Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me access to the eARC of this book!

I had a fun time with this romance. I will say the relationship felt incredible shallow and didn't make sense in the way that, they didn't really speak about their past or future together. They didn't build on their relationship either, it was hot and heavy from the minute they engaged with each other. Which I'm down for, however I do need some depth at some point.

The F1 driver name drops went crazy in this one, and although it was fun the first time after the sixth or seventh name drop had me rolling my eyes. Like come on, this doesn't need to be based fully in reality when the main characters are on made up teams. It was odd and pulled me out of the story.

My favorite part was that our FMC was a racing gal from the start, she did karting all the way to F3. The handful of F1 romances I've read often have the FMC just be a random team member or an outsider so it was nice to have her back story be actually racing like the MMC often are.

Drive Me Crazy is a bout Chloe who has become a principles for one of the F1 Teams. They team needs to turn their luck around or this will be their last season. Barry the owner of the team also hires Matt Warner who recently was in an accident and is working on making a comeback.

I really enjoyed the characters in this book. The story was cute about how Chloe and Matt grew up together and both had racing dreams when they were younger and now are working together on the same team. I enjoyed that this was a racing romance book that also focused on the racing aspect not just the romance. I hope that there is a second one that follows Noah.

The ending was a little flat I wished there was just more talking about what happened after the first year.

Thank you NetGalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for an ARC copy.

F1 romance count me in! I loved it! It was sweet, fast, and funny! I loved the characters and all the peak inside the F1 world. Lizzy did a fantastic job.

We meet Chloe, the first female F1 Principal who has to work hard to build her team up. She ends up getting stuck with her childhood best friend Matt Warner. Chloe of course had a huge crush on Matt all their childhood. Matt is reckless, arrogant, and left Chloe in the dust when they were younger. They quickly realized that they were better friends than enemies and then lovers. I loved the character development and the chemistry between Matt and Chloe. The found family aspect of the underdog team was also so sweet. If you love childhood friends to lovers, forced proximity, rivals to lovers, and sports romance I definitely recommend this one. There are a few spicy scenes, but I skipped them and felt like I didn’t miss anything.

Thank you NetGalley and Putnam publishers for the opportunity to read this early!

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me access to the eARC of this book!

Drive Me Crazy by Lizzy Dent is a cute, contemporary sport romance focusing on F1 racing. we follow our team principal Chloe as she tries to navigate a male dominant sport. She’s trying to get an underdog team on track when she’s blind-sides by the hiring of a new driver, who just happens to be a childhood friend and crush. Can she manage the team and her feelings? Matt, the F1 driver seems to be on the last legs of his career. Dropped from his big racing contract to start back at the bottom, and battling a mental block, he gets saddled with a girl he hasn’t seen in forever. Now she’s his boss and he’s starting to realize maybe he’s been missing something all along.
Watch as Chloe and Matt both try and figure out their lives on and off the track.
This book is told in two perspectives and that’s something I really love in romance novels. It was very well written. It is an easy read even if you know nothing about F1 like I did.

Thank you so much for the opportunity to read and review this book!

Drive Me Crazy is a super cute F1 romance that I think any F1 fan would enjoy! Even if you’re not into F1, the romance & story hooks you in! I loved to see the personal growth that Chloe demonstrated by the end of the book, we love a strong confident FMC!

This was a really fun read! I felt like the book flew by and I love childhood friends to lovers. I love the thrill of F1 and forbidden romance, it hit both those perfectly. I loved have a strong FMC in a position of power over the MMC and how they supported each other in a sticky situation. Matt falling pathetically in love with her and being confused by it was funny. Once he accepted it he was DOWN BAD. Overall I had a fun time and I’d read another Lizzie Dent book!

This was a cute and easy read. I love a sports romance and I love that this was F1, despite me knowing very little about the sport. Lizzy Dent did a wonderful job portraying sport without it being the sole focus of the story.

Chloe and Matt are childhood friends turned frenemies when he ditches her to join F1, leaving her behind for years. Chloe gets hired as the team principal that Matt then gets hired to race for after a tragic event derailed his career with his old team. With both of them working on the same team, and unresolved feelings and conflicts between the two MCs, they have to learn to rekindle their relationship for the sake of their team.

I appreciate how this book touched on the challenges women face when working in male-dominated fields, showing how hard Chloe has to work to assert herself and earn the respect of her team and the media.

While this wasn’t my favorite book ever, and was a little slow for me in the middle, I still thoroughly enjoyed it and found myself smiling at the dynamic between Chloe and Matt.

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve become more interested in F1 so was excited to receive an ARC of this book! I thought there was a good balance between romance, plot and sport and appreciated the female representation in a typically male dominated arena. This was fun but overall I wasn’t absolutely blown away by the— at times the conversation and dialogue felt a little forced. Will return to this author though and would recommend if you’re interested!

This was super cute! I really enjoyed it and thought it was a great balance between plot, character growth, and romance.

I was already a little skeptical about this one considering it is a romance book about F1, which I historically am not super into. I figured since I love me a hockey romance and I sure as shit have never skated a day in my life, maybe it would be okay that I don't follow the sport. The issue in the end turned out to be the romance, not the race cars. This suffered from the classic problem of many a second chance romance where the author doesn't put enough work into building a basis for a romantic relationship cause they think the fact that the FMC and MMC have known each other forever is enough to convince the reader they should be together. I loved her last book so this was certainly a letdown :(

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the electronic arc in exchange for an honest review.

As an F1 fan, I was really looking forward to reading Drive Me Crazy by Lizzy Dent. I'm so happy to say that the book felt like watching a Grand Prix—it was exciting, full of twists and you never knew what was going to happen. I loved the development of both characters, and even the side characters had excellent story lines. Truly loved this book.

Rounded down from 3.5 stars. This is only my second outing with Lizzy Dent after reading The Summer Job. Sports romances can be tricky, but Dent did a good job balancing the romance and sport aspects of this book. I got to know enough about F1 to understand what was going on and enough about Chloe and Matt’s past to establish their complicated feelings toward one another from the jump. While the romance was cute I feel this book could have benefitted from focusing more on Chloe’s struggles as a woman trying to claw her way up in a male dominated sport. At first she comes off as determined albeit a bit nervous in the beginning and as the story goes on she becomes fairly unsure of herself when the focus shifts to Matt’s personal problems. It would have been great to see the focus on Chloe coming into her own and becoming more sure of herself in the F1 world with the romance intertwined. There is a cycle Matt and Chloe go through which felt repetitive as they try to navigate working together and their feelings. Would have liked some more tension between the two of them give their past as teens to add some conflict. Overall, this was a fun and entertaining read with some solid secondary characters.

This story was so cute and fun and will be published later this year. Chloe Coleman, the first female team principle of a F1 team, is reunited with her childhood crush, Matt Warner, when he’s transferred as a washed-up driver to her racing team. If you saw the F1 movie and wanted more of the Brad Pitt romance, this is the book for you! Lizzy Dent really knows racing and does a great job introducing the reader to the world of F1. It was a bit slower paced, so took me some time to return to, but ultimately I enjoyed it. Thank you Net Galley for the arc in exchange for an honest review!

I have previously read one Lizzy Dent book that I enjoyed. When I saw this book, I was excited to see a racing romance. I thought the premise behind this romance was believable with characters that come together in a natural way. The banter and relationship development is nicely done and the book reads really quickly. This book makes me think I need to read more Lizzy Dent books so I'll be revisiting her backlist in the near future.

Sports? Romance? Count me in! I absolutely enjoyed this book! As a general fan of sports romance books it was fun being transported into a sports world I was not familiar with. This book felt like a behind the scenes of the F1 world and went into the mental capacity to perform in this sport, not just as an athlete but as a team leader. And as a woman in the sport. Since this was a new to me sport I felt I got a decent introduction into what this world is like and what all is involved from training as a kid to performing on a world stage. Before this book I had no idea so much went into this sport. It has so many different aspects to it from business to engineering to training both mentally and physically and this book highlighted all this while bringing the drama and the romance. I loved the female perspective of it and that it was a female leader in a heavily dominated male sport. It showed how the sport may not always be ready for female athletes but there are other ways woman can still be part of the sport they love and what they still deal with no matter their role simply because they are a woman. It had me wanting to be apart of this world so much I started to watch the F1 docuseries on Netflix. Now I am an F1 fan and it is all thanks to this book.

If you enjoy sports (especially racing or cars), drama, and romance then you need to make this your next read. It will be a fun ride.

Okay, I went into this expecting a cheesy F1 romance but it was worse!! I am an actual F1 girlie and I was not able to handle this at all. Kinda boring and repetitive.

such a fun book! not usually a fan of second chance romances but i loved how obsesses he was with her. def want more in this universe!

This was good! I am not an F1 girl but this had me HOOKED! The tension was so good and I am such a big fan of character redemption and growth!

I knew this would be a cheesy f1 romance but… yeah lol it started off good and then just got super repetitive. The saaaaame plot points being used over and over with little to no character growth. I swear there’s no actual movement in the plot until about 80%. You’re just reading the same fight, same conversation, over and over again. I did love the racing bits but I wish we got more of the Matt and Noah mentorship dynamic and just more character development from Matt overall before the bitter end.

Thanks to NetGalley for the arc!

It was a cute read, and the racing scenes were engaging and full of tension. I appreciated that there were also more than just a couple; that way the F1 racing was still a focus.

The romance wasn't the best, in my opinion. They kept talking about how they have to sneak around and no one can know but also 99% of their romantic interactions were in public locations, so I'm not sure how they were never caught. And the way this problem was solved didn't seem that feasible because of how much they struggled with the concept of privacy. Additionally, it felt like there was a big secret in the beginning about why Chloe didn't like Matt at the end of their original friendship/beginning of the book. But we never find out why??? She went to his leaving party which he didn't know about and once he learned she did there was no follow-up or questioning why she went but didn't actually go inside. From there, it seems Jack had said something to make her upset? And then she left? And then Matt didn't talk to her ever again so she was mad?? But it feels like I'm still missing pieces, unfortunately.

I enjoyed Arden and its owner Barry; I didn't like him at first but he got better and turned out to be nice and fun. I wish we could see more of him, just to better see how he was originally versus how he was later.

My biggest issue was that there was a whole plot point about Chloe lacking the courage to stand up for herself and assert her position - but that was never resolved. What happened to that one strategist who constantly disrespected her or fought her decisions? She kept saying she'd get rid of him but never did? Where was the follow-up about how he was mocking her or not paying attention???