Stefanie London is back and better than ever! I've been waiting for this book ever since hearing it was coming out and let me tell you, it does not disappoint. If you're looking for fun, romantic, fast-paced entertainment, this one's for you. Trust me when I say you need to one click this as soon as possible!! Happy reading everyone

I really enjoyed this one but kept going back and forth between giving it 4 or 5 stars and finally settled on 4. Audrey is a take no prisoners, independent woman who would do anything for her family, that is get on with her own life. She has remained stagnant and literally stopped living except for her siblings and taking care of her deadbeat father since her mother died. She dropped out of high school and has two jobs to keep food on the table but her father is still unemployed. All she wants is to raise her siblings and get them off to college and can see no future for herself. Then one day Ronan walks into the coffee shop where she works and her life is turned upside down. He is the new professor at the community college and sparks? yeah, there are definitely sparks and she is also enrolled in his Wednesday night class. She takes one class a semester at the college just for her, in secret. These two are perfect for each other. She has a thirst for knowledge and he just wants to feed it. These are like two peas in a pod and complete each other. If they could just find a way to get past their own obstacles and walls both have erected.

Stefanie London writes the best stories they have everything in them from the best romance to emotions that fly from the pages and humour that will have you laughing out loud and this one was no exception, I am late reading this one, but with book two out in the next couple of weeks I needed to read this one and what an awesome story it is, beautifully written I fell in love with Audrey, Ronan and Kissing Creek and can’t wait to read the next one.

Audrey Miller is the most caring and beautiful person, she has cared for her siblings since she was fifteen after their mother died and with no help from their father, Audrey works two jobs and never really thinks about herself, she doesn’t believe in happily ever after which is a shame seeing as how she lives in Kissing Creek, but she loves knowledge she loves to learn and has the best mind for trivia there ever was. Things are just about to turn upside down for Audrey when the new Professor at the university walks into the café.

Ronan Walsh has returned to The Sates after spending time in England studying and working, he has come home partly because his grandmother is not the best and he wants to write a book and he takes a one year contract at the university in Kissing Creek. His future is mapped out with his work and study but the day he walked into The Kisesspresso Café and the barista called him a sex robot his life changed in so many ways as he gets to know the beautiful Audrey.

I loved this story there were tears from me happy and sad I was cheering them on and I was laughing out loud in this gorgeous, emotional and fun story it has all the feels for a true romance that beings two people together in a journey that shows love and caring and a sensual pull. Ronan and Audrey are meant to be together and their sensual heart-warming story is one that I highly recommend, a must read.

My thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for my copy to read and review.

I wasn't a huge fan of this one. The writing was bad, it just wasn't as engaging as I would have liked. I kept putting this one down and coming back to it, and finally started skimming to get through. I did like Audrey and Ronan together, but I felt like the story was more about their personal issues than them as a couple. I REALLY would have loved for Audrey to stand up to her father a lot sooner than she did. Family doesn't mean that you have to take crap from someone for almost half your life. While this wasn't a favorite of mine, I would be willing to read this author again.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced readers copy of this book.

I didn't know what to expect but never would imagine this town and amazing characters from the title or the cover
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Kissing Lessons is the first Stefanie London book I've read but I have several in my library and now I'm wondering why I didn't read them sooner
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Audrey Miller lives with her family despite being in her early twenties, she is the one who takes care of keeping the family together and in line since her mother died fourteen years ago and her father could not cope with the situation. Balancing her four brothers and two part-time jobs the only pleasure in her life is being able to take a college class per semester hidden from her family to maintain her love of knowledge and her brain up
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It's on one of her jobs as barista that she meets Ronan Walsh and mistakes him for someone trying to get a discount and what was an embarrassing moment turns into a question mark between them when she finds out he's the teacher of her new Brain Changing Positivity class this semester
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The dialogues give both characters incredible chemistry and the background of both had me to the point of tears a couple of times. It is very well written and well paced, I really enjoyed this book very much and I already want to know about the next book in this picturesque town called Kissing Creek, one the most beautiful small town I have read
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Thanks to Stefanie London and Entagled Publishing LLC for give me this Beautiful Book in exchange for my honest opinion
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I just really enjoyed this book. It was just really easy to get lost in this book. I will definitely be reading more by this author.

Kissing Lessons was an enjoyable and fun read. Filled with emotion, drama and quirky facts. Families are complex in their own ways and handled differently by everyone. This is a tale of commitment, self discovery and the pros and cons of letting others help when life gets tough.

Received a copy of this book for review. Overall it is a good read for me. Love the chemistry between the main characters. Love all the characters. What I love is that each of them does make a difference to the story as it developed. Like to read how the characters In the story are interrelated to each other. It make the story more exciting to read. The setting of the story is nice and is fit nicely to the story.Story plot are well penned out, with a slight twist to it in the end

This was a very cute little book! I hope to read more by this author soon. I would definitely recommend this to friends and family. I loved the characters so much.

This is a super fun read. I really enjoyed this one!

Many thanks to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

The title of this book is stupid because it gives the impression that this is about some worldly playboy teaching a naive virgin about desire. But really this is more about family loyalty, intimacy or the lack of it, and the cuts and wounds our parents can deal us when they aren't even trying to parent.

Audrey is a young woman who's been in charge of her younger siblings for years now. Their father is a deadbeat parent who really needed the Social Services up in his business but got away with his neglect because Audrey worked several jobs and took care of everything at home. His excuse is that he never got over his grief over losing Audrey's mother, but really he's just an abusive parent and a useless lazypants by now. Audrey is taking an evening class but has to keep it secret from dear old dad because he wouldn't like the expense.

Ronan is teaching said evening class. He is a workaholic nomad because of his own childhood trauma. His mother abandoned her children because they stifled her creative processes. Now Ronan puts his energy in work and won't bother to decorate his apartment because he's probably not staying. Her distant mother is trying to make contact now and he doesn't take it well. Ronan thinks Audrey e deserves more from life than being an unpaid maid in her own house, because she feels their educational disparity is a problem (he is Harvard, she is a highschool dropout) and because she is a small town girl devoted to her family and he might eventually leave town and his relatives behind.

I don't think it's a coincidence that both Ronan and Audrey find it so fascinating about positive psychology, the way the messages we frame our world with can shape our perception, the creative visualization of goals... They find their lives lacking and unsatisfactory, and try to think things better.

I started reading this book months ago and abandoned it at about a third in, drifting off to greener pastures, er, books. I couldn't really pinpoint why I lost interest, it's not that there was anything wrong with it. I thought it was well written and nicely edited and there are amusing tidbits of trivia sprinkled through the text.

Returning to the book after an Austen fan fiction binge and several historical romances, I like the last two thirds a bit better. Now I think the reason I got tired of reading it was Audrey's endless self-sacrifice and the reason it gets better is that she dumps the siblings with other people, and leaves the house a mess to go have sex with her boyfriend. (It is not reported what, if anything, her father said when he found out Audrey left that mess and her eventual final confrontation with the father was unfortunately glossed over as well..) It seems harsh but there you have it. She was portrayed as a too-perfect, never-selfish martyr and it did her a world of good to leave the house to fend for itself for once and go have some orgasms for herself.

I got a digital review copy from Netgalley and I'm leaving a honest review.

I love Stefanie London's other books so much, I had really high hopes for Kissing Lessons. But unfortunately it was a little too much personal drama for my tastes. DNF

Kissing Lessons was surprisingly deeper and a little more triggering than anticipated given the title and the cover. It is the story of two people with really challenging family lives and finding love and support together. I enjoyed it, it was a fast read with a nice ending, but was a little more challenging to get through the backstories.

A little too much telling and not enough showing, both Ronan and Audrey had some significant things to overcome before they could have their own HEA. Both had similar upbringings in that their parents didn't live up to societal standards of parenting, not there's anything that's truly normalized about being a parent, but neither of them had good role models for responsible, caring, proactive parents. Those similarities didn't produce similar romantic outlooks, however, as they both were pretty much the polar opposites of one another. Seeing them find their way to one another was at times humorous and others frustrating.

Confrontations and important plot points were off page or glossed over and there was a severe lack of counseling. With trauma like theirs I'd hope that counseling was a part of the healing process, at least to start since I fully acknowledge that counseling is not for everyone, but the level of things they were dealing with in their pasts was kind of staggering for being such a light-hearted romance and the coping mechanisms as well as the mental healing was just not believable for me. Overall it was a good book, but not one I'd re-read.

Just the kind of contemporary romance you need - light and sassy with a couple you can cheer for and just a few family problems thrown into the mix to keep things interesting

Kissing Lessons is sweet, cute romance if you don't mind the personal issues going on in the background being a bit much.

thank you netgalley for making sure i got to read this book early! it was so fun and sweet and i really love that!! i'm glad these characters exist.

I have mixed emotions about Kissing Lessons by Stefanie London; on one hand I loved the fairytale quality of the story, but on the other hand I had issues with the fact that the heroine dropped out of school at 15 to raise her siblings and work to take care of her family because her father basically gave up after her mother’s death. I think there would have been some legal ramifications about that from the school district and social services, so right away I had an issue getting firmly rooted into this story. That being said, I loved the way Audrey and Ronan met and the fact he never let her live it down…it was part of their story.

To say both these characters have some baggage is putting it mildly. Ronan and his sister were basically abandoned by their flighty mother and a father who was never around much, raised by their grandmother who seems a bit dower yet obviously loves them they were better off, but it left Ronan scarred and not believing in romantic relationships and love. Audrey is almost the polar opposite; everything she does is for her siblings she loves more than anything in the world. She’s completely selfless to a fault and doesn’t feel that her wants and needs matter (largely because her deadbeat dad has made her feel this way) so she doesn’t trust when Ronan wants her to have everything.

I liked both these characters despite their flaws; it was their flaws that made them feel real. I loved them together, they absolutely brought out the best in each other, but I feel like there was a big part of their relationship missing. There was too much about Audrey’s struggles and Ronan’s family angst, while I adored the time they spent together getting to know one another I needed to “see” more of that not be “told” they’d fallen into a routine. Their times together were priceless, they were romantic and silly, and sexy, but I needed more.

Kissing Lessons was a good book, but I needed more relationship building for me to love it.

Author Stephanie London always provides entertaining characters that keep the pages turning.
Review copy received from Entangled Publishing via Netgalley

Highly entertaining, emotionally thrilling, sweetly sexy and fun journey filled with witty and engaging charters, heart racing twists and exciting passion. Was a great read from beginning to end and so hard to put down.