Helena Hunting’s Starry-Eyed Love continues her Spark House series about three sisters who run their family’s event hotel Spark House. Hunting excels at writing stories about people unexpectedly drawn into intensely emotional sexual/romantic relationships that capture hold of your imagination and heart. Her vibrant description, complex and deftly developed characters, lively dialogue, and deeply emotional and steamy story make the novel a page-turner, investing you in the characters and their lives. Jackson’s and London’s first meeting is one of my favorite scenes, revealing their characters and the stirrings of their shared magnetic attraction. That scene is well written and genuine, flowing with electricity, ease, and a sense of rightness between Jackson and London throughout their relationship and in all their sweet, funny, sexy, poignant interactions—founded upon a profoundly emotional and sexual connection. I love their relationship, bond, and chemistry. While there is a strong attraction between them, I love how they become friends bonding over shared experiences before becoming sexually/romantically involved. They’re perfectly matched—each brings balance into the other’s life. London helps him open up and loosen his reins to connect with his emotions and a woman beyond casual hookups. He encourages her to relax and have fun, and with him, she experiences sparks.

Creative, responsible, supportive, and sensitive, London’s the middle sister who sacrifices her dreams, staying home with her younger sister, Harley, while Avery goes away to college to pursue hers after their parents’ sudden deaths in a car crash. London manages the business side of Spark House, focusing on bringing in new clients. After breaking up with her boyfriend, London takes time off from dating. While out with her sisters at a restaurant, a handsome stranger pays for their dinner and asks her out, giving her his number. She says no, returning it. A few months later, a multi-million-dollar company wants to discuss a potential partnership with Spark House. Unexpectedly, Jackson Holt, the company’s CEO, enters the meeting during London’s presentation, only for her to realize suddenly that he’s the man who asked her out that night. Jackson’s and London’s fiery chemistry grows stronger as they spend time together planning a charity auction for their corporate partnership. They become friends, verging on a deeper, intimate relationship, put on hold until it won’t interfere with their professional collaboration. Once they’re free to pursue a romantic relationship, London struggles with finding her place in Jackson’s life—especially because of his secretiveness about his past—and where she stands with Spark House in light of their increasing workloads and personal endeavors and commitments.

It’s easier for me to believe Jackson’s 100% worthy of London than Declan initially was for Avery in #1. After a traumatizing past loss, he closed himself off from his emotions, allowing only a select few close. And, even in those relationships, he’s closed off, so the error in judgment he makes with London, while ridiculous, foreseeable, and unnecessary, is understandable, though no less devastating for her.

Hunting brilliantly explores the difficulty of working with family, particularly siblings—even when you’re close. I love seeing the sisters interacting more and can’t wait for Harley’s book. She’s a sweetheart and so encouraging and supportive of London. On the other hand, Avery frustrated me to no end.

Starry-Eyed Love is sweet, funny, steamy, and angsty perfection with an emotional, poignant love story about finding the person with whom you can be your true self, share your fears and dreams, and reach for the stars knowing they’ll be by your side.

Starry-Eyed Love is the second book in the Spark House series by Helena Hunting. Here we are brought back to Spark House and reunited with the trio who are the Spark sisters, but in particular we get the story of the middle sister, London Spark.
London runs Spark House with her two sisters where she is the business savy one of the trio, meeting clients and preparing for other potential ventures to expand Spark House.
A business collaboration with Spark House and Holt Media sees London bumping into the familiar face of Jackson Holt, the company's CEO, who also happens to be the same man who she turned down a few months prior at the bar.
The partnership between the two companies has these two working closely together, and while the sparks between them are flying high, will it only be business between these two or will there also be pleasure?
Starry-Eyed Love is a slow-burn, friends to lovers, workplace romance that is told in dual perspectives and can be read as a standalone. With a combination of humor and romance, this story was absolutely charming, emotional and swoony. I absolutely loved the chemistry and connection between London and Jackson. The way their characters were written was so sweet and I felt that although there were a few obstacles in the way, these two were clearly meant to be. I can't wait to see what Ms Hunting does for the third Spark sister Harley but I bet it's bound to be epic.

Wow! I loved London's romance story while adoring the complicated relationship with her sisters.

It was charming, spicy and emotionally beautiful.. The family's event hotel in Colorado was such a sweet locale and I thought it brought a down-to-earth feel.

I truly enjoyed the writing, the character development and will read more Helena Hunting's books.

Well done.

A fantastic addition to the Spark House Sisters series. This was such a fun read. Though about all of the sisters, this one focuses on London. She’s recovering from heartbreak and has less than zero interest in romance of any sort. She and all the sisters have their hands full trying to save and grow their family business. It’s their legacy and means the world to them, but at times have different views on what is best and how to achieve it. Also, who better to both love you and push your buttons than your siblings! It’s about love, family, learning to balance familial responsibility and a personal life with and letting go of old hurts to finding love and letting it in. It’s a wonderfully fun, light, HEA romance that will make you smile.

I love the setting of this series so decided to give the second one a chance. It was so easy to read and I enjoyed the slow burn. I loved the emphasis on family and those relationships in contrast to the romance building. Great summer read!

This booooook y'all. This was a great follow up to the first book and I think it even surpassed it in execution!

One of my issues with the first book was that I wanted more of the relationship with the sisters and we definitely got that here. There was a lot going on between the girls in this book and it definitely all comes to a head at the end of this one.

I loooooved the romance here, even if it was a bit rushed to me, it still felt very real. The drama was drama, a typical romance plot thing. You always see them from a mile away but I guess we never really expect them to be too surprising do we?

Loved this, waiting impatiently for the third!

Just like the first one except this one is a billionaire romance trope. I liked it well enough but i have to be on a certain mood to like books written in the present tense.

This book was fantastic, but I already knew it woukd be before I even started to read it. I am never disappointed in any of Helena Hunting's books , and this book was no different.
London and Jackson are funny and the chemistry between these two are off the charts once they decided to finally admit how they feel. I could not put this book down until it was finished but I wished it never would end.
I can not wait for the next book in this series

3.5 Stars

I adored the Spark sisters! And I enjoyed London's love story in this series, Starry-Eyed Love! London Spark is hard-working and just trying to find her own footing in their business. And Jackson Hoyt, the charming CEO, strictly professional business man who rejects office romance is also extremely likable hero who fell for London right away!

London meets Jackson at a bar. Sparks start flying between them but London rejects dating with him because she already carries too much on her plate, focusing on her business life and a few months later she meets the same charming guy as a potential partner who has his own multi billion dollar company.

But as the story goes, as the more they work together, their dynamic and interest shifts!

This was a fun book to read

I received a free copy of this book via NetGalley and the publisher. This is my honest and personal review.

Esse é um romance muito gostoso de acompanhar, London tem suas questões pessoais sobre relacionamentos que ela começa a descobrir quando se abre para Jackson. Já ele, passou por algumas experiências não muito boas, com mulheres que buscavam seu status social, mas ele sabe que com London não é assim. Os dois perderam os pais, e essa similiaridade faz com que eles entendam melhor um ao outro. A construção do relacionamento foi muito boa de acompanhar, e eu fiquei totalmente encantada por eles.

Uma das questões do livro se deve a Avery não querer ceder ao pedido de London e Harley para que elas tenham pessoas ajudando na parte administrativa da Spark House, e confesso que eu só queria dar uma sacudida na Avery para ela ver além do que ela quer. Eu estou muito ansiosa pelo livro da Harley, já vi que o mocinho é um pai solo e com certeza vou amar.

I love Hunting's previous books and this one did not disappoint! Lighthearted, great character development, lots of romance and some laughs as well.

I ended up not finishing When Sparks Fly in preparation to read Starry-Eyed Love - I wanted to like the series but the writing style just isn't clicking for me.

Starry-Eyed Love is the second book in the Spark House romance series. In this book London Sparks crosses paths with a multi-millonaire, Jackson Holt. When they start working together they decide they can't pursue a romantic relationship, However, as they spend more and more time together, their growing chemistry and feelings will complicate matters.

This was a cute and entertaining romance! Reading it was a breeze and I enjoyed getting to know the Sparks sisters more. You don't have to have read the first book to read this one.

I liked the first book in the series, but this one was definitely better for me. I really enjoyed the couple in this one a lot more. I loved how the serious businessman Jackson lost all his edge and toughness with London. I loved that London was the one to initiate a lot of the steamy scenes, I'm always here for sexually empowered women!

Their relationship was also very believable. Even though they were from very different backgrounds, they had a lot of commonalities. They both lost their parents, neither of them really gave love a chance, and they were both workaholics. I liked that this meant that they could understand and relate to each other on a deeper level and this helped grow their relationship.

While there's nothing wrong with being a workaholic, if that is your priorities in life, I did like that London and Jackson found in each other someone that made them want to reprioritize their life and put love first.

Even though their attraction starts as insta-love the fact that they can't date while spending all this time together means that they have a lot of time to bond and get to know each other outside a relationship. So when they do get together, you know that they understand each other on a deeper level.

Unfortunately miscommunication trope and blowing things out of proportion plays a big part in the main conflict, but at least I did like the resolution to the conflict.

The sister relationship played a big part in this book, similar to the first book in the series. I love that this series has such close sister relationship, but this book made me wish they would just sit down and talk instead of letting issues grow and grow until they came to a head. I love seeing positive sister relationships in books and the way they treated each other in this one, honestly made me sad at times. Plus, somehow Avery from the first book came off as a terribly selfish person in this book which was hard to reconcile with her character from book 1.

Overall rating ⭐⭐⭐.8, rounded to 4.

Thank you to St Martin's Press and Netgalley for the eARC!

Starry Eyed Love was cute, but it seemed a little unoriginal.

I liked London. She was kind and creative, and I felt for her having to work with her family. She tries to keep the peace and live the life she wants to live. I have to admit the sisters’ relationship was maybe my least favorite thing about the book. I found Avery to be very off-putting, and admittedly I hadn’t read her book, so perhaps I would have liked her more if I had. Jackson was a pretty one-dimensional character. I felt like much of what we knew of him was more told to us than shown, even though we do get his POV chapters.

I did feel like Jackson and London did have some great chemistry. I loved their flirting, and I liked them together. However, I was annoyed that the conflict could have easily been solved if Jackson had just been more forthcoming with London. I also didn’t love how against London Jackson’s friends seemed to be for what didn’t seem like a great reason.

Overall this book was okay. It was cute and entertaining, but I’ve read better.

Thought this story was the cutest! I still enjoyed the first one more but was throughly entertained. Plus that cover is so adorable

I received an advanced reader's copy of Starry-Eyed Love by Helena Hunting.

London was a relatable character. Her struggles and how she dealt with situations were clearly shown. Jackson is a good partner for London and is very supportive of her. I liked that we got to see London progress throughout the story and finally address the issues that were impacting her life balance with her sisters.

This is the second book in the series and it was great to get more scenes with the three sisters interacting and how their lives had progressed since the first book.

I enjoyed this follow up to When Sparks Fly. Although this could be read as a standalone since it’s a different couple from the first book, there is a lot of background info about the sisters and Spark House that is in the first book. Starry-Eyed Love is a fun millionaire trope full of Helena Hunting’s humor. Jackson is pretty great in that sweep you off your feet kind of romance. London is really down to earth and doing her best to balance her personal life, her relationship with her sisters, and her role in their business. I liked reading about the conflict and growth among the three sisters. I am looking forward to the next book, Make a Wish, which is about Harley.
Thank you @smpromance for a digital ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This ARC was offered in exchange of an honest and unbiased review:
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4*
Pros: A very sweet continuation to the Spark House series. Now focused on London, it is full of cute little moments and steamy romance. Beautiful notes on tight-knit sibling relationships. Talks about finding your passions, maintaining a wealthy work-life balance, and working out difficult romantic relationships.
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Cons: A bit unnatural dialogues. Over-the-top and unnecessary strife. Definitely more on the insta-love side.

A fated romance about the quiet millionaire, Jackson Holt, falling for the resilient and determined London Spark who runs a boutique event hotel with her sisters. These two were like fireworks. With a palpable chemistry and the ability to meet each other’s needs, London and Jackson have a sweet fairytale-like love that is endearing and tenderhearted. This one is just as much about romance as it is about the sisterly bond.

On a whim Jackson asks London on a date after dinner with a friend, but is quickly turned down by London. The two end up going their separate ways. So when fate pushes them back together again in a work related matter, they try and keep their relationship strictly professional. The only problem is that neither one of them wants to be “just“ friends.

These two were super sweet together and this was a fairly quick read. I love the way Helena writes and I usually love the family dynamic she brings into her fiction. I think the only reason I gave this one four stars is because Avery was being a tyrant and the fighting between the three sisters was a drag at times. I really do love Jackson and London together and I’m so glad they finally got their happily ever after!