I actually got this book from netaglley in exchange for my Honest opinion.

I never got around to reading the book in the time frame (family emergency). By the time I got around to it. I just ended up listening it it on audio.(thanks to my local Library) The book had lots of ups and downs for me. Some I hated and some I loved. But the Audio was perfect. Loved the accent and the MC's voice we perfect ( no annoying voice or breathing) I gave the book 3 stars but the Audio 4 to I'll go in the middle and go 3.5 stars

This was one of those books that I immediately knew would be good. I was emotionally invested from the very first scene, a scene where the hero proceeded to p*** me the f*** off. This is a soft enemies-to-lovers romance. More like an instant dislike-to-lust-to-love romance, and I just loved the development of that trope. I love pretty much all the romance tropes, but this was a favorite of mine, and I loved how Samantha Young handled the relationship between the to protagonists. I also liked the characters separately, and I thought they both stood out and had distinct personalities.

I found the plot engaging. Honestly I found it a bit of a relief. I've only read one other book by this author (On Dublin Street), and as was the case with that book, I thought the characters were smart, introspective, and thought they did cause some strife that might have been avoided with self-reflections, none of the drama was because the characters were being overtly idiotic. They were just being skittish humans. Loved that.

Honestly, I was completely engrossed in this book, and it kind of surprised me. I've been sleeping on Samantha Young these past few years. I flew through "Fight or Flight." It pulled a bunch of emotions out of me, and I appreciated that. I just loved the journey and the emotional payoff for this story. What prevents this from being a five star read is I felt one specific reveal relating to the hero couldn't been handled more sensitively, especially considering the vast diversity of the romance readership.

But overall, I really liked this book. It made me pissed off, it made me happy. It was spicy. I was upset when these characters experienced their emotional turmoil, and I was very satisfied when it all came together at the end, as it does with romances. Loved.

I did not post a review of this book because I did not enjoy it and I prefer not to post negative reviews. Thank you so much for the chance to read it! I enjoyed the writing, just not the characters, so I hope to try something else from the author in the future.

Samantha Young's Fight or Flight is amazing! This book was hilarious from the very first page and just kept rolling!

I absolutely hands down loved this book!!! I don't think that Samantha Young could ever write something that I didn't love ( other than "The End.")

Our two main characters, Ava and Caleb are like oil and vinegar...they just don't mix. But when you shake them up, they make something beautiful. Coming from a broken past, Ava has built herself up as an interior designer for an amazing company in Boston. We first meet her coming back from tragedy on the west coast only to have the last first class seat stolen from her by a hulk of a man with the attitude of a wet cat but the voice of a Highlander. Caleb is an ass and has a fine ass to boot. He has his reasons for the way he is (as we find out later in the book): he's crass, doesn't say "please" and "thank you", and is anything but a gentleman to Ava. Try as the might, Caleb and Ava have this connection that drives them both wild. They can't stand each other yet can't fight the attraction they have.

Fight or Flight took me on an emotion journey from feeling Ava's love/ hate towards Caleb, her messed up childhood, the betrayal, the heartache, and hope. I laughed, I cried, and I sighed (a good sign) a lot while reading this book.

Now I want to read about other characters in the book such as Ava's best friend, Harper and Caleb's brother, Jamie. Please tell me there is something in the works Samantha!!

I seem to have been in the minority on this one but I actually enjoyed it!! I thought Caleb and his accent were sooooo hot even though it took a minute for him to warm up to Ava. I thought Ava was a strong, headstrong woman that knew exactly what she wanted out of life. I loved that hearing about her job, and as silly as it sounds I like that she was all about her appearance. I feel like too many times in romance novels you get heroines that way they only need a bit of makeup and go on about how they don’t make a fuss about it. I found it kind of refreshing that she was so into beauty and fashion no matter if other saw it as being vain. I also loved her friendship with her best friend. They had the kind of friendship that can be very rare to find. The respect and love they had for each other took my enjoyment of the book to another level. Positive female friendships are so important to any novel I believe so kudos to the author for giving us one. I found the connection between Ava and Caleb sizzling hot, and I really believed in them. Even though they started out not really digging each other I could feel all that tension boiling between them, and watching everything finally combust was fun!!

I had a chance to read this book when I was on my trip to Phoenix over the summer, and when I tell you it was everything, I mean it was E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G!



HERE’S MY TOP 5 REASONS YOU NEED TO PREORDER DIS:
IT GAVE ME HARDCORE ON DUBLIN STREET VIBES.
IT FEATURED MY FAVE TROPE: HATE-TO-LOVE (or, enemies to lovers–whichever gets you goin’ lol)
IT HAS A SCOTTISH HERO WITH A FILTHY MOUTH. *drools*
THIS IS A SOLID, WELL-WRITTEN STANDALONE (no cliffy’s, y’all!)
FIGHT OR FLIGHT WILL MAKE YOU LAUGH, CRY, AND FAN YOURSELF (WHILST READING THE STEAMY BITS).
Basically, FIGHT OR FLIGHT rocked my world in the absolute best way, all while hitting me straight in the feels. (It hurts so good!) I’ve been fighting the urge to re-read it…again!

Why wouldn’t you want this?

One of my new favorite books! This author has such a way with words the pages flew by in no time! I can’t wait to see the next work by this author! This was such a joy to read!

Absolutely LOVED IT.

I was all set to post my usual teasing #CurrentlyReading statuses but somehow ended staying up all night gripping the edges of my kindle.
"Fight or Flight" by Samantha Young was an absolute delight!
High level banter, animal magnetism glueing you to the pages, devastating chemistry and voracious sex scenes will assuredly send you straight to cloud nine!
On top of this, the most excruciating case of unrequited feels sent me mile high to angst heaven.

Samantha Young made it nearly impossible to not care for these two nemesis with a case of animal attraction. Ava was an heroine I could only adore, spirited, lively, independant. Caleb was an absolute jerk, exuding arrogance, there's really no other way to put it. Actually strike that, he's a dick. A tall, bearded, tattooed, brooding one with the most charming accent (yes, y'all are trying to picture a tall brooding dick with tats right now, no? Just me then) But if like me, you like witnessing an man who seems unattainable and devoid of all emotions at first sight—a trait he shares with Ava—, little by little lowering his guard and revealing tiny cracks in his armor, then you'll probably cheer for him—for them both— to stand up and fight instead of choosing to flee at the first show of emotions.
"Somehow, impossibly, I’d developed feelings for my Bastard Scot.
Feelings plus sex? Bad idea."

Enemies to lovers addicts and asshole heroes enthusiasts, do not miss this one! (For those fearing the hero might be too much, the heroine just gives as good as she gets—if not better— and hero has truly reddeming... assets. Qualities. I meant qualities. Duh.)

One of my favorite reads for 2018. I loved its premise, it’s characters that I adored and how it all came together. Slow burning, enemy to lovers romances are my favorite.

Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to read this book! I appreciate the kindness. <3

Fun read! Hard to put down. I really enjoyed Caleb and Ava's story. I loved the On Dublin Street books and I am looking forward to reading more from Samantha Young

I really enjoyed reading Fight or Flight by Samantha Young. The cover definitely caught my eye, but when I read the plot synopsis I was hooked and I could not wait to get my hands on this book! I love romance so this book really did it for me.

Fight or Flight was romantic, funny and I liked how it discussed some tough topics too. The characters were great ( I loved Eva) although Caleb was kind of a big jerk at first I quickly warmed up to him (also SCOTTISH ACCENT). Nemesis to lovers book tropes are one of my favourites so If you like that sort of thing than this is the book for you!

This book is sexy and fun! I constantly recommend it to my friends, co-workers and patrons.

This was my first by Young. It was a good mix of romance and seriousness. It was a very interesting story between two strangers who meet at an airport. It starts as a love/hate relationship with a little more on the side.

I recommend this to readers who want a quick love story with some harder topics touched upon in the story.

Fight or Flight provides a steamy encounter between Ava, a successful interior designer who seems to be too caught up with looking perfect and in denial, and Caleb, a brooding Scotsman who has no time for nonsense; even to say, "Thank you!"

Forwarned, this is not a PG-13 story. I repeat. This is NOT a PG-13 story (which is fine, but I think people need to be warned.) I read this because it was the book my book club chose to read for this month. Would I have initially picked up it to read on my own terms? Yes. Why? Because the synopsis is quite interesting.

While the initial few chapters are a bit of a turn off because of the writer's insistence to use the word "hangry" more than once, (although, I also can get hangry so I understand the struggle) I was disappointed with the protagonist's, Ava's, obsession with her looks. It wasn't relatable. And the fact that Ava is perfectly physically, as well as Caleb, was also something that seemed a little too far-fetched and unrelatable.

However, Young redeemed herself, at least in my eyes, by the going in depth of the character's pasts as the reasoning behind Caleb's coldness and Ava's struggle to breakdown Caleb's wall. The part when Ava had to walk away from Caleb after admitting her love for him because of his resistance to admitting his, did put a lump in my throat. I was able to feel what she felt in that very moment. And when that happens, the author gains kudos from me.

The ending is a happy, yet predictable conclusion. But, the entire time I read this novel did make me look forward to picking it up again. A great read.

Let me start by saying that I have only read one other book by Samantha Young and I’m really behind on reading her backlist. After seeing the cover for Fight or Flight, I couldn’t resist the cuteness and had to read it as soon as possible. I loved the introduction of the characters, the banter, the flight itself… and then the wheels fell off the train.

They say there’s a fine line between love and hate and the main characters definitely rode that line throughout the entire storyline. BUT, this is where I deviate from all of the glowing reviews: I thought the characters weren’t even remotely nice to each other with their hate-banter verging on outright meanness (and bordering on mental abuse). To me, being mean to a woman, any woman, isn’t sexy and because of this, I was just left feeling icky and not filled with lovely rainbow and unicorn feelings at the conclusion of their HEA.

If you’ve read any of my previous reviews, you know that I absolutely love enemies-to-lovers romances and I adore witty banter between potential love interests, even when it is a little biting. What I don’t like is when that banter crosses the line and the words of a character are put-downs, especially with no growth or major revelation that changes their abhorrent behavior.

This may be a case of “it’s me, not you” or that I read this book at the wrong time, but I am not sure that time would make the characters’ behavior ok to me. At any rate, I appreciate being given an ARC of this story and I will give the author another go. YMMV, so take my review with a grain of salt.

Hate to love to the extreme, because they would never let you forget that they hated one another. Throughout the book, this goes on, and the less convincing that statement gets and turns into the lie we expect it to be. It took a while to get there and couldn’t deny the chemistry between these two. I think this is my favourite troupe, which made it an enjoyable read.

I started this book sitting in a London train station headed to Edinburgh, so it was pretty much the perfect fit for this enemies-to-lovers, one-night-stand story with a larger-than-life Scottish hero. Samantha Young really is back to her finest with this one, as it starts right out of the gate and ends up being a top-notch emotionally fulfilling romance. Ava and Caleb are a great match, and if there's one blight, it's that after the hot and heavy rush right out of the gate, I found that the middle of the book slowed way down and I wish it could have kept up the same page-turning pace and back-and-forth banter. Still, the connection between Ava and Caleb is enough to compensate for a lot, and the ending is happily satisfying. I loved this one, and it's fantastic for travels.

I wanted to like this much more than I actually did.

The story started out fine. It was a good setup - surly Scot and anxious (somewhat) grieving girl keep running into each other in the airport and then the plane. They're, of course, attracted to each other despite misgivings. They meet again in the hotel bar and it's go time.

I was all down for the hate sex the first time. It was super hot. Every other interaction after that, it was the same variation up until about the 75% mark when they decide that they might actually like each other? I am always down for the surly hero's but they need to be softened a touch and Caleb was a bit too sharp. I also felt like Ava's "big secret" was a non-starter even though she mentioned it every other paragraph.

On the plus side, I always enjoy the author's voice even if the story doesn't exactly work for me. The smexy times are well written and the banter was very fun. I just wish the emotional backbone of the story was more fleshed out.

This book caused a buzz in romancelandia that I could not help but join in- if nothing else but to see what the hub-bub was about. What I found was a solid, swoony, funny romance that anyone would enjoy!