"Plot Twist" by Erin La Rosa is a delightful and witty exploration of unexpected turns in life that will leave you laughing and nodding along.

5/5 it’s hard to find the words for how much I loved this book! Emotionally intelligent MCs with hot banter and SPICY activities?! I loved that the third act falling out was not miscommunication, but actually brought them closer together. Alcoholism is a huge part of the MMCs story and the writing feels genuine to the difficulty of his experience. Can’t wait for more from Erin La Rosa!
Queer representation, dual perspective
*brothers best friend, only one bed
CW: alcoholism

Thanks @netgalley @erinlarosalit and @canarystreetpress for the opportunity to read Plot Twist—out November 14, 2023.

Romance author Sophie is only six weeks away from her deadline and has serious writers block, which might have something to do with her lackluster love life. She’s living with her best friend’s brother Dash—a former teen heartthrob who’s working on his sobriety and taken up ceramics as a hobby. When a TikTok video with Sophie goes viral, Dash helps her turn it into an opportunity for writing inspiration and their friendship turns into more.

This book was equal parts HOTT and heartfelt. The storyline about Dash’s alcoholism and sobriety was very sensitively written. I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to read more from Erin!

Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Tropes: best friend’s brother, roommance, celebrity-normal person

This is such a great, fun read and runs like a RomCom through your mind. A romance author that has never been in love, blasphemy! Follow Sophie as she finds love, with some pitfalls along the way, and happens to learn her true value.

Sophie is a romance writer who is never been in love despite the success of her first book. Now it's time for the follow-up book, and she decides to cure her writers block she would interview each of exes, and find out why she was not capable of loving them. Meanwhile, Dash, her landlord, and former actor - is struggling to hide his secret crafting hobby, and his issues with sobriety. As Sophie and Dash get closer their feelings grow more complex.


I did enjoy reading Dash's story and seeing him overcome his struggles. I think that it's a really important story that the author handled with care. I loved how each of the exes were distinctly their own person, and you can see why Sophie had dated each of them. There is also some great banter and steamy scenes.

While I don't mind the talk of social media in books, I know some do. The idea of the hill was really interesting And I think the fact that I'm probably similar to the FMC in some ways was funny. I do think people will enjoy the author aspect.

Great book! Not my favourite book I’ve read, but it was definitely enjoyable.! I loved the characters and the story.

It was quite lovely with a nice happily ever after. Warming to reading how the characters developed in this story. They had great chemistry which I love and the banter was cute. It had a realistic view of a relationship that was well written.

Thanks to NetGalley and Canary Street Press for the ARC.

I feel like this book was all over the place, like it was trying to be too many things at once. I struggled to finish it. It is half popular romance tropes and half contemporary references that will undoubtedly age in a year. There was more "telling" than "showing" in terms of the story and pretty simplistic. lot of pop culture references to wade through.

While the main characters had some chemistry, it definitely felt contrived at times. There were so many tropes all at once! Dash is her landlord/neighbor/best friend's brother/childhood celebrity crush/friend-to-lover! 🙄 Also the smut didn't really do it for it. There are aspects that I liked (normalizing sobriety and therapy, Sophie being pansexual and very comfortable with her sexuality, Dash being into crafting as a hobby), but I genuinely feel like the author was trying to do too much and it didn't exactly work.

This might be my own personal issue but the mention of surrogacy took me out and soured me on the characters. Sophie's sister, Nina (the main character from this series's first book), and her husband announce they're having a baby by using a surrogate.

Surrogacy is a contentious women's issue. No matter how well-intentioned its proponents, surrogacy is the economic and cultural exploitation of women. Often the woman carrying the pregnancy is in a financially disadvantageous position to the intended parents, which is very much the case with these characters who are celebrity chefs. I didn't care for this side character subplot.

Plot Twist was the perfect sappy rom com mixed with some very real elements. It explores struggling author Sophie who is trying to fall in love for the first time. Famous actor Dash is finding himself and his next adventure all while staying sober. This real world scenario was perfect and I loved the HEA. 5/5 stars.

I got to 30% in this book before I decided to DNF. Because I DNF this book I will not be giving it a star rating. Honestly I just wasn’t clicking with this book. I didn’t really care about either character and all of the modern references were getting a bit much for me. I think as a Booktok I just couldn’t read a book that focused on Tiktok so much. I felt like if I kept reading this book it would be a two or three star and so because of that I decided to DNF.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for this Advanced Readers Copy of Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa!

I enjoyed Plot Twist, but a lot of the plot felt too familiar. One of our main characters is a recovering alcoholic and I honestly didn’t enjoy that storyline. I have a close family member who is a recovering alcoholic and I think it was just too triggering for me to read that in what I wanted to be a “light and fun” read.

This book was just ok for me. It started out strong and I really liked the characters themselves. Even the antagonists and secondary characters were well rounded and each had their own distinct identity. At first, I was really happy to see an accurate portrayal of addiction and recovery, but things started to take a turn towards romanticism when we were introduced to his sponsor/mentor. The MMC's struggles with revealing his addiction and his rehab to his family fell flat for me. I think it was because of the repetition and lack of deep pov. The writing style is passive and repetitive, with many character traits being repeatedly told to the reader, rather than shown through actions or dialogue/internal monoloque. The setting was really well done, the world very established. I wouldn't recommend this book because the main character's addiction recovery (declarations of love during rehab, etc) is portrayed in a deeply flawed and harmful way and it overshadows everything else.. The author would do well to read craft books such as Lisa Hall-Wilson's Method Acting for Writers and Donald Maas The Emotional Craft of Fiction, as well as the Emotional Wound Thesaurus.

Thank you to the publisher for giving me the chance to read a digital copy of this book, which comes out in a couple of months. Even though this is technically part of a series, it can be read as a standalone. I read this one without reading For Butter or Worse, and I had no trouble following along, although now I want to go back and read Nina and Leo's story. This story focuses on Nina's sister, Sophie and her handsome landlord/actor Dash Montrose. Dash is trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, while trying to maintain his sobriety after 18 months alcohol free. Sophie is trying to write a second book, and for inspiration, she decides to meet up with her exes to find out what went wrong. There is kind of a lot going on in the story. Not only do we have these plot lines, but there's also Dash's famous actor family and their somewhat dysfunctional dynamic. I am kind of hoping that his brother, Rhys, gets his own book. I liked the story line between Dash and Sophie, and I thought that the two of them were really good together. There's kind of this grumpy x sunshine trope going on between the two of them, and there's also the best friend's brother trope, as Sophie's best friend, Poppy, is friends with Dash. Dash's mom, Kitty, is a real piece of work. There were a few parts of the story that I didn't really think were necessary, one of them being Sophie's relationship with Carla. She meets with her, clearly showing that our main character, Sophie, is bisexual, and kind of tries to give the relationship another chance while secretly being in love with Dash. I'm not really a fan of love triangles, and it seemed kind of pointless. There was also Dash's stalker, that also seemed to add unnecessary drama to the plot. Like I said, it felt like the author was trying to throw in a lot of different things that may have been better left out. However, there is plenty of steamy scenes between Dash and Sophie, and you can't help but root for them. Overall, I thought this was an entertaining read and I liked it.

This was such a cute romance book! I really enjoyed Sophie and Dash's story and I plan to read more by this author.

I originally read this book in March/April and it took me a literal month to get through it. I could simply not connect with the characters for the first 1/2 of the book. It also felt overly sexual. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for the smut, but this felt forced. Not character driven.

The reason I am giving it three stars over two is because of the second half. The story picks up and we find some true character development and growth. I also really like the topic the author is tackling. It is under discussed! I still this Sophie is just ok but Dash grows a lot and is a fantastic driver of the story.

Thank you NetGalley and Canary Street Press for the ARC.

This books was super cute and a great quick read!

I wish I had know this was the second book in series but, I wasn’t lost or confused, as it was a solid stand alone story.

As always thanks to NetGalley, author, and publisher for the ARC.

This story follows Sophie who has never been in love and begins exploring past relationships to see what went wrong. And Dash, Sophie’s neighbor/landlord/bff’s older brother who is despite having a successful film career is out of the spotlight focusing on crafting and his sobriety.

The tension was great, the scenes were smutty, and the banter between these two was infectious!

A solid 4 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me and I plan to read book one and follow for other novels from this author!

I appreciated this book for a number of reasons, but the honest portrayal of the journey of sobriety was really refreshing in a romance novel. Dash and Sophie were such lovable main characters, and the surrounding characters were just as fun to get to know. I tend to find the main character working in the world of books trope to be overdone as of late, and this was not an exception to that. However, I enjoyed Sophie and Dash’s chemistry so much that it was easy to overlook.

3.5⭐ Sophie Lyon is a romance author with writer's block and a deadline. Her debut novel hit it big, but now she can't seem to write a happy ending. When a video goes viral of her drunk and complaining that she's never even been in love, she decides to revisit her exes to try to learn why she's never fallen in love, and (of course) document it on TikTok.

Sophie's landlord, former teen heartthrob Dash Montrose, knows how to use social media, and offers to help her. He needs her help with something, too, so it's a win-win for both of them. Sophie never expected for things to turn romantic with him - she had a poster of him up on her wall when she was a teenager, for crying out loud!

I really enjoyed the banter and the evolution of Sophie and Dash's relationship. Both characters have empathy toward each other, and that's how things start. The added tension because Sophie's best friend is Dash's sister cracks me up. The book was a little slow in some spots, and some of the plot points felt forced and unnatural, but overall, I enjoyed most of it.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for an honest review!