I got a copy off of #Netgalley. This book was so much fun! It felt like I was going through the story and experiences all the dates she went on. I laughed, I cried, (but only from laughing so hard) and I desperately needed that Happily Ever After that we were given at the end. This book was so much fun!

10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston was an adorable read!

Sophie is excited to spend Christmas break with her boyfriend, Griffin...until she overhears him saying he wants to break up. Sophie’s family steps in and sets her up on 10 blind dates to get her mind off her ex.

I really enjoyed this book! The idea of blind dates being picked by your family was both adorable and humiliating to read about. Sophie’s big family was absolutely hilarious the Ashley Elston’s writing made me feel like I was a member.

I would love to see 10 Blind Dates made into a Netflix movie!

When Sophie’s parents head off to her sister’s to help with a difficult birth, she’s supposed to go off to her Nonna’s to spend the holidays with her extended family. What she really wants is to spend the time alone with her boyfriend Griffin. When she overhears him speaking to a friend about their possible breakup she’s devastated and arrives at her Nonna’s hoping for a distraction from her heartbreak. What she doesn’t realize is that her family would take her mind off her ex by setting her up on 10 blind dates. This novel is a tribute to large families who are slightly crazy but have huge hearts….and I loved it!

Through the telling of these 10 dates, we learn the personalities of her family members. The dates themselves are funny, crazy, kooky and heartwarming, as is Sophie’s connection to the people who sent her on them. I laughed at their antics and relished the telling of each date.

Sophie, her cousin’s Charlie and Olivia, and the boy next door Wes were all best friends until two years ago. There are hurt feelings on both sides and through these 10 dates they reconnect and realize how much they all mean to each other. Their friendship is the kind a person always hopes to earn and I was totally jealous of their history and of their futures with each other.

If you are looking for a book where you can laugh and also be touched by the emotion in the characters you are reading- 10 Blind Dates is the book you need to pick up. I think it’s a departure from Ashley’s Elston’s normal genre as it is a true YA contemporary novel with a hint of romance, yet the emotions run deep. This is a novel I’ll read again when I need a laugh and pick me up! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley for my honest review and it was honest!

This is exactly the kind of feel-good, happy YA contemporary that people will love, myself included. I loved that it featured a large, incredibly functional family. I loved that it was set during Christmastime. I loved that the story was really light-hearted while also tackling some harder topics. I think this is just the kind of story that will make people happy because it made me really happy. And I'm glad I had the chance to read it early.

Elston chooses a novel theme and structure for this exceptionally enjoyable work. Sophie's large family never overwhelms the reader, and these minor characters feel rounded and lived-in. Though the ending scarcely seems in doubt at times, it's the getting there that provides the fun.

When Sophie is blindsided by her boyfriend’s idea of breaking up, she spends some much needed time with her large and in charge extended family for the holidays. The only problem is her Nonna has decided to play a little game of setting Sophie up on ten different blind dates and each family member is responsible for picking the date. Will she play along or does she already have her sights set on someone else?

This was cute and quick but I found it to just be pretty average which was disappointing for me. I had a little bit of trouble keeping the vast number of characters apart within Sophie’s huge extended family and it just felt like a super predictable contemporary read.

Posted to Goodreads: Sophie had the perfect winter break plan. She was going to avoid her family's gathering and spend the whole time with her boyfriend, Griffin. Then on the first night of break Sophie overhears Griffin telling his friend that he wants to break up with her. Sophie is devastated and retreats to her grandparents house where her grandmother makes a plan to help Sophie get over her heartbreak. Sophie will go on 10 blind dates each picked by a family member to help her get over Griffin. Sophie knows her grandmother's plan will fail but as she reconnects with her childhood friend, Wes, she begins to wonder if her heart is ready to love again.

This book was a very cute romcom filled with an equal amount of adorable and hilarious moments. Sophie and her family are undeniably likable as is her possible love interest Wes. My only issue with this book is that blind dates felt as if they went on just a little too long but other than that this was a fun and entertaining romance.

Cute & fluffy. Definitely a story you could finish in one sitting at the beach or on a plane.

Personally, the storytelling felt like it was for a much younger crowd: middle grade to grade 10. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case I was expecting more.

I did however, enjoy Sophie's family dynamic.

I started and finished a book in one day for the first time in a LONG ass time today!! I read 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston and it was really cute! I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected to. There was a fun and nurturing family dynamic, interesting characters, an adorable love interest - what’s not to love? Plus the premise was fun and Elston executed it well. This book is a lot stronger than This Is Our Story (which is the only other book of hers I’ve read). I enjoyed TIOS but the writing was tighter, the characters were more fleshed out, and the plot made sense in 10 Blind Dates. I wish I had cousins like Charlie and Olivia - honestly my dream. Sophie’s whole family was hilarious and Elston conveyed their dynamic in a fun way. I do think there was a few too many of them to keep track of, but it’s easy to follow those who are important to the story. The book was fairly short, so it would be a fantastic, lighthearted read for the holidays in December!

When Sophie overhears her boyfriend, Griffin, say “like a trial run of what it would be like if we broke up” she is devastated. At her grandmother’s house for Christmas break her huge extended family decides they will set her up on ten blind dates to cheer her up and get her mind off her real break up with Griffin. Various family members take a day and plan a date for her. Some are great, some are hilarious, and some are just plain awkward.

This was such a fun sweet read. I loved Sophie’s family even if they are a bit overwhelming, if well meaning. She has two female cousins nicknamed “Evil Jos,” and the saying is “Evil Jos are evil.” After the two dates they set up--the nickname is accurate. I am definitely buying this clean romance for my library.

Ashley Elston is the type of author that is difficult to NOT adore; her books are varied in genre but consistently well written, and 10 Blind Dates is no different. Occasionally I get a craving to read books that are comfortably predictable, and this happens most often in the last quarter of the year. Perhaps you can call it the holiday spirit (Fall, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc), but there's something about picking up a book that features a big, close knit family that you can grow to love, flaws and all. While I can't think of one aspect that took me by surprise, that's precisely why I became fond of this feel good YA contemporary. My only issue is some gray area cheating that felt unnecessary, but overall, super pleased with how this one read and concluded.

Flirty, fast, and fun! 10 Blind Dates makes for the perfect holiday romcom I didn't know I needed!

Having to include long reviews are annoying, Netgalley, and one of the main reasons I don't utilize this platform as much as used to.

As always, a copy of this book was provided by the publisher or author in exchange for my honest review. This does not effect my opinion in any way.

Okay, okay, I'm going to be real with you guys for a minute. We're all friends here, right? Okay. Good. So, I DEFINITELY requested 10 Blind Dates because of that adorable cover. Swoon. Sometimes, the shallow just jumps out. Apparently I now have a thing for those gold foil balloons? Now that we've gotten that out of the way, first things first: this was SUCH an enjoyable read. And definitely a great way for me to close out summer.

10 Blind Dates was every (!) thing I hoped it'd be and then a little more. It's definitely one of the best YA contemporaries of the year and I'm all kinds of warm and fuzzy over it. Ashley Elston is quick to deliver on one of the best fluffy contemporaries and I'm SO grateful for it, because it was a definite mood booster and exactly what I needed when I needed it.

Truly, I feel like I spent a majority of the time smiling over this book. That feeling of reluctance to put down a book? This book captures that. This book gave me that warm and fuzzy, electrifying, stupidly grinning, happy and buzzed feeling that Jenny Han and Stephanie Perkins' books do. We are talking, I'm probably four seconds away from humming happily to myself over 10 Blind Dates.

(Come on. You know the book was good if you can't stop smiling like your crush just said hello.)

I loved the way that Ashley Elston writes. It's never overly cheesy and cringy. It feels warm and welcoming and takes you out of your life and into something in screaming colours. She combines the romantic aspects of 10 Blind Dates delicately and the family featured throughout this book come to life. It is in its most unrealistic and silly moments that it shines: this is the YA rom-com you've been looking for.

(And, oh my gosh, it's just BEGGING for me to create a playlist for it. And a mood board. AND, OKAY, FINE, CAN SOMEONE JUST ADAPT IT IMMEDIATELY? Thanks.)

It would be impossible for me not to fall in love with the way that Elston tells Sophie's story. I loved every single minute of it. 10 Blind Dates is a can't miss, feel good time, that will leave you grinning and feeling all the more cheerful because of it.

<b><i> Ten dates and two of them set up by my grandparents. Awesome. </i></b>

<i> I received an ARC from Netgalley and Disney-Hyperion in exchange for an honest review. </i>

this was so cute! i'm a big fan of cheesy romantic comedies, so a book about a girl who gets set up on ten blind dates is right up my alley. this read exactly like a hallmark christmas movie, and i adored sophie as a main character. seeing her develop throughout the story and rediscover herself really resonated with me, and i could not get enough of the 'fab four' and how they helped her loosen up and realize that it's okay to let loose sometimes. charlie is my absolute favorite (what a doof), and ugh, if i read this when i was sixteen, i'd be swooning over wes.

the only thing i would've liked from this is less of the baby storyline. it kind of took over the plot at times, and really just took me out of the story. i don't think that it should've been cut all together, but i do think that it shouldn't have been such a big, ongoing side plot in the story. but that's about the only thing i didn't like! everything else was pure gold, and i will be a bit salty if netflix doesn't adapt this (please, netflix, i beg).

read this if you enjoy winter romances, comical dates, and a girl to root for.

An absolutely fun holiday season read with a strong family theme. Different than Ms. Elston's other books, this is just plain frivolous silliness and romance.

TEN BLIND DATES was SO. CUTE.

I don't really know what I expected going into this book; to be completely honest, I was in a bit of a reading slump, hadn't read anything in a while, and wasn't even planning on picking it up for another couple of weeks.

I'm so glad I did.

TEN BLIND DATES is cute, quirky and adorable. It's the kind of book that'll make you laugh and smile, that'll make your heart clench in emotion for its characters, that'll make you melt and swoon. It had an incredibly positive family dynamic, something often lacking in this world of "solitary main characters in dystopian worlds!" novels, which was incredibly refreshing. The plot was SO fun, and at times, I wished I was experiencing the dates, the friendship and the love that Sophie was experiencing.

It was light, it was cute, it was fantastic. Whether you need to get out of a reading slump like I did, you're looking for a nice, cute book to read or you just don't know what to read next, pick up TEN BLIND DATES. You'll come away feeling so warm and fuzzy with the biggest smile on your face. I promise, you'll love it!

Perfect for fans of The Kissing Booth, this sweet and funny YA novel could easily be on screen.

High school senior Sophie is broken-hearted after overhearing her boyfriend, Griffin talking about a break-up. So, she spends Christmas vacation at her grandmother’s as planned. Because news travels fast, her overly invested Italian extended family meddles with her love life by setting her up on blind dates. Some were a hit, some were a miss. But a fun adventure nonetheless. Between her ex trying to get her back, the boy next door, and her sister who’s having a baby in a town 3 hours away, there’s enough dramarama to go around. In the end though, family is everything (no matter how involved they are)!

Note: I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review in any way. All opinions shared are my own.

Ashley Elston’s books and I have a fairly amazing track record. Everything I’ve read by her thus far has been at least a 4 star read. (I think the only book I haven’t read is The Lying Woods. I really should pick up a copy of that…) It should be noted that 10 Blind Dates is different from her previous books. Her previous books all have a strong mystery in them. 10 Blind Dates, on the other hand, is definitely a YA contemporary romance. So I was a bit worried going in if her stories would be as solid as they have been without a mystery. However, pretty early on, I knew this was another great hit for me.

In 10 Blind Dates, Sophie finds herself going on ten blind dates set up by her relatives after her grandmother finds her heartbroken on her doorstep. As you can imagine a ton of shenanigans go on, and of course, her ex-boyfriend wants a second chance.

The romance in this story is solid. I knew early on who Sophie would end up with, but it didn’t stop the fun of reading it all come together. I also thought Sophie and the guy she ends up with had amazing chemistry in the story.

What truly made this story shine, however, was Sophie and her family. 10 Blind Dates may have centered around Sophie going on ten dates and all of the hilarity that occurred. (I definitely laughed out loud more than once while reading 10 Blind Dates.) However, it was primarily about Sophie reconnecting with her family again and in particular with her cousins her own age. There was obvious tension between her and her cousins from the start, and it was fun watching Sophie rediscover her relationship with them. It was exactly what I’d imagine a large extended family is like: supportive, loving, and absolutely embarrasing all at the same time.

I highly recommend reading 10 Blind Dates by Ashley Elston, and if you haven’t read one of her other books, I highly recommend them as well. I thought 10 Blind Dates was a hilarious YA story all about family and friends with some romance thrown in. If you read it, I hope 10 Blind Dates makes you laugh just as much as I did.

Best PG YA romance I've read in a long time. Great bet for fans of Kasie West. We will be purchasing it for our high school library as soon as it comes out.

This was such a fun and cute YA read! As an adult, I found it predictable but still extremely entertaining! I could definitely see my teenage self loving this book!

Thanks to Disney Book Group and NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.