Unfortunately Hotter in the Hamptons was not the book for me. I was expecting a low stakes read, but this was superficial and trivial. The main character is hard to relate to or like and her inner monologue is really hard to read.
Thank you so much to Bloom for the early copy but I regretfully could not read this one.

Firstly, I am very thankful for the opportunity to review this early copy of Hotter in the Hamptons. Sadly I wish this book had done a better job in telling the story, the premise and first couple of chapters were good, but I wish it had done a better job at telling the story and my biggest problem truly was how irritating and unlikable the main character was, we all love a mean lesbain but I could not deal with her attitude chater after chapter. The story felt flat, and I wish the characters were better fleshed out.

This is definitely different from my usual read. I felt the FMC was difficult to like due to her selfishness, but that's what the story is about. It was mostly someone figuring out they needed to figure themselves out. Overall a good read

Loved that she tapped into fiction, wish the best for her but this was a no for me.

Thank you Netgalley and the publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this book.

DNF @ 10%

This book feels like the Dollar Tree version of The Devil Wears Prada. The entirety of the first chapter felt like one run-on ad placement. All of the characters met felt very flat and one dimensional. The book is being advertised as LGBTQIA+ but starts off with Lola being canceled because she made a comment about a jumpsuit looking "lesbian chic" then following it up later in the chapter with an "I'm not homophobic, I watch lesbian porn" explanation.

As someone who is part of the LGBTQIA+ community, I just don't get a good vibe for this book, specifically regarding the queer representation. Ryan is the overly stereotypical gay best friend. Lola doesn't even know if she's straight or not when asked, and just goes along with the answer she thinks that person's expecting. Personally, I don't think a queer book should start out with so many negative or stereotypical portrayals of the community.

I probably could have looked past the constant brand name dropping and vapid influencer stream of consciousness. But I simply can't continue reading this kind of portrayal of the queer community.

Thank you to Sourcebooks Bloom for sending me an early copy!

I grabbed this ARC because I really enjoyed Tinx’s radio show. I think she gives good advice to single millennial women. But I didn’t fully know that this was going to be a queer romance. I do think that non-queer people can write queer romances and vice versa, but it does seem out of her realm of knowledge. I didn’t think the writing was bad and I did enjoy the Hamptons/pop culture references.

Thank you #netgalley for the ARC and exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately I had to dnf this book at about 25%...

It just wasn't sitting with me and I couldn't get into it, to save my life.

So Lola accidentally gets herself cancelled and then her last attempt to salvage herself with an interview implodes, leaving Lola to skulk off to the Hamptons to figure out what she’s going to do with herself now that her influencer career is no longer feasible. But she can’t even enjoy her summer because the journalist who wrote the disastrous interview lives next door. Lola wants to hate Aly, she is also strongly attracted to her.

This book was okay, but its biggest weakness is its protagonist. It’s hard to like Lola. She’s petulant and impulsive and she holds grudges. She is unkind to her friends, especially her bestie who invited her to the Hamptons in the first place. She’s literally in a situationship with Aly, but refuses to call herself bisexual.

The name dropping of luxury brands was excessive and led me to wonder if Tinx was hoping for some sort of compensation for mentioning certain brands. It felt like The Truman Show.

Hotter in the Hamptons is still a fun book, despite its flaws. It’s good for a beach read.



I received a digital ARC of this book from Sourcebooks/NetGalley.

Hotter in the Hamptons was… not what I thought it would be. I was hoping for a fun, beach romance. Rather than that it felt like I was having product placements lobbed at me consistently while in the middle of an influencer “woe is me” moment.

Hotter in the Hamptons by Tinx

1⭐

I’ve spent, I think, two months reading this book but not because I couldn’t read (I have read several books in these two months) or because I didn’t feel like reading that particular type of book (I’ve read fantasy, romance, romantasy…).

I might be a little bit rude by saying this, but I think the book was the reason I haven’t been able to finish it.

I couldn’t stand ANY of the characters and honestly I barely remember the names.
I was forcing myself to read it and enjoy it because I honestly thought that the synopsis was really good and was expecting A LITTLE BIT more from this book.
The book itself is easy to read, even though the chapters are pretty long, at least it felt that way, and when I was reading it the percentage in the book was changing every two pages or so.

I don’t feel like this book was for me and honestly I thought it was going to be.
Both the cover and the synopsis seemed great and I was sad to find out the book wasn’t as great as the other two things.

Apart from that, I don’t think my review is the only one that matters and I hope that a lot of people find this book amazing so I can say I’m the weird one.

Love u,
María.

I thoroughly enjoyed Hotter in the Hamptons. To be honest though, Tinx did a really good job of laying the groundwork for Lola and Aly. I did think that there would be more to their previous meeting than what it was so I was a little disappointed in that. The arguing back and forth as Lola expressed her anger, I totally got.

Then there is the steam, whew it got hot. It was disappointing to have them get together so strongly and with great detail to have it all go away and their intimacy only referred to. Lola gave a lot of indicators that she was into a lot more so I was expecting a lot more.

Tinx brings realism to the story regarding how we self-identify versus how other people need us to identify. Labels are the bane to my existence so I feel Lola’s frustration. It only takes one “oops moment” to change your life. From what I could see, Lola was already itching at her life. She got comfortable and forgot what she originally wanted. It happens to the best of us.

I love how this story ends. Tinx did Lola right by the choices she made. I loved getting away with Ryan and Lola. I even loved the drama. 🤫 Hotter in the Hamptons has a little bit of everything: fun, romance, some messiness, and friendship. This is one you want to put in your beach bag.

Book Review: Hotter in the Hamptons by Tinx
Rating: 4/5

Hotter in the Hamptons is the perfect summer escape—effortlessly fun, fabulously flirty, and dripping with the kind of glamor you’d expect from a beach read set in one of the most elite zip codes in the world. Tinx brings her signature wit and unapologetic voice to this debut, creating a story that’s equal parts hilarious and heartwarming.

The novel follows a group of friends navigating love, self-discovery, and the chaotic charm of summer in the Hamptons. With designer drama, spicy romances, and laugh-out-loud inner monologues, it reads like a rom-com-meets-reality-show with a side of emotional depth. Tinx gives us characters that are modern, messy, and relatable—each on their own journey toward figuring life out, one Aperol spritz at a time.

If you’re looking for a breezy, bingeable read that balances high-end escapism with real heart, Hotter in the Hamptons should be at the top of your TBR this summer.

Spice Level: Light to moderate—think flirty fun with a touch of heat
Perfect for fans of: beach reads, rich-girl aesthetics, friendship-driven plots, and a splash of drama

I went into this title with high hopes because I had been hearing good things, but honestly it just wasn't for me.

In the beginning it felt like one long ad for capitalism, the sheer amount of name dropping and descriptions about designer things and influencer habits just felt really tone deaf given the current state of the world.

I went into the book blind, I don't follow fashion influencers so I was unaware of who Tinx was. But after looking into it a little this person basically just wrote a self-insert fanfiction? I don't know.

The insistence that Lola is "only straight" was a bit of a red flag, but I was willing to look past it because a lot of queer people do have trouble accepting themselves...but Aly is also introduced as "pulling straight girls" which is just offensive?

As for the other characters, I don't think they could have been more stereotypical if she tried.
- Aly the lesbian that goes after straight women and is a "heartbreaker" for it
- Ryan the epitome of a 2000s romcom "gay best friend"
- Justin the boyfriend who understands absolutely nothing

It honestly felt like a vanity book and I'm unsure how it even got published. It completely trivializes so many aspects of what it means to discover your sexuality and its so absurdly vapid I felt my brain cells dying as I was reading.

I DNF'd this book at around 60% through.

While the first quarter of the book felt okay--the influencer life very interesting--the second quarter felt very...lack luster. Lola simply complained about everything. She was her own worst enemy and only escaped when Aly came into the picture. There was no real chemistry or passion between the two. For this book to be described as "spicy" seemed like a stretch because most of the spice was rushed through. Lola seemed selfish, narcissistic, and materialistic. The parts I read showed no real growth or want for growth--besides a quick thrifting expedition. Lola simply laid low. She consistently blew off her best friend and talked/thought about name brands constantly. This felt more like a long magazine article than a book.

For those reasons, I will not be sharing my review on my social media as I don't share 2 star reviews or below. And I do not leave reviews for books I have DNF'd on other review sites.

Thank you to NetGalley and Bloom Books for a copy of this book to review!

I had high hopes for Hotter in the Hamptons but unfortunately it missed the mark for me. I thought the premise overall was relatable to today's cancel culture and influencer drenched world, but I felt the characters were one-dimensional and stereotypically cast in their roles like the out of touch content creator, the gay best friend, or the cynical jaded reporter. The plot ended up being just okay and a little washed out for me. I felt there were glimmers of hope in the story but the redemption arc for the female lead just wasn't fully there for me.

I can appreciate young people exploring their sexuality and trying to figure out who they are, but the ability to "pull straight girls then discard them" wasn't believable for Aly's character. I couldn't see that about her. There was also too much trendy references that I'm afraid may not age well and/or be understood for people of a certain generation - from referencing "white lotus season 2 vibes" to "carrie bradshaw's fantasy closet". Also, I get that the brand drops were important to Lola's character, but it got a bit over the top for me.

Unfortunately, this was only a 2 out of 5 star read for me. Thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

"Hotter in the Hamptons" sets itself up to be a fun beach-read, centering on a sapphic romance during a summer in the Hamptons. What we get is very surface level and middling.

Our main character Lola Likes, a fashion influencer, starts the book with the dumbest controversy (both what happened and the magnitude of the fallout). She gets her first public critique, flees to the Hamptons, develops a situationship and goes out to eat. Does she spend time reflecting on why the critique hit so hard, somewhat but she cries constantly and seeks out the journalist who wrote it to badger her about how it affected her life instead. Lola does change but I wish the growth had been spread out through the narrative. She makes no decisions until the last 2 chapters and it's only when other people decide it's time for he to make a choice. Lola comes off as immature and waaay younger than 30.

Does this book have romance? No, it is mostly fiction with a lot of sex scenes. There is no chemistry between them, they are just very attracted to each other and like spending time with each other. Their relationship only happens and continues as long as they live nex tdoor. They don't reveal themselves as the summer develops, we never learn why the way the are, they just remain as shallow as their introductions. Lola is not a personal fav but Aly is so weird and mean and much more off putting. The reason she writes the article is so petty and the fact that when she tells Lola why and then they start seeing each other is wild.

I could write more but I what I want to convey is that this was an unpleasant time with unpleasant people set in a place of quiet luxury and not much else. Don't read this expecting a sapphic love story, or character development, maybe just something to pass the time.

Somehow it was exactly what I expected? Nothing life changing but a quick, messy read! Like a grown up version of the Clique books.

Thank you so much to Bloom Books, Tinx and NetGalley for sending me an early copy.

This was an incredibly eye opening and somewhat sweet romance. I loved a lot of aspects of this. It is very indicative of todays society and internet culture./ Being canceled, being an influencer, losing why you do what you do in the first place and letting the money compensate. It was good, not a favourite though. It felt to close to home and very real life. Sometimes i wanna get away from real life.

Hotter in the Hamptons had drama, influencer chaos, and a main character who was hard to root for but kept things interesting!!
Some of the character dynamics felt off, and the writing leaned cheesy, but it was still hard to put down. Not deep, but entertaining.
Thank you NetGalley for the ARC

This was a nice change from the usual romance I read. I liked the enemies to lovers trope! My favorite was our main character at the end when she realized that she is worth more that what her previous PR team thought. The ending also made me a little sad because I wanted that perfect happy ending.