The ending of this was so cute and I wanted more. Which is good because the middle of this one dragged a bit and I kind of trudged through. I think I wanted more with the relationships or more flirting at least. I loved the chemistry between Gracie and Sebastian and with Sir. There is something very romantic about falling in love with someone’s words. There was also obvious insta-love between Sebastian and Gracie even if they both chose to try to ignored it at first. 3.5 stars

This book was a cute, light read. I've loved most of Lauren Layne's other books, but this one wasn't my favorite. The blurb that proceeded the book actually gave away the ending (while predictable anyways). Overall, a nice read, but was a bit slow!

Lauren Layne has become an auto-buy author for me, I knew I wanted to read this book before I even knew what it was about. Add in the fact that it is a RomCom, modern day take on You’ve Got Mail? Yeah, I was 100% sold!

I have to say I’m always torn between excitement and fear when I see an author taking on something I love and modernizing or adapting it. Thankfully, it exceeded my expectations, and this book was a fast, fun and very satisfying read!

I had a blast reading this one – the book flowed well and I didn’t want to put it down. I really enjoyed Gracie and Sebastian, they had some great exchanges and I enjoyed watching their story unfold. As always Lauren Layne delivered the perfect romcom – a mix of humor, warmth, romance and banter.

I was sad to finish, and can not wait to see what comes out next 😊

A modern day you’ve got Mail! I love the shop twister, the family struggles, and an updated take on one of the best books of the 90s. This was a cute summer read and even though I knew the ending I couldn’t put it down!

Lauren Layne’s most recent book To Sir With Love was a perfectly delightful read. A nod to the classic movies Shop Around the Corner and You’ve Got Mail, but LL makes this new story her own. From the first page, it felt like being immersed in a best friend’s story. Main character Gracie Cooper owns a champagne shop in New York City, but her heart is not in the shop... her true passion is in painting. And in her conversations with online ‘Sir’. Gracie and Sir have never met or know what the other looks like. Still the chats are extremely real and meaningful, maybe for that very reason. She thinks more and more about turning the online chats into a face-to- face meeting.
Then romance-minded Gracie meets a handsome blue-eyed stranger on a Manhattan sidewalk in a meet cute so perfect that it belongs in a Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman film. While still on cloud nine and hearing big band music in the air, Gracie meets the handsome man again as the now brooding businessman Sebastian Andrews. His company has been trying to buy out the lease of her family’s champagne shop for the weeks. Battle of the wills begins between the two. All the while a true connection starts. And Gracie is caught between dream life and real life.

Gracie has to decide which man she can’t live without: Sir—the man she has shared so much of her heart with or Sebastian— the man she never saw coming?

As the reader, I knew what was going to happen in the story, but it was so perfectly timed and written. The longing between Gracie and Sebastian aka Lady and Sir was my favorite part of the book.

*I was given an arc copy of To Sir With Love provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Loved this book! It was so cute and so so good. First off a book it’s a book based in NYC which is something I love, everything else about it was what you love about good romances.

Lauren Layne never disappoints! I absolutely loved To Sir, With Love. The thing I love most about LL books is how very NYC they are. It's almost as if New York City becomes a character. The love story in TSWL was phenomenal, and I loved all the playful moments and witty banter. I read this one back in May, but I still think about parts of it. I adored To Sir, with Love!

I really liked this book. Lauren Layne is an excellent writer and I loved this unique storyline. I will happily pick up anything Lauren writes!

This was such a cute fun read. I picked it up and read it in one night. It is basically a modern update of You've Got Mail. Instead of email it is messaging via a dating app. But otherwise the story is in many ways the same.

Gracie is living in a dream world where she is waiting for her fairytale man to sweep in and woo her. She wants her Prince Charming. And she isn't going to settle. In the meantime she is busy trying to save her dad's champagne store (not her dream job) and helping her siblings figure out their issues (wished we had seen more of her brother but liked her sister and brother in law a lot). Throw in some well meaning but crazy friends and it is easy to understand why Gracie doesn't tell anyone she's met someone via a dating app. Especially because she hasn't actually met him- or even seen him. No pictures and no real name. She only knows him as Sir and he knows her as Lady. But the anonymity gives them the freedom to really be honest and get to know each other. And they become close friends.

In the meantime, Gracie is dealing with Sebastian. Who despite her attraction- she hates. After all, he's trying to shut down her family business so he can build more high rises in NYC. But there is a thin line between love and hate- and it soon becomes hard to tell whether she hates him or loves him. This only becomes more complicated when she decides she may have feelings for him but she realizes she also has feelings for Sir. Ultimately she has to choose between Sir and Sebastian... or maybe not.

The thing is the story is nothing new (it is a retelling/update of You've Got Mail) but it is just really cute and enjoyable. The characters are well written and the story is engaging. What is most surprising is how emotional the story is. I actually felt for Gracie and the pressures she felt living someone else's dreams and not taking your own risks.

All in all I enjoyed this book. I smiled through a lot of it and it was a really easy quick read. Definitely recommend it. Thank you NetGalley for an early copy in exchange for my honest review.

I love Lauren Laynes books! They are such delish chick lit goodness!
Premise
Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store’s profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating matters further, a giant corporation headed by the impossibly handsome, but irritatingly arrogant Sebastian Andrews is proposing a buyout. But Gracie can’t bear the thought of throwing away her father’s dream like she did her own.

Overwhelmed and not wanting to admit to her friends or family that she’s having second thoughts about the shop, Gracie seeks advice and solace from someone she’s never met—the faceless “Sir”, with whom she connected on a blind dating app where matches get to know each other through messages and common interests before exchanging real names or photos.

But although Gracie finds herself slowly falling for Sir online, she has no idea she’s already met him in real life…and they can’t stand each other.
This book was another one of those hate to lovers type trops, but it was very well done on that they gave real life disagreements, but are practically each other’s soulmates behind the screen. I love it was a play on the famous film tonSir With Love as well. It was very cute read and I am looking forward to the next of Laynes book as she is one of my favorite authors

wow!! this book really truly blew me away! it was so very much fun to read and i am so excited to get to read more from this author in the future! thank you so much for this opportunity, netgalley!!!!

I just finished To Sir With Love by Lauren Layne and OMG, it was so stinking adorable! I was already a huge fan of Lauren Layne, but learning that this was a more modern take on You’ve Got Mail made me even more excited to read it, and I was not disappointed.   
  
Thirty-three-year old, Gracie Cooper, is a hopeless romantic. She runs her family’s champagne shop, but dreams of being a successful painter and finding her one true love. Sadly her only romantic prospect is her unavailable online pen pal, “Sir”, whom she met on a dating app. And just when it seems she might make a connection IRL, the handsome, aqua-eyed stranger Gracie shares a moment with not only appears to have a girlfriend, but his company owns the building where she rents her shop, and has been trying (and failing) to buy out her lease agreement! Sebastian Andrews is Gracie’s (attractive) new nemesis, but he makes it increasingly more difficult to dislike him the more she gets to know him…  
  
Refreshingly blunt, sharp-witted, and always quick with a comeback, Gracie is a delightfully humorous, endlessly entertaining narrator. Lauren Layne does a brilliant job making Gracie a sympathetic character - one who’s flawed and floundering, and in the process of finding herself. Her journey of self-discovery might take some unexpected detours, but she tackles every new challenge with a mix of optimism and pragmatism. Although she’s previously played it safe when it comes to life and love, Gracie finds the motivation to obtain her own happy ending, even if it isn’t necessarily the ending she imagined.   
  
Sweet, swoon-worthy, and heartfelt, To Sir With Love is the perfect book to boost your mood, and leave you feeling happy and hopeful. It was such a fun, lighthearted story that's easily one of my favorite books of the year so far.

As a fan of "You've Got Mail" I was looking forward to reading and enjoying this story, but it read more like a Chick-Lit than a romance, which I was not expecting.

I liked Gracie and her story was interesting enough. I enjoyed the banter between her and Sebastian and even enjoyed the chemistry and connection the author brought to the page. However, both of those elements felt like they were only surface-deep. As the story progressed, I was left wanting more--more of a connection, more of an undeniable attraction, more character development (especially in regards to Sebastian). Just more of everything. It was mainly because of this that the story lost my interest and I found myself skimming to the dialogue until I reached the end.

All in all, a cute, sweet romance but not enough for me.

This was a fun romance book that I would definitely recommend trying!

I received an e-ARC from the publisher.

To Sir, with Love will be at the top of my list for RomCom's in 2021. This one has me feeling all the feels and had me rooting for Gracie, Sir, and Sebastian...

Gracie is looking for that perfect guy. No, not just the perfect guy, Prince Charming.

As she works to keep the family business and her father's dream alive, Gracie has had little time to find Mr. Right, but all of that is about to change when she suddenly finds herself interested in not just one but two eligible men in New York. One is a complete mystery, Sir, and the other plans to destroy the family business and her father's dream but surprisingly charming. What is a girl to do when she discovers she has fallen for not just one but both Sir and Sebastian.

To Sir, with Love is absolutely charming and left me smiling throughout the entire book. It feels like every 90's RomCom that we know and love!

I gobbled up an ARC of Lauren Layne's To Sir With Love, a You've Got Mail retelling about a woman trying to keep her family's NYC champagne shop afloat & the handsome developer who wants to buy out her lease. Chemistry for days, sparkling dialogue, & so much heart! A+ read!

I really wanted to love this one. It has a cute set up with our main character,Gracie, trying everything she can to save her families champagne shop. Enter Sebastian who wants to buy up her property. They are at odds immediately and that is a interesting dynamic.

At the same time Gracie had a secret pen pal she is falling for that she met on a dating site.

Unfortunately this one was super predictable and just not fun for me. I found myself super frustrated with the characters - especially when they had such obvious miscommunications and a lack of obstacles.

This enemies-to-lovers romcom was absolutely adorable!! Love Is Blind meets You've Got Mail in this page-turner.

I absolutely loved Gracie and Sebastian's snarky banter from the get-go, and that made their online interactions that much sweeter. Gracie is desperately trying to save her family's dying champagne store, and Sebastian is the bigwig suit whose company is trying to take over the building. It is hate at first sight for these two -- but really, there's a fine line between love and hate. And the more Gracie gets to know Sebastian, she finds that her initial impression of him may have been wrong. But what about Sir, her virtual friend? Gracie's feelings for both men grow increasingly complex as the story develops. To Sir, With Love is full of romance, heat, humor, and heart. Absoutely adorable!

I received a complimentary copy via NetGalley and the publisher and voluntarily left a review.

I read this book in one sitting. I thought that it was super sweet, fun to follow, and just a book that read the way a fun rom com would play. I thought Gracie was a really fun character and her story and job were super unique and fun. I loved this who blind falling in love theme, and thought that it was a much more fun twist to the normal tinder tales that happen in real life. I also love the sort of instant love to instant enemies conflicting emotions, because I truly think that it perfectly demonstrates how there are a lot of different facets to humans and how we might even like the people we think we don't like if we were to meet a different version of them. I loved how conflicted Gracie was, and felt like she was overall a truly lovable character. Not going to lie this gave me an adult version of another Cinderella story (the Hillary Duff version,, because truly no other version would compare) and my adult self was so here for it. I think Lauren is overall such a fun romance author, and I am going to need her to write out a good ending to my love life because it is currently in need of her magic haha. Overall I thought this was so fun, and I fully intend on getting a physical copy.

Loved this from start to finish! The romance was incredibly well done, slow burn at its finest. The characters were fleshed out masterfully, and you really grow to love them so much. Adored this book!