Thank you for the opportunity to read this book. I will be posting my review on Amazon, Goodreads, Instagram, and B&N.

This was a fun read!

Dana, now 29 and jobless, is coerced into going to an audition by her best friend/agent, Megan.

Using a novel approach to the Shopping Channel's audition, Dana scores the job. She has to give up her beloved Sweat City "amateur" acting gig, but decides she has no choice. On Dana's first day at work she is besotted with Lorenzo, a cameraman, who is out on parole. Also, the diva at the Shopping Channel, Kitty, commits suicide. Or was Kitty murdered?.

A very fast-paced book and I suggest all to give it a read!

Many Thanks to Harlequin - MIRA and NetGalley for a very good story!

Dana is a struggling actor who lands a primo job at a home shopping network. She turns out to be a natural; she can talk for hours and sell anything as she looks into that camera and imagines it is full of her best friends. But a murder takes place the very first day on the job and she is one of the first to find the body. There are so many people she could suspect and she tried her hand at sleuthing. But her romantic interest... well, who will that be? Read this fun book with plot twists and turns to find out.
I would recommend this book to my patrons.

A shame, because how cute is the cover to this book??? I was barely even into the book and I was already annoyed. I could tell that I was not going to connect with the main character, and there was so much drug use in this book. I found it distracting and totally unnecessary.

**I received a copy of Love Sold Separately book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. Obviously, all opinions are of my own and I will be honest when I am not feeling a book.**

I received Love Sold Separately by Ellen Meister for free through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. It was a fun read and not what I expected. I really enjoyed it. I look forward to reading more by this author.

A unique story with an interesting twist that I didn’t see coming! I thought the heroines role was well portrayed and believable.

This was such a fun read that I was not expecting to love so much! I love a good mystery in my stories, and I was excited to read this. It was a great mix of romance and mystery that made it hard to put down. I'm usually one to shy away from a super heavy and dark mystery/suspense, so I was delighted about how light this one felt.

Also, the cover is incredible!

This easy fun read has characters that are SO far from perfect but instead of them being off putting they are endearing. This is a fantastic book for those looking for a fun beach read and want a fun dash of mystery in their lighthearted romance novel. You want to root for the main character, watch her make good decisions and find the right guy, and solve the mystery in the story.

A firm 3.5 star book

Thank you to HARLEQUIN – Trade Publishing (U.S. & Canada) and NetGalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book. Eh - I wanted to like this book! It was a cute story but just slightly too 'fluffy' for my taste. I didn't really care for any of the characters. I'd say the writing is well done; however, it just wasn't for me.

I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley.

I really enjoyed the story. It was cute, funny and had some twists. It really captured my attention. The characters were very entertaining. I really enjoyed following Dana's growth.

In terms of suspense the author did a great job of it! I didn't know which characters to trust and who was guilty!

A solid 3.5 stars!

Thank you Netgalley for the Advance Reader's Copy of this novel! I am a seasoned thriller and suspense reader, and man, sometimes those stories can be so heavy. Love Sold Separately was a nice departure from the doom and gloom but with a twisty murder mystery to solve!

Dana Barry is an aspiring actress who lands the gig of her dreams. She is now the new host of The Shopping Channel! Everything seems to be falling into place, until the real star of the show, Kitty Todd, is found dead in her office. Was it a suicide? A murder? And who can Dana trust to hear the gossip and maybe, possibly, help solve the mystery? It was fun reading about The Shopping Channel, and the behind the scenes as well as Dana's theater troupe. I did pick up on the "whodunt", but there were a couple unexpected twists and turns.

I love this cover, but unfortunately the book itself kind of disappointed me. I had really high hopes for this one.

I enjoyed this book; however, I was confused at the title and marketing. This book is a fun, quick paced mystery, not really a romance- to me, it read more like “death sold separately” or something similar. I was disappointed in that since I found the book overall delightful and interestingly told.

Love Sold Separately by Ellen Meister is a quick, breezy read with a hot mess heroine you can't help rooting for. When struggling NYC actress Dana Barry finally gets her big break, on The Shopping Channel of all places, the last thing she expects is to be dragged into a murder investigation. Unfortunately, the network's star host has been murdered and the prime suspect is her only friend and love interest at the network. Instead of focusing on her budding career, Dana tries to uncover the murderer and finds herself falling for the detective. What's an actress turned The Shopping Channel co-host turned sleuth to do?

Ellen Meister has a breezy writing style that makes Love Sold Separately a quick read. Recommended for fans of comedic women's fiction with romantic subplots.

Thank you NetGalley, HARLEQUIN – Trade Publishing (U.S. & Canada), and Ellen Meister for the opportunity to read a digital ARC of Love Sold Separately.

2.5-stars, rounded up to 3, for the sake of the author (and because 2 stars is misconstrued as being 'bad' rather than 'okay').
Love Sold Separately is a cute enough story, which will indeed appeal to a large demographic, probably more in the 16-25 age range, or else to the QVC-obsessed cadre of women. There wasn't really anything about this that I actively disliked, but there wasn't much to draw me in as far as beautiful turns of phrase, a unique tone or point of view, or truly compelling plot points. This is sort of like a Network TV show, versus a premium cable channel show-- think Veronica Mars as opposed to Homeland. There is a lack of maturity to the writing and the central character here that isn't exactly what I look for in fiction, but that doesn't mean it won't land with everyone.
Most of the drama is quite soapy, and Dana's interest in solving the murder is, if a bit strange, motivated by a puppy-love sort of crush she develops almost immediately for 'bad boy' sound engineer Lorenzo. In keeping with this high school mentality and overall style, the protagonist continues making immature decisions, such as overlooking the 'good guy', rebelling unnecessarily against her parents, and putting her job security at risk by continuing to act in a community theatre play, which is expressly forbidden in her contract. Nevertheless, it's all in good fun, until the final 'twist' regarding the murder, which actually did bother me quite a bit as it seemed like a cop out. All of the build up, only to discover it was for naught.

Many thanks to Net Galley for sending this to me. I liked the plot line and the main character, however, I just couldn’t get connected with the love interest. They switched back and forth and I wasn’t able to get to know them at all. The twists were good but I wasn’t attached to the characters enough to care. The writing was great, I just wish I could connect to the characters. I also wish there was more love and date scenes because when I sign up for a romance, that’s what I expect.

This is the first book that I have read by this author, so I wasn't too sure if I'd enjoy reading it. But I did. This was a fun read about Dana and a cast of characters. Not really a cozy mystery, but it did have elements of it. I read more as a murder mystery/romance. I hope this is a series, because I need yo know what happens between Dana and Ari.

Really well written and a great read for the weekend. Truly enjoyed the chemistry between them and the cover art is pretty

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for allowing me to review this book.

Where to start...Dana is an out of work actor that lands a job working for the Shopping Channel. Even before she's officially hired, the death of the network's biggest star gets her tangled up in a mystery. Who killed Kitty, and why? On top of the mystery, will Dana choose this guy or that guy?

I am going to be honest. I didn't enjoy this book. I found it to be vapid, much like the main character herself. Dana has no regard for others. She does what she wants, when she wants, and doesn't think about repercussions. She's in her 30s, so age isn't an excuse. For instance? The day she does her interview/screen test for the network, she hooks up with a guy she's never met on the roof and smokes a joint....and she hasn't been hired yet! Once she has the job, there is a noncompete clause, meaning she can't take any other acting jobs without permission, so of course the first thing she must do is break it!

Dana is all around problematic. She isn't funny,, or cute, or edgy. She's an overgrown child who wants things HER way. She expects Lorenzo to tell her all his secrets, even though she meets him five seconds into the book, but yet she doesn't share much with him. She lies to her best friend/manager repeatedly, because she knows what she's doing will get her in trouble.

Let's not even get into the fact that she's an actress, not a police officer, yet she spends most of her time trying to figure out who killed Kitty, and why, hounding the actual detective on the case with her discoveries. It's as if she thinks she's the smartest person in every room, and clearly, she isn't.

For all of these reasons, and a few more I didn't get to, this book just wasn't for me. I don't recommend it.

I feel as if I am striking out left and right with NetGalley books. Are my expectations too high? Maybe so but I want to keep things real with my reviews so here it goes:

The writing is great, however, that's about it for me. I wasn't really able to enjoy and love this novel. You would think the book was a romance based on the title alone but that was the case. It's more murder mystery with a bit of love thrown in.

The main character, Dana? I didn't connect with at all. I tried to, but failed time and time again. I was to the point of DNFing multiple times but thought, just finish it. I chugged along, even though this novel was going to be a disappointment. Then I realized how dang long the book is! Which... really, no romance needs to be that long. Not a good one anyway.

I had big hopes for this novel but really... it just wasn't for me. At all.