this was so fun and funny!!! my very first audio book and i couldn't stop listening! wonder why i would think smth like that tho....

Enjoyed the watching the two characters learn to work together and better understand each other over time before becoming friends and falling in love. My biggest qualm was that they were both supposed to be late 20s and that just seemed too old for you they were acting a lot of times towards the beginning. In the end though it was a cute story and it was an interesting look at the MFA world.

The constant grumpy man being portrayed as an outright awful human being who verbally abuses the fmc is getting so old. The character should develop, not be a completely different person in the second half of the book. It's been a while since I read this and l've forgotten some of the details but I was shocked for the first half of this book about how terrible this man was. Also simple issues like saying she knows him so well, then not a minute later saying she doesn't know him at all? It made no sense.

I liked this book. It was a quick read and a bit of a slow burn. It was also slightly grumpy and sunshine dynamics. I'm not sure how much I loved the female narrator, though, because she did a robotic male voice compared to her animated female voice.

Love the academic rivals to lovers story. The characters are well written and the story line was overall so much fun to read!

Not in my book by Katie Holt

Really solid audiobook. Narration was excellent! No complaints.

Rosie and Aiden spend most of the time in their writing workshop griping at each other. The other students are used to their antics but their professor has had enough.. She tells them to write a book together, blending their genres together. They both want to stay in the group so they reluctantly do as they are told. The more time they spend together, the more they have to confront their feelings and they seem to be doing just that on the pages of the book they are writing together…. Everything seems to be moving forward until a career changing opportunity reignites the animosity.


I really enjoyed this one. I thought the grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers was done really well. I really liked Rosie… I wasn’t a fan of Aiden. I thought he was one of the major problems throughout the book. I don’t feel he was in the right when the fight happened and his personality isn’t enough to make up for how horrible I still think he is. (sorry)
All in all though the book was great, I was really entertained. It was clever and fun with some really heartfelt moments. I think it did a great job of proving that just because you are very different from someone else, there is always common ground and it’s all about give and take. Some excellent writing here and it kept a really solid pace.
It wasn’t as romancey as I thought it would be and that was actually ok 🙂
4 stars

Not in My Book is a sweet and spicy Romance that also has a feel of Women's Fiction. This is such a feel good story, with lots of character development as the heroine learns to navigate situations she didn't anticipate. The heroine is a fantastic, strong willed, independent woman who is relatable and inspiring. The hero is a surly man who is so easy to love.

I absolutely loved the exploration of several Romance tropes in this story, and getting to read for pleasure while the author also informed the reader on the structure and expectations of the Romance genre. The story is told from the perspective of the heroine, but I felt so connected and close to both the heroine and hero throughout due to the way the author wrote the book, and the details that are given throughout. The supporting characters were also well done, which made me feel immersed in the story and the heroine's life.

There are some sexy scenes in this story (which I absolutely love), so be prepared for the spice that sneaks through the sweet.

I listened to the audiobook version of this story, which was well done by a single narrator. I listened at 1.75x speed (my typical audiobook listening speed is 1.75x).

Thank you NetGalley and RBMedia for this advanced listening copy.

Such a wonderful book, you can see the inspiration for the story and I loved how the relationship was being handled through the last paragraphs of each chapter, it gave the reader a good inside knowledge of how both of them were feeling, which was a unique way to expose information.
Loved the cover and had the opportunity of having the audiobook and the ebook, which was just so wonderful reading the parts that were from their book and what was actually happening, also the narrator did a good job with the Spanish parts and the male dialogue.
It was refreshing to see their relationship and the representation of Latin American culture, being from Latin America myself, it was interesting learning about some traditions that Peru and my country share, so you can clearly see that the author is putting her experiences in this and it was good book throughout, it was a 4,5 for me but it was sooo close to five, I don't really like it when couples fight, but it was necessary even I felt so sad.
Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for this book and audiobook I hope to read more from this author in the future

I went into this thinking it was going to be a light hearted cutesy romance...hahaha. What an emotional bus I was hit with!

Not in My Book is about two writers in a workshop that are enemies beyond enemies. Things get so bad that their mentor forces them to work on a piece together or face both of them getting kicked out of the workshop. Rosie and Aiden slowly start to reveal themselves to each other through their co-writing and it was so heart meting. The book they are writing is basically a carbon copy of their story and journey together but as two other people. Sometimes I did get a bit annoyed that the things they were saying to each other through writing were RIGHT there and other other person was just oblivious as to what was going on but I still loved these two idiots. Their spicy scenes were on point, Aiden does have a mouth on him lol. The ending was hard, I just wanted to cry for Rosie and her feelings and then also yell at her to give him a chance ugh I was a mess!

Overall it was a really cute and any romance fans should give it a go. The audio version was okay. The narrator, Frankie Corzo, was good...I just got annoyed with her Aiden voice sometimes...I was imagining a more masculine voice than what she could produce and that does sometimes happen with just one narrator doing both voices so that's okay. And then sometimes she would give Rosie her southern accent and then two seconds later use her Peruvian accent. It was a bit confusing. But the pacing and inflections were good so no issues there. I will still give other titles she narrates a chance.

Thank you so much to Recorded Books for gifting me an ALC in exchange for an honest review!

This is such a fun enemies to lovers romance novel! Romance writer Rosie and literary fiction writer Aiden are forced to partner up and write a novel together. They end up writing a love story that parallels their own romance relationship. This book is full of fun banter, great characters and descriptions of NYC that make me feel like I'm actually there.

This is one of, if not my top, reads of 2024! What a debut, Ms. Holt!

I’m super impressed with everything about this one - they’re comparing it to two of my other (past years) top faves, Beach Read and The Hating Game, so I’m both not surprised, and very glad she’s lived up to the hype! It’s absolutely amazing and such a gem - and multicultural at that.

If you haven’t yet heard about Not In My Book, look no further - grab your copy by this newbie Peruvian author, and you’ll be hooked. The main character, Rosie, is also Peruvian. She’s in a writing seminar at NYU, and is constantly bickering with another, awful student (there’s the Hating Game element). The professor, who she thought was a friend, is going to throw them both out which means a fail, until they convince her they can be civil. She forces them to write their assignments together (Beach Read, but also elements of The Roughest Draft, written by the married couple) to prove it.

The professor also has Rosie write and submit a novel for an apprenticeship and enemy Aiden encourages it… but that’s another sub plot.

As the pair works together and learns about their lives and how different they are, they discover how compatible their writing is, even though their genres are completely different (he, a literary writer who always scoffed at her romance, but is now writing literary romance)… but he’s still trying to force an ending to the book that she’s against. The story begins to mimic the development of their own friendship and relationship…

I am so in love with this book and will highly encourage everyone else out there to pick it up! It maybe won’t change your life, but you’ll have one of the best reads you can find in a very long time!

Audio is narrated by Frankie Corzo - I’ve been a long-time fan of hers and she does a brilliant job of bringing this story to life. Great performance!

A huge thanks to NetGalley, Alcove Press and Recorded Books for the early reader and listen copies. This is my honest feedback.

Aiden and Rosie, have not liked each other from the very 1st workshop. She writes romance and he is the opposite of romance and has torn her writing apart because its romance from day 1.
The professor has had enough of the back and forth and has now started to REALLY dispute the class. The options are they will be dropped from the class or they have to write a book together with Romance in it...... Will this happen or will they kill each other in the process?

Getting to know them while they wrote the book together helped understand them both and they both started to open up about why (Aiden) feel the way they do about certain books.

This was a fun back and forth read and the narration was very good!

Thank you NetGalley for this arc in exchange for honest review.

I absolutely loved this audiobook! The story was so relatable and the scenes were HOT! 🥵 I laughed, I cried, I felt the grief and even the tension. The only thing with the audio that I will say caught me off guard sometimes was when there was an excerpt of the book. I couldn’t always tell what was real life and where the excerpt began but the rest was an A++ for me 🥰🥰🥰

This was a really cute enemies-to-lovers storyline with an original twist that kept me hooked. I especially enjoyed the creative communication through the book parts—it added depth and charm to their relationship. The banter between the main characters was sharp and witty, making their transition from adversaries to partners feel natural and heartfelt. Thank you NetGalley and RB Media for the opportunity to listen to and review an advanced copy of this audiobook.

This story was a sweet telling of enemies to lovers. It is a slow burn with banter and frustration that grows to more. I love the ending of the book and how it was wrapped in a nice bow with a romantic twist.

Not in My Book by Katie Holt is the perfect feel good romance that is sure to have you grinning and squealing!! There is something to be said about the kind of "enemies to lovers" that is actually the "it's always been you" trope. I absolutely devour any romance book that has "writer romance vibes", but this one takes the cake of my favorite!!! IT ALSO HAS FAKE DATING!

Frankie Corzo’s narration was absolutely perfection!! I listened to this 10-hour-and-30-minute masterpiece while also reading the e-book and it felt like being immersed into a cozy hug.

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the audiobook.
Excellent narration.
As for the book, maybe because it was set in a school setting (even though it’s their masters program) it was very YA for an adult book with mature content. You could change the setting to undergrad and age down the characters and have the exact same book.

This was a fun read! Not incredibly memorable for me, but one that I enjoyed in the moment. It’s a lighthearted enemies to lovers that contains plenty of verbal sparring, spice, and reflective family moments.

Not in My Book follows Rosie and Aiden—two young adults trying to make it as writers of very different genres (romance and literary fiction) in a competitive New York City collegiate writing workshop. When the two can’t stop butting heads during class, the professor decides the only way for the two not to be kicked out is for them to work together to write a book for the workshop.

A delightful added feature is the little snippets of the “book” the characters are writing being included with the larger story!

Thank you to Katie Holt, Alcove Press, RBMedia, & NetGalley for the ARC! All opinions are my own.

Thank you Netgalley for the audiobook. I am grateful for the chance to review this. I was hooked from the first word to the last. This has quickly become a favourite book. I love that this story revolved around writing a story for a class. Both of the main characters are very likeable. I highly recommend this book and will buy a hard copy as soon as I can.

For starters, I wanna say that the first hakf of this book was a solid 5 and the only reason I gave it a 4 was because of the miscommunication that caused the third act break-up, which I thought was completely unecessary.

Anyway, I loved this book so so much! It was so fun to read and it gave the exact feelings of Beach Read but with enemies-to-lovers which actually makes it even better. I was so invested in the book they were writing as well and I think the best part was that it was single POV, which I usually don't like but in this book I think it made it richer and also made the betrayal of the third act even bigger (even though the blurb kinda gave it away). For me, the banter was definitely the best part - the quick comebacks were so fun to read and I could feel the chemistry between the characters.

I'll be waiting patiently and very excitedly for more books from this author.