DNF @ 15%

I don't know what I was expecting from a book titled 'Mr. Nice Guy'. Those men who refer to themselves as 'nice guys' very rarely are. They are trying to fit a type that they feel should apply to women and the main character just rubbed me wrong. His judgments of the people around him to his inner monologue as he tried to pick up one woman after another was just annoying. I skimmed up to the first couple letters to the editor but after his response, I just didn't care enough to continue.

I don't feel right giving the book a rating as I didn't finish it but I should have just stayed away from it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love love these kind of books. The authors killed it. I mean if your looking for a super cute book this is it.
Trust me you will want more and more. Get ready to read every page and not wanting to stop.

Lucas Callahan left his fiancee, his law studies, and his family behind in North Carolina and moved to New York to realise his dream of becoming a journalist. He gets a job as a fact-checker at Empire magazine but he is desperate to fit in in New York City and to be more like his charming boss Jays.
One night, at a bar, he meets Carmen and they spend the night together. He doesn’t know that Carmen writes a sex column for Empire and she recounts her night with Lucas in humiliating detail. When Lucas writes his own rebuttal to Carmen’s article, their story goes viral, prompting their boss to take advantage of it and convince the two of them to sleep together every week and then write about it for the magazine.
I had higher expectations for this novel, written by a married couple. I thought it was going to be a fun and sexy read but it’s more serious than expected. The story in itself is interesting, but it didn’t kept me glued to the page and I couldn’t really connect to the characters who I didn’t find very likable, although they did get better towards the end.

A funny look at life and love in the big city and trying to find a weird balance between truth and sex.