This is a good book. The two main characters are Olivia and Ryan. They have known each all their lives. Olivia is a professional dog walker. Ryan is a movie star. He just finished a movie and has returned to his hometown to help raise money for the theater. They are auctioning off a dinner date with Ryan. Olivia’s friends buy her the dinner date with Ryan. While on the date they get handcuffed, no one has the key. They go five days without it. They lots of difficult situations, but they manage. They fall in love.

Hooked on Hollywood was cute, but not a book that I would want to come back and read again. I feel like insta-love only works if it's for the purpose of sex scenes, and as this is a closed door romance, it didn't make sense with the overall feeling of the novel.

Ich weiß ehrlich gesagt nicht, wie ich dieses Buch bewerten soll, da ich es aufgrund relativ kurzer Ausleihdauer (ohne Verlängerung) nicht lesen konnte.

This was a light and enjoyable book which kept you reading on. It was a cute and cheesy rom com following Olivia and Ryan. while I felt this book could have had more potential it was overall an easy enjoyable romance read.

Your typical romance novel. Very cute and cheesy moments and perfectly did the small town romance and ex best friends trope. I just felt like so many other books I read.

Her celebrity crush becomes her enemy. She can’t forgive him for a scandal that took place. There’s an auction and her friends win her a date with him. They get handcuffed together and can’t find the key. This book was so good, so funny, and so addicting. I gave it 5 stars and I highly recommend it.

This was a great book. I connected with the characters. I felt engrossed with the plot. I would read another book by this author.

2.0 stars!

Hooked on Hollywood is a light-hearted romance read that follows Olivia Bloom and Hollywood actor Ryan Jones, both back in their hometown—Olivia after a bad breakup and Ryan to recover his public image—and get handcuffed to each other for days after an auction dinner date for the community theater.

While an easy read, this book felt flat. It needed more depth with its characters and storytelling. Everything was too convenient or instant with adult characters being too juvenile. I wanted more tension and exploration, an unpredictable plot, and chemistry.

Although, I see the potential for the story or that this would be enjoyable for someone looking for a quick and cute read but overall, I found this very lackluster.

HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD was a light, cute read and sometimes that's exactly what you need.

Our love interests had to navigate the ins and outs of a small town and Hollywood all while handcuffed to each other.

This was an interesting premise as the plot covers a week of events between Olivia and Ryan. The two had an encounter in the fourth grade. All these years later neither have forgotten that Sock Hop.

I thought the book needed a tad more spice and chemistry between the two. Yet this was still a fun story.

Thank you NetGalley and Sterling & Stone for an e-copy of HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD to review.

I rate HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD four out of five stars.

Really.liked this book. Cute little rom-com. I loved the storyline was great and the characters were great. Had some.humor

ok, this book had moments that were really good, but lacked the connection I was looking for. Handcuffed to each other?? Really, seems like this was so over the top, that you have to work harder to include in everything. I thought Ryan's character was kind of ding dong. LOL

This is my first book by Mia, so I am not giving up that quickly I am going to read what she does next because I believe she has room for improvement.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sterling & Stone for a copy of this book for my honest review.

Olivia Bloom just won the jackpot: a dinner date with her former childhood crush and now Hollywood hunk Ryan Jones. The only problem? She hates him. And those handcuffs that were supposed to be “just for show” aren’t coming off.

After discovering her fiancé’s affair, Olivia retreats to her small hometown and swears off anything to do with love. Unfortunately, her well-meaning friends have just the plan to pull Olivia out of her funk – they’ll pool their money at a silent auction and win the big prize: a one-on-one date with Olivia’s celebrity crush, Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Jones.

Charming leading man Ryan Jones credits his love of acting to his childhood community theater teacher. When he hears that the theater might close, he volunteers to be auctioned off for a dinner date, where he’ll be handcuffed to the winner. The last person he expects to win the bid is the one girl he never forgot.

The date goes poorly – ever since a terrible video of Ryan went viral, Olivia can’t see him as anything other than an egotistical jerk.

Things go from bad to worse when they learn the key is missing – and they’ll be locked together for the next five days.

And worse than that – Olivia’s starting to catch feelings for the man she’s shackled to. Will being stuck together become the spark that reignites old feelings, or will it only drive them apart forever?

Loved, loved, loved the story of Olivia and Ryan

I really wanted to love this book but unfortunately between the sloppy writing (at one point a character was called Linda and I couldn't figure out who this was and then realized that it was a typo and should have been Lydia or that the author couldn't keep track of the costume that the main character was wearing having it go back and forth between a police officer costume and a robber costume) and lots of little missing connecting words like a, and, the and then which made the book harder to read. There also seemed to be some issues with the time line. I wish the author had just taken a bit more time to review/proof the book before it was published as the story had a lot of potential.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.

2.75 ⭐️

The book follows Olivia and her childhood acquaintance, Ryan when they are accidentally handcuffed together. Ryan is a celebrity returning to his hometown to help the local theater and Olivia is staying with her mom after a failed engagement.

Overall the book was cute and very hallmark-esque. It fell short for me due to the lack of flushed out scenes and ideas. I feel like there could have been so much more detail added. On the positive side, it was an easy read with likable main characters.

This is definitely a sloowww burn. If you’re into very cheesy romances, this could be a good read for you!

My opinion of this book is that it is a very cute slow burn romance. I loved Olivia and Ryan’s characters and their relationship development. If you love slow burns I would say this book is something you’d like. I also liked how moments from their childhoods were brought to the present to bring the story together.

This was a cute romcom! Olivia ends up handcuffed to her celebrity crush thanks to her well meaning friends. Even worse the key to the handcuffs is missing so they are locked together for a few days. I liked the characters and the setting was great. Overall a fun story!

Here we have a cute rom-com that was easy to follow which lead it to be a quick read.
The chemistry between the characters was good and they felt real even though some might say they didn't always acted their age.

If you are a fan of books that includes small town, fake relationship and closed door romance then this might be a good fit for you especially if you are enjoying Hallmark movies.

Wonderful story, great character development, great writing! Highly recommend this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it

Mia Summers vividly illustrated a cute romantic comedy. The readability was straightforward. It didn’t leave you guessing on who was talking. Overall, a 5/5 star read with a reallly good push and pull banter throughout.