This book was really light and enjoyable. The main characters were really run and I rooted for them all the way.

This book was predictable and fun. It was a lighthearted romance and perfectly fit into an easy to read enjoyable book. I really enjoyed the we main characters and we’re rooting for them.

This was an okay read for me, engaging and funny in places but slightly too dialogue heavy for my taste. Enjoyable enough!

I enjoyed this book, I love how it was mostly fast-paced and all in one main time period. Also, a small box of cute animals, yes, please!

I would recommend this book to friends but I probably wouldn't reread myself!

Oh boy, that was so cute and entertaining!!!! I’ve always loved these ‘met on the road and fell in love’ wanderlust type of romances and this one definitely joined my TOP 10 list!

Because this book started as an audiobook, it’s made entirely of dialogues but trust me, you won’t notice any difference and you’ll find it just as fun. The plot of the ‘Seatmate’ is very simple but actually, it just makes this book a perfect choice if you need something quick to brighten your day. The friendship-turned-romance between Gwen and Sam is the absolute best thing and I wish there was a continuation of their story because their chemistry was just… yjevjsksvejavrvsksvsjs

Big thanks to NetGalley for providing me with this amazing book❤️❤️

Wow, this was a fantastic story and just perfect for me.i just couldn't put it down. It's definitely a fantastic romance novel if you love those unexpected sparks. With its fantastic sense of friendship at first sight. It was so easygoing and so much fun. The characters were adorable, realistic, and so easy to love. It just made me feel so happy reading this book. I was frantically turning the pages to see how it would end, and I am sure you won't be disappointed. It was so heartwarming and lighthearted. I really can't recommend this book enough. Especially if you love rom com fast-paced novels that are so much fun.

Only the highest of praise goes out to the author and publishers for creating such an amazing novel that certainly brought out my emotions. I actually wished it was me in the story. I will definitely be looking out for more books by this amazing author.

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This ine was a okay read for me. I expected a little more from this book, but it is a solid 3 stars read.

I listened to the audio book of this recently and would definitely recommend listening to the audio rather than reading physically!
This was just a super quick short romance about a meet cute on a bus, where there is a girl with a deadline and a guy willing to do ABSOLUTELY everything he can to help her! He is literally head over heels for her from the beginning it was SO cute!
Basically Gwen has a blog, she loves to write about people and the ways they express themselves through clothes, jewellery and tattoos, so when she is given the opportunity to interview her idol nothing can stop her… except maybe for a bus that is determined to slow her down!
Meanwhile Sam also trying to get back to New York is dodging phone calls from his mother, who is desperate to set him up with ‘a nice girl’.
And so despite his slightly overbearing mother setting him up on a date with his high school crush, he is willing to forget about it completely to help this random girl on a bus who he has completely fallen for!
The characters were great and extremely entertaining, the sound effects were SO immersive and I have never listened to an audio book that was so well produced!!
This book was set in a bus for the most part and you can tell, there is background chatter, bus sounds (I don’t know like sounds a bus makes 😭), phone ringtones, and all sorts it was amazing!!
This book is also 95% dialogue which is why I recommend the audio book!

Unfortunately this book really wasn't my type of read. It felt very insta-lovey and I think it didn’t feel very real, like when you see an attractive person in public but never see them again. It was a good concept but I don’t think there was enough time to let the story play out.

I think this book would be better a screen play, seems more of a script type of writing.

I really wanted to love this book but the format and the way it has been written just isn't for me. This is a book that should definitely be listened to as an audiobook as I think it would work well in the way that there aren't any descriptions etc and is just mainly dialogue.

I'm giving it 2 stars even though I dnf-ed because I think I might revisit this one as an audiobook

Seatmate! Eeeeee this was just the cutest little story ever, it gave me all the warm and fuzzies. These books are geared for audible so reading it for the most part is just reading a script with short sections of narrative thrown in here and there to flesh it out so it makes for quick but effective reading. Gwen and Sam find themselves seated next to each other on a packed bus from Boston to New York, Gwen has to get back to New York as fast as she can for a career defining opportunity so obviously things go awry but with Sam (who is too perfect to be real and can only exist in fiction) in her corner she can’t fail can she? So much fun.

What a lovely story! It was fast pace and I loved the chatty dialogue. Overall, it was a good clean romance that I would recommend anyone read.

The premise of this book sounded really intriguing and right up my street, however I struggled to not only get into the story, but also with the writing style. This is an incredibly dialogue heavy book and confusing to read when you don’t know which character is speaking. I feel like if this had been an audiobook then it could have worked really well, but ultimately the format made it a real struggle for me.

(Thank you to NetGalley and the author for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review).

A super warm and fluffy book that left me wanting more!

I loved how Cara Bastogne transformed a boring bus ride from Boston to New York into this beautiful story with two loveable and sweet characters. It gave me romantic play like vibes due to the lack of narrative and inner thoughts but that just added to the story to make it even better.

I loved it!

3.5 stars
Having enjoyed Cara Bastone's previous books, I was really excited when I saw that she had released a new story but sadly, this one just didn't work for me.
In the past, at school and University, I've been told that I can ramble on in my writing. But this was on a whole different level, with just pretty much never ending dialogue for most of it.
Maybe it would work as an audiobook but sadly it didn't in book form.
This way of writing dialogue made it quite difficult to connect to the characters as well.
It was a quick and easy read but you could work out exactly how it would turn out, even if I didn't expect some of the hecticness that took place throughout.
I would still be very interested in reading more from Cara Bastone though, having really liked her first two books.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

It’s kinda of different as most of the chapters are lead only by dialogue.
But it’s still easy to follow and makes the book fast paced. it was just so cute. A perfect little read I loved it. I really liked the excerpts at the end and will hopefully be reading more from the author.

I struggled with this book. The author is unknown to me, but the synopsis sounded fab and I was excited to get started.

Unfortunately, the book is very dialogue-heavy. Now, I’m a big fan of dialogue, and dislike stories where scene descriptors are overused and conversation is too little. However, this book has reams of dialogue that made it quite hard to follow and connect with the characters fully.

I found the story hard to engage with, which is a shame because the outline is great.

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for my advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review 📚

This was unfortunately not a book I enjoyed. I loved the premise and the overall idea and the storyline feels like it would be a perfect read for me but the dialogue and tone of the dialogue wasn’t for me. The writing felt like it didn’t flow the way I wanted it to and I couldn’t really get into the story or root for the characters sadly.

I was so excited to read this book after reading the blurb and cover instantly caught my attention.
The writing style is very different to books I’ve read before, as there are whole chapters that are continual speech. Although this was an interesting format it made it difficult to connect with the characters and the storyline.

This wouldn’t put me off reading other books by this author but overall I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I hoped I would.

4.5 stars
The only reason I have taken a half star off is because having read the book, I dont actually like the cover anymore. I get that the tux and the blue hair is a big part of this story but having read the book, in my head Gwen and Sam dont look like they do on the cover. Their dynamic is making me think of Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis from the movie "Friends With Benefits" so all the way through I'm picturing Justin Timberlake with blue/ indigo hair and Mila Kunis in a tux. I'm sure other people reading this will disagree but this was just my interpretation of the book and I kinda think there should have been a way to show the tux and the hair on the cover without actually showing the characters so your imagination can let you picture the characters. The one thing I will say is that the fact that I feel this way means the book was really well written if I can see the book playing almost like a movie in my head and I can think which actors and actresses should play which characters.
Apart from the cover, I actually loved the story. It was funny in places, emotional in other places and just generally absolutely brilliant! I will definitely be recommending it to people!