Just Some Stupid Love Story by Katelyn Doyle is a quirky, engaging ride through the highs and lows of modern romance. Doyle’s witty and sharp prose breathes life into her characters, making them feel like old friends who you can’t help but root for. The book is peppered with humor that keeps you chuckling and turning pages, even when you can predict the next twist. It’s a delightful, feel-good read that you’ll enjoy curling up with, deserving a solid 3.5 stars for its charm and humor.

Molly is a rom com screenwriter that doesn't believe in love and marriage due to her father's example. Seth wants nothing more than to find 'the one' and live happily ever after. He thought he found that with Molly when they were in high school, but she left him and broke his heart. Now they're at their 15 year reunion and the attraction is still there. Can they easily find their way back to each other?

Oh Seth I felt so bad for him. He wears his heart on his sleeve and just wants someone to love him forever. He keeps getting his heart broken and his emotions clearly came through on the page, or in my ears rather.

Eh with Molly. I never really warmed up to her on the romance front, but she was a great friend to her bff's.

Overall, this is fine as a debut. There were enough funny bits to keep me entertained, but I just felt like so much time was wasted.

This was a fun and spicy debut novel that will appeal to fans of the enemies to lovers and opposites attract tropes. This had a great style and humor and In a unique way flips the script on the traditional grumpy sunshine trope by making her the grump and him the ray of sunshine. If you like a golden retriever style romances then you will want to check this book out.

One Sentence Review: A fun, flirty, and spicy romance that flips the script on your favorite tropes but along with the humor and spice, this book also highlights the power of love to help us better understand how our past shapes who we are and what we expect from Love.

Thank You NetGalley and Flatiron Books for ecopy that I read.

I received an ARC of this book and I am super late in reviewing but I enjoyed it! I liked the premise of a second chance romance, bet on love, jaded rom com writer versus golden retriever hopeless romantic divorce lawyer—it was super cute! The banter and chemistry was good, the hesitations and missed timings and connections, the friendship to lovers and back and forth, all of it hit home and made the end that much sweeter!

I wanted to love JUST SOME STUPID LOVE STORY by Katelyn Doyle, but it was just okay. Loved the premise of a grumpy screenwriter paired with a divorce attorney that still believes in love, plus a second chance. However, I think it lost me with all the time jumps - this book takes place over a five year period. There are a lot of starts and stops and re-starts. While the passage of time is good, and helps build some of the tension between the two characters, it also seems to be pointless, and leads to the end feeling rushed. As though the author realized that oh, the series is coming to an end, got to wrap this up quick.

I devoured this book in 24 hours. I lost sleep and forgot to eat 😂. Just Some Stupid Love Story is perfect for those who love second chance tropes. Molly and Seth were high school sweethearts and run into each other at their high school reunion. The characters can be annoying but that's part of what makes the story great is that they are human. There were numerous times where I yelled "ugh Molly!" and other times where I audibly gasped. My heart broke, got put back together, broke again etc etc. throughout this book. I loved it and give it 5 stars!

The blurb of this book caught my attention. I mean, a rom-com screenwriter who doesn’t believe in love and a divorce attorney who does? And a second chance romance between high school sweethearts, fifteen years later?

Molly had her own baggage, and she had her reasons for being love-averse. And Seth, he was super sweet and very open about his feelings.

This was a very different second chance romance than the ones I typically read. Yes, Molly and Seth reconnect years later. But they don’t reconnect and stay together. They just have hook ups, and Seth gets into another had. Honestly, I hated that part. He went all in on being only with Molly to almost getting married to another woman? EhC it didn’t make sense to me.

Anyway, this was still an interesting story and great for a debut.

Wow! I just adored this book. It was a second to chance rom traum. The hero Seth, was yummy and loved with his whole heart. Molly was such a broken human. They have an epic love story and, and Molly has an incredible journey to become whole.

Loved the banter between Seth & Molly. Definitely felt invested in these two and wanted them to get their HEA but it was almost painful getting there. Sooo much time wasted though it was written well to keep the story going over 5 years. I struggled with the characters a little too much. Molly was too toxic in her trauma & self sabotage and I wanted to shake her many times. Seth was a little too over the top in his obsession with love that it bordered cringy and unbelievable that he hadn’t rushed into marriage many years before that class reunion. I have some criticisms but overall I really did enjoy the story and it was fun to listen to while working & driving.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved Molly and Seth! They were so great together and I could not wait for them to finally give into their feelings! I was so sad every time they experienced the right person, wrong time syndrome. I could not get enough of Molly and her take charge attitude and loved her journey in this book. This was such a great read and I loved the humor between both Seth and Molly.

I really enjoyed Seth & Molly’s story. A love story that spans over twenty years and shows how sometimes it’s the right person but the wrong time. I think this portrays how relationships are tough and we bring our personal “baggage” into them. I think this is extremely relatable!

Molly and Seth were in love in high school, but she broke his heart and they haven't seen each other since. Now, after reconnecting at their 15 year reunion, they continue to move in and out of each other's lives and the timing is just never right.

I felt for Molly with her worries about not being enough and worrying she might be like her terrible father. I could also understand Seth's wish for something meaningful and how he would be all in too fast in some cases. Their, and their friends' stories, were emotional and sometimes raw. Over time, though, everything started to feel a bit repetitive and drawn out. Overall a good debut, but it was just an ok read. I would still like to try something else from the author in the future.

Seth and Molly had the odds stacked against them as adults, what with the divorce attorney and romance writer backgrounds. High school reunions ar ealways a fun backdrop for rekindling past relationships, remembering the way things used to be, and possibly changing their future.

I loved these characters. It was exactly the romance I needed! The personalities were relatable, and the story kept me engaged.

Molly, a Rom-Com screenwriter, is a bitter cynic who doesn’t believe in lasting love. Her high school ex-boyfriend, Seth, is a successful divorce lawyer who all but sings about soulmates while twirling around in the Swiss Alps. They meet up (and hook up) at a high school reunion and bet on the 5-year success rate of five couples from their class, one of whom is Molly and Seth.
It was a decent debut and entertaining. I would read the authors next book for sure.

“Just Some Stupid Love Story” might seem like *any* other stupid love stories out there but, to my utter surprise, for the better part was more focused on the difficulty of acknowledging your traumas and not making them the most important aspects of your relationship.

Overall, the romance was nice as much as the next love story: predictable, slightly off balance here and there, and sweet in its we’re-following-a-rom-com-script vibe.
But the real celebrity is the dual POV: not only because it lets us see their mistakes from more than one perspective, it was really embodied in the narration and was essential - idk if it’s ever happened to you but sometimes I feel like it's not necessary, especially when it's pretty clear the story was “thought” from one specific character’s POV.

Back to the reason why I liked this: trauma is a bitch because it never really ends. As in, you may think your parents' divorce wasn't a big deal, but it was; it was such a big deal that, deep down, you're so scared of letting yourself be loved and reciprocate that feeling that you try to do anything to prevent it.
Or, on the other hand, you may have idolized the idea of love you want, and you don't even realize you're not the only one in the relationship. Marriage, kids, the white fetch and a golden retriever aren't what everyone wants; sure, being sensitive and taking things slow is a good first step, but it's still not an assurance about what your partners will want in the future.

Molly and Seth’s story isn't extraordinary in any way; it's pretty normal, actually, and that's what made me cherish it even more.

Thanks to Flatiron Books and NetGalley, who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest opinion.

Thank you to Net galley for a chance to read this arc! Overall I felt fine about it, but was also fine not picking it up after putting it down. It passed the time but I wouldn’t necessarily hurry to read it.

I thought this was very good and I will have to add this to the shop shelves. Thank you for the chance for us to review.

I really enjoyed this debut story featuring opposites attract, second (and third? and fourth?) chance romance of high school sweethearts Molly and Seth. Their level of attraction never declined yet life’s events hardly seemed to align for them at the same time. The expository elements with the emails, the first person, dual PoV, and even the timeline and plot referencing Covid, along with the HEA, added to my enjoyment in reading.

JUST SOME STUPID LOVE STORY by Katelyn Doyle is one of the best romance releases of 2024, and more people should be talking about it! I also feel like it did a great job reverting conventional gender roles in a romance (i.e. the girl is sunshine and the guy is a grump) -- don't miss out on this one!