This was a cute and great story! I really enjoyed the characters dynamic and the dual POV. I can't wait to see how the story continues! Thank you for allowing me to read this ARC!

I'm not in love with Margot, but found Jackson to be quite swoon worthy. I don't remember people having their shit together like this as college freshman, but...anyway, fun read.

𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 🎤💙

author: heather garvin
publication date: 3/15/24
rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
spice: 🌶️🌶️

tropes:

🎸 rockstar romance
💻 she writes a blog
🎵 he’s a musician
🎓 college dorms
🩵 he falls first
👥 forced proximity

my thoughts:

i absolutely loved this book so much!!! i was immediately hooked from the very first chapter & i found every opportunity i could to pick this up on my kindle and read it!! probably one of my top favorite reads of the year.

margot & jackson’s relationship was so special. they are both students at UCF and live across the hall from each other in the dorms. jackson is an arctic monkeys fan & margot loves taylor swift and fleetwood mac.

their endless banter was truly everything & it did not let up the entire book. i love how jackson nicknamed her “red” and how they shared their music genres with each other & how when jackson wanted to drop out of college to join his new band on tour that margot was so excited & supportive of him because jackson’s father did not want him to drop out of college at all.

the side characters were also great!! matt & rae who are the best friends of margot & jackson are truly the cutest!! i need to get a physical copy for my collection because i truly loved it that much! can’t wait for the next book!

favorite quote:

⁀➷ “𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙤𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪.”

thank you @heathergarvinbooks & @netgalley for allowing me to receive an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. all opinions are my own. 🫶🏻

Review: *Just don't call me yours* - ARC - Heather Garvin
5+/5✨
2/5🌶️

OMG!! I cannot tell you how much I loved this book! It kept me hooked and I can tell you that Margot and Jackson are going to steal your hearts!! 💙 Thank you so much Netgalley & Heather Garvin for the change you've given me to read this AMAZING, ADDICTING story!!

The relationship between Margot and Jackson is not the best from the beginning🤣. Jackson is a young talented guitarist, who is disturbing the silence of his colleague who lives next door (Margot). From there everything just keeps pushing Margot buttons and she cannot stand that boy.

The banter between these two was THE BEST! I just loooved reading all their funny meetings and their teasing on each other🤭. It was a clear attraction between them and you could just feel the sparklers flying when they touch just an inch.

Even tho Margot seemed too scared of her feelings, it didn't made me hate her and I understood her side of the story. Jackson is such a sweetheart and always has his good mood and jokes with him, which made me fall for him instantly💙.

An important part to the story was played by their best friends, Rae and Matt. They were rooting from the beginning for their friends to be together too, but the hate between Margot and Jackson was pretty visible to everyone. Until everything changed. And they secretly started something together🤭.

I truly, truly recommend this book! It was perfect from my point of view and you should definitely read it if you love these tropes:
✨#EnemiesToLovers;
✨#OppositeAttract;
✨#SecretRomance;
✨#BoyFallsFirst;
✨#HeFallsHarder;
✨#BoyObsessed;
✨#CloseProximity;
✨#DualPov;
✨#Banter;

Margot and her best friend Rae had everything planned for their first year of college. They'd even maganged to be each others perfect roommates.
The one thing they didn't plan was the annoying guy who plays guitar across the hall.
Jackson is good looking, but he also loves to make Margot hate him. From the second she confronts him about his late night playing the only thing they can agree on is the hate for each other. They do all they can to avoid each other until one day when their roommates start to date.

- Enemies to Lovers
- He falls first
- Dual POV
- Spicy
- College romance
- Musician
- Slow Burn
- Nickname

I devoured this book in a whole day. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did but I just couldn't put it down. I loved the chemistry of Margot & Jackson together, he even gave her a nickname which of course she hated. Something about he falls first books just make me feel all giddy inside. Their first kiss just left me sitting there with my jaw on the floor. By the end of the book I was crying happy tears and kicking my feet with happiness. It made my teenage self so jealous, This would've been a teenage dream come true. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author. I really enjoyed her writing,

4.5 Stars

Rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice 🥵🥵.5

Dislike to Lovers?? Slow Burn?? It was a full package of hate and love. The banter throughout the book, the push and pull 😭✨

Read this book if you like:
✨dislike to lovers
✨love in college
✨he is a guitar player (rising rockstar)
✨music references
✨he falls first and hard

Jackson 🧎🏻‍♀️has so much within him and all he needed was someone to see him for who he is. He loved strong, be it his best friend Matt and later on Margot

Margot 👑 stood up for what she believed in and didn’t back down with the antics of Jackson. I loved how strong yet vulnerable she was.

One seen that i am going to remember always is when Matt says to Jackson “Because you’re practically a rockstar, and this girl can’t seem to make up her mind. You should date someone who’s sure about you—as sure about you as you are about them.”

This is what male friendship is about, his care and worries for him was so genuine 😭

Them 💕 I was stressed with all the push and pull, Jackson’s heart breaking, Margot making assumptions but the final chapter 😭

this was a fun book and i really loved it! i was a bit turned off by the title but it was definitely a great read! amazing

This book was absolutely made for me to read! The music obsessed girlie in me loved every second of this book!

I loved that each of the characters had their own music taste (Swiftie & Arctic Monkeys fan) and how they shared it with each other. It was so wholesome to see each of them slowly starting to like each other’s music taste. Margot and Jackson’s banter were the best! I was eating it up so bad.

I really liked Margot! She was so relatable. I loved how she reacted when Jackson riled her up. It was hilarious! Jackson was such charming and snarky mmc. I liked how he was so carefree and how opposite it was to Margot’s attitude. These two really were like opposite magnets that were attracted to each other. I love them so much. Their love story was sweet and hot at the same time. I loved seeing them slowly develop feelings for each other!

This book was so entertaining! I’m so glad I bought it on my kindle as well. This book deserves all the hype. 🫶

I’d definitely recommend it to all my music lovers and readers who live for the banter between characters! 🎸❤️‍🔥

This is my honest review for a gifted copy of Just don’t call me yours. Thank you so much to the author and Netgalley for a gifted copy of this book! I loved every second of it!

A fun, spicy, enemies to lovers college rockstar romance perfect for fans of authors like Elle Kennedy! The banter was great, the chemistry was on fire. This was an easy and very entertaining read by a new to me author. Looking forward to more from Heather Garvin! Many thanks to NetGalley and the author for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing the ARC.

I will start off by saying that I thought this book was well written and I think the plot progressed in a way that made sense, but Margot and Jackson as characters annoyed me so much.

I get that they're 18, and just starting college. That alone lends itself to a certain amount of immaturity. But Jackson came across as almost a caricature of the elitist musician with his "superior" music tastes and Margot was just as uptight as Jackson liked to paint her. It felt hard for me to connect with these two characters. Maybe it's because I am so far removed from 18 that it's hard for me to think back to what it was like then. Or maybe because I remember college being not as dramatic as all of this. But I have read other books with younger characters that I have perfectly resonated with and this just wasn't it for me.

If you want a fun book with the hot guitarist and the girl next door that leans into their age and maturity heavily, then you'll probably enjoy this book. Like I said, I thought the writing and the plot were good. But this was not the book for me.

Well, color me shocked. I didn’t think I liked the rockstar romance trope, but apparently, I was very, VERY wrong.

Jackson Phillips may come off as a sarcastic, uncaring, rockstar playboy, but deep down, he’s a loyal, loving, tender-hearted teddy bear. And he loves to play the guitar—like, a lot. All Jackson wants is to be in a band and go on tour. However, Jackson’s dad thinks he’d be throwing his life away and vehemently disapproves of Jackson’s musical dreams. Jackson is begrudgingly attending his first semester at the University of South Florida with his best friend, Matt. But Jackson doesn’t have time for college distractions. American Thieves, one of his favorite indie bands, is looking for a new guitarist. All he’s got to do is smash the audition, become American Thieves’ new guitarist, drop out of school, and go on tour. Dad’s approval be damned.

Margot Reid loves to write (have you read her blog?). Despite her parents' disappointment, she has decided to major in journalism and attend college hundreds of miles from home. Margot desperately wants to be a reporter and has everything planned out. Tackling college in South Florida with her best friend, Rae, is only step one. Step two is acing all her classes and proving to her parents that journalism isn’t a joke. It should be easy, right? It would be if the guy across the hall would stop playing the guitar and let her sleep!

Margot and Jackson meet under the worst circumstances. The night before their first day of college classes, Jackson is practicing nonstop for his audition, and unlike Margot, he is utterly unconcerned that classes start at 8 a.m. Sleep-deprived and angry, Margot knocks on Jackson's door—at 2 a.m.— to get him to stop playing, and Jackson refuses. Who does this guy think he is? But Jackson can’t stop. All his hopes and dreams, his whole life, depend on this audition.

First impressions are hard to overcome; Margot thinks Jackson is the most entitled and inconsiderate person she's ever met. Jackson thinks Margot hates him, and he gets a kick out of irritating her. Two people have never disliked each other more. He calls her Red; she hates it. She thinks his “alternative music” is noise; he thinks she’s “predictable”. But Jackson and Margot are more alike than they could ever imagine. When their best friends start dating, they are forced to spend time together despite their mutual loathing. Their back-and-forth bickering becomes second nature (and kinda fun), and it turns out that there is a very thin line between love and hate. Margot and Jackson walk that razor’s edge until they can’t deny their attraction anymore. And once they’ve let go of their inhibitions, it’s not long before strong feelings creep in and take over.

This book ticked all the boxes for me. A+ music references (except for briefly hating on Fleetwood Mac; I mean, come on, who can hate on Stevie), a sexy MMC in a band (I will swoon for a guitar player any day), a strong FMC with a type A personality (someone I can personally identify with), and flirty banter for days. Yes, yes, yes, and yes! The only thing I found slightly unbelievable is how confident Jackson is (in all areas). My first year of college would have been a wholly different experience if the boys in my class had 1/57th as much confidence as Jackson. But that aside, Holy hell, Margot and Jackson are made for each other. Their quips are sublime; you can cut the tension with a knife, and when they finally get together...It’s. So. Good.

The songs that Margot & Jackson talk about and share throughout the book are just—Chef’s Kiss. I don’t know if it was intentional (or if I’m just an elder millennial who finds it easier to speak through song lyrics), but the story is enhanced 10-fold by the lyrics of the songs mentioned. If you aren’t familiar with any of the music in the book (and even if you are), I highly recommend listening to the songs while you are reading. You can thank me later.

Secrets I have held in my heart
Are harder to hide than I thought
Maybe I just wanna be yours
I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours

Song: I Wanna Be Yours - Band: Arctic Monkeys - Album: AM

** I received this book for free from Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. **

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.𝟓
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

This was such a great read! The first chapter alone had me hooked! I loved the dual POVs and banter between the MCs. Their chemistry plus the spice was absolutely electric! Even the Spotify playlist was amazing! Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, and Fleetwood Mac 🙌🏼 Heather knew what she was doing!! I also loved the relationship between the MCs and their best friends. The whole friends turned into family reminded me of best friends and that tugged at my heartstrings a little bit. The ending was perfect for me even with the cliffhanger!

Overall- I was super excited to find out the next book comes out later this year because I need more of Margot & Jackson!! If you enjoy a good slow burn enemies to lovers college romance, #JustDontCallMeYours is available now on KU 💙 Thank you NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

I received an ARC of this book thanks to NetGalley and the publisher.

Margot and Jackson are just starting college, their dorm rooms are next to one another, and unfortunately they start the year on the wrong foot because of one bad first meeting, and can’t stand each other. When their respective roommates begin to date, they have no choice but to spend more time together (they kinda have the choice though, they just like annoying each other too much).

This was a pretty fun book, very light and quick to read. I did enjoy it, however I felt like the beginning of the story wasn’t very strong - the reason they disliked each other is really stupid. It completely blew out of proportion from day 1 for no reason, instead of being dealt with like adults.

Besides that one point I did really liked the book, but that first impression led the first half of the book and it took them a long time to overcome something that felt pretty meaningless to me and I wish didn’t drag on for so long. I did like the second half a lot better however, as it moved in from that one annoying point and into a much stronger story. I will be looking forward to book 2 and the rest of their story.

I would give the book a 3.5 stars, but rounding down just because I always find it frustrating when enemies to lovers is really just « unfriendly for no real reason to lovers ».

Ps - I am once again begging author to stop putting « open the condom package with him/her teeth » in a sex scene. Just don’t do that, it’s not safe.

Jackson and Margot are both beginning their first year in college and moving in with their closest friends. They find themselves forced to spend more time together after their best friends start dating. Things begin to get romantic as they go along, but Margot is reluctant to fall in love with a rock star—especially one who might be leaving out soon.

This book ends on a little bit of a cliffhanger. For the time being, I'd nearly call it happy, but I can't wait to read the next book to see Jackson and Margot's whole happily ever after. From the first chapter to the very last line, I loved it. To be honest, this book is among my best reads of the year thus far.

Thank you NetGalley and Victory Editing Co-Op for the opportunity to review this book.

This book blew me away. I loved the banter between our two main characters. Their chemistry was so so good. I felt every single thing the characters were feeling and I was so dialed into this book. I was listening to the playlist on Spotify while reading the book, this enhanced my reading experience so much. I would be reading a song would come on, and then they would mention the song in the book, and it felt like I was right there with the characters. Jackson has this swagger about him that drips off the page. I’m infatuated with him. This is a perfect college romance story that’s so spicy and so amazing. The found family between the group of friends and little peeks at the college life were my favorite, but also just seeing how they navigated this relationship and followed their dreams was something so spectacular. This is my first Heather Garvin, but I can tell you that it will not be my last. I am so excited to read her entire list because her writing is phenomenal. PLEASE GO READ THIS RIGHT NOW!

This ARC read left me laughing and wanting more.
Margot and Rae are best friends and head out of state for college. Jackson and Matt are best friends and end up living across the hall from the girls. Margot is immediately annoyed by Jackson who plays ridiculous music until all hours of the night. They meet when Margot goes across the hall to tell him to stop playing his music.
Absolute opposites, close proximity, enemies to lovers, college romance.
He wants to be in a band, she wants to write.
“He’s all Arctic Monkeys. She’s all Taylor Swift.”

Things I liked: Enemies to Lovers, Forced Proximity (College Dorm Neighbors), College Romance, Rock n Roll, Witty Banter, Taylor Swift & Arctic Monkeys references.

Things I didn't like: The slow burn was a bit too slow, the unannounced time jumps (a few weeks here, a month there).

Overall: Jackson was just the right type of annoying. I was a little worried at first that this book was going to give me the "annoying main character" ick, but I ended up loving him. The chemistry between Margot and Jackson from the beginning was perfect, to watch them go from despising each other, to secretly wondering why they were reacting in ways they weren't ready for, to love was A+. I'm excited to read the second book, and I would recommend this book to friends and bookish followers.

I absolutely loved this arc! The banter was lighthearted and had me kicking my feet! JACKSON😍😍😍😍😍 was amazing! There were a few grammatical errors, but overall love the story and cannot wait for the next book!

This was a great read. Really enjoyable from beginning to end. I loved Margot and Jackson’s story and I’m excited for more stories Heather writes aswell as looking forward to reading her backlog.

Fantastically written, with great characters whose banter is electrifying! It was very well paced, bar the ending which was a little abrupt, Otherwise a perfect modern day rom-com