This is Julie and Nico‘s book, Julie is a corporate banker when she gets stuck in traffic the man of her dreams just happens to be right next to her in a sexy black truck ,he would just be the perfect rebound that is until he opens his mouth! Julie doesn’t even know him but she knows she already hates him and because the universe is blind to all the warning signs sexy Niko just keeps happened to pop up in all the places that she’s at but soon Julie discovers he’s not what she thought he was oh he still hot but he’s not a jerk like she thought he was !LOL this book was definitely ok it was funny and a light read no major drama and angst happens it’s just a nice even keel book, it has some steam to it but not too much if you like a nice light read this one’s for you! Thank you netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!

I received this book from NetGalley for a honest review.

Seeing a hot guy in traffic is the best and worst thing that can happen, especially when you never see them again or talk to them. Rip all hot guys in passing. ;(
I liked this book a lot and thought it was funny. I do wish Julie would have been a little more easy going with Nico but I’m glad they actually go together. Seemed like she needed to sort through her stuff in order to move on and I’m so happy she did. Also that sex scene caught me by surprise lol. Her ex is trash and I do wish Nico would have beatbox him up lol

If uh the author is seeing this, can we get a book from Nico’s pov :p

This book had such a good start! I was hooked right off the bat. While our MC isn't necessarily the most likable, I can think we can all admit that we've been there, or been our worst version of ourselves at one point or another. I'm a reader who doesn't need to like a character to be able to like a book, if that makes sense. So I took our MC's outbursts, and poor interactions with fellow human beings with a grain of salt. Not to mention that her father had died, and her boyfriend had out-of-the-blue broken up with her. The girl was probably due an outburst or two. Some people (coughs-me) hide away in their room eating their body weight in ice cream until they're ready to face the world again, while other people just take out their aggression on the wrong person. That's how Julie meets Nico.

I really enjoyed how their lives were constantly crossing paths. It put me on the edge of my seat, wondering when they would by chance meet again. Nico is honestly described like a saint. He handles all of Julie's outbursts, bad behavior, and vomit (uh...yeah) like a champ. If there is one redeeming character in this book, it's Nico, Nico's mom, and Julie's mom (okay, I guess there are a couple redeeming characters).

I do think a few of the relationships portrayed here borderline on toxic. Julie's relationship with her best friend is in many ways uncalled for, and how the women in her family treat each other was a little displeasing. As a personal note, I've dealt with a lot of toxic relationships in my own life, and tend to see them everywhere. Maybe girlfriends really do yell at each other, tell each other they are ruining their lives, and then five seconds later say they're the best in the world? To each their own.

In terms of writing, this was an admirable attempt. I felt at times really thrown off when scenes would cut in and out of each other. One second we were in a conversation with Julie and her mom and the next second she was with Nico two days later. There was no explanation of how things left off with conversations, or how a date would end. Suddenly, after a major event (like running into the ex), we just flashed forward to the next day with no mention of how Nico reacted? It felt really unrealistic and pulled me out of the story a few times.

I think the overall plot was super cute, but felt the novel was strongest in the first half of the book. It sort of lost steam after that, and I stopped caring what happened to our characters. I finished the book because I wanted to know how their love story ended, but I didn't necessarily need all of the descriptions of why her ex was such a tool, or how her heart was changing now that she had Nico. I think a little more editing would have been beneficial, but it wasn't an overall disappointment.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks for the opportunity.
I want to preface this review with this - if my best friend were to EVER speak to me the way Liz speaks to hers, there would be no friendship. I struggled so much at times with their interactions.
At times I felt like Nico was trying too hard but, at the end of the day he was kinder about the misconceptions. I liked how there wasn't a great deal of drama thrown in by some of the side characters and stories. These two were doing a good enough job of that themselves.
Overall this was a quick, relatively entertaining read showing how human frailties have the potential to spoil our greatest chances. A little humility goes a long way.

Sometimes it takes a whole lot of time to work through the hurt and disappointment of love before you give yourself room to love and feel again, and that's what happens with Julie here. She's intelligent, a great friend, a loving daughter and all this doesn't stop her from hurting when her boyfriend, Patrick, decides to leave her for another woman because in his view she's "boring."
Then comes along, Nico, and she's attracted to him and he's not what she expected and she does not know if it's a good thing or a bad thing and the rest of the story is about her figuring out what to do.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

I enjoyed this romantic novel. The characters were well developed. It had the opportunity to be a heavy read, but the author kept the plotline light. I would have enjoyed an epilogue that let us know how their relationship matured. If I had to choose the best part of the book or theme it would be the relationship between the protagonist and her best friend - I loved how she was there for her and told her things she did not always want to hear. Now the romantic interest was terrific - I wish we were able to see more character development with his side of the family. Overall Mixed Signals was an engaging read that I will recommend to friends and readers of my blog.

Unable to finish at 45%. Julie is a wildly unlikable character, mean and jaded for unknown reasons and seems to hate all other women. Liz is allegedly trying to help Julie after a breakup, by mean girling her into a new beauty and fitness regimen and berating her about punctuality. Nico is not a fully fleshed out character by the point I had to stop reading, but he seems like a general bland nice guy. However, he is weirdly described as looking like a combination of khal drogo and superman - those two don't visually go together, nothing relevant to the plot but a general logic quibble.

Thank you to the publisher, via NetGalley, for providing me with an arc for review. This is no way influenced my opinion.

Mixed Signals is an apt name for this book, because I kept having mixed feelings while reading it. When I was offered an ARC in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley, I was excited to read the book because the description was intriguing - I love a good enemies to lovers romance and thought the book might follow that sort of trope. When the main characters, Julie and Nico, kept running into each other unexpectedly, I liked that they got to know a little more about each other each time. I also liked the humor in the book, and the author’s writing style was enjoyable.

Unfortunately, I really REALLY did not like Julie. Her personality was grating, her doubts seemingly endless, and her treatment of Nico unacceptable. She overheard one conversation about him and lept to some pretty extreme judgements, then used that conversation as a reason to write him off and treat him poorly. I think there was definitely a way to handle her snap judgements better; I get that the point of the book is not to judge someone without getting to know them first, but it was even clear at the time that Julie had overreacted. So while there were things that I enjoyed about the book, overall I had a difficult time getting invested in the story.

The story of Julie and Nico.

A series of events mean that Julie and Nico nearly meet, but not quite. When they do meet, she is not sure she likes what she hears, so will she give him a chance?

Overall an entertaining read.

Looking forward to the next book in this series

Really enjoyed this. Refreshing read, great job. Full review on the blog coming shortly. . Really great job!