This was just ok. I loved her first book but this one seemed to try to cram too many things into one book. I liked the main relationship but throwing in family issues and meeting all her exs and the alcoholism seemed like no storyline got enough attention.

I love when a romance author writes about a romance author and acknowledges typical romance book tropes. Which in and of itself, could be another trope. Anyway, in Plot Twist, author Erin La Rosa (who also wrote the adorable For Butter or Worse) does just that. This cute novel is light-hearted, but manages to touch on some complex issues and tricky family dynamics. It was easy to become invested in the main characters, and genuinely root for them. Overall, it’s a worthwhile way to spend a few hours!

What can I say about this novel besides omg!!!! So stinken cute!!!! 5/5 recommend! One of those hold to your chest when you’re done. That’s my favorite kind of romance!

4 Stars

This is a cute romance author who has never been in love story. Sophie is a romance author but it's struggling to write her send book because she never has been in love. So she goes on a journey and documents it thru tik Tok of interviewing her exs about why it never worked out. Then there is Dash her next door neighbor, land lord and brother of her bff that helps her along this journey.

I thought the chemistry and sexy scenes in this book was very well done. Ton of spice but respectfully done. I loved it, I did love that there was a one bed trope in the very beginning and Sophie laughing about it.

The book did read very quickly. At times however the pacing did feel a bit off, I struggled thru some of the chapters specifically the ones with Dash's family.

One thing that didn't really work for me was actually the meeting of Sophie's ex's. The worse one being Carla. None of that made sense to me and seemed forced.

There is a representation of alcoholism and struggles with staying sober. I thought this was well done and I appreciated this layer of depth to this contemporary story.

I would recommend this to authors who enjoy contemporary romances with spice. Also a book with deeper topics that characters are struggling with.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for this advanced reader copy. My review is voluntarily my own.

I will be posting my review to my Instagram page the.floofs.booknook and retail sites close or on publication.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

This book was a cute and quick read.

Sophie is a romance author who's never been in love. After this is revealed in an embarrassing drunken tirade that goes viral, she decides to revisit her ex's to find out what went wrong and hopefully help spark her next book idea. Dash is a former teen heartthrob and Sophie's landlord. He's trying to find his way in life after becoming sober and battling the pressures from his family to return to Hollywood.

What I liked:
- The spicy scenes were top notch!
- Dash was the sweetest MMC and he deserves the world
- Dual POV for the win
- The portrayal of Dash's sobriety journey and relapse felt real and honest
- This book has lots of humour, especially Sophie's inner dialogue

What I didn't like:
- I really liked the idea of Sophie revisiting her ex's, but I think there was a missed opportunity to explain what she learned from these relationships, especially Carla. She jumped right back into a relationship with her (who seemed pretty cool) and then ended things not long after. I appreciated that Sophie was growing and figuring out how to go for what she wants, but the way this was handled rubbed me the wrong way.
- For a short book, there were a lot of plot points, but not always closure on those story lines. It kept the book moving quickly and my interest peaked, but I would've appreciated a bit more follow through on some of the side stories.

I was really excited to get my hands on the book based on the description - I love an “author living out her tropes” moment and hoped it would be a bit like Book Lovers. There were pieces I really liked but overall this was a miss for me.

First and foremost, I have learned that I REALLY don’t like overly pushy pop culture references. Call me a bitter millennial, but if I never again read a book that has TikTok as a central plot point, I’d be ok with that. I feel like this cements the book in exactly one point in time that could very well become irrelevant quickly.

The FMC felt way more immature than her early- to mid-thirties age implies. I found myself annoyed by her until the very end of the book, and even then wasn’t in love. In contrast, the MMC was relatable in the basest ways and I liked him a lot.

Overall, I can see why this will be a successful book in some markets, but it won’t be one I reach for again.

This book was a cute, quick, and easy read. Sobriety is a heavy theme in the book along with familial drama, finding oneself, and toxic relationships.

When I tell you I flew thru this book i mean I absolutely zoomed thru it at full speed. I loved the story, how the relationship developed within the two main characters, the complete bombshell that happened I truly wasn’t expecting that. Now while i don’t really love books with misunderstandings I understood this one and I’m glad it was resolved basically in seconds and there wasn’t this big huge fight over it. Sometimes there are misunderstandings in other books that last chapters and they get even worse little by little. But the author did this so well and wrote it in a way that was believable.

I honestly had so much fun reading this book and enjoyed every bit of it, the writing is great, I loved the cover, and overall it was a great plot with good characters. Definitely recommend if you need a fast fun read.

This book was SO good! Complex characters, author references (I see you Abby Jimenez), grump to sunshine love story, and so much more. You won’t regret the read.

Oh my goodness. Erin La Rosa never disappoints. I was in the mood for something sexy, sweet, and charming. This checked all the boxes!

Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa (coming November 14, 2023)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥/5

Romance author Sophie Lyons has a secret, and thanks to a drunken karaoke night, it’s gone viral. She’s never been in love. She’s having trouble with finishing her latest book because she can’t seem to give them a happy ending. Sophie makes a plan: in order to figure out why she’s never been in love, she’s going to meet up with all her exes to figure out why it didn’t work. However, she was not expecting Dash Montrose, her current landlord and her best friend’s brother, to be part of the situation. He’s a former actor who’s currently working on staying sober instead of a new action movie. He’s worried that he can’t give her the stable relationship she needs, so they start up a casual friends with benefits arrangement. What could possibly go wrong?

It was kind of hard for me to get into this book at first, but after a few chapters, I was hooked and stayed up last night to finish it. I love how the characters learned to grow together and ended up being far more important to each other than they ever could’ve imagined. This book is definitely spicy, and will have you swooning (or needing a cold shower)!

Plot Twist

Plot Twist is about Sophie, a romance author who is experiencing writer’s block due to her inability to fall in love and Dash, a child actor struggling with alcoholism and the pressures of family expectations. The beginning of the story follows Sophie after a night out when she gets TikTok famous after denouncing love while kareokee-ing to Tiny Dancer. She is struggling with severe writers block after writing a successful romance book and she decides to use her new TikTok fame to explore why her past relationships failed in order to help her find love while also completing her unfinished book. Dash, Sophie’s landlord and Sophie’s best friends brother, form a friendship during this time. Dash is a childhood actor who has familial pressure to return to acting despite his unwillingness to. His story follows his sobriety journey and his journey to find joy of his own creation. Sophie and Dash come together in a beautiful story of resilience and true love while navigating the challenges of sobriety. The author did a beautiful job of exploring the dynamics of falling in love despite struggles and overcoming self-doubt. It started a little slow for me and had so many outside factors that I struggled to follow at times. Between Dash’s issues with alcohol, family struggles, a stalker and self doubt and then Sophie’s own issues with writing and dealing with all her past relationships, I felt like it was hard to stay focused at times. Overall it is worth a read!

Sophie is a romance writer who seems to have a serious case of writer’s block. She struggles to write love stories because ironically, she admits to never been in love. To find the reason she’s never found that happy ending, she looks to social media, making short videos highlighting each ex and what went wrong. She then decides to meet up with them to solve the mystery. With the help of her landlord, the videos take off. Dash, the landlord, is a celebrity who has problems of his own. Suffering with life in Hollywood, sobriety, and a dwindling acting career, he assists Sophie with the videos in his downtime. Surprise surprise, they have a friends with benefits arrangement. Of course no problems arise in La La Land!

This was a quick fun read. Cartoon cover with a lot of spice!

The Plot Twist was good. I liked the pacing and plot. La Rosa made believable characters that didn’t become annoying (as some rom coms tend to do). The book is only good because I read a lot of romance and I can say that most of the more general points of the book have already been forgotten, replaced by what I dub “the formula”. There are unique things from this book I will remember like seeing the main couple together for the first time and then Sophie projectile vomits on Dash, meeting exes for tik tok clout and then being sad when she gets recognized bc it’s only for tik tok clout, Dash being sober and relapsing, and Richard Gere. Other than these plot points, the book is just a romcom that you cuddle up with for a little while.
The way Dash’s sobriety and relapse was handled was well done. She didn’t exactly pull punches when describing what Dash was going through, but she also didn’t really shy away from it.

3.75 ⭐️ I thoroughly enjoyed this book! Great light RomCom read with a touch of spice.

I loved Sophie in her cheeky confident times!

I much appreciated that at least Dash was a little bit older, and had lived his life some. I read plenty of books that the main characters are early twenties, and am always looking for characters a bit older and more relatable.

I do wish it was set over a longer span of time. I felt like the Richard part was fluff and could have been spent developing back story or even current story of the characters. It felt very rushed and a quick timeline but was a slow read for me.

Thank you to Netgalley & Harlequin Trade Publishing for this eARC in exchange for my honest review.

This book is fun and easy to read. The characters immediately draw you in and hold your attention throughout the story. Great job!

Thank you to Netgalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Sophie is a Romance author who went viral on TikTok for being drunk in a karaoke bar and yelling that she’s never been in love and love isn’t real.
Dash is Sophie’s landlord/ best friends brother/ childhood crush. His family is Hollywood royalty and he was in a few movies years ago. He is a recovering alcoholic who his family is toxic.
Dash gives Sophie the idea to “stitch” the TikTok and she goes on a journey to create videos visiting her exes and finding out why it didn’t work out for them.
Sophie helps Dash write a speech at his dads Hollywood walk of fame that he doesn’t want to do.
This book is a quick read and a romcom. I did enjoy it but it is FULL OF TROPES. I like tropes but it seems to just be to much.
Friends with benefits, one bed, childhood crush, best friends brother, friends to lovers, forced proximity is just a few of them. It can be overwhelming. Things also happened very fast but it was also a slow book…. The characters went from not speaking to being friends with benefits quick to me..
I would still recommend this to people who love a book full of tropes and wants a light romcom read!

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️
TW: Addiction/Alcoholism, This Book has Spice

I absolutely adored this book. Plot Twist is a 2 person perspective book. I love those, I love getting a glimpse behind the thoughts of two main characters. In my opinion it really helps us get to know characters so much better and they become more dimensional.

Sophie is a romance writer who is approaching the deadline for her second romance novel that she just cannot seem to finish and she comes to realize it's because she has never been in love. Not really anyways. That information gets aired out to the world of tik tok when she blurted it out while heavily intoxicated on a karaoke night with her best friend. Her best friends brother tells her that she should get ahead of it and share her truth by stitching the original posters video.

Sophie decides that she is going to meet up with her exes to find out what went wrong in all her relationships and why she has never been in love with encouragement from Dash.

Dash meanwhile is doing his best to maintain his sobriety but the dread of writing a speech for his father and his family pushing him to go back to acting is threatening that.

The love story was so good, it wasn't one of those forced ones it was very sexual tension that turned into real feelings. As a good novel is not without problems they definitely face their fair share. The novel is very light-hearted and an easy read with a few tense chapters within. There is a lot of tropes in this book such as Forced Proximity, Best Friend's Brother, Found Family, Afraid to Commit.

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love rom-coms but what I always appreciate even more is when difficult issues are handled in a respectful way. That being said, I loved the way Dash's struggles both with his own issues and with his family were dealt with. I feel like Dash's motivations were realistic and his reactions and actions genuine. Plus, his love of crafting really sealed the deal for me! I really liked Sophie. Her kindness and unrelenting support of Dash really made this book for me, but as far as I'm concerned Dash was definitely the star of the show.

I struggled with some of the side characters. I really liked Poppy, she seemed like a fun friend to have and was a good support to Sophie and Dash. I didn't like Nina and the way she would treat Sophie. I just found that every time the scene involved her I got really annoyed. She was unnecessarily mean in my opinion.

Ultimately, I felt like the book was easy to read, the pacing of the writing made sense and I honestly couldn't put it down. I stayed up way too late to finish this book. I definitely recommend this book if you are looking for a sweet romance, but do check your triggers.

I am so happy I got the opportunity to read this book!

⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ / 5
🌶 🌶️ 🌶️ /5

I received this from netgalley in exchange for a review.

I was all set for an amazing love story about a romance writer who had never fallen in love, and her best friend’s brother. What I got was a book that seemed to crawl by until maybe the last 10% when I finally got interested enough. I wasn’t really a fan of Sophie or Dash’s until later in the book. Events towards the end finally made me invested in what was happening with them though, and I overall enjoyed the ending. Dash’s mom is a horrible person though, I was not expecting that twist at the end.