I found the writing hard to follow and the characters were just awful. Caleb was a jerk and while I sometimes enjoy forced proximity, not everything is as it seems romance, this book just didn't do it for me. I found myself not caring if the main characters ended up falling in love much less tolerating/liking each other. This book was not for me.

Bellamy's character is relatable to some people where she sees book characters as being real and her own little world and how it is so common for introverted people to read books and not explore the world around them.

She progresses towards the end of the book being more confident. I find the bucket list emphasises this when this is added in. Maybe she wouldn't have done everything on the bucket list without caleb with her Anxiety and overthinking.

I love the quote in the book about overthinking, I find this very relatable:
"My guess would be acknowledging your feelings; ask yourself if you have any control of the situation. If you do, then do something and stop worrying. If you don't, then stop worrying because whatever happens is going to whether you stress about it or not."

I expected bellamy to fall for caleb as he looks like her dream guy that she made up from her book, how great is that to see your dream guy in real life?

I really liked that bellamy and caleb weren't friends at first and didn't get on with each other as their opposite personalities clashed.

Bellamy, her best friend, Caleb and his manager were all living in each others pockets you'd think that they'd argue a bit more. Even Bellamy and l her best friend didn't really have an argument after living with each other for months on the book tour and being her manager they wouldn't have agreed on everything.

The odds of her best friend falling for the models manager/best friend too and all being around the same age. It wouldn't really happen where both best friends liked the other best friends in the group with it being just the four of them.

Beauty and the Book Boyfriend was exactly what I wanted from an adult cheesy romance novel. I identified so much with Bellamy Strong and her anti-social attitude that just got 100x worse when she became famous. The romance was cheesy as hell but it was adorable too, so obviously I loved it. Highly recommended.

I love when the heroines are writers and write/dream about book boyfriends which is what we like to gush about when talking about our "book boyfriends." This was a cute, sweet story. The mental health rep was portrayed accurately which is appreciated.

Something about this just didn’t work for me. I don’t know if it was that I just couldn’t ‘believe’ the story line and that made it hard for me to really engage with the book or if it was more to do with the pacing of the story that just didn’t work for me. I was unable to post a review of it as I didn’t enjoy it. Thanks

I didn't find this quite engaging. The use of offensive words from the leads make it less romantic. Maybe that was how the characters were meant to be but it isn't pleasing to read.

This book was kind of odd in the sense that it could be very unrealistic...but somehow was also very endearing. I went back through and read all of my favorite parts several times.

I was so excited for this after reading the blurb but was left feeling a little disappointed. I enjoyed it but was left feeling like their relationship was very rushed. It was still a very enjoyable sweet story though and would definitely read more from this author.

Bellamy/Bell had severe social anxiety. It started in H S as she was a very awkward teen and ended up a very awkward adult. It didn’t help that Bell’s parents had been prom king and queen and were very social people Bell felt no one was understanding of her problems she had deep fears going out in public and doing social things. Bell has one best friend Nate and two imaginary characters as her friends.As a way to cope with her loneliness she writes about her alter ego Makyla who is a vampire slayer. This turns Bell into a best selling author. Bell got drunk on her birthday and ended up signing a contract that she would go on a book tour. So Bell meets with Nate who is her roommate, best friend, and assistant. But Nate tells Bell there is nothing she can do she has to go on the book tour. Nate will go on the book tour with Bell and Nate points out it would be good for Bell to meet her fans. It is to be a three month tour and the publishers came up with the idea Bell will pose as Makyla and a model will be picked by the fans that they feel best portrays Max the hero of the series. Then the fans get it right Caleb looks, acts, and speaks like Max. Caleb hates his job and he has to pretend he is someone he isn’t. Even though Caleb has looks. money, and praise Caleb is still a lonely man. Caleb was used to people seeing him as someone else . He was to scared to follow his dream. Scared of what people may think of him. Caleb is intelligent but people only take him for his looks. Caleb was a butt at first bad Bell was rude right back. But as time goes on they become friends then lovers. Logan is Caleb’s personal assistant and will be traveling with them also. Bell learns to see the real Caleb and he helps Bell get past her social anxiety and let go of the old things and be herself. Bell learns to do what she wants and not care about what others think.
I really loved this book. But there were mistakes that were a little difficult to overlook like one time Caleb's hair is described as being dark auburn then another it is mentioned about his light hair. It can be a little confusing but I got past it. This book had a good plot and I liked the pace. I loved that Caleb and Bell didn’t jump right into a sexual relationship and love but first their relationship was a little rocky became friends and it went from there.to lovers. It was more realistic that way. At times I choked up while reading this book and at others I chuckled. I loved how Caleb and Bell worked on their issues together . I liked the characters in this book a lot as well as the ins and outs and I recommend.

Really didn't connect with the characters in this one and wound up stopping about 45% through it.
It felt like YA fanfiction.

Some of my notes: Why is there so little about their interactions? Dialogue felt too. Everything is very thrown together feeling and disconnected. They are already falling in love after bickering for a bit and talking a litgtle about themselves? Also quick how they went from hating each other to BFFs....

Very fun, sweet story. Bellamy has always seen herself as weird, so much that she created a friends and world to keep her company, she turned them into a series of books. She and her best friend set off on a book tour, one glitch, she is joined by Caleb, the model for Max the hero of her books. Bell sees Caleb as a shallow pretty boy, she struggles to play Makyla to Caleb's Max, the couple in her books, Caleb rubs her the wrong way. As the trip continues their best friends quickly get together leaving Caleb and Bell as a couple. She wants to fight her feelings for him but Caleb turns out the be a lot more thoughtful than his persona would lead you to believe.
I enjoyed the story, Caleb drew me in quickly with his sense of humor. Bellamy took a little longer because she seemed to be walled off, slowly it was chipped away. I enjoyed the word play between Bell and Caleb as well as the humor through out the book.

I just couldn't get into this book. I made it about 15% into the book before calling it quits. It just seemed really hard to like the main guy, since he was so rude to her when they first met. Some books just aren't for me.

A great story about self discovery and finding love. Opposites can attract with explosive chemistry and steamy sex! Must read.

"Light golden skin is stretched tightly over his muscles, and even though he is wearing a loose work out tank and track pants, I can tell he’s hard all over. I can tell because that’s how I wrote him. I’ve known him for almost ten years now."

Okay, this book was stinking cute. To be honest, as soon as I read the synopsis I was like eeeek yay. Bellamy Strong is a successful writer and is setting out on a tour for her series for the first time. Her publishers decide that along with book signings they would have her star as the heroine and find a model that looks like the hero of her book for the tour. Shy Bellamy has to deal with her expectations of her come to life hero and how to get out of the shell she has built around herself and grow.

The idea of the story was stellar. The entire time I pictured someone like SJM getting to go on tour with a Rhysand look alike. *The most beautiful man she’s ever seen* Gosh, just the idea is swoon worthy. Can I please have a three month tour with a hottie of my making by my side? I loved that the book boyfriend was nothing like the character that Bellamy had imagined and in fact had his own personality.

Caleb, the guy who is hired to model as the character Max is a hottie & the sexual tension that builds between him and Bellamy is hot. I love that they didn’t hit it off and have to be friends before they can even move onto romance. The initial hotness of course is scoured as soon as he opens his mouth. But it’s not until they are forced to sit in a car together for the lengthy road trip that they get along by some sort of peace treaty.

One of my qualms with the story is that their relationships progressed rather quickly so there was a slight lull in the middle. Luckily, the last 20% skim by really fast, and not in the ‘well that ended abruptly’ sort of way. In a, eek, this is hot, flip flip flip, awwwww, flip flip flip, ending. And though it ended the way I anticipated it ending, it was still rather sweet.

My other qualm with the story was the lack of bickering. I would expect that spending nearly every minute with the same set of 4 people would cause some sort of animosity. Instead, the characters just grew closer and closer. But really, even with the people I most adore, you have to have some personal space. I would have liked it a little bit better if tempers rose and people got a little tired of being with each other. It would have seemed a little more realistic.

I'm a sucker for fairy tale re-tellings - even if they are very loosely based. Beauty and the Book Boyfriend is one of those loosely based on the story of Beauty and the Beast. What I found kind of great was that Bellamy aka Bella (aka beauty) took the traits of both Beauty AND the Beast as does Caleb.

This book was a lot longer in length than I expected, but it flowed smoothly. The reader is given enough time to really enjoy and appreciate the characters and their growth. I love when you get to see characters actually evolve.

Bellamy is an anxious and lonely girl who grew up to be an anxious and semi lonely woman who writes a best-selling series. It's finally time for her to tour and she, drunkenly, agrees to tour with a model who looks like her book's love interest. When Bellamy first meets Caleb - it's confusion at first sight (because he really looks like what she envisions her leading man to look like), and then hate at second sight. Unfortunately, Caleb seems to be an arrogant and petulant man. Bellamy has to get over it, however, because she's playing the role of Makyla, the lead character of her books. Yay.

Aside from the awesome character development, what I thought was truly the best part of this book was the care taken with Bellamy's anxiety problems. The author did not gloss over Bellamy having an anxiety problem, or didn't make it disappear easily. Bellamy's anxiety evolved just as she did. And how much did I love that Caleb tried to understand and, therefore, helped her with that anxiety? A LOT.

This is a great love story that showcases character growth - major plus for the inclusion and understanding of anxiety in the lead character's part!

I was pulled in right away, and I could not get enough!
The back and forth banter was so much fun and had me laughing from the start.

I loved how I could relate to the main character Bellamy. How she is shy and scared to step out of her comfort zone, anxiety ridden, but with one drunken night everything changes. In her drunken state she signed her self up for a book tour to promote her last book in her mega series; Makyla & Max - as a kid Bell did not fit into the world she was born into, with a her mother being prom queen and her father prom king it was like a barbie and ken world and she was the quite, meek girl who wrote adventures about two friends who conquer the world together. Makyla and Max become Bell’s friends in the time she has no real ones.
Through out the book you will see how Bell overcomes and breaks out of her shell, with the help of her real life Max (Caleb).

Caleb’s has a stand off-ish vibe, the jerk at first glance and he plays into it well, with years of practice. Trying to work through his own struggles, he takes it upon himself to help his new (boss AKA Bell) as the model for her book series during her book tour. He helps pull Bell out of her shell and in the process you fall in love with him.

This adorable love story makes me wish it was my own.

Plus Natalie & Logan are an added bonus of laughs and love. The both help enrich the story and keep things fun.


Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this book!
It is a new Favorite <3

A road trip fantasy with love hookups. There was a lot of stuff that easily could've put me off, such as the impossibleness of the situations and characters -- I know that is HUGE!, but I rolled with it to meet my obligation to review for NetGalley and kept reading in hopes that it got better. Clearly, K.M. likes her banter snappy and she tried to bring in some emotional heft, but the e-arc I read was littered with typos and a better editor may tell her to not try so hard <-- that sometimes a softer touch creates a more mature read. Now, when I mean mature, I do not mean that she'd skew it older than the New Adult crowd this may be targeted at. I mean, a smoother and more emotionally resonant story that'd score higher ratings. Overall, I've read worse and this semi-entertained.

I loved the premise and decided to read the sample and I was hooked. I didn't even finish the sample before I bought it-that is completely uncharacteristic for me I may add. Loved the main characters and their growth as well as the side characters and the humor throughout. Mild editing issues but didn't distract from the book at all. Well done-great read. Devoured in one night. Sorry for late review trying play catch up as I was in hospital and your book help my stay better so thanks and left Review on Amazon.uk

Reclusive author Bellamy Strong has lived vicariously through Makyla, her protagonist, for as long as she's been writing. While Bellamy suffers from severe social anxiety and panic attacks, Makyla isn't afraid to put herself out there. She's strong. She's cool. She's got a super-sexy love interest. And apparently, though she has no recollection of it, Bellamy has agreed to dress as Makyla and tour the country with a male model that looks just like Max, Makyla's love interest.

When Bellamy meets Caleb, the model hired to play Max, she can hardly speak. Even setting aside her social anxiety, she just has no idea what to do when she comes face-to-face with the man she dreamed up years ago. Caleb is Max. Then he opens his mouth. And Caleb is a jerk.

...Or is he? As Caleb and Bellamy drive across the country (accompanied by their assistants/best friends), they start to learn more about each other and form a tentative friendship. Soon, the two are inseparable. They're best friends. But what happens when feelings inevitably get involved?

Alright, so I picked this one up from Netgalley because I was intrigued by the premise. I mean, an author that has to cosplay her protagonist with a male model playing the love interest? It was either going to be great or it was going to be horrible, but either way, I wanted to read it. Surprisingly, it was neither great nor horrible. It was just somewhere in the middle.

The plot was interesting and nothing I've ever read before, although I'm not quite sure I fully believed in the premise. Surely there would be an issue with a contract that was signed under the influence? Surely if Bellamy had really put her foot down, they couldn't have required her to do the whole cosplay thing. If they could get a model to portray Max, I don't see why they couldn't get a model to portray Makyla. But regardless, I set that aside (or at least tried to) as I settled into the book.

Obviously, Bellamy and Caleb get off on the wrong foot. Caleb thinks that Bellamy is some sort of drooling fangirl and brushes her off. Bellamy is offended by Caleb's brush off and her social anxiety seems to fade away as she puts him in his place time and time again. (Arguably much more often than he deserves, but I guess that was their dynamic.) But then, suddenly, the two are bantering like old friends. Then they decide that they're best friends. Then they're making out and having sex and it all just seems to happen so fast. Like I could've blinked and missed the transition from absolutely despising each other to being head-over-heels in love.

I think that the point I'm trying to make is that the characters weren't consistent, which is probably my biggest complaint with this book. Is Bellamy a reclusive author who has panic attacks when she has to go into public or is she a feisty sex kitten who isn't afraid to go after what she wants? I couldn't tell, and at times, it felt like I was reading about two different people. Similarly, is Caleb a total jerk who hates his job or is he a sensitive, misunderstood teddy bear? The world may never know.

This review probably makes it sound like I disliked this book, and for that, I apologize. I actually really enjoyed this book and had a lot of fun while reading it. It was only after I finished that I really started thinking about what had happened and trying to piece these characters together. This is a really quick read that kept me interested and had me laughing out loud in almost every chapter. There were some issues with editing that I'm sure will be fixed in the final copy, and I'm sure that a lot of readers will be able to see past my criticisms and will love this book.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC!

Sadly, Bellamy and Caleb's story never came alive for me. Their connection never felt passionate even through all of the love/hate situations they went through. I always like books where a shy and somewhat insecure heroine comes out of her shell and meets a great hero. This one really ran the line between that dynamic. Bellamy was kind of one person in certain parts of the book and another in other parts. She was this shy homebody in much of the book and then would suddenly do or say these brash or rude things that didn't really match her personality at all. My biggest issue with this story was that I never felt anything for any of the characters. There just wasn't any connection as the reader to these people and their stories. The premise sounded really cute and fun but sadly it just didn't deliver on any of that for me.