Tansy has been dumped by her boyfriend, Renzo.  Realising she’s not going to give him up without a fight, she proceeds to stalk him to try and win him back!  Enlisting the help of her house mate, Tansy concocts a plan, but then has a much better idea when childhood friend, Josh comes to stay.  Will Renzo become the green eyed monster like Tansy has planned!

This was the first book which I’ve read by this author and it looked just like the kind of book that would appeal to me!  The story started off slowly but this, for me, was great as it built up the story for Tansy and this is where you really begin to get to know her.  As the book moved on, so did the storyline and by the second half of the book the story was really brought to life, with it being full of laughs and plenty of love!! Tansy was a great character and I really related to her throughout the storyline – surely we’ve all been dumped by someone we still really like at some point in our lives!!  The story is told from the past and present, and this was great to see what happened to Tansy previously and how she meet Renzo.   

All of the characters were great and added to the story – with the exception of Renzo of course!!   I did however want to give Tansy a big shake and tell her to snap out of her obsession with Renzo as you just knew there was much better for her around the corner!!  Whilst I thought it was going to be a chick-lit read throughout, it was also a book with some serious topics and issues which were brought to the reader with sensitivity and tact.  Tansy is a very insecure character and going back to her past this obviously stems from there.  There is also the topics of eating disorders and gambling discussed and unusually, low-paid workers (specifically in the fashion industry) even gets a mention.  I loved how it wasn’t just all moonlight, roses and laughter, but also tackling some taboo subjects which you don’t often get in books of this genre.

All in all, I really enjoyed this book!  There were plenty of laugh out loud moments and I loved the relationship between Tansy and Josh!!  I would highly recommend it, but if you find it a bit slow at the beginning then please stick with it as it’s definitely worth it by the time you have turned the last page!!  A book full of love and laughter and well written, I shall certainly be looking for more books by this author!

I loved this so much, only criticism is it’s slow to start, but really worth getting into it, you won’t regret it. A lovely light read, great for humour and also very entertaining as you will be shouting at Tansy to open her eyes and see what is in front of her, a book about learning what is and isn’t right for you, the hard way, but full of fun. 

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

A lot of reviews about this book talk about how funny it is, and it is in part. But the first half is slow and kind of drawn out. It gets a little better in the second half.  I liked that it takes a look at the growing epidemic of eating disorders and how so many torture themselves to become someone else's idea of who they should be. I was happy to see that at the end Tansy started for focus more on being happy with who she was instead of who she wasn't.

This book was not for me, I tried so hard to get into it but could not. I have read similar books when a girl and a guy break up and then she or he tries to win the girl or boy back. But there were so many boring parts that did not make sense to me at all in the book. The main character seemed so stuck on wanting this guy back, and I get it, but I thought it would be a little more funny to read. I didn't enjoy it as much and I'm SORRY I didn't.

Tansy met the man of her dreams, Renzo, and falls deeply for him. On the night Renzo tells her he loves her, they end up breaking up. Tandy vows to get back together with him and formulated a plan with her house mate to accidentally run into him off and on. While trying to get Renzo back, she starts dealing with problems at work and financially is struggling to help provide for her mother. Tandy’s old mentor Debbie, who got her into the fashion buying world, contacts her out of the blue and asks if her son Josh can stay with her for a little while until he can find a place to live. Tansy has known josh since they were kids and still holds a grudge against him for what he did to her. Soon she finds herself drawn to him and she strikes up a plan to make Renzo jealous. But what will happen when Josh finds out?? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
This book was a Iight and easy read! Overall it was a cute quirky romance and the relationships she builds with her prodigy Chelsea, a young designer who sells her clothes on the street, is so heartwarming. I found myself rooting for Josh more and more when Tansy takes you through flash back moments of her relationship with Renzo. This is a fun read if you are looking for something super fluffy and light.  I am a huge fan of Sophie Kinsella and this authors writing style is very comparable to that! I will look for more books by Sophie Ranald because I do really enjoy her quirkyness and British humor!! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

This is a really cute book with a heavy message. I loved the main character and that she went after what she wanted/believed in. A lot of women will be able to relate to this story. There are a lot of laugh out loud moments.

I received an advance copy. All thoughts are my own.

It’s Not You It’s Him follows Tansy as she tries to get over being dumped by her boyfriend Renzo, deal with issues at work and her growing feelings for someone from her past who she thought she hated. 
As the New Year is being rung in by Tansy and her friends, she decides that she is going to get her ex back one way or another, she is just not sure how. Now we all know that sometimes decisions made when under the influence of alcohol are not always the best ones, but Tansy is determined that getting Renzo back is the right move and she somehow convinces her flatmate and Renzo’s colleague to assist her in her endeavours. 
Tansy is probably like a lot of us….at work seems to be completely on top of it but at home a complete and utter mess which for me made her that little bit more relatable. It doesn’t mean there weren’t times that she really frustrated me. Her initial friendship with new girl Felicity was one that seemed a bit superficial but Tansy it turns out was not the only one hiding a secret as to why they had connected. 
The more I got to see of Renzo the more I didn’t like him. I get that things from Tansy’s past may not have been ideal, but he just seemed a bit self-centred and expected everything his way. For me he didn’t seem to have any redeeming qualities and I couldn’t understand why Tansy would want him back. 
I loved Tansy’s flatmate Adam. He was a bit of a geek and obsessed with the neighbour’s cat Freezer, but he really cared about her. I found myself chuckling when he really got into his role of “spy” to keep Tansy updated on Renzo’s movements. His jealousy over Freezers sharing of affections with their new flatmate brought a smile to my face.
Throughout the book you get to learn about Tansy’s childhood and some of her insecurities from this period in her life come back in a big way when Josh, an old classmate and son of her mentor moves back to the UK and crashes at her flat for a while. His laid-back attitude challenges Tansy and she finally confronts the things that upset her growing up. 
Billed as a laugh out loud rom-com it does touch very briefly on things that are a bit more in the social conscience area such as the exploitation of workers in the garment industry and body shaming but they are only in the background to assist in specific parts of Tansy’s story. This is certainly a fun book with entertaining characters that is easy to get into and certainly one to pack for reading by the pool on your holidays.

I received this an an ARC compliments of NetGalley and Bookouture in exchange for my honest review. 

Tansy, who has recently been dumped by her boyfriend, Renzo, is completely heartbroken and can’t stop texting him or thinking about him. She devises a plan to get him back. She befriends a beautiful, wealthy co-worker in hopes that she will run into him at some of the upper class establishments. She stalks his social media looking for clues of his whereabouts. She even gets into a “fake relationship” in order to make Renzo jealous. Will it work? 

There are many bumps in the road along the way. Her dysfunctional father with a gambling problem and her mother who enables him. Her beautiful coworker getting into a relationship with Renzo. Living paycheck to paycheck and beyond... into debt. A horrible boss. It’s almost as if the universe is against Tansy. 

Things begin piling up and Tansy is finding it harder to keep going. Then she meets Chelsea. She begins mentoring Chelsea, and it gives her mind something to think about. Along with Josh, who moved in with her and her roommate Adam a couple of months after her break up. Josh, a friend from childhood, is still as handsome as she remembers if not more; however, she still remembers what he did to her in High School and she’ll never get over it. 

Will she get Renzo back? 

I did really enjoy this book. The beginning was a little slow, but intriguing enough to keep going. This book touched on a variety of socially important events (e.g., slavery, low pay wages, hostile work environments, for women especially, and many more). I really appreciated her efforts into including these topics that are taboo to some. The second have of the book was better in my opinion. 

Overall, good read, especially after reading something more heavy in nature.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing me with a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review. 

It’s Not You It’s Him follows Tansy who was recently dumped by her boyfriend of six months Renzo. Tansy was head over heels in love with Renzo and after confessing a secret to him at a work event Renzo ends the relationship on the spot. Since then Tansy has drunk texted him, scrolled through old photos and has decided to commence Operation Get Renzo Back. 

With the help of a new wing-woman, a credit card she can max out and an inside man, Tansy finds herself accidently-on-purpose bumping into him at every opportunity. When that isn’t enough she then decides to use her mentor’s son Josh as a fake boyfriend in hopes to make Renzo jealous. 

While she’s busy pretending, life throws a curveball and she now has to learn the hard way that maybe it isn’t her, it’s actually him and that sometimes a break-up can end up being the best thing to happen to you.  
	
This book is told in past and present, allowing you to see parts of Tansy’s past and even her relationship with Renzo. It was a fun read and I liked Tansy’s character. Not only does she help her family out financially she fights for what she believes in, even if that is her relationship with Renzo. There is an incredible amount of character growth in this book and it’s something I really enjoyed reading. 

This is the first book of Sophie Ranald I've read and whilst I did enjoy the book there were several things I struggled with. 

I found the first half of the book slow, with no real momentum with the storyline other than Tansy over-spending and pestering her roommate to get her information about Renzo. It became a bit repetitive to me and I found myself getting bored. 

The second half was a lot better and the drama really intensified, but I still felt that it lacked something. I would have liked more scenes with Josh and Tansy, I wanted to watch their relationship develop and instead it felt incredibly rushed. 

Whilst the book touched on important subjects such as eating disorders and gambling, I felt like they were made important enough. I felt that when they were mentioned it was incredibly out of place and brushed off rather quickly. 

Overall it was a good read but I personally just felt like it fell flat from the beginning which hindered what could have been a fantastic book.

Like Hot Dog Girl earlier this month, this was another fake dating, manipulative heroine, let down 😭 I thought the romance here made more sense how it came together, at least, but I found it so hard to root for anyone as both the heroine and the ex she wanted to win back we’re not great people. I had high hopes for this but hated the why of their breakup, that she tried to win him back despite him having a new girl, and that her fake BF wasn’t in on the plot 😩

I did like how the side plots wrapped up though. The writing itself was fine, so I’m bummed this story just wasn’t for me.

What an interesting story.
It's only the first book that I've read by the author and apparently I might have to go back and read the previous book in the series but I could get into it with no troubles at all so it can be read as a stand-alone.

Told in first person present, it's a story about Tansy and her struggling life in London, where she's trying to make ends and help her family as well. She had a relationship with Renzo but he thought they're not good together and , because her flat roommate is working at his company, she wants to know every step of Renzo and tries to get him back.

We are taken back and forward with moments from their relationship and traveling times, and everything she was feeling and thinking about what she thought she wanted at that time.

I liked how she grows by the end of the book, how everything settled for her and really enjoyed the secondary characters and their banter.

The book also touched a lot of contemporary topics like how perfect we have to be seen nowadays and what we feel and think isn't that important.

Thanks for the opportunity to read and review NetGalley and Bookouture publisher.

Seriously Tansy - get over him!  Renzo dumped Tansy and she's not there yet.  Many of us have had a similar experience of thinking we can win back a love who has left but how often does that work?  How often should it work?  Tansy's got a lot going on with her crummy boss and her friends.  Adam is a good guy who puts up with a lot.  Josh, well, see what you think will happen with him.  This is a quick read which has some funny spots (and also some spots where you must remind yourself that Tansy is 26).  Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC.  For the beach!

It’s been two weeks since Renzo found out Tansy’s secret, ending their relationship on the spot, and she’s… not handling it well. Between scrolling obsessive through old photos and texting him all hours of the night, she struggles with both work and family. Renzo was the only good thing in her life and she’s determined to win him back. And the sudden return of her disastrous high school crush presents Tansy with the perfect plan, and the chance get a little revenge in the process. But Tansy is about to learn even the best laid plans can go awry, and sometimes it’s not you, it’s him. 

I really loved was that even though the meat of the plot was about winning back an old boyfriend, Ranald chooses to center Tansy’s relationship with the women in her life rather than her ex. Tansy’s past relationship with Renzo is frequent intertwined with flashback chapters showing the bullying she experience in high school, and the long-term effects she’s suffered from it. And while the chemistry between Tansy and Josh was fun and sweet, Tansy’s emotional growth remains the focus of the story, which was refreshing.

Funny, charming and at times heartbreaking, this novel was a real treat.

I really felt like this book was all about Tansy. I enjoyed the writing. Tansy was a good character. The secondary characters are interesting. There is really a lot going on. An enjoyable read.

This was hands down one of my favorite reads this year. I already read "Sorry Not Sorry" and was fretting about what would come next for Tansy. Ranald does such a great job of showing Tansy during her school years, present day, and in select moments during her relationship with her ex Renzo. Ranald also does a good job of working in some sub-plots dealing with Tansy's family as well as her job and her mentoring an up and coming designer.

"It's Not You It's Him" is the follow up to Ranald's "Sorry Not Sorry". I would recommend you read that book first to get a lay of the land. As readers know Tansy was dumped by her boyfriend Renzo after she told him that she used to do webcam work. Feeling devastated and not really engaged with work anymore, Tansy starts focusing on ways to get Renzo back. Since Adam (her housemate who is still a loon by the way) is now working at Renzo's company she enlists him in telling her where Renzo is going to be in order to see if she can make him remember how good they were with each other. Of course things don't always go to plan. 

I thought Ranald did a great with developing Tansy. I rooted for her the whole way through this book. She feels trapped by what is going on with her family and her job. She loves Renzo, but when we follow her memories of him, you start to wonder about that. I thought it was great to see Tansy's developing friendship with Adam (still sucks though due to actions in book #1) and her work colleague Felicity. And I think it was great to see how her old boss's son (Josh) coming to stay with her and Adam for a few months ended up bringing up things she rather would have forgot about school. 

Ranald developed the secondary characters quite well too. I thought she did a great job with making Adam the butt of jokes (his obsession with next door's cat is a hot mess) and then him getting upset when Freezer fell in bro-love with Josh. I really did like Josh though wish we had more scenes to get to know him, but honestly I thought she did very well with him. Ranald even did a great job with showcasing Renzo too I thought. 

The writing was very good and at times funny and other times sad. No spoilers, but Ranald takes a look at the very different ways you can be abused in relationships. Not only verbally, but mentally and financially too. She does a great job with you being able to hear Tansy's "voice" the whole way through and you get to see her change over time with what she thought she wanted and what she actually does need.

The flow was really good and there was no awkwardness going back and forth between present day, Tansy's relationship with Renzo, and her doing her school days. 

The setting of the book takes place in London and we do get to get out of there a bit here and there when we have Tansy remarking on trips she made with Renzo or when she goes home to see her family.

The ending was so good and now I have a feeling the third book (if there is one) is going to follow Adam. Please let it be about Felicity or someone else.

I love how relatable Tansy is. She was so much fun to read about. I laughed a lot and was overall impressed by how much I enjoyed this book. A must read that’ll put a smile on your face.

(Also posted on my GR page)

Is it possible to love a sequel more than the prequel? Because I was squee-ing and grinning and annoyed at Tansy in any good ways possible than with Charlotte.

Sophie Ranald wrote my first meeting with Tansy during Charlotte's story. Now that Charlotte had found her own happy ending (for now), it's time for Tansy to make amend with her past. (And bty, will I get Adam's story although I'm happy that Adam was such a supportive friend for Tansy in his own clumsy way).

In Sorry Not Sorry (review here), we knew that Tansy was broken-hearted, left by Renzo. Here, we learned what drove Tansy to do her work, her daily job, her friendship, her family hardship, and most of all: the arrival of Josh, Tansy's (probable) first love. In between her strict boss, money problem, and a cat that seemed to love their house (shared with Adam and Josh while Charlotte's away), Tansy planned to get her ex back. This could only ended in tears.

I love the portrayal of Tansy, she was such a scene-stealer in Sorry Not Sorry, and now I got to properly know her. At times, I wanted to smack her head because she desperately wanted Renzo back, but then, yea, that's typical for someone who just broke up. I'm glad that she could come to terms with (almost) everything in her life and that it looked good where I left her at the end.

Recommended for chick-lit lover, it was an easy and fun read too!

It's Not You, It's Him is a delightful book about recently dumped Tansy, who sets off to win her dream man, Renzo, back. She's full of grandiose schemes to win him back, but of course, life rarely goes according to plan.

Tansy is a relatable and quirky main character, and I found myself not only amused by her hijinks and methods of reasoning to herself, but also relating to some of her struggles and insecurities. Sophie Ranald does a great job of making her characters seem real. I loved the friendship between several of the characters, but particularly between Tansy and Adam. It was sweet and a solid friendship, and it's nice to see purely platonic relationships between opposite sexes portrayed in books as well. 

I definitely found myself shaking my head at Tansy's obsession with Renzo, especially as the story progresses and we learn more about his character and the relationship they had. It seemed a little unbelievable that she would want him back! But following along in her journey and seeing how she matures really brought everything together for me, and I loved the endings for all the characters. 

Overall, this is a fun read perfect for fans of British chick-lit (Sophie Kinsella, anyone?) and I really enjoyed it! I would definitely pick up her previous book as well. Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced copy.

I started out wondering why I was reading this book about a spineless airhead. But as Tansy matured I became more and more hooked. By the end of the book I loved it. This is NOT my usual MO with books so I was surprised how much I enjoyed the whole experience. After a long time reading tense mysteries this book was a welcome change. A big thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for the arc.

***I received an e-copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to NetGalley, Bookouture and Sophie Ranald.***

I requested It's Not You It's Him, by Sophie Ranald, from NetGalley because the listing sounded fun. Tansy has been dumped by Renzo, her boyfriend of 6 months, and the only thing she wants is to win him back. Her initial strategy is to run into him “randomly” once she finds out where he’s going, followed by trying to use a fake boyfriend to make him jealous. Along the way she discovers a few things about herself and her past.

Tansy was ok. I had a little trouble relating to her. Her desperation to win Renzo back got in the way of seeing who she really was. The stuff that happened to her in grade school and high school seemed to weigh very heavily on her still. Even after the situation was explained it didn’t seem significant enough to hold a grudge as long as she did.

I liked her roommates Adam and Josh. I felt for Tansy’s situation with her parents, and was glad she got that sorted eventually.

In terms of writing, the plot was a bit muddled with little things. The book’s summary made it sound like it would be hilarious but I didn’t find it to be particularly funny. There was too much description for my liking. I also found Tansy to be in her head a lot. The backstory relating to her weight was a bit too subtle until the very end. I wish I’d understood it long before it was finally explained as it would have gone a long way towards understanding Tansy.