Top notch banter from two weirdos in love 😍

I loved the characters, the texting, the humor, EVERYTHING. This was my first Lynn Painter book and it got me hooked on her specific brand of quirky, sexy, funny, and relatable love stories.

This book was workplace romance done right. The main characters fought their feelings in order to not jeopardize the FMC’s job and were trying to do everything right while being just friends (with insane chemistry).

This book gives us the perfect MMC who loves, appreciates, sees, and likes our main FMC and all of the uninhibited, quirky, and honest things she does and says. He is the main character we all dream about finding.

Also, thank you Lynn Painter for giving all of us Little House on the Prairie fans visibility 😂

Update: The new release has been updated with more banter and fun! My reread was an absolute blast!

lynn painter is one of my favorite authors ever and i planned on reading this for a while but when i saw she was rereleasing it i finally did it. this book is FILLED with playful banter. i absolutely loved the text message threads, i am a sucker for a good text thread. there’s not too much i didn’t like about the story. i read this in two days, its such a fun fall vibes swoony moment. i thoroughly enjoyed but not quite enough for 5 stars! love you lynn!!!! 🤍

Read this if you like:
•pumpkin spice lattes
•friends to lovers
•banter

Lynn writes the best banter and this one doesn’t disappoint! What a funny meet cute turned cute rom com. The cats added a lot of charm too! Thank you Berkley for the eARC!

I have been meaning to pick up this book for the longest time ever since I heard the meet-cute. I finally got around to reading this and it was as sweet as I thought it was going to be.

This meet-cute was legendary. It was so adorable and ripped right out of a romcom. I was giggling and kicking my feet over it. Is it a little cheesy, yea but aren't all romcoms? That's what we love about them. Izzy and Blake have fantastic chemistry and such fun banter/dialogue. I really enjoyed their interactions.

This was entertaining from start to finish. Very funny.

Accidentally Amy is filled with fun banter, classic romcom vibes and steam. What's not to love?

Adorable. Swoon worthy. Pithy. Such a fun ride and easy to read!! I loved the premise and the characters!

Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter is a delightful rom-com that sparkles with humor, quirky mishaps, and undeniable chemistry. The story follows a case of mistaken identity that spirals into a charmingly chaotic romance between our coffee-spilling heroine and her irresistible boss. Painter's witty dialogue and engaging characters shine, making it easy to root for the couple despite their many obstacles. While the plot occasionally leans on familiar tropes, the fresh execution and heartfelt moments keep it feeling new and fun. It's a feel-good read that's perfect for fans of sweet and sassy workplace romances.

this book deserves 5 stars alone for the cover! it’s so cute and poster-worthy. thankfully, the rest of the story was almost as enjoyable! i think the premise of the story was very cute, and as with every lynn painter book, the banter was top-notch. i have mixed feelings about the hero and his constant (somewhat derogatory?) claim that the heroine was “weird” — the joke lost its charm after the fourth run; it just didn’t make me fall all warm and fuzzy inside. otherwise, it was a quick, fun read.

Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for this arc in exchange for an honest review!

"Honey, I was hooked the minute you felt me up at Starbucks, checking for a third nipple in those dirty-ass glasses like some kind of nutjob."

3.5 stars

I love how that quote really sums up their relationship. When this book was working for me, it was working pretty well, and a lot of it had to do with the type of relationship they had and how absolutely insane they both could be.

So the beginning was meh for me. His reaction to her thieved PSL, even knowing the history with his ex, was asinine. It was just so over dramatic and a little immature. Which at first, they both seemed written a little immaturely, and it wasn't until they were well into their actual friendship that it started to seem more adult instead of teen.

But I loved everything between them finally becoming friends and then actually starting a relationship. Izzy was really funny and Blake complemented that really well, and who doesn't love a man who has two dependent cats and dotes on them??

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But then the third act came and I'm still sitting here wondering what the hell happened. Blake is Mr I Don't Fuck with Ethics or Lies, and he doubles down on that with Izzy and lies to her, hides information from her, and is generally a shitty partner to her for several different reasons. And then one of my worst pet peeves when dealing with third act break ups/separations: NO. GROVELING. They just...moved on. What!? What he did was way worse than what she did at the beginning. Any maybe it's a sign of a healthy relationship that she was just able to forgive and forget, but I know I personally would have been demanding retribution so maybe that's just me 😅

But I would still recommend for romance readers because a good majority of this book was really fun 💜

Came here for the cover, but the story wasn't as good..

Don't get me wrong, it was an easy read, cute, and I liked Izxy and Blake together, but they were both so immature, especially Izzy, and she was just pure chaos!
I liked it better than Mr Wrong number, but this author definitely likes her ditzy, clutzy, no filter heroines!
Also why so much pizza?! Just got weird after a while 😂🍕

Alright so I have feelings. First of all, banter was great. I always appreciate great banter. Also, Izzy was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed her POV.

I will say that I am an absolute sucker for duel POV, mostly because I also love seeing from the guy's side too. Blake was kind of a jerk at times but it was fun watching him fall first.

Also, how do you write a book that is smutty but not smutty at the same time? Like you knew they were going at it and knew what was happening but it wasn't explicit at all. It was really interesting to see it written this way. I didn't hate it.

Here was my issue and why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5: I could not stand that Blake constantly kept saying that she was a weirdo and he liked her so much because she was weird. He made that her entire personality trait. Plus, none of what she actually did was all that weird. She sounded more like someone that has ADHD (speaking from experience) and decided to voice her thoughts instead of keeping them inside. I don't find that "weird" because she never did it at inappropriate times, she only did it when she was comfortable around him. So, that irritated me. Also, I can't stand when authors obsess over how big a man's hand it. It makes me uncomfy.

Anyway, I really did enjoy the book. It was fun, funny, and sweet. I would recommend it for sure.

⭐️: 4/5

If someone would’ve made me rate this book after just the first ten or so percent, the rating would be SIGNIFICANTLY lower. First off, I don’t understand the obsession with pumpkin spice lattes. I like pumpkin spice, and I like lattes, but I don’t think pumpkin spice lattes are good, or appealing, or really even taste like pumpkin (or coffee, for that matter) at all. So the fact that THAT was the drink and Izzy just ~had~ to have one on the first day of the season was an auto-ick for me. Then, it really seemed like we were going down a deeply infuriating path of a MMC who projects his baggage onto the FMC, which is like, my LEAST favorite type of MMC because I almost never forgive them and then just can’t ship the couple. Pretty quickly though, this book ended up winning me over.

The sheer ridiculousness of the banter and the thought that was put into the smaller details of the plot really did it for me. From the initial way that Blake was described and the initial conflict, I thought there was absolutely NO way that I would be rooting for them to work out in the end, because sometimes I truly feel like romcom couples just SHOULDN’T be together. Although I was worried it would be, this was not the case here. I really loved the banter and, although it was definitely a little insta-love-y, I thought the progression of their relationship was really cute. Although there was certainly some miscommunication, as there is in most romcoms, it wasn’t an inordinate amount, which I always appreciate. I think this is the first adult romcom that I’ve read by Lynn Painter, and it won’t be my last!

Thank you to @netgalley and @berkleypub for this free eARC for my honest review!!

I loved this book so much! I wanted to read it all in one sitting. There was so many laugh out loud moments, as well as super cute ones. Izzy and Blake were so perfect together. This was a quick read that had me hooked from start to finish.

I was 100% enjoying Accidentally Amy. Like, I was fully invested, five stars, loving every page. Sure it was set in Kansas City and the dude wears a lot of Chiefs shirts, but I can hang. Then the main character's brother was named Jason, his sister-in-law was named Kylie, and their daughter was Ellie.

FOOLED BY TAYVIS FAN-FIC!

Still loved it.

The thing about Lynn Painter is that she is just truly, genuinely so funny. I laughed out loud multiple times while reading this. The titular "Amy" is actually Isabella (Izzy) Shay, who is on her way to her first day at a new job when she grabs someone else's pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks so that she won't be late. She runs right into a hot guy, they have a spark, and of course, he ends up being Blake Phillips, her new boss's boss. He's also hardcore against any form of lying, so when he meets Izzy and finds out that she took a coffee with someone else's name on it, he gets way overly upset about it and freezes Izzy out. They still have chemistry, and they have truly great banter even when he's trying to give her the cold shoulder, so she convinces him that they should try to be friends. They both very clearly want more, but they try not to cross that line - especially because of the reporting structure at work. They do muddy that line throughout the entire book, which they try to justify by texting as "Amy" and "Mr. Chest" (who they were to each other before they knew the truth). I often have mixed feelings about office romances where one character is the supervisor of another, but I thought Lynn Painter handled it fairly well here (definitely some ethically iffy situations, but she does pretty consistently call those out on page). Overall I found this really heartwarming and very funny.

I loved this cute ROMCOM. Something about the trope of meeting at a coffee shop gets me every single time. Lynn Painter is a definite read for me when I am looking for a cute, funny, light read. I enjoyed the writing style and plot very much. 4.5 stars from me!

Thank you to #NetGalley and Penguin Random House for this advanced readers copy. This book publishes in January

What to expect in this book:

-Dual POV
-Workplace romance
-Some open door scenes
-Hilarious banter
-Pop cultures references to Top Chef, Taylor Swift, etc

Thoughts

I have read everything by Lynn Painter and no surprise, I loved this! I was so surprised to learn that this was originally self-published and posted as chapters in her newsletter. Hopefully it will get the recognition it deserves even more as a traditionally published book. Izzy Shay is running late on her first day of work at her dream job when she grabs the drink of a person named 'Amy' at Starbucks, but when she turns to leave she accidentally spills her drink all over the chest of a man in the perfect meet cute. As the two part ways after their steamy mishap, the man turns to her and says, "See you tomorrow, Amy." What seems like an innocent accident suddenly becomes more complicated when Izzy learns that the man is now her new VP, Blake Phillips.

This was such an enjoyable, light, and fun read. I loved the grumpy/sunshine trope, the inside jokes between the characters, and of course, the cat references. Blake was the perfect book boyfriend and has it all. Some parts were a little cringey, but I loved it overall. If you are in the mood for a rom-com that witty, charming, and relatively fast-paced, I highly recommend this. Be on the look out for this one in January.

Lynn Painter is an auto buy author for me. I love the cheesiness, I love the pop culture references, I even love the Darkling. This book was another good one for me, quick, easy read. Izzy was pure chaos and I loved that, and I felt like Blake was the exact opposite so they balanced each other nicely. I laughed out loud multiple times, this was a good time.

I’d like to thank NetGalley, Lynn Painter and Berkley Publishing Group for this ARC copy

There has not been ONE Lynn Painter book I haven't enjoyed over the years. Consistently wonderful characters, in combination with real-life situations, always make me feel immediately like I'm in for a good time. These are the reads you grab your Peanut M&Ms and a good glass of wine for and soak into the tub to let your mind drift. Brain candy with a heartwarming, non-gratuitous sexy vibe.

Cats, pizza, Starbucks, and banter! What more could you ask for?! I have now read every book that Lynn painter has published and can officially say I loved them all. The banter between Izzy and Blake had me smiling ear to ear! I just loved them together! I also loved their love/hate relationships were their cats! It felt so relatable! Cat people will understand! There is a lot of talk about pizza in this book too! Be ready to be hungry!

Overall, another adorable book from Lynn Painter! If Painter writes it, I'll 1000% read and recommend it!

Read if you like:
❤️Grumpy/Sunshine
❤️Friends to Lovers
❤️Lots of banter
❤️Cats

Accidentally Amy was initially self published by Lynn Painter. This edition is revised and expanded. If you read it before this new version is a bit different. If you liked it I’d suggest a re read. If you didn’t, you still won’t. New readers, check it out if you like mistaken identity, workplace setting, banter, and a chaotic storyline.