Dawn and Callan are supposed to just have a fling but as they go their separate ways they can't seem to take their thoughts off one and another. The mental health rep as well as the healing felt true as it lasts for most of the book and is not just figured out neatly in one chapter. Just as in real life healing is a long, messy process.

Dual POV, Dual Timelines, Spicy, Second Chance, Tragic Past, Summer Fling, Lawyer FMC

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.

This was a fun second-chance romance read! This story is an enjoyable funny, steamy, and heartfelt romance read.

💕 Second-chance romance (summer fling turned lover)
💕 Swoon-worthy
💕 Rom-Com

I liked this book! Written in 2 timelines from the perspective of both Dawn and Callan, the 2 MC. I really loved getting to know them, and really enjoyed their banter and the way they worked through the issues they each had in order to be together. I am typically not a fan of 2nd chance romance books, but this one pulled me in! Thank you NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

This cover is beyond adorable and screams valentines day! I love second chance romances SO MUCH and I enjoyed this one so very much! I also really enjoyed the little bit of mystery we got, too! The meet cute was SO SO swoon worthy and I loved Dawn and Callum! The writing was engaging and made this read so enjoyable! Oh - and the spice was spicin'! :)

4/5 stars.

Thanks to net galley for this ARC.

It took me a while to get into this book solely because at the beginning don’t get a good understanding of how Dawn and Callan meet. While I usually don’t mind second chance books, for me the backstory needs to be introduced first so there is a solid foundation we are building the story off of. Once I got into it, I got sucked!! It was very good

Grace has crafted quite an undeniably beautiful book with imperfect characters you will both relate to and root for. Plus, I so loved the second chance trope in it, made it so angsty!

I zoomed through this book and for good reason! It was such an easy read filled with the perfect amount of angst and romance that kept me flicking pages until I had reached the end.

I’m not normally a fan of second chance romances but I’m so glad I gave this one a chance, and I recommend others to give it a go too!

Thank you to netgalley for sending me this arc and allowing me to read it and review it.

This was so cute and i feel in love with the plot, characters and overall vibe. I will be gifting this to friends as of 2024 so we can all gush over how cute this book was.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

The potential was there but this book wasn’t really for me. I didn’t connect with the characters in this book unfortunately.

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC! Unfortunately, I had to put this book in the DNF pile. The female lead of this book, Dawn, is 25 years old and every bit of her age shows when she interacts with the male lead Callan. Callan is a man with deep scars and terrible resolve when it comes to Dawn and whether he can accept having a committed relationship with her. I think Dawn could do better and Callan needs to see a therapist ASAP to address his emotional pain. The sex scenes were alright, but I think had Dawn been a little older and wiser, this story would have been more appealing to me.

Just A Fling is a amazingly beautiful second chance romance with love and loss. Dawn is in school studying for a degree in the field of law along with currently being in a student exchange program in law. During this time she meets a cute solar developer named Callahan. Callahan is adoringly cute, tall and hunky brit with an amazing accent. He is known for not committing in relationships and self sabotaging himself by refusing to let himself be happy. Callahan dumps Dawn after a summer filled with love and passion. Dawn and Callahan's future after not speaking to each other comes colliding through their current jobs. Just a fling has a dual timelines current time as well as flashbacks. This was such a great steamy, addictive, second chance romance. I loved every minute of reading this novel.

I was taken aback at how it started but once I kept reading I was sucked right in and couldn't put it down. Good flow to the story of Callan and Dawn with some good supporting characters who definitely added humor all wrapped with some good spicy bits as well. I really enjoyed how the story came together and how all the interesting parts that I scratched my head on, all fell into place. I would absolutely recommend and will be reading again.

I absolutely loved this book from the get go. From the first chapter I adored Dawn. She was funny, smart and so relatable. Callan is our broken charming hero and at times I felt like yelling at him but at times I felt Iike hugging him too.
Dawn and Callan meet in Cambridge where she is taking summer course for law and he is attending his best friends' wedding. They had sizzling summer fling and Dawn fells head over heels in love with him but Callan due to his baggages breaks her heart and lets her go. One year later, fate brings them together again, when Callan visits New York for his business. Once again they get a chance to rekindle thier love but is Callan willing to let go his baggage and hold Dawn.
This book is so much more then a second chance romance. Definitely a must read !

Rating : 2.5 stars

’Just a fling’ is a contemporary romance that I have very complicated feelings about. The thing is, there were fleshed-out characters, a good writing style (but not at all atmospheric), and a good plot. But there also were tropes that I hate and that was miscommunication and insta love. Both of these appear very tiring to me. And the book was too spicy for me, being spicy is not the problem, but they got into all the spice part without even knowing each other enough and they think they are in love🤷‍♀️. I thought getting steamy followed by some sort of emotional connection would’ve been more interesting or the other way around. I’m not a smut reader but I also happen to like romance books, so as usual I skipped over those and it was like 1/4th of the book😶. Instead of these many intimate scenes, emotional scenes may have contributed to some sort of bonding between FMC and MMC. It actually gave me the vibe that they both have been confused lust as love- to keep it plain.

The story follows Dawn Mathison, who is a law student and is in England for a summer program. She stumbles into Callan Marlowe in a coffee shop and it is something like love at first sight? Anyway from there they start dating and they are very much into each other. Dawn wants to make this relationship work but Callan cannot commit to a relationship. He has a dark past which he is running from and Dawn was supposed to be a distraction. Now that he has fallen for her, things are getting out of hand and he doesn't know how to handle his emotions. Just a Fling is a story about heartbreak, and trauma and shows you that facing reality can make all the difference.

I’m all for second chance romance, however, the whole plot seem to have highlighted more the flaws and the red flags of both leads.

The starting chapter built up much anticipation - why do the characters react that way when they met again? Then came the juxtaposition of the occurrences in their respective lives as individuals - how they changed much of themselves and their plans (in life) after their first encounter and how they changed all of these yet again, when they parted ways.

I shared the pain and hurt of the female lead that for the most part, I also am wondering about this big trauma projected by the male lead - going about they cannot be together because “he doesn’t deserve it”. Not to invalidate the trauma in itself, but the male lead may have done and not have done things that could set a bookworm’s heart swoon. This guy raised much red flags.

Somehow, in this process of push and pull between the male and female lead, again, because of the male lead’s “trauma” may have changed the female lead into a red flag herself.

While in the end, I could it all ended well, somehow, how they came to be was too turbulent, messy and toxic. Rather than feel good that they ended up together, somehow there’s this feeling that they worked out because they both became red flags and being with each other kind of “neutralize” them as such.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Just a Fling is a story about a second chance at love, forgiveness and learning to coup with your past. Dawn and Callan have a meet-cute at the coffee shop while she’s studying abroad. He’s a bit of a grump at times and they definitely have a rollercoaster love affair. He broke her heart the year before and then he suddenly is back in her life again through work. I was definitely rooting for these two characters. I enjoyed the plot and overall it was a good read.

For the love of romance books, this one was so tedious. The potential was there but the execution wasn't it.

This is a good book. The two main characters are Dawn and Callan. Dawn goes to England for the summer for studying abroad. There she meets Callan at a coffee shop. There is an instant attraction. They start dating. Then at the end of summer Dawn went back to her university. They meet up again in New York after Dawn graduates. They start dating again. They each have issues but together they work them out and fall in love.

I love a good second chance romance! The characters were very likeable I love Dawn and Callan's relationship
I haven't ever read anything by this author and I was just scrolling through net galley and stumbled upon this book and I am so glad I did. It was a very enjoyable second hand romance. I got sucked in and went on a rollercoaster of emotions, which I love when that happens when I am reading.

Such a cute good romance you should definitely give it a read!
Can't wait to see what the author does next!