A fun summer read for fans of rom-coms. It’s perfect for a quick, lighthearted read when you need a small escape from the real world.

Wowwwwwwwww! I was stupidly in love with JSSLS! The storytelling and characterization of both Molly and Seth was fantastic. It was so refreshing to read flawed but such lovable characters and see how they are able to work through conflict. Katelyn Doyle just became an auto buy author for me after this book.

Everyone should check out this book ASAP, it was dirty and emotional and just lovely.

Thank you to Flatiron Books and NetGalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Super cute and fun read.

Following over five years from one reunion to the next, our main characters make a beat and maybe find love along the way.

I even enjoyed the way the author briefly brought in the Covid crisis but didn’t allow it to become the main story or get political about it. Just kept to to how it effected people and work etc at the time. Was able to feel more connected and real this way.

Would for sure read again and recommend to my friends when this one releases.

Just Some Stupid Love Story was a quick read that I really enjoyed. It’s perfect for the beach or if you need something funny and sexy to read.

Grumpy vs. Sunshine is one of my favorite tropes, and usually, it’s the guy who is grumpy and unavailable. I absolutely love when it’s flipped around!

Meet Molly – she’s emotionally unavailable, with a host of problems she’s working through, including anxiety, depression, and some really deep dad issues. (Her dad sucks.) In a delightful twist, she writes rom-com screenplays and is very successful at it.

Meet Seth – an eternal optimist in search of true love. He’s loyal, funny, and just a tiny bit over the top. All he wants is a family of his own. He’s a divorce lawyer who tries his best to help his clients and their families get through a horrible moment in their lives without causing chaos.

The book spans from when Molly and Seth meet up again at their 15th high school reunion in November 2018 through their 20th in 2023. This is quite a time span for one novel, but I feel it was well done and not rushed. I enjoyed the email and text exchanges we got to read. It’s challenging when the characters are apart for a significant portion of the book, as they are here. But between their correspondence, chance encounters, and planned meetings, it was handled very well.

If you’re a fan of Katherine Center, Emily Henry, Abby Jimenez, or Ali Hazelwood, I think you’ll love Katelyn Doyle too. The writing is quick, funny, and flows so well. I also really like dual POV in my romance books, so I was happy we got to bounce between both Molly and Seth. There’s also a great cast of side characters that we get to know and love.

The author Katelyn Doyle writes historical romances under the name Scarlett Peckham, but this is her Rom-Com debut. I can’t wait to see what comes next!

Molly Marks writes rom-coms for a living but doesn't believe that love exists. Seth Rubinstein is a successful divorce attorney who believes wholeheartedly in love. They dated in high school until Molly decided to break things off to avoid messy feelings. They don't see each other until they meet again at their 15-year high school reunion and a late night discussion inspires a bet on whether or not love is real. They each have until their 20-year reunion to prove their side of the argument, with Molly convinced there's no such thing as soulmates even as Seth is sure that's exactly what they are.

It's a very emotional story that manages to touch on the many different sides and types of love that one can experience. I loved that Doyle gives weight to both Molly's and Seth's believe in love based on their lived experiences. It's easy to see both sides of the argument and how they got to that conclusion, so reading about the different things that happen to them and those around them and seeing how it changes their perspectives adds a great level of depth to the otherwise fluffy rom-com story.

The plot has a little bit of everything, from classic rom-com tropes to steamy sex scenes to emotional growth in characters that feels as natural as the passage of time. It's a fun read that comes with some emotional goodness to hit all the right spots.

Very happy thanks to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the funny and emotional read!

I just finished this quasi-debut rom-com from Katelyn Doyle, who has written a number of romances under the pen name Scarlett Peckham. Just Some Stupid Love Story is a delight. It’s funny and endearing with just enough seriousness to give it some depth. The characters feel like the kind of fully formed and flawed adults that you’d want to be friends with. Molly and Seth have friendships and familial relationships that seem to operate outside of their relationship with each other rather than as devices to move the romantic relationship forward. And you know I love a romantic relationship-com with solid side characters.

This one will definitely be worth picking up for your summer reading! (For my closed door girlies, this one is definitely spicy but I’m sure there will be modification guides out there for you.)

Thank you as always to @netgalley and the publisher for the advance digital copy!

Molly and Seth were high school sweethearts until she panicked and broke up with him before they headed off to college. They cut all communication for 15 years, but then they happen to be seated next to each other at their reunion. Molly is a romcom author who doesn’t believe in love and Seth is a divorce lawyer who is obSESSED with it. They’re also still very much infatuated with each other.

This was def not my favorite story - not only was Molly super emotionally stunted, she also kept dragging Seth along. Seth was pitiful and felt like he was just afraid of being alone. Doyle did her best to mention their pitfalls and have them “deal” with their own issues, but it wasn’t enough to get rid of my skepticism of their relationship. I thought it was interesting that Doyle tried to spin Molly’s behavior as her being damaged and pining behind the scenes because it mostly felt like an emotionally abusive situation.

Overall would not recommend. The character development wasn’t sufficient for me to believe the story and I was just so annoyed by both of the protagonists that I didn’t think their happiness would be with each other.

This was a cute romance. It was a fun grumpy-sunshine romance, although I didn't find them male main character particularly believable. Was a quick fun read overall!

Thanks to Flatiron Books and Netgalley for this advanced copy!

This was a charming enemies to lovers story with a golden retriever of a mmc and grumpy fmc and I really adored it. I thought the author did a great job with the dual POV, really helping us see into their minds and why they just couldn't seem to get it together to, you know, get together. The banter was fun and I appreciated how the author wove COVID into the story without making it about the pandemic. The ending felt a little hoky to me, but honestly, I would have been disappointed if there had been any less hokiness, it was spot on for the characters.

Fun book!

Such a great love story! Just Some Stupid Love Story is a not so stupid love story about screen writing doesn't believe in love Seth and her high school ex soul mate believer now divorce lawyer Seth. They meet over the years when attending reunions, mutual friends' events, and visiting their hometown. Their story goes through COVID as well, which makes another interesting layer. I love the dialogue and this book had some very steamy scenes!

I have mixed feelings on this book. On the plus side I loved the reverse Grumpy x Sunshine. I found the premise to be really fun: a high school reunion, a second change at love, childhood sweethearts, and the bet between Molly and Seth. I also felt that the banter between the main characters was great and I loved the writing style. I will definitely check out other books by this author in the future based on the writing style alone.

However, on the negative side I struggled with the episodic narrative. The multiple timeline skips interrupted the flow and made it easier for me to put the book down. This was definitely a SLOW slow burn that just ended up dragging in places. I also never connected well with either main character. Molly felt a bit too much like a bad copy/paste version of “Daria”- all 90s acerbic wit but lacking any kind of heart underneath her hard shell. Seth was too much of a Nice Guy and just over all too desperate to get married. Their relationship was also a bit too dysfunctional. It doesn’t feel like either character grew enough throughout the book to have a healthy relationship with each other by the end.

Overall this just didn’t work for me mainly because I prefer romcoms to be light and an escape from the real world. “Just Some Stupid Love Story” didn’t quite hit this balance for me but it had potential and I’ll be keeping an eye out for other books by this author.

Thanks so much to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Molly and Seth were high school sweethearts. Then before college she dumped him with no explanation.

Fast forward to their 15 year high school reunion and they are seated at the same table.

I found Molly so intolerable and thought Seth should stop wasting his time and just forget her.

There was also soooo much reference to covid it felt like too much. I don’t want to relive it anymore.

This was a fun read! I loved the premise of high school sweethearts meeting up with each other at their high school reunion and making bets on which of their friends will stay together or break up. A rom com screenwriter who doesn’t believe in love and a divorce attorney who does? Oh, the irony!

This book went through many years and is the perfect “will they-won’t they” and “right person-wrong time” trope. There were many humorous parts. Seth was darling! He was the perfect sensitive and sweet MMC who believes in love and just wants his happily ever after. I would definitely recommend picking up this book!

I truly loved this one! The main characters being a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who's basically a hopeless romantic had me pulled in right from the start.

Seth and Molly are very entertaining with great banter and I was rooting for their second chance from the start. He's nerdy and adorable and she's just super cool. Taking place over the course of multiple years, including the pandemic, the two bicker, flirt, just miss each other, and keep popping up in each other's lives all while keeping their bet on which couples will make it from their 15th to their 2oth reunion -- inlcuding themselves -- in mind.

This one is sweet, nostalgic, a little sad at times, silly, and just an overall fun read. Seth and Molly have fantastic chemistry and I was invested in their love story the whole way through. We see a lot of character development for both MCs especially with the addition of the pandemic years and the toll the isolation and loneliness can take. The side characters also add a lot to the story and have some development of their own that keeps you rooting for them too and the writing is great overall. So if you're looking for a lovely, easy debut novel that's romantic, funny, and hits you with the feels then I highly recommend Just Some Stupid Love Story!

*enemies to lovers
*second chance romance
*oppposites attract
*missed opportunities
*golden retriever x black cat
*reverse grumpy sunshine
*dual pov
*spice


Thank you Flatiron Books for the digital ARC via NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

While I am glad that this book was told in dual POV, I just couldn't get into the story. I felt Molly was too cynical, and I didn't really agree with much of her thinking, and Seth was just too idealistic. I never found a sweet spot where I was rooting for the couple. I just felt that Seth was just waiting for Molly forever, but there was nothing about their connection that made me want them to be together.

So let’s be honest, class reunions are not really fun. Though their circumstances, finances and outward appearances may have change. the mean people are typically still mean, the jerks tend to get jerkier and unless they’ve undergone some serious self reflection and therapy, they are who they are who they are. When Molly goes (okay, is dragged by her friends) to her high school reunion she is seated next to her high school boyfriend who’s heart she broke. She is a rom-com writer and he is a very successful divorce attorney and neither have found their own happily ever after though they’ve tried. He hasn’t found the one, though not for lack of trying and she doesn’t really trust in happily ever after or the one. When they have a little too much to drink and make he says something that she absolutely thinks is ridiculous and will never happen. It’s a fun read that is romantic, witty, snarky, silly, spicy and after some challenges leads to a wonderful happily ever after.

I received a copy of this book from Netgalley.com in exchange for a fair and honest review.

<i> A debut about a rom-com screenwriter who doesn't believe in love and a divorce attorney who does, forced together at their high school reunion fifteen years after their breakup </i>

Just Some Stupid Love Story is not in fact stupid, but rather a fun, sweet love story, a second chance romance that spans several years (including the pandemic era, which is written into the story, but not overly so). It was delightful to watch Seth and Molly banter and dance around each other as their story unfolded.

Christine Lakin and Tim Paige did a nice job narrating the audiobook.

Thank you Katelyn Doyle, Flatiron Books, Macmillan Audio, and NetGalley for providing this ARC for review consideration. All opinions expressed are my own.

Just Some Stupid Love Story by Katelyn Doyle is a romance novel following Molly and Seth. This is an enemies-to-lovers, reverse grumpy sunshine that I enjoyed. I am happy to see that this is a debut novel since the writing was great and I felt connected to the story. I loved that we got both Molly's and Seth's POVs because it helped me understand them even more. The competition aspect was also really fun. This is the perfect book to pick up in the summertime!
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for a review!

Exes Molly and Seth reconnect (in more ways than one) at their 15th high school reunion. Molly, a cynical rom-com scriptwriter, and Seth, a hopeless romantic divorce attorney, both believe they know love when they see it. Confident in their abilities, they place a bet: who can accurately predict which couples will still be together at their 20th reunion? The story follows their journey as Molly and Seth navigate their careers, personal growth, and the complexities of rekindling old flames, ultimately growing in life and love.

I loved Molly's sarcastic, dry humor, which perfectly contrasted with Seth's optimism and warmth. They embody the "black cat and golden retriever" dynamic, creating a delightful and engaging contrast throughout the story. Their differences both challenge and compliment each other, ultimately leading to growth. You can't help but root for them!

Read this book if you enjoy:
+ second chance romance
+ black cat/golden retriever vibes
+ opposites attract
+ classic rom-coms

Thank you to NetGalley and Flatiron Books for providing this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own.

A grumpy romcom screenwriter and a sunshine-y divorce attorney reunite after years apart? Yes please! Doyle's writing is amazing (the banter is so so good!) and I enjoyed the dual POV, the snark and the steam. Definitely a must read for romcom lovers.

Thanks to Flatiron for the copy to review.