can never get enough of this glitzy world. Good read if your looking for a different and unique twist on a romantic read.

Start with the positive. It’s contemporary. Conversational. Easy, fast read. You kind of get emotionally involved with the character, Carmen...almost. She’s a little bit hooker with a heart of gold. There are some moments that go beneath the surface to reach emotion. The setting, NYC media/magazine world is great fun. Love how the internet and social media are really characters in the story.

I found it difficult to cheer for any of these characters or become emotionally interested. Again, Carmen’s character is the most multi-dimensional and most interesting. Lucas, not so much. Jays, definitely not. The entire middle of the book is a bit monotonous.

this story is almost believable given entertainment, like so much else today, has dropped to satisfy the lowest common denominator. This is a reality show on paper with lots of sex. If for you, that’s entertainment, read it. If you're looking to lose yourself in a story, be intrigued by a plot, cheer for a protagonist, marvel at the manipulation of the English language and clever turns of phrase, this isn’t for you.

Eh. There isn’t much of a story until you reach Part III, almost page 300. I wouldn’t recommend it.

I did not mesh with the writing at all, and the marketed “romcom” vibe in the book was not seen. Carmen’s a sex columnist, Lucas is a journalist. When these two are pitted in an article writing war of sorts, sparks should fly... right?

The only chemistry I saw in this book was the chemical need for me to put it down. The majority of the book was written from Lucas’s point of view, and his privileged egocentrism really made him unlikable. His actions made me extremely uncomfortable, and his decisions were shady at best - mostly greasy if anything. It might be more on the realistic end of Women’s fiction but... since Lucas is getting the better deal of the story, it’s really not and shouldn’t be categorized as such. Sure, it’s a unique take on the cutthroat publishing world and sex in society, but the execution left much to be desired. I don’t think I would recommend this book to anyone.

Mr. Nice Guy is a story about Lucas, a fact checker for Empire magazine and Carmen, a sex columnist who meet and have a one-night stand. Consequently Carmen airs her grievances with her experience in her column and Lucas decides to respond in kind anonymously. What follows is a transactional deal where the two will meet and be intimate while planning to write about their experiences in hopes that it will improve one another’s sexual prowess.

This was just not for me. I was hoping it would be a fun and quick read, but I found myself feeling like I was slogging through it. I would pick it up only because I wanted to finish it so I could move on to another book, but then ended up putting it back down a couple pages later. I find it very hard to describe how uncomfortable this book made me feel because it wasn’t very risqué in terms of content, but the things that were happening just made me cringe. People’s bodies and sexual exploits were being talked about as if they were a prize to be won and that just didn’t sit well with me. I went into this book hoping for a How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days type of experience because I love that movie, and instead I ended up DNFing the book at 25%.

This one was tough for me. I found the main characters very unlikeable, and that made it hard to care about their story. The idea is great but the execution left a lot to be desired for me. I’m sorry to say that I was not a fan of this one.

I am not able to provide a full review as I elected not to finish the book due to disappointment. This is not a romance novel. There is no happily ever after. There are no likeable characters. I did not like that the majority of the POV was from Lucas either.