Booked on a Feeling is the perfect rom-com for any "friends to-lovers" or "books about books" fans. I absolutely love Jayci Lee's writing style, and although this book's premise didn't draw me in as much as the previous two of hers, I loved the characters. The anxiety representation was great, and the love interest was pining so much, it made for such a cute story. Overall, I'm really glad I picked this up and definitely recommend!

Super cute and fun Rom Com. Plus, BOOKS! A sweet read perfect for the Beach or lounging by the pool. I loved it and look forward to more from Jayci Lee!

I really enjoyed the book. It was a little slow after the 50% mark however. But the sweet ending made the book worth the read! This was my first book by Jayci Lee and I absolutely adore her writing style! I would definitely recommend this book to other readers as well as pick up a copy💖

I’m torn on this one. It was a light, easy, and quick read. It kept my attention enough to want to know what happened.



But it was also predictable from the beginning, with a few small twists.



Also, I just felt like the whole “we’ve been best friends for 20 years” didn’t really align with things that were said / happened - they only lived 3-4 hours from each other but only spent a couple days a year together, they didn’t know semi-basic things about each other, and Lizzy didn’t know fairly basic things going on for Jack’s siblings who he’s close with.

 That doesn't say best friends to me.

For being best friends for that long, there were times when their chemistry felt really there and there were times (like when they couldn’t communicate) that it was really not there even at the basic friend level.



Quick & easy read - definitely.

But just felt like there were a few things missing.



Thank you to St Martins Press & Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’m torn on this book. I absolutely loved the concept of the book but I was a little disappointed when I read it. I found it a little slow and really hard to get into especially the first half of the book. That being said the last half of the book I did really enjoy. If you like a cute quick friends to lovers SLOW burn romance, this a definitely the one for you!

Thank you so much to NetGally and St.Martin’s Press for giving me the chance to review this book!

I received a copy from NetGalley, but the review is my own. “Booked on a Feeling” is not a very good title for this very good rom-com novel. Our heroine, Lizzy (yes, no doubt in reference to every romance reader’s favourite heroine, Elizabeth Bennet), is a burnt-out lawyer who takes a leave of absence in small-town California where her best friend, Jack, lives. I usually prefer enemies-to-lovers to friends-to-lovers / second-chance romances, but this was a cute story of two people trying to figure themselves out while realizing their love for each other. While many modern romance novels seem to have an element of self-optimization (everyone always lands their dream job, and before 30 too!), this felt real, perhaps as family pressure and expectations was an important plot element. Lots of yummy food, set in a book store, with a refreshing lack of some of the worst tropes in romance books (while still having some standard romance scenes, like the karaoke bar), made this an enjoyable, recommendable read. 3.5/5

Cute friends-to-lovers book! This was a breezy read, I loved the characters of Lizzy and Jack, and I liked their shared experience of helping with the bookstore. It was a bit of a stretch for me to believe that Lizzy would just take a leave and move to Jack's city for several weeks without having any feelings for him... but once I got over it I loved the story.
If you think it's getting a bit boring, stick around - the end was very satisfying!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a free eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

This book was sweet, fluffy, and a whole lot of pining. I’m a huge fan of friends to lovers so I really enjoyed the romance in this book.

I gave this book 3 stars because I thought there are so many unnecessary descriptions and some parts are repetitive. I also wanted to know more about Lizzy and Jack but there’s not much back story about them other than Lizzy is an attorney and Jack is part of a brewery. There are some parts where the transition of the story is a bit off but I still enjoyed it. It’s toothachingly sweet but still cute!

I recommend this if you are looking for a quick fluffy read! Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review 🫶🏼

Friends-to-lovers is my favorite trope, by far! This is a great follow-up to the first two books. Caught up with those original characters and got to see Jack and Lizzy’s story. (Don’t need to read the other two books first, but it’s fun to read them in order.)

Lizzy is dealing with overwhelming stress and anxiety and needs to take some time for herself. So she heads to the small town where she spent summers growing up to spend time with her best friend. She helps out at the local bookstore since she has a lot of free time and ropes Jack into helping too. I love a good love story set in a bookstore ❤️

And I’m just throwing this out there… Alex and Shannon? Could that be book #4 in the series? ;-)

This is a fun tale that fellow bibliophiles will love. The romance was entertaining and if you find yourself spending a lot of time in bookstores, then this may be the story for you.

really, really wanted to love this book and while i know a lot of romance books are repetitive, this one felt like i've read it before, so it fell a little flat. i'd definitely read more from this author and it was super cute -- definitely not the book's fault. i'd re-read it after taking a break from romance, i think, and my mind could change!

synopsis

Lizzy "Overachiever" Chung, Esq. has her life mapped out neatly:
* Become a lawyer. Check.
* Join a prestigious law firm. Check.
* Make partner. In progress.

If all goes to plan, she will check off that last box in a couple years, make her parents proud, and live a successful, fulfilled life in L.A. What was not in her plans was passing out from a panic attack during a pivotal moment in her career. A few deep breaths and a four hour drive later, Lizzy is in Weldon for three weeks to shed the burnout and figure out what went wrong. And what better place to recharge than the small California town where she spent her childhood summers with her best friend, Jack Park.

Jack Park didn't expect to see Lizzy back in Weldon, but now he's got three weeks to spend with the girl of his dreams. Except she doesn't know of his decades-long crush on her--and he intends to keep it that way. She's a high-powered attorney who lives in L.A. and he's a bookkeeper at his family's brewery who never left his hometown. He can't risk their friendship on a long shot. Can he? When Lizzy decides that the local bookstore needs a little revamp, of course, Jack is going to help her bring it back to life. But the more time they spend together, the harder it becomes to ignore there might be more than just friendship among the dusty shelves and books...

Sometimes the path to the rest of your life has been in front of you all along.

The premise was cute, and I liked Jack, but Lizzy’s character was frustrating and underdeveloped. It was hard to support their relationship, when it did feel like she took advantage of Jack so often.

this story was a lot of fun. It has Lizzy working her way up to become partner in the law firm she works for, but after a taxing trial, she takes some time off to regroup. Where else would she go but to visit in the town her best friend lives. Jack works at his siblings' brewery, but he feels he isn't utilizing his potential.
The friends-to-lovers part of this is sweet. Lizzy and Jack are fireworks together, but of course there are some crossed wires. Both of them need to figure out where their work passion is before they can try to make their relationship work.

I really wanted to love this book, but it fell flat for me. I got to a point where i didn’t care if the main characters got together and the sex scenes were a bit off putting. I’ve liked other books from this author so this was disappointing!

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Booked on a Feeling follows two childhood best friends named Lizzy and Jack. Lizzy feels overwhelmed at her job as a big-city attorney, so she goes to Jack's small town for a nice vacation. While there, she gets the inspiration to help a struggling independent bookstore with a much-needed makeover.

I want to start my review by talking about how funny this book was. There was so much sexual tension, and don't get me wrong, it was amazing, but I couldn't stop laughing. Lizzy had to fan herself every time Jack so much as touched a power tool - I can relate.

I loved their dynamic. These two have been friends for two decades now, so they know each other pretty well. All the misread signs and old banter added amazing depth to this romance. It was also amazing to watch their relationship through the eyes of the side characters.

This is the third book in the Sweet Mess series. I have read the first two (Sweet Mess and the Dating Dare) and loved them both. You do not need to read the first two to love Booked on a Feeling, but I recommend it.

This is a super sweet childhood-friends-to-lovers story, complete with career dread and familial issues. I absolutely loved it. Be sure to check out Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee when it releases July 26.

"Booked on a Feeling" was a very enjoyable read. It was cute, and fun, and entertaining and pretty much everything a romcom book needs to be for me.

This is a friends to lovers romcom style romance and I really enjoyed it.

I appreciated how the author went about and included anxiety, family issues, and character growth.

The two main characters Lizzy and Jack were so cute and sweet. This was a total “feel good” read. 😌🤍

Neither character seems truly happy doing what they’re doing career wise so they team up and try something new!

The characters were both stubborn and wasted time by not sharing their feelings towards each other but in the end I fell for both characters. 🤗

This ARC was provided to me by NetGalley & the publishers, however, all opinions are solely mine and how I honestly feel about the book provided.

I'm not sure how I feel about this book... You know how some books are over way too fast & some books have you continually checking your progress because it doesn't feel like you're making any progress. Well I felt the latter for the majority of this book. It took me forever to get through and I could not stop looking to see how much I had left.

I loved Jack and I think his feelings for Lizzy were justified but I think Lizzy just caught her "feelings" out of nowhere. To me it felt more like lust and loneliness, I mean all she thought about for the longest time was sex. That doesn't really equate to love in my book. And I wish we could've got a little more back story on how their friendship started when they were ten and how that progressed throughout the years. Maybe that would've given me a little more insight into Lizzy's feelings/her character. Even though she wasn't my favorite, I'm really glad Lizzy found her "purpose" in the end and was finally doing something she loved.

I might give Tara's book a try though just because I loved her in this book even though she was a minor character.

Thank you NetGalley & St. Martin's Press for an ARC of this book!

DNF @ 44%.

The main premise is that a lawyer climbing the ranks at her firm has a panic attack before her first case and decides to visit the hometown of her longtime friend, who is secretly crushing on her. This book has everything I look for, so I was excited to receive an ARC copy.

However, I feel like nothing really happened between the characters. Their entire internal monologue is about how much they’re attracted to the other person, but there’s no cute moments. I also thought the book was entirely too long. I read over 300 pages (1/2 the book), and couldn’t believe there was still so much to go!

I really liked this one! Booked on a Feeling follows type-A lawyer Lizzy who is experiencing a “quarter-life crisis” – overwhelmed and unsatisfied with her career and life in LA, she decides to take a long-overdue vacation in the small town where her childhood best friend, Jack, lives. She rents a second-floor apartment over a struggling bookstore and immediately throws herself into projects to revive the store to its fullest potential. As she spends more time in the small town, she realizes that her original path to happiness - well-paying jobs, big city life - is not what she wants in life. And she can’t deny her feelings when she spends more and more time with her lifelong best friend.

I’m a sucker for the childhood friends to lovers, “I can’t tell her how I feel because it will ruin the friendship” trope. And the whole, let’s work on this project together so we can spend more time together “as friends” trope. What was missing for me was more about their past/backstory on their friendship and how they got to this current point, especially since they were living in different cities. Also because I’m a total fool, the whole time I was reading thinking, “Wow these characters would make for great spinoff stories!” without realizing that this was the third book in a series and, in fact, they all do have their own books. That said, this book really does hold up well as a stand-alone because I didn’t need to know the side character’s stories for context in this book.

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.
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