This excerpt hooked me right into Meg and Reid's story. The author is so talented and I'm delighted to see how this one turns out.

I love planning. I'm not the best at artwork, but I love to make lists in my bullet journal. I immediately loved Meg and her backstory right away because she's a true artist. She used to design beautiful wedding invitations and now designs custom planners. She's in very high demand for her design work.

At the beginning of the story, Meg is taken by surprise when a former client, Reid, comes to visit her at the shop. He wants to know how she knew his marriage wouldn't work out. Right away that had me intrigued. How did Meg know? And how did she let him know? And why is Reid finally ready to hear the truth, a year later?

Meg and Reid are total opposites, which makes for some very interesting conversations. Opposites attract is one of my favorite romance tropes. But I will say... witnessing Meg and Reid try to get to know each other is a little bit awkward. I felt very tense as they learned to talk to and be honest with each other.

But I loved them both. Meg is kind and artsy. Reid is serious and focused, but also very caring.

A fun side plot in this story is Meg trying to get over her creator's block. She has a big job that she wants to apply for, but in order to do so she has to create many different planner pages for it, kind of like an audition. I loved her adventures with Reid around the city as they work to gather inspiration for her plans.

This is my first Kate Clayborn book and I really enjoyed it. Part of the reason why I loved it so much was the characters, but it was also about a topic that really interested me: planning. I also really enjoyed the side characters, like the other women at the shop and Meg's strained relationship with her roommate.

All in all it's a really fun story with a complicated, but satisfying romance. This is my first Kate Clayborn book but I've already checked out one of her others from the library, so I can read that next.

I was excited to get this ARC, but after reading the book for 50 pages, I put it down. Too much angst for me.

The story did not interest me, sadly.
I just did not like the characters or the chemistry between the characters.
Reid was sort of interesting, but not too much that it held my interest.

At the start Meg and Reid don't seem like characters that would have any connection with one another, one is an artist (hand lettering) and the other a Wall-Street something. But when Reid wants to discover how a stranger could have known that his marriage would have failed had he gone through with it he goes directly to Meg, our protaginist, who had secretly woven the letters forming "MISTAKE" into the wedding program. Then, over the course of the book, the two fall in love.

I loved the idea of the book--and I love hand lettering, so it was endeared to me from the start. The storyline did have a slow pace but, given the awkwardness of the characters, it fit.

This isn't a title that I would return to, but it was sweet, quick read!

Meg is a hand-letterer who makes custom planners, wedding invites, and more for her clients. One day, an old client, Reid, returns to her shop, demanding to know how Meg knew his marriage would fail - he had noticed how Meg weaved the word MISTAKE into the art in his wedding program. A conversation turns into a walk turns into sign-finding games turns into...more?

LOVE LETTERING is for all of us who love a classic rom com. If you liked EVVIE DRAKE STARTS OVER or THE AUSTEN PLAYBOOK, you need this book. It's a relatively slow burn for a romance novel - not even any kissing until halfway through! - but that only adds to the realness of this story. It reads like you're actually watching two people feel each other out and fall in love slowly, then all at once.

What I loved most about this book is how Meg's job as a hand-letterer is so integral to the story. It's not the type of book where the heroine owns a small business but never seems to actually do any work. It's her passion and she's good at it, and the plot would fall apart without it.

I also loved the descriptions of how Meg sees letters in her everyday life. She's always spelling out words in her head and rolling them around in her mind, feeling out each letter. It adds, dare I say it, whimsy to the story, and gives you such a great look into the mind of an artist.

This book was okay. I liked the love interest, but interactions between him and the protagonist felt stilted and awkward. I loved the incorporation of calligraphy, signs, and other forms of writing, but parts of the storyline didn't feel natural. I loved the ending and was surprised by it, but overall, I was underwhelmed.

**sigh** I really wanted to love this, but ultimately this just wasn't the book for me. There are definitely elements I liked and I appreciated how Clayborn navigated the feelings of loneliness and inadequacy, but I felt very disconnected from this book. It was slow and while I did eventually get on board with the romance, it took me awhile to see why both of them were interested in each other. Ultimately, I think the writing style just didn't work for me.

Full of swoon-worthy moments! The plot had my interest with it's unusual and unique description. I listened to the audiobook and had a hard time keeping up with Meg's thoughts in the beginning, but that quickly developed into a story I couldn't walk away from or get enough of.

Meg and Reid are brought together after he discovers a secret message she thought nobody would find. The characters in this book are so cleverly written, you'll fall for them both, wishing they existed in the real world so you could befriend them.

A charming story that teaches you that everything isn't always what it appears to be, and sometimes you need to take a chance in order to find your happiness. This was a new-to-me author that I will definitely be reading again soon!

**This is a very slow burn, but I promise it's worth it.

Even though I was fortunate to also get an advanced copy from Netgalley to review, I didn't get to it before it was published, so I listened to an audiobook.  I have a feeling that part of the reason I didn't love the book as much as Daniella is because I wasn't especially fond of the book narrator. For me, the book didn't come across as well-written as Daniella thought in the beginning. It didn't draw me in as much as other books have.  I didn't think the author was clear enough in the beginning in setting up what Meg had done in Reid and Avery's wedding program, and the whole premise seemed a little too unbelievable for me.  There was nothing that led up to Meg's attraction for Reid other than her telling us that.  I think the book might have been better if it had started a little earlier when she was working with Avery and Reid, so that the relationship/attraction could have been established better. That being said, by the end of the book I started enjoying it much more.  There were some developments that I felt gave the book more depth which I enjoyed.

I loved the characters and the storyline development of this book. It was absolutely one of my favorites so far and I can't wait to delve in to the next one that this author writes. The storyline was simple, enjoyable, and entertaining.

Loved this first chapter and enjoyed the whole story when I read it later on.
I am still no a fan of posting just sneak peek chapters on NG. The review reflects them on their own and can't serve for the reader to judge how the story will go in the rest of the book.

Excellent written, moving & swoon worthy, draws you into not just this story but looking forward to what's to come to.

This was a highly recommend book from Christina Lauren who are my favourite writing duo so I couldn’t wait to devour this book and boy did it not disappoint!

Super cute and such a quick read! Would highly recommend for all you romance lovers

In Love Lettering, Meg and Reid are, if anything, too good at their jobs. He’s trained to spot patterns and codes, and he’s just found big one: in the program for his called-off wedding, Meg hid the letters “M-I-S-T-A-K-E.” Years of working with engaged couples have given Meg an instinct for these things; she may not be able to put the reasons into words, but they creep into her calligraphy. “The letters, they work on me sometimes. When I’m stressed, when I’m tired, when I’m lonely. When I’m blocked. . . I can’t draw at all or when I try—I end up saying too much.” Meg, too, sees the world in patterns and symbols. When Reid tells her he hates New York, “it almost makes me recoil, the way he’s said this. Bold, sans serif. No caps, but italics for the hate.”

Together, they get their respective grooves back by exploring the city on foot, looking for unique lettering; Meg needs inspiration for her work, and Reid needs a distraction from his. “Union and Sixth, a good corner for signage,” Meg muses. “A veterinary clinic with a slim sans serif, clean and safe-looking. A market with a lime green star to replace the A, a standout against the black background—it’s hip, it’s expensive, it’s probably got a bunch of food you’ve never heard of but you’d definitely be hip, too, if you tried it.” We see them fall in love with their jobs, with New York, and with each other, in that order.

Playing House, too, is a ménage à trois between the characters and the city. Here, it’s the heroine, Fay Liu, who’s reeling from a divorce while struggling to adjust to her new apartment and singlehood. Her career is the one constant in her life—she’s a partner in a boutique urban planning firm—but her ambition derailed her marriage. Freelance consultant Oliver Huang’s looking for a stable job, not a relationship, real or fake. But he and Fay unexpectedly discover a shared love language as they play at being house hunters.

Even if you don’t speak it, their geeky joy is contagious; if you’re a fan of HGTV, so much the better. The two also share the burden of high expectations from their Asian parents. Among his accomplished siblings, Oliver is “the underachiever making obscure improvements around the city”; Fay’s parents are happy to let their friends assume that her “firm” is a law firm. Predictably but deliciously, their fake relationship grows into a real one.

This was just a sample sadly because I loved everything I read! This was such a cute and unique premise and I was hooked - I will be purchasing the full book to keep reading.

Meg Mackworth’s hand-lettering skill has made her famous as the Planner of Park Slope, designing custom journals for her New York City clientele. She has another skill too: reading signs that other people miss. Knowing the upcoming marriage of Reid Sutherland and his polished fiancée was doomed to fail is one thing, but weaving a secret word of warning into their wedding program is another. Meg may have thought no one would spot it, but she hadn’t counted on sharp-eyed, pattern-obsessed Reid.

This was a pretty middle of the road romcom for me.

The plot goes like this: a year ago, Meg accidentally put a hidden message in Reid Sutherland’s wedding program spelling out MISTAKE, and when his relationship crumbled he comes back to her shop demanding to know how she knew they were destined to break up before he did. They get to talking after a while and become friends turned something more.

I was liking this book for the first half, pretty standard and fun little romance. Nothing spectacular but nothing that made me dislike it either, like it was good!

But the ending was just....weird? And rushed? And I don’t wanna spoil anything but it was pretty far fetched and just completely took me out of the moment and made me question everything I’d read previously.

I can definitely see why people love this one. It’s pretty funny and Meg is a very likable main character. I just think it tried to do too much.

Love Lettering by Kate Clayborn is a fun, quirky novel. I love the use of New York, almost as if it is a character in the novel as well. With unexpected twists and turns, readers of romance will love this unique approach. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

I enjoyed this book a lot as I’m someone who spends a very unhealthy amount of time watching all of these short clips of calligraphy on social media and I’ve always wondered how someone learns all of those cool calligraphy art and designing techniques and it was fun reading about Meg and how she uses her skills in day to day life and how sometimes it gets her in a messy situation.