For You & No One Else
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Genre: Contemporary Romance
Format: Audiobook
Date Published: 7/5/22
Author: Roni Loren
Publisher: Dreamscape Media
Narrator: Desiree Ketchum
Goodreads Rating: 4.04

I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Dreamscape Media and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.

Synopsis: When Eliza ends up as a viral "Worst Date Ever" meme, everything in her Instagram-filtered world begins to crumble. Enter the most obnoxiously attractive man she's ever met, and a bet she can't resist: if she swears off social media for six months, Beck Carter will teach her the wonders of surviving the "real world." Something about Beck's raw honesty speaks to Eliza in ways she never expected. She knows he's supposed to be completely hands-off... but as complex feelings grow and walls come tumbling down, rough-around-the-edges Beck may be exactly what Eliza needs to finally, truly face herself-and decide who she really wants to be.

My Thoughts: This is the third book in the series but the first for me, I was able to navigate along just fine with issues, so it can be read as a stand alone. Here lately, I have really been loving audiobooks and this one was no different. Ketchum’s narration was top notch, she gave life to the characters and you could feel like you were there. The characters were well developed with depth, growth, witty banter, instant connection between the MCs, as well as amazing chemistry. One of my favorite aspects of Loren’s writing is that she writes the characters with emotion and baggage, as you would see in everyday life. The author’s writing style was brilliant, complex, creative, and definitely engaging. The characters were built up, with plenty of swoon and typical relationship fails, the plot was layered in, and then the ending ties up everything in a bow. I have already saved the other two books in this series to my TBR and cannot wait to delve into each of those stories. I highly recommend you purchase this book that was released earlier this month.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read For you & No One Else. While Roni's 3rd book in the "Say Anything" series is not my favorite, sorry my heart will always be in "Yes & I love you", I enjoyed listening to this audiobook like you have no idea. Grumpy/sunshine is one of my favorite tropes ever, plus friends to lovers! sign me in.

Eliza and Beckham's love story was really well written. This story had their trigger warnings, but I appreciate when a book talks about panic attacks for example, because I also have them. Therefore, I feel seen and understood.

Thank you again NetGalley and Dreamscape Audio for giving me the chance to live one more life through the characters' eyes.

This was a fun read. I especially loved Beck's background and finding where he came from and why he's not into social media!
I do feel like the book didn't go back to the original plot of Eliza's date being filmed. Like Beck took care of it and then that was it.
Overall, the narration of the audiobook was great but there was knocking in the background and also a dog barking at one point

3.5 stars

For You & No One Else is the third book in Roni Loren's "Say Anything" series. Eliza is a successful therapist with a YouTube channel aimed at helping others. But after a bad date goes viral, she could use some help of her own. She meets Beckham, who works in the same co-working space, and makes a bet to see if Eliza can withdraw from social media for six months. Meanwhile, a lot happens behind the scenes.

While For You wasn't my favorite book in the series, I still enjoyed getting to know the characters and watching their relationship bloom. I also loved getting to catch up with some of the characters from the previous books.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the ALC!

Roni Loren is back with the third installment in my favorite romance series. The way Loren writes mental health into her storylines is unparalleled. Also - the steam is top notch.

For You & No One Else provides readers again with relatable characters, heartwarming stories, laughs, and real views of mental health & social media.

Also: That epilogue?! It couldn’t get any better.


Recommended if you like:
-New Orleans setting
-workplace romance
-grumpy/sunshine
-friends-to-lovers
-adopting animals
-age gap (FMC is older)
-bad dates going viral


TW: religious trauma, alcoholism, panic attacks, parental death

Audiobook narration: fantastic.

For You & No One Else is the third installment of the Say Everything series, and follows the story of Eliza. Eliza in a therapist who uses an office space at Work Around (featured in the other Say Everything books).
By a twist of fate, when Eliza decides to go to her office on Christmas to avoid sitting home alone, she finds herself talking to her historically unfriendly next door office mate, Beckham. They end up sharing more than both are used to and visiting an animal shelter together before the day is through. From there Eliza tries some online dating, which doesn't go well and results in more interaction with Beckham who convinces her to try alternatives to meeting new people. As one might expect...... there's a lot of chemistry between these two, but I'll leave the details to the book.

Overall, this is pretty much what a reader would expect from a romantic comedy genre book. The biggest deviation may be that this book contains multiple very intimate, and sometimes downright erotic scenes. As a reader, I enjoyed the build up of the book, but then sometimes felt like it got too bogged down in those scenes as opposed to story telling. I recognize that some reader might feel the exact opposite!

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. I enjoyed the story but admit to liking the first of the series more. It can be read as part of the series, or as a stand-alone with no problem. I'd recommend for listeners who like rom/com genre stories with some very detailed sexy scenes, but not for listening out loud in front of PG audience!

I have loved this series and this book was the grand finale. I really enjoyed listening to this audiobook. Desiree Ketchum did a fantastic job. I really loved this story of Eliza and Beckham. They were opposites in so many ways but exactly what the other needed. I really want to join a NoPho club and make awesome friends. I highly recommend this story and if you haven't read the others, what are you waiting for?

Thank you NetGalley and Dreamscape Audio for this amazing ALC. All opinions are my own.

Roni Loren excels at writing mental health focused stories, in my opinion, and especially in the way that she explores the importance of taking care of your mental health even if there's not some sort of official diagnosis. I really loved how she handled that aspect in For You & No One Else and I think this book is the best from her Say Everything trilogy! Eliza is a therapist and she has this intense drive to be perfect, or maybe, more accurately, she has a drive to have her life LOOK perfect. She made an upbeat YouTube video about how to handle spending Christmas alone, then proceeds to ignore all of her own advice and go to work instead. At work, she finally meets her neighbor, Beckett in a more official capacity and the two of them find themselves having a happier Christmas than either of them anticipated. I really loved the way the friendship between them developed and the way the sexual tension was always very present under the surface. I felt like their relationship developed so naturally and I really, really enjoyed this book, like five stars enjoyed it. Right up until the bleak moment.

Y'all... I totally get having a bleak moment. I do. It's tradition, it's standard format, and we love angst sometimes. But it has to (a) make sense and (b) the payoff afterward also has to make sense AND be an actual payoff. This book did not deliver on either account. I went on a mini rant to my best friend about it, but I don't want to go into detail here because of spoilers. Anyway, despite the fact that I really felt like the end faltered, I enjoyed the rest of the book so much that I still think 4 stars is the correct rating!

Also, I was lucky enough to listen to the audiobook and I thought Desiree Ketchum did a fantastic job voicing both characters. I would definitely recommend the audio format, not because it did anything above and beyond, but just because I really enjoyed her narration style.

This was one of my highly anticipated reads of summer! I ended up buying books 1 and 2 from this series from Barnes & Noble as birthday gifts for myself, and some of my favorite bookstagrammers have been raving about this series. I was lucky to get an ALC from NetGalley and Dreamscape Media, and enjoyed listening to this one immensely.

If you follow me on Instagram, you know I’m a sucker for enemies-to-lovers, and this one started off sort of like that. From the beginning, Beckham and Eliza barely get along, and there’s some underlying tension from both characters because they don’t really want to be seen (or they do, but for who they present to the world). Beckham has experienced a lifetime of drama in his early years, and he’d be more than happy to stay in the shadows for the rest of his life. Eliza, on the other hand, needs someone to see her, deeply and fully, after the passing of her parents a few years ago. She struggles because she helps others be authentically themselves, but she struggles to do just that. This story quickly becomes a friends-to-lovers story, where a relationship of convenience blossoms from a beautiful friendship of late nights, meals, wacky animals, and honest conversations, which slowly transforms into something more.

Roni Loren is a beautiful writer and she crafts stories around complex characters with depth who also need to grow, which is a lot like real life. There are times in the story where you as the reader can deeply relate to the story being told - whether that’s by secondhand embarrassment, laughing about something silly, crying about something traumatic, or feeling all the things about a kind gesture from a friend.

In terms of the audio for this book, I think I would have enjoyed it more if I would have just read the story. I still give the overall book, narration, and experience four stars, but at times I felt that the narration pulled me out of the story instead of dragging me in and helping me feel connected. The storytelling involving Beckham was particularly challenging. He’s a younger hero, and the delivery of his lines just made him feel more immature. There were also some awkward pauses, delayed moments, or rushed sentences, and I noticed all of them. I would give the audio of this book three stars. With that being said, I’m still going to go back and read all the stories together again one day in the future. I am not ready to leave behind this friend group who is inspiring and real with each other, accepting and vulnerable, and so incredibly special.

I loved this. The narrator was amazing and I thought the story was so interesting and the characters were well formed and thought out. I think the setting, New Orleans was so fun and I liked how relatable the relationships were. I do think the end was rushed and I wanted to get a little more at the end but otherwise this was a cute/fun listen.

This was a cute good friends to lovers story. One of my favorite tropes. It was sweet and funny and Kept me entertained. Not my favorite in the series but still worth a read.

For You &No One Else was another great book by Roni Loren! The narration was just perfect in this one too!
The characters were so relatable and I was just loving them so. It took subject matter that we can all relate too and presented it in such a way that you really sat up and listened.

This was such a great steamy romance. I loved the friends with benefits to lovers trope. I haven’t read too many books with that trope and I loved it ! There were so many aspects to this book aside from the romance. You got to see a lot of personal development between the characters and their independent journey. There were some very tender moments that made me tear up a bit, as well as some very hot steamy open door scenes that made me blush. Overall this was such a great romance with very relatable topics and the characters were very relatable. I would definitely recommend!

I have to constantly remind myself that social media is a curated glimpse into someone’s life and there is so much not shown. That I cannot compare myself to what is being put out there on social media. For You & No One Else carries this theme of Eliza, a therapist who acts like she has it all together on social media but who is barely holding things together. After an embarrassing meme goes viral, Eliza tries to lie low and live an offline / social media free life with the help of her annoying office neighbor. What I loved about this book and the other books in this series is that these are characters with real life problems and mental health struggles. They are very relatable and realistic. The emotional and romantic connection is swoonworthy and the witty banter is on point. I love how the characters supported each other and brought out the best in each other.

For You & No One Else is a cute romance and I believe that this story will play well with a lot of readers. The narrator was very pleasant, and I really enjoyed listening to her. However, I personally could not get behind the story. I could not relate to any of the characters, and I didn’t feel the chemistry in this love story. Certain points of the plot just felt weird to me and turned me off to most of the book. I was really hoping to like this one but its just not for me.

Thank you to @dreamscapemedia @roniloren @netgalley for the digital ARC and ALC in return for my honest review.
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My thoughts…
Just as good! I have read the other two books in Loren’s “The Say Everything” series, and this was just as good as the other two. I’m grateful that I was approved for both physical copy and audiobook because I just had to keep on reading. This book was fun, charming and hot 🔥! And I liked the extremeness of Beck and Eliza’s personality. I appreciated the development of their friendship. And, the narrator was so fun to listen to. I just want to know more about the people at “Work Around.” They’re so quirky.

I loved this book! This series was amazing and the narrator did a great job! The characters and their struggles are excellent.

☁️For You And No One Else ☁️

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 (5 Stars)
Steam 🌶🌶🌶/5 (a few scenes with a lot of description)

No spoiler review 👇🏻

This was such a good book! This is the third book in the series Say Everything. Some previous book characters appear in the background, but it can be read as a stand alone!

One of my favourite books of 2021 was What If You And Me! So I was so excited to read this one.

This book follows Eliza and Beck. They both work at a shared work space, “Work Around”. Eliza is a YouTuber and therapist. Beck is a cyber security coder. After Eliza’s online date goes badly Beck challenges Eliza to not use dating apps and social media for 6 months. So she can try and meet people the old fashion way….

It’s fun, cute and sexy. I laughed so much and I love a brooding Beck with a sunshine Eliza. They balance each other out with their personality’s. I love their friendship and relationship development. Overall such a fun RomCom read. This series is so good! My favourite is still book two but this one is a close second.

I alternated between the ebook and audiobook for this read! The narrator I’ve heard in other books I’ve read and they do such a good job!

CW: death of family members, grief, panic attacks, religious trauma, alcoholism

Thanks to Netgalley, Dreamscape Media and Sourcebooks Casablanca for the copy in exchange for my honest review.

Eliza Catalano is a therapist with a youtube channel. She gives advice to her clients and to her channel subscribers, and she believes she has a perfect life. So, when a bad date goes viral, she decides, to withdraw from all her social media accounts. Beckham, a computer security expert, who works in the office next to hers, decides to help her withdraw from her social media. They make a bet to see if she can make it 6 months without any social media.

I really enjoyed this story. Roni Loren knows how to make relatable characters and give them a great story. The romance was believable and pretty steamy too! Both Eliza and Beck have some heavy emotional baggage, and I enjoyed watching them both work through their issues. They supported each other and complimented each other's personalities. I always like it when a couple becomes or are friends first, and this is the case in this book. They really enjoy each other's company, and the attractions come later. As an animal lover, I especially enjoyed their trip to the local animal shelter together.

The pace seemed a bit slower than in her previous books, but not too slow. It’s sad that this is the last book in the series, but I’m confident that Roni Loren will come up with a new and exciting series.

This is the final book in Roni Loren's Say Everything series and she knocked it out of the park.

There was so much to love about this book. Eliza and Beck had phenomenal chemistry. Their push and pull relationship was spot on. There's a little age difference between them - - Beck is younger. Eliza finds herself making assumptions about him because of this without getting to know him first. Once she actually takes the time to know and understand him, she finds that he's not at all what she expected.

Beck is up front and honest with Eliza that he isn't looking for marriage or children. He's not wired for it and has no interest. It's clear that Eliza is looking for that, so right off the bat, he wants her to know they don't have that kind of future. However, due to some twisty fateful events, these two end up "dancing around" a friends with benefits relationship. The danger is that one or both will start to care more than they should.

There's much more to this story than you first realize. Beck has a history which explains a great deal about where his opinions on love and marriage come from. Once he shares that piece of himself, things make much more sense. Eliza also discovers some things about herself along the way. Things that make her believe she might not even understand exactly what she's looking for herself. The two of them both have baggage that has altered their perceptions of what love is supposed to look like. Will they be able to shed these preconceived notions and decide what works best for them?

Thank you to NetGalley for this ARC. I voluntarily chose to read and review it and the opinions contained within are my own.

AUDIOBOOK REVIEW: The narration was enjoyable and helped draw the listener deeper into the story. I always enjoy being able to go back and forth between a written book and the audio version. It helps give the story a little different perspective. There was nothing not to love with this audio. 5 stars.