This pulled me in, quickly! I enjoyed the back story and how the characters evolved over the story. I’m not a huge enemies to lovers fan but this had a great balance and their friendship, relationship and flashbacks were so good.

I often think “these characters need therapy!” And it was so refreshing that it played a role in this story.

I love the format and it did not disappoint!

<i>I received a copy of this story from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.</i>

This was astounding. I felt like I was with both of them through this, like their closest confidante. Everything was balanced perfectly and the pacing was *chef's kiss*

Hats off to Wilder for some incredible character development! I wasn't expecting a romcom with as much depth as this story has. Lilah and Shane's chemistry is evident from the first moment they meet and it never wanes. It changes shape with them and their relationship but it's always there, always intense. Their emotional journeys -- individual and together -- are realistic and specific and I appreciated them all the more for it.

While I've never worked on a TV show like <i>Intangible</i>, I'm familiar with the entertainment world and what Wilder created feels so true to life. All the little details of production and the process breathe more life into Lilah and Shane. It felt less like I was reading a book and more like I was reading a journalism piece about two real-life actors and their relationship. I was wholly absorbed in it.

I'll be recommending this one for a long time!

Thanks to Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine, the author, and NetGalley for the free gifted copy in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely loved Ava Wilder’s other book - How to Fake It in Hollywood, so I was super pumped to pick this one up! I love enemies to lovers romance especially when it comes to celebrity romances.

I loved the slow burn of this second-chance romance it was so fun and easy to fall right into the story! There was instant chemistry you could feel through the book right from the start. The whole book it was so easy to ship this couple and I was dying for them to get together.

I also love when books do a POV from different time periods because I like getting the full story from all different angles. It was also cool to see how the relationship grew over time.

If Ava Wilder keeps righting celebrity romances like this then I will always be picking up!

I felt like I’ve read this book before. No, not because it’s “competing” book, ‘Once More with Feeling’, read incredibly similar, but the trope really felt tired this time around.

Heroine who feels like she couldn’t be properly loved or that she’ll be f*cked over at any moment, but everything was so surface-level. Trust me, I get the “bitchy” personality; I am the bitchy personality!!! There were just never really any discussions between our MCs that made me feel like these two could really make it together, only enough moments that made me think “yeah, they’re a good f*ck”.

So yeah, the title was so perfect, it’s kind of annoying.

Everything ultimately just seemed to rush by the time we’re nearing the end of the book and the flashbacks throughout made the pacing of this even worse (almost like I could’ve done without them). Like, we get it, they WILL!


It’s a shame because ‘How to Fake It in Hollywood’ was such a good read last year, and maybe it set my expectations high, but I guess there’s only hoping Ava Wilder comes back next year with a real banger 🤞🏼 (pun intended)

I picked this book up because I love a good second chance romance. I can appreciate flawed characters like Lilah and Shane because theyre realistic! I enjoyed their banter and the tension between them. At times, the story did hit some lulls though. But, that twist at the end threw me for a loop!

Read if you...
💗think your partner should tattoo your name on them, so you know it's real! 🤪
💗like "unlikeable" characters
💗enjoy Hollywood/celebrity romances
💗enjoy tension/build up
💗like mental health rep
💗like enemies to lovers and second chances
💗coworkers to lovers to enemies to lovers

Thank you Netgalley, Random House -Ballantine, and Ava Wilder for the ARC.

“Will They or Won’t They” was so much fun to read. Dual POVs, enemies to lovers, and two different timelines makes this book grip you from the very first chapter.

It is clear Shane and Lilah have so much chemistry that you can’t help but root for them while also getting frustrated and wanting them to just kiss already.

As a fan of “How to Fake it in Hollywood,” I was so excited to be selected but NetGalley, Ava Wilder, and Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine to enjoy this ARC.

This had so much sexual tension that I wasn't sure what was going to happen. I found myself screaming, "Have the make-up sex already!"

With that being said, I thought this was a really cute story. I loved Lilah with how quirky and witty she was, along with keeping her panic attacks at bay. I loved the mental health rep. I also loved Hunter and how sweet and vulnerable he was. It was a really sweet love story. Especially when they knew they had to put in the work to be ready for each other.

I did find this a little slow moving at the beginning. But once I got halfway through, I couldn't put it down.

The chemistry in this one!!! It's undeniable. Right from the prologue, their first meeting. I could feel it just like they could. Shane. My angel boy. I listened to the audiobook and the slight southern accent they did for him was 👌🏼. It wasn't one of the steamiest books I've read, but the longing made it sizzle. And that scene in the dressing room??? Probably the best thing about this book is that they went to therapy together. When couples have a difficult history, it's hard for me to see why they’ll work together in the present when they didn’t before. Not only are they grown now, but they've worked through things in a healthy way. And they're being honest!!! They're learning about each other and confessing sweet things. Reading about their sessions made me tear up and giggle. AND dual timeline in dual pov!!! Also, maybe most importantly, this book is Dress by Taylor Swift coded. I feel like I don't need to say much more than that.

Star Rating: ⭐️⭐️ 1/2
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Setting: Hollywood
Time: Current day, 9 year flash backs
Format: 📖
Release Date: 6/27/2023
Length: 373

Will They or Won’t They by Ava Wilder is the story of co-stars Lilah Hunter and Shane McCarthy of the hit paranormal TV show Intangible – madly in love with each other .. on screen … off screen they hated each. The story follows Lilah and Shane as the reunite for their nineth and final season as these two characters finally get together. But will that they become a couple again off screen?

I feel I am being generous giving this second chance novel a 2 1/2 star rating – lovers to enemies to lover just wasn’t for me. Both characters are not only unlikable the story itself was annoying and be truthful I could have cared less if they did, or they did not.

And a note to all authors .. when using an abbreviation please spell out the full term at its first mention, indicate its abbreviation in parenthesis and use the abbreviation from then on. Thank you.

Thank you, Ava Wild, Dell and NetGalley for providing me with a digital ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed in this review are my own. This novel is due to be released on June 27, 2023.

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DNF at 24% because i already know i’m not gonna love this, it’s already really similar to her last book and i did not like that one

Thank you to NetGalley for providing a digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. This is a classic old lovers, new enemies story about two actors on a long running TV show. Now Lilah and Shane are teaming up for the final season after a few years of avoiding each other when Lilah unexpectedly quit to pursue movies. Each worried about how the reunion will go, they bring their past baggage along for the ride. You can probably guess how this ends, but still a nice summer read.

This book surprised me so much! I was expecting cute, fun and fluffy and it was that, but it was also an amazing emotional rollercoaster that I enjoyed every minute of!

Things I really loved:
- This was a really fun second chance romance. I loved how it bounced between present and past so that you could get a look into how/why they are where they are now.
- I loved both the MCs and their baggage. It is what makes them so real. They were both struggling so much internally that it’s clear why it didn’t work out in the past.
- I loved the ending. I freaked out a bit for a minute, but then I calmed down when everything was explained!

Things I didn’t love:
- There was much I didn’t love. As always with second chance romances, I wish it didn’t take so long for them to get back together (almost 10 years) but I think sometimes it’s what the characters need to make it end-game!

Overall, I really liked this book. It has a lot of sweet moments, some good spice and a lot of emotions!

My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⁠
Spice Level: 🔥🔥
Genre: Contemporary Romance⁠
Tropes: Lovers to enemies to lovers, Second chance romance, Celebrity
Publication Date: June 27, 2023⁠
Goodreads Rating: ⁠3.9 ⭐️
Amazon Rating: 4.2 ⭐️
Available Format: 📖📱⁠
KU Option: NO

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

This book was so much fun! Loved the tension. For celebrities, the two main characters seemed extremely real and their whole drama felt realer than most romance novels.

Such an enjoyable read!! Would totally recommend to fans of enemies to lovers trope! The banters were hilarious and I love Lilah and Shane's chemistry! I just think that the conflict was resolved too easily?? But overall this is such a great read! ❤

I loved the peak into the entertainment industry and specifically the different perspectives that Shane and Lilah had on their shared experiences. However, I just couldn't fully connect with these characters. The dual POV and the alternating timelines were effective, but I just ultimately wanted even more of their history in order to fully understand them. It felt stilted and out of order at times so I couldn't get fully invested in their story.

First of all--the cover should've had the vibe of "How to Make It in Hollywood." This is too meet cute and light for the plot.

I love Ava's pulse on the industry--if you read enough Hollywood bios and read/watch enough celebrity gossip, it totally checks. And she knows how to write complicated characters that still suck you in, even at their most terrible (like Ethan Atkins in the latter half of HTMIIH)
This was turning into a solid 5 for me the whole way but Lilah is just so. un. likeable.

Not necessarily from the get-go--she seems lighter at the start of the book, when she meets Shane at the audition for "Intangible" and sparks fly. But flipping out on Shane a year later when he thinks they’re getting serious, to the point of saying some pretty hurtful things that drives him to go on a very public prowl with his douchey bro squad afterwards, is what kicks the whole feud off.

I get the whole "pushing people away because you're afraid of commitment" thing (as little sense as it makes to me overall), but even when things are looking good, she still can't stop with the biting comments.She’s “new and improved” after a decade if she’s only jabbing someone (like Shane) in the ribs at the best of times, and not below the belt when she’s fully in destroy mode. And yet she has been to therapy? Yeah, lots of growth there.

Lilah’s behavior isn’t an obvious plot contrivance; we’ve seen and met self-destructive people like this. But while Grey had the maturity and self-esteem in how she dealt with Ethan’s own self-destructive tendencies in HTMIIH, here Shane’s “kill them with kindness” approach, storming off when things don’t work out when not outright sulking, reads as weakness. (The whole people-pleasing mode is a weakness he acknowledges in himself.)

The HEA ending, if you can believe it, still left me feeling duped. I’m sure I’m not the only one reading it as HFN instead.

But I’m definitely here for Ava’s next book.

Bobby and Lindsay. Will and Alicia. David and Maddie. Hawkeye and Hot Lips. Sam and Addison. These are just a few of the many, many couples I have “shipped” in my decades of TV fandom, from soaps to sitcoms and every type of show in between. (A “shipper” is someone who roots for a relationship between two characters—or sometimes even real people.) In her second book, Will They or Won’t They, author Ava Wilder takes readers on a wild roller coaster ride of a romance, producing an absolute delight for shippers of all types of relationships.

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Wow I"m such a Ava Wilder fan. I love a celeb & second-chance romance, and this delivered. The banter, the tension, the messy characters were all done SO well. I also really loved the scenes when they were working with the couple's therapist. Overall, I just wanted more of the good stuff.

Will They or Won't They by Ava Wilder was a very cute read. It's entertaining and the perfect read for the summer.

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for the ARC!

I enjoyed this enemies-to-lovers romance. The balance between banter and bedroom scenes was just enough to keep you wondering whether Lilah and Shane would ultimately end up together.