As a huge motorsports fan, especially an F1 fan, I was so excited to read this! But as I continued reading, I felt like I couldn't like any of the characters. They were all severely unlikeable and maybe even underdeveloped. I unfortunately decided to DNF at 33%, and I think if the characters were more likeable and seemed to have a connection, I would have continued.

Thank you NetGallery for the opportunity to receive this eARC.

You would need to really LOVE unlikeable characters to enjoy this book.

I unfortunately, do not. I didn't realize this was the second book in a series when I requested it from Netgalley. I went back to read Double Apex, the first book in the series, before starting this one. Man, do I wish I had saved myself the trouble. Even after the several red flags in that book, I thought I would still give this one a chance.....and was immediately given the ick in the first chapter.

The main characters are insufferable and continually making poor decisions. The side characters are even worse and the conflicts in the book are entirely created out of poor impulse control and a need for major therapy. Even the F1 racing elements couldn't save this one for me.

I received an eARC of this title from Netgalley and the publisher.

3.5⭐️ I really enjoyed this book but I felt like very slow at times. This book have layers and complexities to the story and the characters. I personally enjoyed the first book more and think if you love F1, scandal , drama and spice this book is for you.

Oh, my gawd Natalia & Klaus had such raw attraction with an undeniable chemistry. I loved it when he called her Kleine Hexe "little witch" in german. It was simply cute. Also, I enjoyed that each chapter has the time that passes, so it gives movement to the story. It was emotional how both characters had such fear of loss, but it made it more beautiful when they healed. Don't get me started on the surprise pregnancy, i didn't know when it would happen, but when it did, i realized how they both would be amazing parents. I enjoyed their story.

Thank you so much to Forever for the opportunity to read this book. I am always grateful.

Unfortunately I had to DNF at 55%. I really struggled to grasp the story with the time jumps, and it’s possible the style of writing just wasn’t for me.

Thank you NetGalley and Forever Publishing for this ARC!

Unfortunately I have decided this book isn’t for me. I did DNF at around 40%. The book had the potential for me as far as plot and setting. But, there were just things about the FMC I couldn’t get over.

Again Thank You for the opportunity of the advanced ebook. I’m always very grateful:)

I wanted to love this so bad! Some of my fav tropes but alas i could not! FMC was insufferable and her best friend was so bratty for no reason like my God and the MMC do you want to move on or nah?! I was over! Everything was just happening too fast too quickly that i forgot the plot i cant bring myself to read the sequel thats for sure! It had potential however it simply fell short!

I wanted to like this book. But much like the first I just was struggling to connect with the characters. There was so much going on and I just felt like I couldn’t ever figure it out. I was very excited for Natalia and Klaus! But I just don’t think this author is for me.

Thanks to Forever for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

Another Formula 1 sports romance! It opens with a spicy scene, which is pretty indicative of what to expect in a romance. If it was a pepper, it'd be a habanero!

Natalia starts work as an F1 journalist, but after a hot one-night stand in a foreign city, she realizes she just slept with the billionaire owner of one of the biggest teams in the sport. He's older, and widowed, and not ready to be serious with anyone. Natalia just wants to do her job well. But time passes, and their chemistry becomes undeniable.

I didn't connect well with this book. It felt quite scattered as large swaths of time were skipped again and again to coincide with races, but it felt like we were always playing catch-up. There's some journalistic drama that is playing out beside the romance that didn't really interest me. I don't know, I just didn't feel all that connected to any part of the story. I thought it had a very strong opening, and I was honestly so excited to see how it all played out, but for me, it mostly fell flat, and the ending wasn't my favorite (I won't spoil it here).

Note:: I received an early copy of this book from the publisher through netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

*2.5 stars
An F1 romance between a journalist and a team principal.
I found this book incredibly difficult to read for multiple reasons. One, the writing was really stiff, and it didn’t feel like a romance. Let alone an F1 romance- the sport was barely discussed through the book. I think it would be better in the long run if it wasn’t advertised as such. Second, there was a time skip every chapter. Literally every chapter, and most of the time it was multiple weeks or months. Because of those, I wasn’t attracted to the characters’ relationship because they barely saw each other and didn’t seem to communicate between those times. All that made the declarations of love (even though it was 60-70% through) very sudden and forced.
Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Pub for an eARC of this book- and I apologize that it wasn’t my favorite.

i feel like there is a lot of info missing. the main characters were barely together and i need more info about the fight with phae

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶️🌶️.5

WOW. Consider me FIRMLY in my F1 era. This book was so fucking incredible!!!!

Josie Juniper really did it with this book, guys. Like, wow.

Natalia is such a strong, smart woman and seeing her hold her ground on so many different things in her life made me so happy to see. I loved to see her own personal growth with her family, Phae, her career, and Klaus. It was so incredibly refreshing to see a woman who knows what she wants and goes after it and doesn’t stand for anyone’s shit. She knows her worth and she refuses to settle and I LOVE that about her.

Speaking of Klaus, can I just say, this man is a SAINT. (We’re gonna overlook his stupid actions because he was grieving and genuinely thought he was protecting Talia, even if it was STUPID) His patience with Natalia and his career, and navigating with Phae and the team was beautiful. He is so well spoken and intelligent and such a strong MAN. Plus, his generosity????? His loyalty???? HIS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?????? Say it with me ladies: Klaus is Daddy™️

This book was so, so incredible, and I am now a strong ass Josie Juniper fan!!!

Thank you so much to Forever for this ARC!!!! 🫶🏻

Journalist Natalia gets a dream job following the F1 circuit. The best way to celebrate? With a hot one night stand. The only problem? Her one night stand ends up being Klaus Franke, the hot F1 team principal.

This was my first F1 romance and I really liked it! Here's what I liked:

Natalia: She was a great character. I thought she was strong and independent. Her relationship with Kalus and her best friend both drove the story along. She's not one to really jump fast into anything, and I appreciated that.

The F1 and mystery: I liked the racing scenes and found the inner workings fretting interesting. There is also a little mystery going on. Natalia finds herself trying to dig and find out what is really going with some shady things within the teams. Both added an extra layer to this book.

All in all, this was a good F1 spicy romance!

Thank you to the author and publisher for the gifted copy!

I unfortunately had to DNF 65% of the way through only because the timeline jumping was a little too much for me. I enjoyed the writing and the plot overall other than that.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Publishing for this ARC.

#2 in this steamy F1 series and it was great. I adored the characters and loved traveling everywhere with them.yoi truly feel like you start to understand the main FMC and her back story. I feel like there was more talk of behind the scenes in racing and honestly, I understood every 3 words. Ha! But I do want to watch F1 now! Can't wait for Sage's story!!

I was so happy to have this from Netgalley to read immediately after Double Apex!! I was so excited for Natalia and Klaus' story. Nat is not as sassy as Phae. Instead we get a little more angst with this book. Spice is so good and of course Nat is a strong FMC who holds her own. I'll be counting the days until we get Sage's story!!!

Overall, I enjoyed this one but there were a few key things that lowered the rating for me. First, was the balance of the book. It felt very light and airy in the first half with no much happening but then the second half was full of drama and important moments that and it kind of felt overwhelming at times. Another part of my rating was due to the pacing. I love time jumps in books because it adds to the believability of the longing and falling in love, but this one felt choppy at times. I felt like we’d be in a moment that I was enjoying and then we were two weeks or a month Ont the future. It was a whirlwind. I thought the romance was fun and I was able to connect with the main characters by the end of the book. The f1 parts were a lot of fun too!

I found myself really struggling with this book. I honestly did not enjoy the way the female MC and her “best friend” interacted. It gave very mean girl energy the way they would jab at each other. I know their relationship was suppose to be like “old married couple” but it did not come off that way. I also struggled with the cancer plot line. As a cancer survivor I struggle when books use cancer as a conflict in the plot. I try not to judge as I don’t know the authors personal relationship with cancer. But as a survivor I read to avoid cancer and I find it triggering in the plot. I know a lot of other cancer survivors and current cancer patients feel the same way so if you add trigger warnings I would recommend adding cancer as one.
I did not really enjoy the female main character at all. I did not enjoy being within her head at all. I did enjoy the MMC. He gave Toto Wolff vibes without feeling like a copy of the actual Toto Wolff. Overall I struggled a lot with this book and that may mostly be I did not enjoy the dynamics between the fmc and her “best” friend nor the cancer plot line. I wish I had enjoyed it more because I have a love for F1 romance and love how they have been growing in popularity recently. Unfortunately I feel this book was not for me.

unfortunately this book was a total miss for me. i was totally drawn into this book by the cover and even though i am not an avid f1 watcher i do like to occasionally read f1 romances when i need a switch up in the sports romance department because i tend to find them fast paced and thrilling, i love watching them jump from country to country. however quite honestly getting through this felt about as thrilling as watching paint dry.

i couldnt connect with any of these characters, every time i felt like i may start to they go and do something that annoys me. for everyones grown age all of the characters felt extremely immature.

i think that this book had the potential to be really good but with all of the time jumps literally every single chapter it felt hard to get any sense of what in the world was going on. nothing is really being shown to me just told at various stages of the book?? the bones are there but unfortunately the writing is not. its hard to care about characters and their relationships if im not being shown any of the process of them falling in/out of love, if i cant understand why phaedra (who i will not even be getting into or this’ll turn into a rage rant lmao) and her are fighting this time, etc.

i finally just had to call it quits in the middle of chapter 21, the dramatics and secrets got old fast. these two started to feel very toxic and like we were running in circles. and tbh im convinced they’d divorce in less than 6 months were this book to end in marriage.

Unfortunately DNF around 60%. The premise is so great, but as other reviewers have mentioned, there is way too little development of the relationship and the side plots with Phaedra and Natalia's family take up a disproportionate amount of space. Felt like the romance "developed" off page and made no sense.