i’d give this a 3.5ish more or less! i really enjoyed it and i loved watching katie and wil’s journey back together! it was genuinely such a heartfelt story and had so much depth! i also really loved how unique it was!!! wil’s tiktok is something i can certainly say i have never seen or even considered being a thing? but it worked so well and i loved so many of the tension filled conversations about it, especially between wil and katie!!!

however, the pacing wasn’t quite right for me. i was super hooked at first, and then the further in i got, the less i wanted to listen/wanted it to be over. it felt like there was a lot of fluff that didn’t need to be in the story as well and made it feel super long (and i was listening to the audio at almost 2x speed!!). at around 60% i felt like the book could’ve been ending and then we still had a whole other plot to get to. but it did pick back up and i’m really glad we got that whole last plot it was just hard to see it through?

the writing, at times felt very overly melodramatic and while the two were pretty great communicators there were also some big things they also just didn’t talk about so i was expecting a hugeeeee crash and burn and i was SCARED! that def had a hand in me dragging my feet.
but i will say the ending was really great and i did really enjoy this despite everything. and the audio was so great! i’m never not so insanely impressed when one narrator can pull off 2 povs and extra side characters and still make them all feel so distinct and separate.

The concept of this was great, but it was soooo slow with so much internal dialogue. I also just simply did not find the interactions between the main characters to be believable.

This was deeply emotional and very horny, the way I like romances to be! Overall, I was quite impressed that something that's definitely got Taylor Swift fanfic underneath it all won me over. There were points when it dragged, mostly in career content (that's always going to slow me down.) I was annoyed that the author didn't do enough research to know that "pre-law" is not going to be a major at any credible undergraduate institution, which made me way less invested in the career stuff. I was also annoyed by the cat communication system, though I can imagine some people will be charmed by that. Still, overall I was really invested in this story and I was so glad it was SEXY.

Wow. Just wow. Between the amazing voice of the narrator and the fantastic writing from the authors of this book, I was completely obsessed with this audiobook. The authors did a great job of capturing the emotions of the main characters and took us on a fantastic ride. Wil and Katie knew each other from high school. Katie is a big time actress and Wil is an insurance adjuster. They are both from a small town in Wisconsin. Wil started a blog where every week she kisses a new person. I loved how these two characters who had grown apart in the ten years organically came back together and began a very wonderful relationship. The character growth and writing of this book pulled me in and did not let me go until the end. I listened as much as I possibly could for 2 days. I enjoy love stories of all kinds. I also enjoyed the mom's of the heroines. They were so much fun--kind, caring and fiercely protective of their kids. This book had it all family, second chance love and all the feels. Huge thanks to Macmillan audio and Netgalley for allowing me to listen and review this book.

“𝘽𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮, 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙚. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙧𝙮. 𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙩, 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙚.”

Wil hasn’t seen Katie since high school, but she’s kept up on all her acting and directing success. Meanwhile, Katie has been secretly keeping up with Wil’s successful TikTok account, where she kisses random people twice weekly. They reconnect, and immediately fall back into that comfort they always shared, but maybe there was always something there on top of their friendship.

This was a very sweet, tension-filled, slow burn romance. It was the type of romance where there was a lot of communication between the two leads. The flirtation and longing between them was evident from their first meeting, and that tension just built and built as their emotional connection grew stronger.

I loved how they helped each other battle the different hurdles in each of their ways as they were each facing life altering changes and decisions.

Definitely a slower romance read, that was enjoyable to sit in while I was listening.

Audiobook notes: Mia Hutchinson-Shaw narrator for both POVs, but I thought she did well individualizing the performance of each of the characters.

Thank you to @macmillan.audio for providing me an ALC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What this book is giving:
✅ Contemporary Romance
✅ Dual POV
✅ Sapphic
✅ Second Chance
✅ High School Best Friends
✅ Award Winning A-List Actress/Filmaker
✅ Kissing TikToker

Rating:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ / 5
🌶️🌶️½ / 5

ok LOVED this.

• high school best friends reunited, but one is an actress & the other is tiktok famous
• the slow burn was so well done
• the struggles of both MCs added to the romance plot
• could have been a tad shorter (closer to 300 pages)

In this sapphic friends-to-lovers story, small-town TikToker (and insurance adjuster) reconnects with her childhood friend who has become a famous movie star and director. This thrilling and heartwarming novel follows the two finding their way back to each other and overcoming all of the obstacles in their way.

Thank you Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for this ALC!

Giving this 3.5 rounded up to 4/5. This was a like, not love for me! I wanted to love it, but some parts of it just felt long and drawn out.

Childhood friends Katie and Wil reconnect after many years, and a ton of life changes for moth of them. Katie is now super famous, and Wil is famous in her own right with a popular Tik-Tok channel. IIt was definitely fun to see how their relationship evolves! A cool thing about their relationship is that they communicate very well with each other, which is a refreshing change from all the books with miscommunication tropes out there!

I would recommend this book to those who enjoy:

Friend's to lovers
Celebrity romance
Second chance/missed opportunity
Clear communication between characters!!

Thank you Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for the advanced reader copy. This is a feel good LGBTQ+ romance set in Wisconsin and LA. It was so fun to connect with the Midwest vibes and to be entertained by the drama of LA. Will and Katie are so relatable and you can't help but cheer for their happily ever after

Everyone I kissed Since You Got Famous is a fun jaunt of a book that packs an emotional punch. As readers, we’re thrown into Wil and Katie’s relationship as they try to pick up the pieces of their high school friendship… But was it more then a friendship? Now they’re 10 years older and separated by the life events that have transpired in the years since they lost touch. Everyone I kissed Since You Got Famous
I found this book to be everything I wanted in a childhood friends to lovers romance. Wil and Katie’s chemistry is apparent from the start, a type of connection where they picked up right where they left off. Them exploring their relationship as adults, and learning more about who they’ve become is the perfect combination of nostalgia and adulthood.
Mae Marvel created a world so genuine and real, the emotions I felt while reading were emotions that I’ve felt in real life. Distilled and transcribed so perfectly into book form. Capturing such a specific feeling is hard to do, but somehow they captured the feeling of new, just discovering yourself, sapphic high school love to the T.
At the end, this book is full of nostalgia, love, and the idea that, after everything that happens to you in your life, someone can still love you the same way they would’ve before it all happened. You’re still in the same person despite whatever life has thrown at you, which is such a comforting feeling to have in a book.
***Thanks to Macmillan Audio and St. Martin’s Press through NetGalley for providing me an ARC for my honest review!***

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel
Contemporary sapphic romance. Diverse. Dual POV. Second chance troupe.
Wilifred Greene and Katie Price were best friends during their school years. But Katie left for Hollywood at eighteen and the two haven’t seen each other in person for thirteen years. Katie is coming home for the year-end holidays. While they haven’t talked to each other in person, they have kept behind the scenes. Both have millions of followers. Katie as a famous actress, and Wil as a famous TikTok influencer with a goal of kissing two new people every week. Maybe now they are both home in Green Bay, Wisconsin they can actually talk about their feelings for each other.

🎧 I alternated between an ebook copy and an audiobook which was narrated by Mia Hutchinson-Shaw. The performance was engaging with two distinct voices for the two main characters though it did seem a bit slow to me. I increased the speed a point or two from my usual. The banter in the narration was fun and the sex was steamy. There is a lot of the characters questioning themselves and their relationships so there isn’t a lot of “jolly” in the audiobook other than a few select passages. Certainly the ending and family holiday time was more upbeat. I did love the mid west setting of the women and their families.
The narration gives you action and distinctive voices but the print or ebook version gives a little better definition between the two POV’s. There is also a lot of background and more subtle feelings giving the audio a bit of an edge for the more visual or action oriented reader.
I can easily recommend either format for reading this book. Or do both together which is my preferred method if I have the time.

Overall a touching and happy romance. It was great that the mothers knew about their feelings when they were teens and didn’t interfere. I loved the cat buttons so Katie and Sue and the rest of the cats could talk to each other. 50 language buttons. I had no idea it was a thing. Sure, I’ve seen the dog and bank commercials but thought it was just a gimmick.
A heart happy romance.

I received a copy of this from NetGalley and publisher Macmillan Audio.

Holy moly. I could not get through this audiobook fast enough. The banter, the confidence, the sexiness. My goodness, what a treat of a book. I cannot wait to reread this story over and over again. I will always be rooting for Will and Katie.

Clearly this a romance. Two women, Katie is now famous and on tv and Wil is her old time friend. When she goes back home, her and Wil decide to give each other a chance. It was cute and a little bit spicy, emotional and I really enjoyed it.

let me tell you, I think the dedication of everyone I kissed since you got famous was the best part of this book. “to everyone who almost kissed their best friend and then finally, finally did. or they kissed you. for everyone who thought about it during late-night talks and driving around with no destination. for our yearning imaginations and vulnerable hearts.”

dnf at the 28% mark. ugh, I was so pumped to be gifted an early audio copy to read during pride month but unfortunately this fell SO flat for me. one of the characters is known for kissing people on tiktok? since that topic was discussed excessively, I felt no chemistry between our MC’s.

the dialogue had me itching my head… how do you go from not talking to someone for thirteen years and immediately get into discussing masturbation habits? their conversations were very long-winded which did not pair well with the loooong chapters.

A tender, moving, slow burn, second chance, friends to lovers Sapphic romance between a Hollywood star and her a struggling small town tik tock famous high school friend who fall in love over the holidays. I absolutely loved this beautiful story of friendship, love and second chances that was great on audio read by new to me narrator, Mia Hutchinson-Shaw and had unexpectedly AMAZING emotional depth! Highly recommended for fans of authors like Elizabeth Luly, Meryl Wilsner and Melissa Lendhart. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital and audio copy in exchange for my honest review.

TW: intimate partner emotional abuse

I was thrilled to dive into this book for my Pride Month reading list. Super megastar celebrity Katie Price is home in Wisconsin over the holidays writing a screenplay for her next big project. Being home brings her back into the orbit of Will Greene, TikTok sensation and high school best friend of Katie. Thirteen years has gone by since Will and Katie have spoken, but the chemistry of their senior year picks up right where it left off before they went their separate ways after high school.
I really wanted this one to work for me, but unfortunately it did not. Having not seen each other for thirteen years, the pining that went on immediately between Katie and Will did not feel as organic or believable as I think the writers intended it to be. Proclamation of their love for one another only a couple of days into their reunion felt kind of anticlimactic. There were many times where I contemplated DNFing this one, but given as it was gifted to me as an ARC, I wanted to see the story through. An enormous part of the story was lengthy and long winded dialogue between Katie and Will. Like, by the time I was 50% through the story, I think the bulk of it had been three super long conversations between the two sitting in Will’s Bronco—a Bronco that we were reminded repeatedly was the same Bronco that Katie and Will spent their senior year cruising around in, and presumably talking. I just really wanted something to happen, but alas, it never picked up for me-- and it ultimately just dragged on.

The story was only 368 pages, but the audiobook version went on for nearly 14 hours. The narration felt as slow as the storyline dragged on-- extremely long for the amount of dialogue that occurred. I sped up the audio for 1.75x, which only made it mildly better.
There are many highly rated reviews on this one, so I still think there is great potential for other readers to find something here that clicks with them. While it didn’t work for me, I think it could (and will) work for others.

This book was achingly sweet.

The two primary characters are interesting and beautiful and madly in love with each other. The familial relationships are also well developed and complex.

There is so much desperate longing in this book, it brought to mind the Twilight series and particularly New Moon. At times, it was almost too much but if you like that sort of thing, this book will be right up your street!

I like the interesting plotting and felt like this book had a unique structure compared to many contemporary romance stories, and I loved that about it (can't give too many details without potential spoilers here).

I listened to the audio version and the narrator was excellent.

This book was so lovely and has a good amount of spice. The two main characters don't see each other for years and the love between them never disappears. I had heard a lot about this book and was very happy to be able to listen to it before it came out. I will definitely recommend this book to everyone who I think would appreciate it all the same.

I realized after reading that this is an SMP title, and I won’t cross the publicity boycott. I sincerely wish SMP would do right by their authors, readers, and staff by taking simple actions to protect folks against bigotry at this publisher.

DNF at 32% - sadly, this book fell short of my expectations. Any book that involves fame and celebrity can go south fast. And while there have been worse offenders, I found it hard to conceptualize the FMCs as an Oscar award winner and TikTok influencer (famous for kissing?). It felt like the author was desperately trying to write a book that centered on the modern zeitgeist without actually knowing how the zeit works. Not to mention the entertainment industry...

The author set up so many exciting mysteries but didn't give me enough breadcrumbs to follow along and not enough intrigue for me to care. Were they romantic in high school? Just friends? None of it felt codified.

I anticipated pushing through the book, but when the FMC mentioned that she could have moved to Chicago to be a part of The Groundlings, I had to get out. The Groundlings are not a Chicago based group. This is an easy google and an absolute miss from the writer but even worse the editing team.