I am about 25% thru. I enjoyed the first 20% but now it's hard to read. One day in the future I may be able to read it, but my mental state can't handle Kat right now. It has an excellent first 20%, I loved it. While I can't handle it, I will get my sister to read it once it's published. She would enjoy the book.

Thank you though for this opportunity. No hate for the author, it isn't personal. I enjoyed it, up until the boss said those things, they triggered me. If I wasn't triggered, I would read it. Sorry for not being helpful.

I Did Not Finish this at 30 percent. I just threw in the towel. This was not a great read and the main character, Kat (or disgustingly called Kitten by her British colleagues and boss) had me about done before I got to the whole, put on some fire red lipstick she finds in a bathroom scene. At that point I read a little further to see if the book could swing me back to reading, but it never happened.

"Double-Decker Dreams" follows 30 something year old Kat, who relocates to London for 6 months. Kat hopes at the end of the trip she eventually makes partner and it will help her fulfill her dream of being a CEO one day. Small problem is that Kat really doesn't like London and it doesn't fit into her daydreams about what her life would be like after breaking up with her long term boyfriend to live in London. However, Kat ends up locking eyes with a guy on the bus (double-decker) she takes to work sometimes and realizes he may be the one. Kat apparently has the ability through eye-contact to determine who her next romance will be.

Man, I wish I had time to embed a gif here.

Anyway, the book just stays way too long in Kat's dreams about the man she doesn't meet or talk to who she imagines is the perfect English guy who is going to be the answer to her prayers. In between that she's dealing with her job not working out the way she thought it would.

Look, Kat's exhausting. She makes friends with two women who live across from her (same home, broken into flats). But I honestly don't see why one of them whose name is escaping me even talks to her. Kat doesn't do anything but work and daydream. She bitches about London, but she doesn't mention trying to do things and complains about the pizza shops and the London tube. Kat is 30 or 31 (I refuse to look this up) but she reads as so much younger. A woman who wants to be a CEO one day, her mindset and daydreaming and just immaturity at times didn't gibe with this image at all. Not that you need to be hard as nails, but she reads as way younger than she is.

The romance set-up wasn't enough for me to keep reading. I can guess what happens and don't really care.

The work aspects were gross to me. Spoiler warning about a....I don't even know what that was that I was reading. It wasn't a sexual assault, but there was something going on that made me very uncomfortable. I don't know if this will hit readers the same way or not.

This was a DNF for me, as an English person myself I felt like it was making fun and the way the British characters spoke was just annoying to me. I just didn't enjoy the plot it was not for me.

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I think this is a very light read bordering on DNF. I went back and forth and couldn't really decide.

Thank you Netgalley and Alcove Press for a copy of this ARC!

Kat, a workaholic from America, moves to London for a six-month project, with the hopes of making partner AND finding herself a Prince Charming.

This was tough to get into at first – the instalove trope just isn’t my favourite, and I found Kat rather annoying. I ended up being glad I persisted, and really enjoyed this novel from about 20% onward.

I absolutely loved Kat and Rory’s friendship. The comfortable companionship they gave each other, with no expectations.

Double Decker Dreams is a slow-burn, closed door romcom with exceptional character growth & development.

Thanks to Alcove Press and Netgalley for this ARC. I wanted to love this novel as it is an adorable storyline however this novel was not something I could get into. I DNF the novel around 28%. I could not get into the characters or plot.

A lovely laugh out loud romance that got me right out of my reading slump. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the book in exchange for a review.

This was exactly what I needed! I literally laughed out loud, I teared up at some moments and I was cheering at others. Super cute and fun. Quirky, multi-layers characters, a fun meet cute and nothing over the top that takes you out of the story.
Kat is an American whose career has brought her all over the world. She’s now located in England and loving it. Except she would love to find a British boyfriend like in all her favorite rom-coms. So while she’s on a zoom call one day, she happens to look out the window and sees the man of her dreams sitting on the double decker bus outside her window. She creates a persona and a whole life for them before she even knows his name or anything about him. How will she find him and when she does will he live up to her expectations?
Of course, it takes ages to finally meet, and what she goes through to get to him is fun to watch play out in itself, but then to see the discrepancy in who she dreamed him to be and who he really is is where the magic happens. Her Prince Charming isn’t a prince at all but can they overcome all the odds and fall in love anyway?
I adored this and will be reading everything and anything Lindsay writes. It was adorable without being cheesy and I couldn’t get enough.
Thanks to Alcove Press and NetGalley for this eArc in exchange for my review.

American consultant Kat is staffed on a six-month project in London and has two very small, very reasonable ambitions before returning home: get promoted to partner and fall in love with a handsome English aristocrat. No problem, right?

But work is a grind, and the British men she meets are a far cry from her royal ideal. Then one morning, she sees a man on a double-decker bus and just knows that he’s her person. But when Kat finally musters the courage to board the bus and introduce herself, he turns out to be very different from the Prince Charming she expected.

Can Kat open herself up to a love that’s not like the movies, or is she too imprisoned by her rom-com expectations? And just as importantly, will she be able to see that success isn’t about landing a C-suite job, but rather living a life that’s aligned with her soul?

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC.

Look, it was fine. It’s probably not a reread for me, but it was pleasant enough. The FMC comes off as a little bit desperate at times, and the inner world building can be a little bit cringey. Contemporary romance is usually a favourite of mine, but this one (whilst certainly not bad) just didn’t live up to the fun I’ve had reading other books of the same genre.

Thank you to NetGallery the author and the publisher for this Advance Reader Copy. This book was overall okay. As I person who’s all about the sparks I can say I am a bit disappointed but I didn’t quite hate it. I understand what the author wanted to say but I’m a hopeless romantic. Either way I loved this one!!

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I had a hard time getting into this book. It felt really slow. It started to pick up a little bit after that, but I never ended up loving the book.

Thank you Alcove Press and Netgalley for this ARC!

So this one was hard for me because I really really thought i’d love it, the FMC was so relatable and I saw so many of my own traits with her and was having great laughs. Yet, as the story went on the less I could relate with her and her decisions, I honestly was often disagreeing or disappointed with how things progressed.

The story was definitely cute and I can no way deny that it was well written because it was, it just wasn’t necessarily for me which is fine because i’m sure someone else would love it!

luv & kisses <3

I absolutely loved this book. It hooked me and kept me turning pages until I was done. Finished it in two days! The character development was strong, and the premise was unique enough that it didn't feel like anything else I've read.

This book starts very slow with lots of daydreaming. Once she meets her "prince" then it gets a bit interesting. However, the end is drawn out with way too much introspective analysis (preaching?) about a woman who is on a high-level career track becoming exactly what she'd always said she didn't want to be. If the middle of the book had been developed a bit more, I think I would have liked it better. The London/NYC time difference seemed backwards. Her friend was asleep when she'd called at night from London and then they'd talked "earlier today" before 8-9 AM London time??

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book.

Did not Finish: Stopped at 32%

Double-Decker Dreams has a very cute premise, but the execution was very flawed. Kat makes eye contact with a dude on a bus and promptly goes into a fantasy so hard it's very close to a delusion. She makes up a backstory and decides that she's going to marry this wealthy prince who rides a bus. That was where I *should* have given up, but I decided that three chapters wasn't fair to the book, and kept going. Note to self: if you think you're going to mark a book as DNF, don't give "a few more chapters, just to see", just DNF it. 

The bit where she learns who he really is and they decide to meet up to get coffee was really cute, and I think the book would have been all the better for the first few chapters without the "wealthy prince who rides the bus" and with her riding the bus, and finally getting up the courage to talk to him. Then, she wouldn't have been as disappointed.

Lindsay MacMillan's "Heart of the Deal" was a completely unexpected five-star read for me, so I was instantly intrigued by "Double-Decker Dreams," especially as an Anglophile myself.

"Double-Decker Dreams" follows American consultant Kat, who's staffed on a project in London (only my dreams lol!) with the hopes of landing a promotion and finding a British aristocrat to fall in love with. When she sees a handsome stranger riding the bus through her flat window, she's convinced that he's The One -- and a posh prince to boot. Kat quickly dreams of their entire fairytale romance before even meeting, and once she does work up the courage to introduce herself, the mystery man is nothing like her fantasy.

This book is a fun one for any fellow Anglophiles like myself, which duh, and reads quickly thanks to compelling, well-written language.

Unfortunately, "Double-Decker Dreams" didn't hold a candle to "Heart of the Deal" as the Anglophile in myself would have hoped and I just couldn't connect to it as much. That being said, "Double-Decker Dreams" is still full of authenticities and engaging language that drew me in to find out what's happened next.

CW: Workplace harassment, sexual assault

There is no way to put this nicely, I absolutely hated this book. The main character Kat was just the worst. She was so awful to the main love interest of the story Rory. She literally judged him before she even met him. Kat saw him on the bus outside her window everyday and thought he was good looking. Then one day she works up the courage to talk him and he's not what she expected. That is weird stalker behavior and I was not here for it. Rory was actually a really good guy. But because of the preconceived notions that Kat had before she met him; she could not see that. I really think Kat needed to get a reality check. I don't like selfish characters in books. Kat rubbed me the wrong way. I am sorry Rory was put in the middle of this. I really did feel bad for him. I also felt a lack of romance in this book. I think I felt the lack of romance because Kat was the worst. I don't think I will read anything by this author again. If I could give this less than one star I would.

THANK YOU NET GALLEY AND PUBLISHER FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ THIS. That being said, rating and feelings are my own:

This was such a good story. I think it will be a book club pick for many. Highly recommend this one!