This cute little story reminded me a lot of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Only in this one, when they find out they're both working on the same story, they work together instead of competing for the best story.

Penny Coyne is a magazine columnist. Her newest column will be about different ways to date in the city. She is to try all different kinds of dating, write a column on each and if she finds a match while doing so, she gets herself a cover story.

Meanwhile, her nemesis, Geo Monais is working on the exact same thing. He had no idea that the story was stolen, but he's up for it anyway. Upon the columns completion, he's got a job offer in New York with a big, fat raise. He wants to use the extra money to help his sisters charity, so he goes all in on this story.

Penny and Geo bump into each other at Speed Dating and instantly start arguing. That leads to coffee and then they figure out they're working the same story and decide to help each other out. Next thing you know, they're falling for each other. But Geo is leaving for New York once this is said and done, so it'll never work anyway, will it?

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As if it wasn’t bad enough to be deemed the “most single person” at her magazine’s office, budding repor
As if it wasn’t bad enough to be deemed the “most single person” at her magazine’s office, budding reporter Penny has now been tapped to write a series of features called “The Dating Itinerary.” From speed dating to Tinder, old-fashioned matchmakers to up-and-coming “dark dating,” Penny now has to go on a lot of dates. Silver lining: meeting new people should be fun, right? But running into her old rival, George, at her first dating event is decidedly not. Not only does the arrogant know-it-all have zero trouble attracting women, wherever Penny goes, somehow he just. Keeps. Showing. Up.

Geo knows he’s right on the cusp of writing success with the chance to have his own syndicated column. All he has to do is follow his agent’s ideas for showcasing different dating avenues, and he’ll pull in enough to help his sister’s non-profit women’s shelter get off the ground. Sure, his itinerary is starting to look strangely similar to his old rival Penny’s, but all’s fair in love and syndication, right?

When I read the synopsis of this book I just need it to read it. Enemies to lovers. Sign me up.
I really enjoyed this book. This is just a sweet, heart worming, romance. I love the writing. This was sooo cute.
Penny and George what a pair. I just loved them.
This wasn't mind blowing read, but it made me feel so good.
I loved all the dancing around with one another. You just can see ( read) and feel the way they were falling for each other. This was just what I need. Because I was in the reading slump and this just brought me back.
Thanks for this ArC. 4 stars from me.

This is a cute story of friends that became enemies that became friends again and then something more. The chemistry between Geo and Penny was really sweet and watching them attempt to date other people while falling in love with each other was so much fun!

I loved Geo's relationship with his sister and the way he took care of his nephew was adorable. Penny and her sisters, all named after coins and yes, their last name is Coyne, were all close and I loved that they had a sister's bowling night every month. Family obviously played a big part in their lives and it was nice to see such healthy relationships and so much familial support.

This story was a wonderful escape from a difficult work week and just the thing to start the holiday weekend off in a relaxed frame of mind.

Thank you to Entangled Publishing and Net Galley for a complimentary copy in exchange for my honest review!

The Dating Itinerary is a very sweet and a little old fashioned romance where two journalists meanders into the dating world using a dating itinerary—a cute enemies to friends/ lovers romance that is sure to sweep you away.

This was a very sweet and a little old fashioned romance where two journalists meanders into the dating world using a dating itinerary.

I actually found the story compelling and the two main characters were very warm and likable until they just ruined everything for me at the ending unfortunately.
It was actually fun to se them fighting their attraction at the same time as they have to date other people for their articles and television appearances. And the different dating methods are so funny too especially the matchmaker Ivana Date and the terrible dates she set them up with at first.
But there are also something to be learned from this story. Don’t go alone into bars or go out alone with a guy you don’t know because you don’t know if you can trust them to take care of you or want to do something you don’t want to do.

At the beginning of the story they are actually supposed to be enemies because they used to work together and he got the promotion she was supposed to get because the editor had a crush on him.
Now he is freelance and she got her promotion after he left the magazine.
He keeps showing up at the dating events that she has to go to and when he shows up at the television appearance that she thought was meant only for her she is not very happy.
Can she actually consider working with this guy after everything that happened before and why does she suddenly find him very attractive when she can’t trust this man at all?

I really liked the romance between Penny and George(Geo) and them growing with the task they are given. I loved that George figured out that he didn’t like the person he had become and that he wanted to change to become a better person. His manager didn’t help George’s image very much either since he was a slime ball that just used everyone to get to the top.
I loved the relationship they both had with their siblings and that they would do anything and sacrifice everything for them.

I can recommend this book.

Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Publishing, LLC for the advanced copy of The Dating Itinerary by Brooke Williams, in exchange for an honest review.

I had a lot of fun reading this one! It was written coming from both main character POVs; with just enough sass, sarcasm and cheese.

It was definitely a hoot following Penny Coyne and George Monais as they put themselves out there experimenting in all the ways people date to find their true love.
I also really enjoyed that their articles were part of the story; it kept the story exciting with a different format to look forward to!

"..and don't forget to look at the people closest to you. You might just recognize love somewhere you never expected to find it."


If you enjoy cute romantic comedies, I recommend this one!

I have never been so glad to be out of the whole dating scene (by about 25yrs LOL) but I'd hate to be trying to find love in this digital age!

Penny and George have been rivals for a long time. They are both journalists and both hungry for success. But back when they started out they were actually friends. But promotion got in the way of friendship and now they are die-hard rivals!

Penny has been voted the most single person in her company and has been set the assignment of trying out all the different ways to date. We're talking dating in the dark, speed dating, the whole shebang. But on her first experimental date, Penny runs into Geo, who has a similar assignment and the claws of one-upmanship are deployed!

A slue of bad dates, funny and downright horrifying, ensue and the frenemies still spark off each other. As the tempers and tensions rise, so do the frissons of romance. But can Penny really trust the Geo wants her and not just the story?

Watching these two circling each other, whilst also trying to keep their distance was hilarious. There are several very funny moments and I enjoyed the book immensely. Great writing, witty putdowns and banter. With a cast of colourful supporting characters, this makes an easy, comforting and happy read!

Thank you to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for providing me an Advanced Reader Copy of this story. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is a cute enemies to friends/ lovers romance story. The story begins with Penny who is a reporter who has been tasked to experience various dating methods and to review them through her weekly column and tv interview. Enter stage right, George “Geo”, an ex colleague who competed with her at the magazine that she works at and who won a promotion over her in the past. George, just so happens, is also working on the same story premise to write about. Unsurprisingly there is residual tension between them. The story flows well as they both work through the various dating avenues. Both George’s sister and Penny’s sisters are well rounded support characters. Likewise, Geo and Penny are somewhat likeable and carry this story well.

This is a good story to read on holiday or that quiet Sunday afternoon, where you just want to get lost in a pleasant easy read. This is the first time I’ve read a story by this Author and can say it won’t be the last.

"because love is like a needle in a haystack. If you keep searching through that stack, you'll find it eventually. If you stop looking it will be lost to you forever"

The Dating Itinerary is a very fast paced, cute, enemies to lovers office romance. George "Geo" Monais and Penny Coyne used to be work partners, until Geo got the promotion Penny deserved and it all went downhill from there. They meet again, in the brink of another job related promotion for the both of them. Everything is lying upon a dating itinerary where they have to try out different means of dating in the modern world and write about it in the perspective newspapers the work in.

The story was witty from the beginning and the banter, although cheesy at times was also fun to watch progress. I enjoyed the story but it wasn't anything that changed my world. I enjoyed Penny as a character (Expect at the end when she jumps to conclusion she shouldn't have). I didn't adore George. I felt like the whole story line of him using "Geo" as an alterego was a little silly and it didn't really add much to the story. I felt that George did not know who he was, or the author did not know how to paint him as: the good boy, the bad boy, the playboy, the hero? Why not everything. That for me didn't work as the author seemed to have a very well developed character ideal for Penny, but Geo's character was all over the place. There is even one scene where Geo says to himself with conviction that he is going to forget about Penny and avoid the feelings they have for each other. However, in the same page two paragraphs below he texts her and the author writes in Geo's perspective of how he needed to act on his feelings towards her. And this is one time of many where the authors seemed to be doing opposing things or thinking opposing thoughts, it left me a little confused about what they really wanted.

I did enjoy the premise of the book. The whole dating fiasco scenes where funny and unique and they added a cute twist to the book that otherwise would have been very flat.

*I received this book through Netgalley and Entagled Publishing in exchange for an honest review*

--- 2.5 stars ---

Brooke Williams is a new to me author and this is an original, refreshing story for me. I loved the banter back and forth between Geo and Penny and the laugh out loud dating experiences. It was a quick read that kept me grinning throughout the book!

Thank you to Entangled Publishing and NetGalley for the opportunity to review this arc.

This book is a fun romantic read. Penny & George are both journalist that use to work together until George got the promotion that Penny wanted. Now they are rivals working on a similar assignment about different dating methods. Needless to say sparks fly. Fun read.

This is a great rom-com with a hate to love romance trope. I really enjoyed growth and change of both the main characters Penny and George. I think George was the main character that changed and grown in the book but it was for the good.

The book is about Penny and George are reporters and they both do a series on different ways that someone could find dates from speed dating to using a matchmaker. They keep getting together through the different ways that they are using.

I also really liked the way Brooke used play on words for the names of characters in the book. One example is the names of Penny's sisters and I would love to have this become a series with the other books featuring Penny's sisters and how they find love.

I liked the plot idea of The Dating Itinerary even though I figured out what was going to happen long before it actually happened and the conflicts were also predicable for me too.

There were a couple of scenes that made me laugh when the characters played Girl Talk. I think that was one of my favorite scenes in the whole book because it was just cute and it brought me back to my freshmen year of high school when I last played it with my friends.

I also thought the friendship the sisters had between each other was really good.

Slight spoiler alerts below.

There was a scene that didn’t suit well with me. During one of tasks on the itinerary the girl character gets matched by a matchmaker. The first one didn’t go well at all just because they didn’t click.

The second date the matchmaker hooked her up with the girl’s cousin even if it was a very distant cousin. I don’t think that was intentionally by the matchmaker, but I thought that whole scene was weird even if nothing happened besides talking.

End of slight spoiler alert.

The flow went well in a couple of spots, especially at the beginning but at others it didn’t.

The Dating Itinerary was a cute idea which some cute and funny moments but it was a two star rating because it was just an ok read in the end.

Thank you Netgalley and publishers for giving me the chance to read this book! My thoughts are my own.

This review is not going to be long. I am not a huge fan of a review rehashing the entire plot and spoiling it for everyone.

This is the first book by Brooke Williams that I have read. It was a cute story. I just wish there were more to it. It felt like it was missing something.

I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The Dating Itinerary!

This was a refreshing romantic comedy. I loved the characters names, and how the Coyne sisters were all named! Their support for each other and the interactions sound so real, I felt like I was sitting at the next table listening! George put on a persona as Geo, who he used to get ahead in the journalism world. However, it wasn’t the real George!

The Dating Itinerary (or The Dating List) was an idea from Penny’s publication. And since Penny was the only single person on staff, she was destined to follow the itinerary to write about various ways to find dates. Meanwhile, Geo (who is a rival journalist) has the same list and is writing the same story from his viewpoint! How is it possible that he has the exact same list and publicity scheduled?

When Geo turns up at Penny’s first stop on her list, she is determined to put him in his place. In her determination to NOT have a follow up date with him, she indicates she wants a date! Between Speed dating, tinder swiping, a matchmaker who seemed more scary than I’d expect a matchmaker to be, and the dating in the dark, the sparks fly! The two work together to write their stories, and learn their impressions of the other change over time. The bad dates for Penny were hilarious! I could see the bearded man clearly in my mind! So much fun and a HEA makes this my recently read fav.

I received an ARC copy of this book courtesy of NetGalley and Entangled Publishing and am voluntarily reviewing it. All opinions expressed in this review are my own and given freely.

This is a new to me author and this book was super fun read. If this book was a movie (which I could totally see) this would be a total romcom for sure. This author definitely has a sense of humor I mean look at the names of the characters and you will totally see why I say that. I liked both main characters in the end, however I was not a fan of "Geo" I so wanted to punch him a couple of times thought out the book. Penny and her sisters were just so fun to read about and I hope if this is not a series the author turns it into one because I am so ready to read their stories too. I loved Geo's sister man with what she faced she too had a heart of gold and I want her to have a Happy ever after. :-) I will say that the author does have some of the characters face or had faced to very tough subjects but over all this book was very much a good clean read and so well worth the read. I could not put it down.

DNFed at 30%. I couldn't connect with the characters at all and the writing was too underdevloped for me to want to continue.

This book was absolutely adorable! I really enjoyed the trope of enemies to friends to lovers which I feel is so rarely done. I felt that the depiction of dating in this day and age was pretty much spot on. The characters were also just swoon worthy and both whom I would want to be friends with. They both also had such fantastic relationships with their families. Geo with his sister and nephew and Penny with her sisters who are all named after monetary values.
This is possibly ones of the sweetest romances I have read so far this year. I think this would make a good series featuring each of the different sisters headlining each book.
I will post a review on Goodreads closer to the review date to entice people to pick this one up!
Big thank you to NetGalley, Entangled Publishing, LLC, and Brooke Williams for an ARC of this book!

The Dating Itinerary is an adult romantic comedy by Brooke Williams. I loved this book. I had such a great time while reading it. It was the first book I read on my vacation, and it really started me off in a great reading mood. If you are a looking for a fun, romantic feel good read, The Dating Itinerary is really going to hit the spot. 

In The Dating Itinerary we meet our main characters, Penny and George, or Geo as he is going by now. Penny and George are rival journalists, but they didn't start out as rivals. They used to be friends working for the same publication but when George "got" a promotion that Penny wanted, their friendship turned bitter. Now Geo does free lance work. When Penny's publication sets her off on a several week publication trying out different dating methods, she is a reluctant participant. They are calling it her dating itinerary, but when she is on her first dating method and Geo is also there, things start to get a bit interesting. Turns out, Geo is doing the same type of column and he is strangely on the same itinerary as Penny. 

As you can imagine, plenty of sparks, bad dates and funny moments ensue, and I loved every moment of their dating itinerary. They did speed dating, match making, tinder, dating in the dark, and watching them do it all together was a blast. I thought this was a wonderful romantic comedy for the modern dating age. I loved The Dating Itinerary.

When I first read the blurb, I thought ''It's like How to lose a guy in 10 days but with a twist!'' They are both writers but they write the same thing from their own perspective. 

I feel like the mystery part of this book is not a mystery at all. They realise pretty soon why they meet each other so often. They start to work together and from enemies goes to sort of friends.

Maybe it's because I'm used to characters basically jumping each other since the moment they met but this book just didn't feel interesting. There were stolen kisses that were not acknowledged (they didn't really talk what this meant for them, they just ignored anything happening between them). The quirky names the side characters had (her sisters were named Dime, Quarter and Nickel with last name Coyne, a matchmaker called Ivana Date) were supposed to make the book funnier but it kind of lost its charm because we never get to know why the four sisters were named that way. I'm sure their could be a lovely, funny story behind it.

There were a lot of scenes that could be better developed. I admit, I didn't know if the main characters just kissed through the whole book or they slept together too. There's a hint they might have done it but like I said, it is not mentioned. Through the whole book there are (too) subtle hints of what might have happened. There are words but no actions.

I really liked the whole dating thing and their dates. However, the whole book was just okay for me, a little too clean for me so the story for me is just mediocre.

I thought of giving it three stars but I am not satisfied with this book so I'm giving it a star less. 2 stars because it could be way better developed.