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Libby Reed has been crushing on Antonio Moretti for the past few years and he’s been nothing but a jerk to her. While her two sisters, Fawn and Mac, are finding their true loves and building new lives she’s just sitting back staring googly-eyed at Antonio who won’t even give her the time of day. Suddenly Antonio is talking to her, complimenting her and being weirdly nice to her. Finally Libby has her chance with Antonio, but as soon as things get good Libby makes a decision that she knows Antonio won’t like and just might ruin it all.
Antonio Moretti’s noticed Libby Reed from the moment she walked into his parents’ pizza place but Libby’s high maintenance; being burned by his ex who was all about designer labels the last thing he needs is to get caught up with another materialistic woman who’ll eventually tell him he’s not good enough for her. After his father suffers a heart attack Antonio’s forced to run the one place he hates the most, the pizza parlor. To Antonio, this place ruined his childhood. It took his parents and any free time they could have spent with him. Now being forced to spend so much time with Libby, Antonio realized he might have judged her a bit too harshly. Libby is nothing like his ex and now that he has her, he won’t let her go. That is until he realizes Libby wants the one thing he can’t wait to remove from his life.
This is the third book in the Fluke My Life Series revolving around the Reed Sisters. What I like about these books was they kind of take place simultaneously. While you get some overlap in the story telling, you don’t feel like the stories are being retold. As much as I loved Levi and Wesley from Fawn and Mac’s stories, I was not a fan of Antonio. He was jerk! While I liked the story, I did not like him. I kind of wanted there to be another guy around so Libby could kick him to the curb and move on. It doesn’t matter that he fesses up in the end and admits how much of a turd he was, I haven’t bounced back from his rudeness to accept or appreciate his apology to Libby.
Other than Antonio, the other characters in the book were quite enjoyable. Mrs. Ina reappears with her sour-puss, but loveable at the same time, personality. Libby’s mom Katie is also back, with her over the top need to marry her daughters off. Not my favorite of the series but a pretty good read.
This book is the final one of the series about three sisters and their HEA's. Libby is the youngest but she has been a part of the first two stories so she is familiar. This book runs parallel for a bit with the other two books but then moves ahead in time. Regardless, the story is fresh because it is from Libby's POV.
Overall, this is a sweet romantic read. Antonio and Libby have feelings for each other over the years but both are fighting the attraction. It leads to some name calling and bad assumptions on both parts. The relationship remains tenuous as it moves forward because of secrets. Not my favorite bit of tension for a story and not the way for a relationship to thrive, but there it is.
Great to catch up on the sisters and their crazy family. LOVED the epilogue, of course. Good ending to the series.
This continues Reynolds’ series of “Fluke My Life” novels about three sisters and their romances. In this one the youngest sister, Libby, can’t figure why Antonio, the son of her local pizzaria’s owners can’t stand her when she’s such good friends with his parents. She’s so nice that she volunteers to work in the evenings after her daytime job when the father suffers a heart attack and can’t work in the pizzaria. Antonio is a jerk. He’s been mean to Libby ever since he met her because he’s attracted to her but thinks she’s shallow and just cares about buying expensive clothes and accessories. Then, once he realizes that she’s not like that, he still has trouble relating to her. He doesn’t want to get stuck working in his parents’ restaurant and just wants to keep working as a fireman.
Even after he and Libby start seeing each other, he still treats her pretty stupidly and doesn’t give her a chance to tell him something that is obviously important to her. Then he’s mean to her when he finally finds out what she was trying to tell him because she hadn’t told him sooner. I just wanted to smack him.
As in the previous books, the secondary characters are fun and the family relationships are loving and sweet.
I voluntarily reviewed an advanced reader copy of this book that I received from Netgalley; however, the opinions are my own and I did not receive any compensation for my review.
Aurora Rose Reynolds book are amazing stories. Libby doesn't understand why Antonio dislikes her. Antonio is good at hiding his feelings . A must read book.
“Whether you run into it, stumble into it, or get tossed into it, love has a way of finding you.”
This was the last installment of this series and it was cute! I love enemies to lovers and was looking forward to this story when we were introduced to Libby and Antonio in Stumbling into love, the Mack I love enemies to lovers!
Libby and Antonio were one of those couples where you just want them to open their eyes and see what’s in front of them. It was a fun ride reading about them coming into their feelings for one another.
There were a couple of things that kept me from loving it completely. First was that the writing was overly descriptive. Such as descriptions of her outfits down to what everyone looks like. I get that a little description is needed to for the reader to paint a picture in their mind but I couldn’t fully be in the story because of the info dumps. Also, it was quite predictable. I knew how the story was going to go in the first few chapters.
Now on to some happy gushing! As usual, ARR can write an overprotective alpha like nobody else and she did it again with Antonio. I loved seeing him get jealous and growly about Libby. My favorite part of the book had to be the chapters of what happens years later. Longer epilogues always put a smile on my face!
Overall, while I didn’t love it completely, this was a cute read and perfect for summer!
**Quote was taken from an ARC is subject to change upon publication.
This is the third and I'm scared that it will be the final book in the Fluke My Life series. Books one and two are a must to read this, as they are all returning characters. Along the journeys of books one and two, we see Libby on the sidelines, more so in book two than one, feeling left out when both her sister's find their princes and feeling unsettled in the life that she has made for herself. When finding out that the owner of the local pizzeria has had a heart attack, Libby makes sure that she is there to help in any way possible. Antonio doesn't want anything to do with the pizzeria, but until his parents can figure out what to do or his dad is well enough to come back, he is stuck working two jobs. Libby coming in and helping out doesn't exactly make his day. When he starts to see a different side of Libby, one that he didnt think was there, he realizes that maybe he was wrong, the only issue is will he be too late to claim what's his? For Libby, helping in the pizzeria has opened her eyes to what a new direction she wants to go, but will Antonio want to go in that direction with her?
This was such a good story, I loved every single bit of this! With funny laughing out loud moments, to sad and angry, sexy times that were hot and sweet, this story had me feeling all the feels. I give this 5 stars.
This was a light and quick read. I wasn't feeling the chemistry between the MC's, but I didn't realize this was the last in a series so I could have missed some previous interactions. The dialogue can be a bit juvenile at times with the back and forth. I enjoy this author but this one missed the mark for me.
Libby and Antonio were amazing characters. Aurora rose Reynolds is one of my favorite authors. Every release she has I have to tread.
Tossed Into Love is the third book in the series and it's Libby and Antonio. This might be my favorite in the series! I loved Libby and Antonio. Antonio was a serious jerk at times but he changed and turned all alpha swoony and made me love him more!! Libby, she was sweet and selfless! Libby and Antonio had amazing chemistry and hot hot sexy scenes! I loved them together. This was a must read!
This book both charmed me and frustrated me. I started with frustration, hated how Antonio jumped to conclusions about Libby and was an ass to her. I moved to charmed when Antonio realized he was wrong and turned up his game to woo Libby. During this time these two were cute and you had hope that Libby's new business venture wouldn't freak Antonio out. Sadly that didn't happen and frustration bubbled up again. I loved that everyone rallied around Libby to comfort her, all the while telling her that Antonio would come to his senses. And sure enough Antonio did and did so in a great way, one that made me forgive him for all of his asshole ways. I liked the last couple of chapters, loved the updates we got on this couple, but the best was the last with Grandma Ina.
This book is the third edition to this series. It features Libby and Antonio's love story.
Libby has had a crush on Antonio since she first laid eyes on him in his parents pizzeria a few years ago. Now with Antonio's father having medical issues, Libby decides to offer to help Antonio at the pizzeria. Antonio discovers that Libby is not the person he thought she was and since the two are working so closely now, they are able to act on their feelings.
This book was a great read. I have read all of the books in this series and definitely recommend all of them.
This is book 3 in the series about 3 sisters who find love. This is Libby's story and she is matched with Antonio whose family owns a pizza/Italian restaurant. He is a fire fighter but is helping out at his parents restaurant because his father had a heart attack.
Libby is a family friend who is also a hair dresser and she loves him parents alot. She has HUGE thing for Antonio but he seems to not know she is alive.
Antonio lusts for her too but she seems high maintance and his ex was like that so he has never gone after Libby until they start spending time together and he gets jealous.
This was a sweet and fun romance. It was fun watching Antonio give in to his attraction to Libby and watch them fall hard for each other.. It is a stand alone though I recommend you read the first two books in the series.
Running, Stumbling, Tossed
Whatever works for you. I am so in love with these stories. I love how each one leads into the next. Antonio and Libby were wonderful. The love they have for each other, and others, is what we all dream about.
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I love Aurora´s books. All of them. And this one was no different.
It was a sweet book. I loved Libby and Antonio, they complete each other perfectly.
He was the sour to her sweetness.
Tossed into Love is a wonderful enemies to lovers story.
Libby has always had a crush and lusted after Antonio a firefighter, but he has always treated her with disdain and never had a good word to say to her, when His father has a heart attack Antonio agrees to help out at his parents Pizza restaurant a place he hates as he feels his parents were always too busy working there to have time for him when he was growing up. Libby is very close to his parents and also offers to help out even though Antonio is of the opinion that she is too much of a princess to work there.
He has his eyes opened when he sees how hardworking Libby is, plus she has had enough of him acting like a jerk and tells him so. Gradually they become close...very close!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book an easy lovely read, have not read the previous books concerning Libby's two sisters but am now looking forward to reading them, it in no way spoilt my enjoyment of this book it's an easy standalone read.
My thanks to net galley and publisher Montlake for opportunity to review this book honestly.
3.5
Sweet and low angst, this had a promising start with the couple unable to stand being in one another's company whilst secretly lusting after each other. Antonio in particular was brooding and angry and all male and I was loving it.
Then from nowhere he's transformed into a prince of romance. I cannot lie, I was a tad disappointed.
The smut and dirty talk was hot and the story flowed well but the conflict felt a bit, well, lame tbh. It was more of an exasperated eye roll from me than arse clenching tension.
Still, it was an engaging read and sweet so just the job if you're looking for an undemanding, smutty standalone.
Libby and Antonio have what appears to be a love/hate relationship. Libby feels she could easily fall in love with Antonio and he appears to hate her. Libby is, from outside appearances, materialistic and it reminds Antonio too much of his ex. Instead of owning up to what his issue is, Antonio acts quite rudely to Libby whenever they are together. She doesn't understand where his animosity is coming from so she just thinks he is an overall jerk. When Antonio's father suffers a heart attack, Libby steps in to help at their pizzeria. Antonio sees another side to Libby and begins to question his earlier assessment of her. Libby catches onto his early thoughts of her and rightly gets upset by it. They start to spend more time together and Antonio begins to see what he has been missing all along. Their road is not always smooth and there are some instances where both of them needed to communicate more, but it was probably my favorite in this series. If you liked the other books in this series, or want to try a new romance I would definitely recommend this one.
I received an ARC from NetGalley for my honest review.
Aurora Rose Reynolds does a great job of writing characters that are easy to love. The Fluke My Life series is entertaining and sexy with quirky characters and families that you really want to be a part of.
Tossed Into Love is funny, sweet. sexy with little drama and loads of swoon. Libby and Antonio are great together, even if it takes them a while to figure it out. It's a pretty quick read that would be perfect for a lazy Saturday afternoon. We don't have to wait too long for the story to get going, but that's the pattern that has been set for this series. The side characters are fun as always and add tons of laughs.
This definitely a series I've enjoyed. If you are looking for something that will make you smile and give you butterflies, you should enjoy this one.
I am a big fan of this author, so I have read and enjoyed each book in the "Fluke My Life" series. I found, that for me, each book was a bit better than the previous one, which means that this one, was my favorite out of the three.
These books are about three sisters finding love, and it's finally time for Libby's story...the youngest sister. Libby is one of the reasons, I liked this book most out of the three. She was smart, mature, hardworking and compassionate and even though, at one point, she took the blame for something that wasn't her fault...she was no doormat. I think she was great.
That said, Antonio was nothing to sneeze about either.... Sure he was a bit of an ass in the beginning, but I think we have long ago established, that I love those assholes, who redeem themselves....and he did... He was also sexy as hell :P
All the books in this series are fun, hot and low on angst. I highly recommend these books, if you are in the mood for something uncomplicated, sweet and sexy ;)
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An ARC was kindly provided to me via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review.
This entire series has been an absolute delight to read. I found this author when the first book in this series came out, and I'm so glad I did. With each one, I've been certain that I couldn't like it as much as the last, and each time I've been wrong. They are all great, but Libby is my favorite sister, so I liked her story the most. All three books are sweet, with likeable characters and just the right amount of angst. They are a perfect length as well; they can be read within a few hours, and it's just long enough to develop a real connection with the characters and get a fully developed story without feeling like it goes down unnecessary rabbit holes. This author has an amazing talent. I'll be anxiously awaiting her next book/series.
Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake Romance for providing an ARC for review.