I received an ARC copy of this book from the Publisher via Netgalley and voluntarily leaving my review.

Izzy works at a tech firm where she writes technical documentation and also seen to have enact for pairings couples but fail at her own.

We learn Izzy is bipolar and when her friends courage her to write a self-help book about love she tries to give it a try.

Jane is a a professor from a local college. When Jane goes to Izzy company to shadow some interns they meet and form a friendship.

Even though there romance was slow we got to go through it with them as they live together adjust to being a couple while we see Izzy struggles to tell Jane about her illness and I like that Jane accepted her but that wasn't the reason she left Izzy we learn Jane didn't have a great childhood and she still gives her parents unconditionally love even though her father physical and emotional abuse her by seeing them and doing things for them.

This was a good slow romance story.

ARC received via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I’m finding this a hard book to review. It’s my first by this author, and I liked it enough to try more of her work, but overall the book was up and down for me.

This features MC Izzy, who’s POV this is told from. She’s late 40’s, writes technical documentation for a tech firm and is seen as somewhat of an ‘expert’ in relationships, even though she fails at her own. Her friends encourage her to write a self help book about love, and that forms a large part of the plot. She’s also bipolar.

Izzy meets Jane, a professor form a local college when Jane comes to her company to shadow some interns and they become friends, and this develops into a relationship. Because the story is told via Izzy’s POV, Jane isn’t as well developed, and we learn things about her only sort of as asides, we don’t experience her life the way we do Izzy’s. Both women have families, Izzy’s is large and supportive, Jane’s is smaller, and more fraught.

I give kudos to the author for including a main character with bipolar, but I thought the reveal about this took too long. Izzy admits to being ‘depressed’, but doesn’t share the actual details of her illness with Jane, which seemed strange given how supportive Jane was about, well, everything. Jane’s family issues are also fairly heavy, and I would have preferred a POV switch technique to really get a better grip on those. I also ended up skimming about 70% of the ‘love guide’ Izzy was writing, it didn’t add anything to the story for me.

The relationship between the leads develops slowly, and we get to see the actual relationship with them living together etc, and not just the usual meeting, getting together stuff, but I’d have preferred more honesty between them, I felt Izzy hiding her illness just reinforced that it’s something people won’t accept, which wasn’t the case at all. I also felt the stuff about children at the end was decided too quickly and wasn’t particularly believable for Izzy’s character.

The blurb is also very misleading, it claims Jane leaves Izzy because she’s bipolar, which is not the case at all. This is a nice enough romance, but it was a bit uneven, I’d give this 3.25-3.5 but am rounding down.

'ARC provided by both NetGalley and The Publisher in exchange for an unbiased review'

**'Writers! Stay away from the machinery of the modern world.It will ruin your imagination..Genuine storylines can communicate before it is understood..'

I have been mulling over what I wanted my view about this storyline to look like because of how weird and dull the storytelling resonate. What I really don't want my words to do is discourage other interested readers plus I also do not want to come off as too critical or harsh. As another reviewer noted 'the synopsis does not match with the actual storyline and I wholesomely agree. When I said earlier that this storyline end up being really weird, well add puzzling also.
I'm just gonna give a semi brief assessment of a part of this storyline -- where having any mental illness can be a bit of a stigma in some relationships or one's surroundings but I don't think it should be a cause for any break-ups, which did happen in this storyline and seems way too fallible because there can be other contributing factors such as falling in love and shacking up way too fast without first finding out each others likes & dislikes etc..plus some interactions between them (Izzy and Jane) revealed any chemistry or excitement in their relationship.
For any further well detailed description pertaining to the book well that I'll leave to other interested readers.

Hmmm
Izzy is bipolar and has had a really bad time after a break up years, before she decides the single life is for her. (Being as she’s totally clueless when women are flirting or interested in her, it’s just as well.) However, she always seems to have the right relationship advice at the right time. Her best friend encourages her to write a book on affairs of the heart and she agrees. Then she meets Jane at work and her world changes. She’s smitten but Jane makes it clear she doesn’t date coworkers… until she does. This is a fun, interesting and engaging book. I really liked how there were pages at the end of each chapter detailing what Izzy has learned in her relationships and puts into the book. There was a lot of really sound advice, good reminders for those of us in relationships or those looking for one. I enjoyed the story and liked watching the women fall in love and find their way. I loved the secondary characters and Izzy’s best friend was so

In spite of how much I liked the story I did have some pretty big problems with it. Izzy is afraid to tell Jane about her bipolar. She has no problem admitting to having depression that she will have to take meds for, (and Jane makes it VERY clear that is NOT a problem at all!!) for the remainder of her life but for some reason, she is convinced Jane will leave if she knows it all. Eventually Jane does leave but not because of the disease. It was VERY obvious that Izzy suffers from severe anxiety but her bipolar isn’t as obvious and it doesn’t seem to really be a factor in her life, maybe because it’s really well controlled and she is managing it. The anxiety is more of an issue and it is only addressed as Izzy taking a Xanax once. Jane too has some problems that she should have shared along the way as well. She was physically abused as a child, (and some of the injuries and a bit of what happened are discussed in case that’s a trigger) and has some insecurity issues. I was really surprised that Jane would go visit her parents as often as she did given the amount of physical and emotional abuse her father dished out…. She even picked her parents up at the hospital after her father hurt her mom so badly she needed an ambulance…. As hard as I tried to be a true believer and just go with it, it just doesn’t work for me.

This is the second book I have read from this author and is in a sense completely different from the first book. Where her first book was a bit on the edgy side with prison scenes, drug scenes, and the likes, this one is a little more on the tamer side with bipolar disorders, crazy families (in a way), and romance (sorta). This is a story manily about Izzy and told by Izzy in third person which I think may have hurt the flow of story at least for me. Jane is also a main character but honestly the focus was not really on her per se but on her with Izzy.
So the story starts out pretty nicely. We know from the blurb that Izzy is bipolar but what is nice is that for about 40% of the book it does not define nor play a huge role in the story. We also know Izzy is great at giving advice on love and the only reason know this is because we are told it. That aspect is not really shown or proven. Since she is so great her friends convince her to write a manual of sorts on dating for idiots. Introduce Jane, a professor who is interning at the company Izzy works for so she an idea of what her students go through. The story is really about Izzy journey in their relationship.

I give this book a solid 3.5 stars. While I enjoy that the illness was not a front runner in the story I became increasingly annoyed with Izzy and her lack of communication with Jane. I can take her being oblivious to certain situations, I can also accept her not knowing how to act when certain things happens, but it because annoying reading what she wrote in her book and then doing the exact opposite of it. For that I took off a half star. I also found the blurbs of her book interrupted the flow of the story and often did not match what was happening or had just happened in the story itself. I think I only enjoyed like three blurbs: the first one, the one about Audie, and the last one. It worked better when it was about her experience and her friends than when she was trying to give advise. The writing of those book blurbs seemed more bloggish in nature...half a star off. At the last half star was taken off because Jane's story was an after thought and I felt could have added more to their story if was there plus communication between the two seemed lacking...and kept lacking. So....there is how came to my 3.5 stars and since half stars are not allowed it gets rounded up to 4 stars.

The ending seems as if there might be a sequel to this book and I would honestly read it if it did come out. At the end of the story, I did feel some connection with the characters and would like to know how their journey continues.

***Recieved an ARC from Netgalley for an honest review from me. Thank you***

First of all, I want to say the synopsis is not quite accurate. I normally don't read synopsis in advance nor read reviews of books newly pubicated but after reading them almost always go for the explanation that the publisher has chosen for sell us the book. And in this case is not even close to the real thing.And in this case is not even close to the real thing. I was wondering how I could review this book without disclosing much of the important matters and to my surprise the fact that Izzy has a bipolar disorder is front showed as a major issue. And sure it''s a big thing but Jane also has of their own and perhaps more factoring in the story itself.

Without knowing anything about Izzy condition, the book starts and follows a path pretty joyful about how Izzy's friends dare her to writte a book about how to find true love, because she is the to-go girl for counseling about relationship issues, even though she has never had fruitful relationships.
And with the pretext of writing the guide, at the end of each chapter, there is a kind of explanation that merges general concepts of the different phases of building a relationship with Lizzy's own experiences, which she has in need of the research for the book. Some of these final summaries have been of little interest for me, when Lizzy and Jane story goes growing I wanted to know the real thing, not the theory of things.

And of course, Lizzy’s bipolar disorder influences the story but as I have already said is not the center or bigger part of the ending result. And said condition plus several other things makes the book not joyful anymore.

But overall, I think it has a lot of interesting things so those who like good romantic stories will enjoy it a lot as I’ve done.