First off, thank you to Storm Publishers for the advanced copy.

This book was so wonderful! Small town vibes, an enemies to lovers and queer? Say less! Will grew up told what was expected of him, and he didn't want to be a farmer like his family. He branches out on his own, and unfortunately his father disowned him for it.

He comes back when his father passed away and meets Casey. He feels an instant connection to him and Casey felt the same way until he finds out why he is there. The banter between the characters was amazing, the journey and things that happen in the story kept me hooked and smiling throughout. It was a wonderful debut and I highly recommend it!

📖 Bookish Thoughts
Unfortunately, Fall Into You just didn’t click for me.
I had a hard time connecting to the characters, and the chemistry between them felt a little flat. It also felt longer than it needed to be. I think the story would’ve been stronger if it were tighter by about 100 pages.

That said, I know a lot of readers love small-town settings, slow burn romance, and second chance themes, so I could definitely see this working for the right audience. It just didn't quite land for me.

📖 Final Score: 3 stars
📅 Pub Date: June 18, 2025
Thank you to Storm Publishing and NetGalley for the advanced copy. All thoughts are my own.

The typos in the script were extremely distracting and prevented an easy read. It is however a gentle feel good factor book and a pleasant story and read

This was a lovely, feel good story brought up by an autocratic father and an inheritance he couldn't face. eventually he returns on the death of his father and starts a completely new life. A very rewarding story with lots of ups and downs, finishing with a lovely conclusion.. Great read!

Cute and easy to read, but the spark didn’t fully land for me. Still, the cozy setting and slow-burn vibes make it a pleasant escape.

Will, who is long estranged from his father and the apple orchard on which he was raised, finally returns to sell it after his father's death. Once there, he meets Casey, who as been in charge of managing the orchard during his father's decline and after his death. The two men instantly form a connection that turns to discord once they figure out who the other actually is. This book is more about dealing with your past then an actual romance. The two men have a good rapport that is sometime sped over in favor of more rumination about the past. The narrator, Will, goes on a lot of tangents and the book felt a lot longer than it actually was. That said, the book was enjoyable.

As another reviewer stated, I loved the idea, I just didn't like the execution as much.

It was pleasant read, I enjoyed the characters individually I just felt like they didn't have that much chemistry in terms of being in a relationship. There was some good humour throughout the book I just don't think it was for me personally.

I really wanted to read this book, but unfortunately the typos in the digital copies were super distracting. For some reason anytime there was supposed to be the letters FL it was replaced by the letter F and some sort of symbol. I assume that will be fixed before the book is released so I'm hoping to really dive into it then.

i love discovering new queer authors who is this specific brand of my liking and like a landslide, being enamored of them.

dylan morrison's voice is so refreshingly charming, elegant, and absurdly pretty, and ridiculously charming (did i mention that before?), its texture smooth and buttery but also sharpened with a blade, kneaded with a high amount of humor and wit into this incredible mix that, again, is the exact ratio of my preference.

and i mean HIGH amount of humor. i was constantly barking out a laugh every other page. honestly, i haven't had such a brilliant blend of funny and (relatively) somber in a while and it was so invigorating.

it's about will, a scientist/botanist, who comes back to his family farm after hearing about the death of his father, with whom he's been estranged for over a decade, and needing to decide to sell the farm, much to the distaste of the farm manager. a farm manager who's the personification of a sunshine except when it comes to will.

i connected to will on a molecular level and immediately rooted for him. his whole character just hit a little hard for me not to feel decimated: either by will pursuing his passion of academia and scientific study and research into apples (i know way too much about apples now) or his strained and almost nonexistent relationship with his father. it was painful and yet validating to see the way the author charted their history, father who cannot let their children be their own person, have their own life, who impose their expectations on their children without any emotional input or output to stabilize their childhood, and the debilitating way it can affect a child and alienate them. the consequences of a parenting that's burdened by their own past and mistakes.

the grumpy/sunshine enegry was unmatched. i loved how will and casey's animosity gradually settled and then flickered out and then grew into something intense and profound like friendship and attraction and there was also the aspect of /being stuck together in the town in a natural disaster and having to rescue people together/ and ngl, i didn't know i was a fan of that theme in a way until i read it in flirting with disasters and here.

so really this was an amazing debut and romance and i cannot wait to read the author's next work!!

This book was a beautifully tense enemies to lovers that starts out as a slow burn but definitely gains traction as the story progresses. While both characters were well developed, I found myself frustrated by Will (which may have been the point). The romance was swoon worthy!

Three and a half stars.
A decent easy read which I enjoyed on the whole, Will is returning back to his childhood farm where he left behind a lot of bad memories and is faced with Casey, the man behind the running of the family farm since Will's father passed away. Initially, they clash, but eventually emotions get the better of them. It didn't grip me as much as some other novels but it was OK. Thanks to Net Galley for the advanced copy.

I love a good enemies-to-lovers trope, and this story had me hooked from start to finish.

Will made me want to shake and hug him at the same time. Going back home after two decades away, he is ready to tie up loose ends and get back to his city life. His trip was filled with nostalgia and the mixed emotions of being back at the farm he was so desperate to leave. There, he meets Casey, who is wholly content living the life that Will never wanted. Their chemistry was undeniable, and it was so sweet to watch the tension between them melt into something deeper.

There was a lot to unpack in this story: family expectations, grief, and identity. Yet, the way the story unfolded felt really authentic and was nicely paced. The apple farm setting added a cozy feel. It made me want to travel to Glenriver to experience it.

This was such a sweet, cozy story that brought all the small town nosiness that I love.

Thank you, NetGalley and Storm Publishing, for this ARC.

I started this book at 11pm, thinking I would read for an hour and then go to bed. I did not go to bed. I read until 3 in the morning. It was that good. I absolutely adored this book and the more nuanced look it took at family. If I had to sum it up, I would say that this is a self-aware hallmark movie in book form, but one that explores overcoming childhood trauma, and the nuanced dynamics of families, and familial expectations and how those things shape us into adults, and shape our lives.

The animosity between Will and Casey feels real, and is rooted in a realistic misunderstanding, and the way that they thaw for each other is likewise rooted in a mutual uncovering of the circumstances that led to the misunderstanding. It felt very realistic to me, or at least as realistic as a hallmark-esque book can be.

Fall into You had its moments—I really liked some of the emotional depth and the chemistry between the main characters in certain scenes. Morrison has a way with words that pulls you in now and then, and there were a few chapters that really hit. That said, the pacing felt a bit off for me, and I didn’t fully connect with the story as a whole. It wasn’t a bad read, just not one that totally stuck with me. A decent pick if you're in the mood for something mellow and romantic, but not one I’d rush to recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley for allowing me to read this ARC.

what a lovely read. i immediately fell in love with will, a neurotic weirdo, and was rooting for him from page one. casey was such a lovely surprise — capable but not without his own baggage. i loved how realistic it felt that both men had Issues stemming from how they grew up that resulted in different approaches to life, and that they were able to work with and through it together. and above all, this book is funny. morrison has such a specific cadence with his sentences and a great sense of humor and it made for a very enjoyable read. i just felt such joy with this!

I so wished I loved this book more, but it felt like page after page of internal monologue and the love interest felt so flat. I knew this was a romance but there wasn't really a whole ton of tension or build up. It just felt like your average romance to me unfortunately. HEA and low stakes.

Loved the idea, didn't like the execution as much.

The characters were my main issue with this book. I loved the whole YA vibe, but I feel it could've worked better if Will, specifically, were younger. He was just really immature, especially with how he handled the selling-the-farm situation. I understand if the author intended to create a quirky character with social anxiety, but Will was straight up irresponsible and unempathetic.

My other issue with the book was the romance, or the lack of it. I would've loved to see more development in Will and Casey's relationship. The book is marketed as enemies-to-lovers, but I would say that the tension between them is only a dislike, not really 'enemies', and it lacks the longing that an enemies-to-lovers should have. Also, I didn't like that they waited so much to talk about the elephant in the room, when that should've been their first conversation when they ended up having to live together. They barely knew a thing about each other, and somehow were already in love?

I don't think it was a bad book at all. The story was interesting, and I really wanted to know more about both characters' backstories, and this is something that motivated me to keep reading. I think the side characters were interesting, and I loved the small-town vibes!

After his controlling father dies, botanist Will returns to the family apple farm he ran away from years before and has to face his traumas and how he's handled them, if he wants to finally be happy.

Will was a well-developed and interesting character and the author did well incorporating Will's past traumas into the storyline especially by utilizing Will's childhood home and apple orchard to evoke his feelings of pain and regret in a tangible sense.

Will's relationship with Casey, who besides a few anecdotes about his childhood was a touch underdeveloped, tended to be on the back burner, which for a "Romance Book" seemed rather unfocused.

I read some descriptions describing this as a feel-good enemies to lovers rom-com, I would instead describe it as a melancholy drama with only some romance.

For an enemies to lovers story, none of the fights felt real, or the issues meaningful enough for Will and Casey to be arguing about. Most of the supporting characters were rather underdeveloped, which sadly meant that they just read as annoying. The pace was slow due to the almost constant inclusion of mansplaining sentences from the omniscient narrator telling us some unimportant random detail that broke any tension and slowed down the pacing of the book while the many over-detailed jokes tended to fall flat for me as they were often too long and lacked punch.

An earnest personal story with some good points that ultimately did not work for me.

Thank you, NetGalley and Storm Publishing, for the e-arc.

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!!!!! I'm sorry this is pretty late into the month :')

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3.5

I want to first thank Storm Publishing and NetGalley for giving me the chance to review this book.

**NOTE**: I didn't comment on the fact that it's a LGBTQ+ book because in the end, it is still a romance book and I'm treating it as such. I don't think I have a right to comment too much on it because I'm an ally, and can't speak for LGBBTQ+, but I do appreciate the support and acceptance there was for the community. I guess this is my comment for the LGBTQ+ mentioned in this review. Thank you [author: Dylan Morrison|7760851] for bringing this book to life. I believe it will resonate with a lot of readers.

**NOTE #2**: I am deeply sorry if I offend anyone in this review.

"I think for a lot of people, it's easier to just live with what hurts than face the effort of trying to change it. They'd rather do what they know, even if all they know is suffering."

Wow this book was...something. Not in a bad way though. I had a lot of fun reading it, and even went on longer than I planned to read, to read it because I was so invested towards the end, I had to finish it.

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"Is <i>anyone</i> morally correct, really?"

The characters were okay. I think that might be due to me being annoyed with Will, but also this could be because I couldn't relate to him. I felt a little disconnected from him. I liked Casey's character and really appreciate the work he's put into the farm. I also liked reading about Will's surprised self when he basically inspected the farm and all the changes that had been done to it. I honestly believe Will never truly hated the farm because they were known for apples, right? How is it he hated the farm, but went into studying apples?

"I'm not one for tiptoeing around issues until they blow up in my face."

One thing I didn't like (this is kind of a kudos to the author) is how quotable the book is. It's my fault because I log everything manually. Like I write down every quote that interests me in a book. Basically I have an annotation book, where I write my thoughts, feelings, quotes, and descriptions of words that are new to me. I believe that's what took me so long to finish reading, because half of the "reading time", I was writing down quotes. I think this is a good thing for the reader itself because I feel like it will resonate with the reader. I'm just being annoying about having to (not really but I feel the need to) write down all these longer quotes that piqued my interest.

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"But the idea was that what made a human being a human being on a fundamental level, was the ability to look at almost any given situation and figure out a way not to just get on with it, but to forget there was ever a time before it was <i>normal</i>."

I'm gonna be honest, reading the connotation of them sleeping together made this book for me. I don't know if it's just me, but it was a breath of fresh air not having to read the exact intimate moments. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with smut, but it kind of isn't for me. I'll still read anything with it, it's just not my favourite thing to read.

"It wouldn't be worth it, to go upsetting the equilibrium over something that, at least to Will and at least right now, doesn't matter very much at all."

One thing I'll say about this book is that the beginning was slow. I understand that there needs to be context about the character, it just felt like everything moved so slowly. Maybe I'm just a reader who likes to see more of the story progressing, but it did maybe after the first...third(?) of the book. I do want to add that because of so, I understood the main character more, but I think it moved too slowly in the beginning.

"I feel. As though it would be nice. For things to... stop for a minute or two"

All in all, I appreciated the opportunity to read this book. Romance isn't my biggest cup of tea, but I'm glad I liked it. Thank you so much, and if you read this to the end, thank you for giving me your time. I feel this book can resonate so much with readers who enjoy enemies to lovers.

I would love to read this, but the ARC has an unfortunate feature that seems like a result of somebody doing a find-and-replace on "fi" with "!" so every instance of e.g. "first" reads as "!rst," "fight" as "!ght" and so on. This is intensely distracting and I find myself unable to get past it. I'll try again when this book has been published, at which point I hope this error will have been corrected.