This story was so disappointing. There was too much profanity and over the top sexually graphic scenes that bordered on obscene and didn’t drive the story forward.

I was expecting a story about introverts and their experiences with online dating, but the focus kept shifting to characters from the author’s Bookworm series. If I wanted to read about those characters, I would have just read that series instead.

Unfortunately, I am not looking forward to the rest of this series.

This book is a good fit for readers who are looking for a lighthearted and funny contemporary romance about the challenges and surprises of online dating and the complexities of hidden relationships.

Emma Hart is very hit or miss for me and unfortunately this was not a hit. This was a fast listen, but I was disappointed in the fact that the FMC wasn’t really shown as an introvert.

Narration: Savannah Peachwood and Tim Paige are perfectly cast.

Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the chance to review.

The content of this book doesn't match the description. It's less romance, and more casual sex and dirty talk. DNF.

Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

Tori and Colton’s story is cute in this rom-com. Narration is great!
Thank you, Emma Hart, Dreamscape & Netgalley for my copy. All opinions are my own.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 4 STARS

The Introvert's Guide to Online Dating by Emma Hart is an MUST listen audiobook that will join the ranks of the BIBLIO-ELITE!!!

Another wonderful romantic comedy that will make you smile. Absolutely loved Colton and Tori. These two don’t realize how good they have it. Causal booty calls that are anything but casual.

Tori masks her feelings for Colton and enjoys their stolen moments but underneath it all what she really wants is Colton.

Colton and Tori try that online dating thing to keep their friends off kilter. They have worked hard to make everyone think that they can’t stand each other.

In true Emma Hart fashion she delivers chemistry and witty comebacks. Characters that make you laugh out loud and secondary characters that add depth to the stor

I enjoyed the storyline more than the narrators.
It is a quick easy read with humor and longing. Not much spice but its a cute small town romance.

<b>**FULL REVIEW**</b>

What a cute story! I found myself smiling throughout -- Hart's ability to keep my interest with her wit and snarky humor is worth the audiobook listen.

I can't give details because as I listened, I was also working in a pretty loud environment where I missed more than I'd like to admit. I purchased the ebook copy of this book to go back and read with my own eyes, as audiobooks are honestly very hard for me to do. I have to concentrate entirely too much in order to retain information.

But, I will say, what I did get "fully" was absolutely perfect. I love Hart's style of writing, I look forward to reading this book and others she has written.

<b>**4 Snarky, Sweet, Love Me, Stars**</b>

1/5 stars

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for providing this audio-arc

mediocre at best

This is a quick rom-com. It hits all the right spots. It is very funny and worth the read. Great fun with supporting friends. This is the first time reading this author and looking forward to the next book.

*I received this book free from Netgalley for an honest review. *

I enjoyed Tori and Colton's story very much. I also really like this series. Very easy to read and follow, while also being relatable. This book was funny and had me laughing, while also rolling my eyes at the "oil & water" premise. I knew they couldn't fight the attraction and was glad they stopped fighting and were honest with each other.

Thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an advanced audio version of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This wasn’t exactly what I thought when I went into this book blindly. It was an extremely short read and it basically really had nothing to do about being an introvert in dating. It was more like taking your booty call into a relationship. With multiple sex scenes.

A flirty, humorous, and slightly angsty dual-POV enemies-to-lovers rom com, The Introvert’s Guide to Online Dating, book 1 in Emma Hart’s The Introvert's Guide series, shines when focusing on the relationships between the group of friends in their personal lives and careers. Hart deftly captures the deep friendship and closeness among these millennials. She develops the characters naturally within the story's progression, making them relatable, flawed characters who you ultimately root for though you may not always agree with their choices, or at times, even like their personalities. Perhaps the best aspect of the novel is how Hart develops the hero and heroine to evolve during the novel so that as their relationship changes and they mature, their personalities and core of who they are do not change. For example, they still bicker and pick at each other, but it’s sweeter with less hurtful undertones. I also like how each chapter opens with the heroine or hero offering a dating rule before the chapter begins. It’s a nice touch consistent with the book's title as a dating guide.

All of Tori Sussex’s friends are off the market, making her feel it’s time for her to get serious about finding a husband. She decides to try Internet dating. But her plans are complicated by the no-strings sex hookups she’s been secretly engaging in with Colton Lane, her best friend’s brother, for the last six months. Before getting drunk and falling into bed together one night, all they did was argue and annoy each other. Although she knows she can’t move forward with her life until she breaks it off with Colton, it’s easier said than done because she’s come to love being with him so much more than she expected. Not only is she addicted to their booty calls, but she might also have fallen for him.

I suspect this book is more fun if you have read/listened to other books in the series first, especially those featuring interactions between Tori and Colton leading up to and including their initial sexual foray. After reading their first sex scene together and seeing how Tori treated Colton, I had to stop listening to the book for a bit because I just was not feeling the possibilities for a romance between them that I could care about. I was also close to active dislike for Tori. Having a foundation for these characters – who they are, how they interact with each other – might offer some context to alleviate those feelings. My main takeaway from their interactions, the arguing and back and forth, particularly on Tori’s side, was that she's really immature and needs to grow up. Ultimately, so does Colton. But especially Tori because the more insecure, scared, and hurt t she felt, the more mean-spirited and hurtful she became, and she unfairly took that and her confusion out on him.

Having both POVs saved the novel for me because having Colton’s POV softens the harsh effect of Tori’s because you can see that Colton doesn’t take Tori’s abrasiveness and mean-spirited behavior to heart. He just lets it roll off him and snarks back at her but in a lighter, more conspiratorial manner. His viewpoint of their relationship also offers hope that there is a foundation for a potential relationship between Tori and himself. Tori seems so angry and bitter about her feelings for Colton that it makes you wonder why you should want them to be together. However, Colton is not blameless here. Just like Tori, he’s not honest about what he wants. He allows Tori to set the terms, waiting for her to take all the risks. He makes it seem like she has all the power, but he apparently limited that power at the beginning of their thing when he set the rules about what they were. They are both very frustrating in their arrested development about relationships and communication.

Narrators Savannah Peachwood and Tim Paige do an awesome job of bringing the novel and the characters to life, drawing you into their world and their story right away. I’m a huge fan of Peachwood, which was my primary reason for requesting the audiobook even though it's an enemies-to-lovers story. Peachwood narrates most of the novel, but Tim Paige narrates a significant portion. Both nicely capture each character giving them personality quirks, speech patterns, tones, accents, and dialects that distinguish them.

I like Emma Hart's banter and wit, some of it is a bit much but it's generally fun. This book was light and fun but it lacked any conflict or character development.

When I started reading, I strongly felt like I was missing something. The characters and situations are introduced like we should already know them and what's going on. I had to double check this is actually the first book in the series. It's quite odd to feel so strongly that i'm jumping in in the middle of the series when it's the first book.

I didn't really feel the chemistry between Colton and Tori, part of the problem may be they were already hooking up before we meet them so we didn't get to see the tension of these frenemies begin their fling. For this same reason, I don't feel I got to know either character all that well.

I title is very misleading. I was expecting some humorous failed dates and generally more about online dating but there was almost none. They barely dabble in online dating. Also, disappointingly, Tori is not an introvert. I'm confused by the title choice.

Sweet and sexy, but felt a little formulaic. The grandparents’ nursing home antics added some laughter!

The Introvert's Guide to Online Dating is a contemporary romance written by Emma Hart. The audiobook is narrated by Savannah Peachwood and Tim Page. It is part of a series, but can be read on its own.

With all my best friends off the market, it’s time that I, Tori Sussex, join them. So where better to find my future husband than the internet? It’s great. I get to get all the awkward stuff out of the way and already know if I’m going to like the guy before we meet in person. It’s a shame nothing's ever that simple. My relationship with Colton Lane, my best friend’s brother, is the very definition of complicated—dirty little no-strings-attached hook-ups we’ve somehow managed to keep secret from all our friends for the past six months. We’re bound to get caught, and if I’m serious about dating, I only have one choice: call it quits; end our little covert booty calls for good; tell him my parking space is off-limits to him. It should be easy. It should be simple. And I’m sure it would be, if only I wasn’t in love with him.

The Introvert's Guide to Online Dating is a frenemies to lovers romance. I think the dual narrators was a nice touch, and I like the alternating perspectives. I liked Tori to an extent. I liked her sarcasm and sardonic moments, but her stubborness and faking being angry annoyed me a few times. I really liked Colton. Of the two characters I felt like he was more in touch with, and honest about, what he felt and wanted. I really enjoyed the secondary characters, and was highly entertain by their support and antics. I am not sure if it was because of the format, since I do not normally listen to romance audiobooks, or what but I did not really connect with Tori's character. I am much more interested in what is going on with her grandmother than the future between Tori and Colton- but that is more because I found the elderly characters in the book to be fantastic. Maybe returning readers will feel more of a connection, since the friend group is tightly bound.

The Introvert's Guide to Online Dating is a fun and entertaining read, or listen.

I honestly found it really hard to connect with this book. I enjoyed the voice actors, but I found that I was being thrust into a story and the characters had an already established dynamic that made it hard to connect.

As all of Tori's friends in a relationship, she decides that it is time for her to find a boyfriend too. She tries internet dating without much success. In fact she has been in a secret friends with benefits relationship with her best friends brother for 6 months. She actually really cares about him and would like it to be an actual romantic relationship but she is afraid to let him know. He also had feelings for her but was afraid to tell her. The title of this book is misleading because she is definitely not an introvert and she had very few internet dates. The story was actually about wanting her FWB relationship to develop into more. This story was fairly predictable.

I've known and loved Tori and Colton from prior books in this series, and Emma Hart really delivered on their story. Emma gave them a funny, flirty and witty story that just perfect for Tori and Colt. They've had a kind of love/hate relationship all along in the former books, and I really enjoyed exploring their relationship here.

Emma Hart give them a lot of witty banter and flirtation, as well as glares and friction. All around a great listen and a lot of fun. Tori was so reluctant to enter into a real relationship. She didn't feel like she could deliver on real feelings. But I am so glad that Tori eventually realized that she was exactly what Colton wanted, and they were good for each other.

The narration was outstanding. Perfectly cast.