RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
SPICE: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

✨ Hamptons Summer Vibes
✨ Enemies to Lovers
✨ Sapphic / Gay Awakening
✨ influencer x Critic

This book was easy to read, a little bit messy, and kinda felt like I was a fly on the wall in a rich lifestyle. I feels like this was gossip girl meets sapphic love story and while it was entertaining I wish I had gotten a little more.

Lola and Aly definitely have chemistry and watching Lola’s journey to figuring out her sexuality was a whole ride. This book just didn’t feel as authentic as I wanted it to.

It’s entertaining has some great trend references and delivers on the spice. I think some people might enjoy that.

I only have one good thing to say about this book: I’m glad I didn’t finish it.

The main character Lola is so unbearable to read and all the side characters fit into their stereotypes. The writing is not terrible, however, the author used so much slang terms and referred to Gen Z as a punchline so much that this book will feel out dated in two years.

I went into this book blind, but after I decided to DNF, I read the synopsis and this is supposed to be a w|w love story?!? How am I supposed to believe that this girl, Lola, is attracted to ARC (the love interest) when she repeatedly says she is straight and uses ARC at the beginning at the novel to write her a positive review so people stop thinking she’s homophobia?!?

I really don’t understand what the author was trying to say with this story. There’s a lot of stereotypes of gay people and Gen Z that I just can’t get behind. So I don’t recommend this book.

I approached this book thinking it would be a fun and quick summer read. I was correct about one thing: it was indeed a quick read. I found it challenging to root for Lola at first, but I was curious to see what she would do or say next. By the end of the book, I began to like Lola, although it took me some time to get there. However, the writing felt somewhat corny, and the dialogue seemed cheesy for the ages of the characters.

I tried to love this book. I really did. I was so excited about it when I saw it was coming out. Unfortunately, it was a struggle to finish. I get that Lola’s flaws are part of the book, but it made it unbearable. The spicy scenes were all written fairly well. That was good.

It was a rough debut. I will be holding my review on review sites for a few weeks. I will not review on social media.

Thank you so much to Bloom and NetGalley for giving the chance to read the book early and leave my honest opinion.

Thank you to Netgalley and Bloom Books for the arc in exchange for an honest review.

First, I want to say that I'm a long time Tinx fan and love all the messages she spreads on her platform. I was extremely excited to support this upcoming release, but unfortunately, it just was not for me. The writing style, while I could almost hear Tinx narrating parts in my head, came off a little juvenile. While I get that there are many influences that I'm sure were pulled from Tinx's life (we know she's a die hard Sex in the CIty fan and huge fashionista), the name dropping of designer labels seemed misplaced and disrupted the flow of the story. They were mere decorations and served no real purpose other than to name drop. The characters were too caricature-y for me, bordered on stereotypical, and fell flat in terms of personality. And while I have no real issue with Tinx writing a sapphic romance novel, I know that this caused some discord within the LGBTQIA+ community. However, as a TInx fan, I know how much of an ally she is for the community and I know she would in no way, knowingly try to take advantage of her situation as an influencer just to push her book. I really wish this book could have been for me, I truly love Tinx so I won't be posting reviews to my platforms because I don't want to take away from her release day. Writing a book is an accomplishment in itself. So thank you again Netgalley and Bloom Books for the arc.

Thank you to @netgalley and @read_bloom for this ARC!

Hotter in the Hamptons
By @tinx
Releases May 6th, 2025

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
🌶️🌶️🌶️/5
Recommend? Maybe!

Blurb:
“As New York City’s fashion it-girl, Lola has been living her dream. But when her career comes to a screeching halt after a very public snafu, everything Lola has worked for – her loyal following, her designer closet, her perfect boyfriend – starts to go up in flames. And when notorious culture critic Aly Ray Carter lights the final match by writing a scathing exposé, it feels as if Lola has lost it all.

When Lola flees to the Hamptons to escape her mistakes, she expects to spend her summer drinking Minuty by the pool while carefully rebuilding both her confidence and her brand. Instead, she looks over the trimmed hedges to see none other than her rival and newest neighbor: Aly Ray Carter.

As summer blazes on, Lola is swept into an intoxicating situation with the woman who ruined her life, marred by chaos and confusion as she tries to pinpoint why Aly has her so captivated. She thought the Hamptons would be the perfect place to outrun her mess, but quickly realizes there’s no place to run.”

My Take:
This is a great debut fiction novel!
The spice rating is 🌶️🌶️🌶️/5 more for frequency of spicy scenes rather than the extreme or k*ink etc.
Well done spice for the hetero and wlw scenes!
I did struggle to connect with the book or any of the characters for the first half. The problems and power struggles that happened were hard for me to get into or feel sympathetic for anyone in the book.
The second half had me hooked though! I ended up not wanting to put it down once halfway, because I began rooting for Lola.

Nice quick read, only about four hours total.

If you’re into influencers, fashion, etc…then I think you’d really enjoy this book!
I’m also totally unfamiliar with this author, so I’m not sure if you’d enjoy the book more as a fan familiar with her.

Definitely open to reading more from this author!

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⭐⭐ = 2.5 Stars

I hate to review a book I didn’t love but I had such a hard time reading this. I DNF’d 30% in. The writing was cheesy and the story wasn’t much better. I love Tinx and I was so excited to see her writing romance. I had to give it a chance based upon the author alone. I don’t think I am enough of a fashion girly to care about all the references and I had a hard time connecting with a wealtyh fashion influencer who was not in touch with reality. I would still check out more books Tinx writes, but sadly this one was not for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Bloom Books for an eARC in exchange for my honest review!

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.