Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn
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Thank you NetGalley for the ARC

THIS BOOK! I loved it. Georgie just lost her job as personal assistant in Hollywood, and travels back to her small hometown to figure out what to do next. A miscommunication with her hippie parents leads her unexpectedly share their house with Levi, a quiet man who runs a dock-building company in town. They both carry less-than-ideal reputations (and baggage) from high school, and have stuff to figure out.

Georgie and Levi’s chemistry was so strong and believable, and I really loved the build of their trust and intimacy. I absolutely loved the dual POV in this book, and I really felt the voices of each character. I especially enjoyed Levi as a character, my heart ached for him. Also his dog Hank is probably my favourite fictional dog ever. I loved all the side characters. Georgie’s parents don’t get a lot of page-time, but they felt fully drawn.

This book was tender, earnest, heartfelt, and joyful in so many ways.


🌶🌶/5 low-moderate steam

Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington for the ARC in exchange for an honest review

CW: estranged family, pregnant side character (experiences Braxton-Hicks, and has last her mother, experiences grief of loss of parent), abusive boarding school, self-medication with drugs (past)

I would recommend if you're looking for (SPOILERS)

-m/f contemporary romance
-accidental roommance
-forced proximity
-opposites attract
-the cutest rescue dog
-a quiet cinnamon roll
-a chaos
-strong friendship
-small town/coming back home


Gosh this book. The craft, the sexual tension. This book was a joy to read, but also was just so well written. I kept tying to put it down because I wanted to read it slowly to let it soak in but then immediately picked it back up because I needed to know what happened.

I loved the premise of this. The notebook you fill in your dreams of now and the future with with your best friend. I loved Georgie. Chaotic, authentic, and just a people pleaser. Living her life taking care of others, coming back home when her best friend is pregnant, taking care of her parents house, living her life as an assistant, or a waiter. Her entire life has been taking care of others, and it brings her joy. She's loud and lovely.

And in the way that happens in romance novels there's a shortage of houses in town and Levi needs a place to stay and ends up at her parents house. And he is just gone on her immediately. Soft on her, soft on his dog, just a soft boy, who I want to hug and protect from this world. Life has been hard for him but he still is able to look at Georgie and just fall for her. Spoil rotten sweet Hank (I could write a whole review on my adoration for that sweet pup) and is just a sweetheart.

The secondary characters were just lovely. Especially Georgie's friendship with Bel. This book is just perfection. But it's beating heart is the beautiful romance of Levi and Georgie as they fall for each other. They both recognize what the other needs, and love the other for it.

This book is absolute perfection.

Steam: 3

This book. THIS BOOK!!!! I cannot begin to describe how much I loved GEORGIE, ALL ALONG. The only bad thing about it is that I finished it way too fast. Kate Clayborn's characters are always so fully fleshed out, you can understand where they are coming from and can believe that these are people that exist for real somewhere. I want to be friends with Georgie, and Levi. Don't even get me started on Levi. I didn't think Kate could ever write a MMC more perfect than Reid, but I think she did it with Levi. The two of them made me swoon, and laugh out loud, and kick my legs in the air like a five-year-old with every one of their interactions. I was so invested in literally every single storyline of this book. Kate Clayborn is truly a master at her craft, and I am always more in awe of her talent with each new book she releases. Please, everyone, do yourself a favor a buy a copy of this book. I know I will!

4.5 stars

This is hands down my favorite Kate Clayborn book. I found her prior female MC’s a little too manic fun quirky girl for my taste and the male MC’s were all so successful straight men. But while we have a dose of each in Georgie and Levi, we also get a much more real (to me) version. Georgie has moved back to her parents’ home in Virginia after ending her PA life in California. She doesn’t know what’s next and feels a lot lost. Levi is the black sheep of his successful rich local perfect family who is making his own way. They find each other and both get help from the other to help them a bit more on their life journeys. Nothing is totally solved (which I liked) but they’re on their way. I also found the best friend relationship of Georgie and Bel so real and absolutely worth mentioning in the review because gosh darn I love ride or die best friends who know you inside and out and for whom you would do absolutely anything and who will cheer for you no matter what. And I also feel family strife and relationships so acutely and it’s so well done here. I turned to my friend crying as I was reading and said “there’s sibling stuff in here” and, as a good friend, she knew what I meant. Really enjoyable and totally my fave Kate Clayborn. So excited for y’all to get a chance to read it in February!

This ARC was provided by NetGalley and Kensington Books in exchange for an honest review.

It's no surprise that this book is...wonderful. I struggled with that one-word description, because how do I capture a romance that is thoughtful and kind, with characters who are doing the work to become better people and have healthy relationships and lives, in one word? Kate continues to offer honest and raw contemporary romances, with heart and emotions and heat and humour and I can go on and on, but the gist is that you should read this.

My heart is bursting!!!!

Honestly, Clayborn is a wordsmith, the wordsmith, the OG, the lyrical genius.
I could possibly go on and on but I wont.
I swear each of her books get better and better and I am here for all of it.

This one was sweet, mellow, and Georgie---- she was one of the best MC's I have read in a long time.

So thrilled I got to read this one early!!!

Thank you Netgalley!!!

Mare~Slitsread

This was a fabulous book!! I loved everything about it!! The characters were sweet and I loved the interaction between them. Kate Clayborn is always a charming read and this book wasn't any different. I would recommend to others.

I’m a huge fan of Kate Clayborn. I love all of her books—they each have their own personalities and heartwarming endings. But I have a confession to make…this might be my new favourite of hers. It’s so beautiful, and gut-wrenchingly honest, and o-m-g, the swoon.

This is more than a romance book, this is a journey of Georgie finding herself. But it’s also more than that. This is Levi’s book. This is a book about two people who feel lost and blank and find themselves along the way. I’m so thankful that the characters grew together but also had their own personal growth that was external to their relationship.

I love the idea of going back to go forward. To find yourself not in big moments but in little moments along the way. To realize you were enough all along. That you are perfect in your messiness. I relate to Georgie and Levi’s stories and yes, I did cry in a few parts when their pain and joy resonated so deeply with me.

I’m so grateful for this book. The romance was perfection, Levi was a wonderful grumpy cinnamon roll and Georgie was sweet and wholly herself and I love her for it. Plus, Hank and Bel? Love!

If I could give this book more than 5 stars, I would. This book deserves all of the accolades and I can’t wait for more people to read and fall in love with it, just like I did. Kate Clayborn, thank you for writing such a beautiful book.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you for this advance copy of Georgie All Along, I enjoyed it so much and I can't wait for everybody to read this delight of a book.

Georgie and Levi are amazing, it is so hard not to love them. If there is something I took from this book is that our future is ours to design. This book was romantic, vulnerable and relatable.

Georgie comes back home after working her butt off as an assistant in Hollywood. When she comes back she roommates with the brother of her high school crush; enter Levi :) Georgie finds herself having to confront a life that she left behind 10 years ago. This book is hope, regret, relief, and hope again.

I really liked it.

I've sometimes struggled with Kate Clayborn's novels in the past because I think they take too long to get to what seems like a fairly obvious destination. Unfortunately, though I enjoyed the quirky cast of characters, I thought this was also true of Georgie, All Along. I don't mind a slow pace when it means opportunities for complexity or a build of chemistry or even detours from what we typically see in romance, but this novel didn't provide these things.

Now, the slow pace didn't keep this book from being enjoyable. It's good if you're looking for a low-stakes read where you know from the beginning that everything will be okay. But I didn't eagerly reach for this book as I was reading it, and I don't think it will linger in my memory for too long.

I think that the issue may be my personal reading preferences, not Clayborn's writing, but if you've struggled with the slow builds of her novels before, you will also struggle with this one.

Thank you to Kensington Books and NetGalley for an advance review copy. All opinions are my own.

I have really mixed feelings about Kate Clayborn, but I thought I would check out her latest book. The story started out slowly but picked up momentum as it went along (similar to Love Lettering). I know I read over 200 books a year, but this one was highly forgettable, and I just finished it yesterday.

The blurb (from Goodreads):
“In this heartfelt tale of one woman’s quest to reinvent herself, the acclaimed author of Love Lettering and Love at First delivers a poignant, witty reflection on how the hopes, dreams, and stories from our past shape our future . . .”
Okay this is a vast oversell. It was not heartfelt, nor was it witty and poignant. The whole “I’m going to follow the bucket list from my teenage journal to refind myself” thing was not working for me. I couldn’t identify with or relate to the main character, and I never could figure out her “deal.” The main character was never fully fleshed out, and the secondary characters were even worse.

I think this book should have been a single POV. The fact that you could read exactly what the MMC Levi thought the whole time took so much mystery and intrigue from the story and cheapened it. I will give Clayborn credit, though, as his character was the only good thing about the book - even if he also was a little tropey.

One HUGE grudge I have with this story is that the protagonist kept referring to her “fic” without ever defining or explaining it. I had to surmise from context, and I still don’t think Clayborn used it quite right.

I cannot give this a rating higher than a 2 as it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever read, but I also wouldn’t ever recommend it to anyone. I also think it might be the last book by this author that I’ll read again.

Many thanks to Netgalley and Kensington for sharing a digital reviewer copy with me in exchange for my honest thoughts.

I received an ARC of, Georgie, All Along, by Kate Clayborn. Georgie's life is not running smoothly. Returning back home, her new roommate is her old nemeses, Levi. Can Georgie get her life back on track, and how does Levi fit in her life?

Thoroughly enjoyable, start to finish. And so incredibly kind.

Thanks to Netgalley for the advance copy.

This book was a bit out of my comfort zone, but I really enjoyed it. It was captivating and hooked me from the beginning.

I enjoyed much of this book. It was my first Kate Clayborn, and author that I've heard raves about. I was intrigued by the idea that one of the MCs was in a place in her life where she needed to figure out who she was and what she wanted. So this book was about more than just the central love story. As it turns out, both MCs have a little bit of figuring out to do. I loved that Georgie thought she wanted certain things (and a certain person) when she was young, but what she really wants most ultimately turns out to be so different. I liked Liam and I liked his backstory. My only critique is that when Georgie finally figured out who she was, it was a little less than I pictured. But this was a super sweet story and I enjoyed the romance, the characters, and the setting overall.

First of all, many thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing me with this ARC in exchange for my honest review. I am truly grateful.

When I first started reading this story, I wasn't sure if I liked it or not. It took me a while to warm up to the two main characters, especially the heroine. However, about a third of the way through, I really started enjoying it and my enjoyment just increased in leaps and bounds as the love story and each of the MCs personal growth journeys developed.

I'm actually hoping there's a sequel so we can find out what happens with Levi's brother and sister.

A scattering of F-bombs and graphic sex.

We follow Georgie as she moves back to her hometown to housesit for her parents and help her best friend who is very pregnant with her first child. She is feeling lost after losing her job and is trying to figure out her life. She finds her old high school notebook/bucket list and suddenly has a plan. The surprise was Levi Fanning walking in her door. This charming story hits so many tropes- grumpy sunshine, forced proximity, found family, and much more. The characters were unforgettable, and the plot was unique. It won't publish until January 24, 2023, but I highly recommended putting this one on your calendar. Thank you to NetGalley for the early look in return for an honest review.

I'm a big Kate Clayborn fan and thoroughly enjoyed this story about a girl starting over by returning home. The quirky characters are what really made this book for me, and the romance had a surprising amount of depth. Highly recommend!

Georgie is coming home after a glamorous career. Levi is coming home to try to repair his reputation after a series of failures. A chance meeting pushes them together and over time, they find they have more in common than they would have thought. I loved the depth of these characters. I also loved Georgie's relationship with her childhood best friend, Bel, and her husband, Evan. I loved that, in the resolution of the story, George is still empowered to be herself.

First of all I have to say thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for the arc 🥰 I was VERY pleasantly surprised by how much I loved this book and the connection I felt to Georgie.

Georgie goes back home to fulfill the emptiness she feels and have time to figure herself out after getting laid off from her fast paced job in California. Once she’s there, she finds something from her childhood that she thinks has the answers to it all.

The journey of self discovery Georgie has throughout this book is exactly one of the reasons I love it so much. You go along with Georgie through it all. Levi (MMC) has his own self discovery along the way as well. The go with the flow personality of Georgie is hard not to love as her decisions and needs bring us to some of my favorite scenes. I cannot pin point any time in this novel where I wanted to actually put it down. I had to force myself to actually stop and save some for later 😂

A few other reasons i loved it so much include dual POV, a grumpy/sunshine relationship, forced proximity, smallish town feel, crazy and lovable side characters and found family.