Sweatpants At Tiffanie’s is a hard one to rate as I liked parts of this book but it never fully held my attention.
This is supposed to be a humorous and romantic read and I have to be honest after reading some of the other reviews I feel a bit weird as this didn’t make me laugh at all and the romance doesn’t really kick in until the last third. Tiffanie although she gets one over two blokes in this which was a good thing I still felt she was a weak lead character and so much more could have been done with her especially her relationship with her parents. Her best friend since school personally I didn’t find her likeable at all. I did enjoy this book but it didn’t totally hold my attention and it didn’t have anything in it that made it stand out from others of the same genre for me to remember it in a few weeks time.
I would like to thank Netgalley and Harper Impulse and Killer Reads for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

I voluntarily reviewed this after receiving a free copy. Tiffanie thinks she has her life on track and is going as she planned. She gets dumped by her long time boyfriend on their 10th anniversary. As she is trying to work out her problems, she talks to friend Blackie at his gym, he dies right in front of her. Little does she know, he leaves the gym to her. With the gym, she must face her first love, Mike who dumped her (or so she thought) to pursue his boxing career. As she struggles to come to terms with everything that happens, she falls back in love with Mike. I really enjoyed this book.

I enjoyed this book and the banter was on pin t but it did seem to drag some. Don’t get me wrong I liked the background information and the information about Tiffanie acquiring the gym, her breakup, etc but at the 50% mark the two main characters only had like 3 short interactions and I wanted more. I liked how Tiffanie finally grew a backbone and stood up for herself and gained the confidence to follow her dream. Overall a cute story with great banter, a little slow to get to the meat of the book and I wanted more Mikey and Tiff.

I would have liked a better description of the characters is my only complaint. The book has clean sex and no gratuitous violence. Enjoyable read!

I'd probably classify this as more "chick lit" or "women's fiction" than contemporary romance. By far, this story is more about the evolution and growth of Tiffanie as a person (who just happens to be female) than it is about her relationship with Mike (which doesn't really develop until the second half of the book). It was quite satisfying seeing Tiffanie go from a virtual doormat to someone who had finally come into her own (and seeing her stick it to her jackhole of an ex, Gavin, was just icing on the cake).

The cast of supporting characters isn’t huge but it's certainly interesting. I have to admit that I'm not sure how I feel about Tiffanie's best friend Shelby. Honestly, I still can't decide if I liked her spunk or if I wanted to throat punch her. Mike grew on me throughout the story - as I said before, you don't really get to spend any time with him until the second half of the book.

The one thing I will say is that even as a self-declared Anglophile, I will still unfamiliar with a good amount of the slang used. I couldn't even went so far as to look some of the words up on the internet while I was reading and wasn't able to find definitions (even in places like Urban Dictionary). Most of the time I was able to figure out the meaning of the word based on the context, but sometimes I wasn't.

*I voluntarily read and reviewed an advance copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.*

The idea behind this book was good enough.

Nothing I haven't read before but it had the relevant structure.

However a lot of it just fell flat for me. The romance, the main character Tiffanie and even the weird small town she lived in. There really could have been a lot more dramatic arcs especially to do with the relationship she had with her parents.

Plus it got to a point where it all all felt really dragged out and like I was reading the same thing again and again.

The only thing I did really like was when she finally stuck it to two different guys in the book - that was incredibly satisfactory.

Reminds me of the best of Janet Evanovitch's long-running Stephanie Plum series. Tiffanie's hijinks are hilarious in this sweet, funny rom-com. I'd love to read more in this series!

Many thanks to NetGalley, the author, and the publisher for my ARC. All opinions are my own.

On their 10th anniversary Tiffanie gets what she leasts expects, a breakup.
She goes thru the motions of a typical breakup.

Cute read

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I didn't end up finishing this book because the plot was not strong enough to stretch across the span of the book. However, the writing flowed well and I really liked the characters. I think people looking for romance with a more realistic tone in a more unusual setting will enjoy this.

I wasn’t sure about this book, but it was great. At the beginning Tiffanie was kind of pathetic and her boyfriend Gavin was a huge jerk. Thankfully Gavin is not the hero in this story. Tiff learns to live on her own, and becomes strong in every way. And, she figured out Mike is the right guy for her.

Great adventure and character development. Loved Tiff and Mikey, their were definitely on the same path.

Warning for some violence/battery on Tiff.

I received a free arc of this book through NetGallery....this is my honest review and all opinions are my own.
While I was entertained with parts of this book, it just didn't hold my interest.
The main character, Tiffanie, just seemed too docile for me. She actually started to get on my nerves. I was happy to see her character come around for the better toward the end of the book.
The other main character, Mike, is Tiffanie's first boyfriend from years ago. He doesn't really play a part in the book until way late in the book. There is humor in the book and romance.
I didn't find the book unreadable but it didn't engage me to want to finish it though I did.

On their 10 year anniversaryinstead of the expected engagement ring, Tiffanie is dumped by her boyfriend. The same week her boss dies, and she subsequently finds out she has been left his business, a boxing gym.
The funeral brings Mikey back to town, her first love from years ago.
The book is partly about her relationship with Mike, but also how she starts to beleive in herself and her plans for the gym.

An enjoyable read.

Thank you for this early copy!

I would recommend this to anyone who loves a well-written romance novel. I will be checking out more from this author in the future!

What a great story! When Tiff starts out here, she is at a restaurant expecting to get a ring and love from her 10 year long relationship. Nope. Instead she gets dumped by the prat. Takes her a long time to get over him though, which shows her depth of feelings, although didn't see what she saw in him anyway. As a small time bookkeeper, she was working with Blackie at his boxing gym, when he had a heart attack and died. Invited to the will reading she didn't know what to expect, but getting the gym and his money (minus the boxing ring) was not what she expected. Nor seeing her ex from her teenage years, Mike, show up was not expected either. I really liked this story, and the characters. Fun read and hard to put down. Good HEA as well. Would highly recommend this book and author.

This is my first book by this author and I really enjoyed it. One of the other reviewers mentioned that Sweatpants at Tiffanie’s is a combination of both women’s fiction and romcom. You get a bit of romance, a bit of mystery, some humor, witty friends, annoying exes, and a hot MMA fighter.

The book opens with Tiffanie’s boyfriend breaking up with her. His thought process portrayed during every interaction with Tiff is hilarious and you can’t help but shake your head and roll your eyes. Tiffanie is an interesting character. At first I wanted to shake her for wanting her ridiculous boyfriend back. However, she evolves into a strong woman who sets her sights high. She inherits a boxing gym from her old employer and has brilliant ideas on how to make things work. However, she has doubts of making it a success and those doubts grow as others telling her that she can’t do it. Part of what makes her a strong character is that she accepted her insecurities and pushes ahead anyway. There is a bit of mystery of who is trying to sabotage her effects and the gym.

The book is well written. Tiffanie is a well developed, likable character and the supporting characters are entertaining. The book moves at a great pace.

This is a fun take on the romance-novel trope of a heroine who starts out the novel by losing her boyfriend. Tiffanie’s long-term boyfriend is so obnoxious and self-satisfied that you know right away that she must have severe self-confidence and self-esteem issues to have stuck with him for so long. She has enough baggage to fill an airplane’s cargo hold. After losing her boyfriend, one of her clients, Blackie, who owns a boxing gym dies. She is his bookkeeper and is shocked to learn that he left her the gym and enough money for her to remake the sweaty old gym into a co-ed exercise gym.

While she’s working to do that, she also has to deal with her first boyfriend, a world champion boxer, Mike ‘The Assassin” Fellner, who is back in town and keeps popping up. It’s clear that there are still sparks between them. But she also has to deal with someone who is trying to sabotage her new gym.

Tiffanie starts out as such a pitiful loser, but what I enjoyed was how she grew in strength and self-confidence as the book goes on. She also helps others who soon start working with her to gain their own self-confidence. There is a lot in this book about how friendship can help you get through the hard times. And the growing relationship between her and Mikey is sweet and interesting. Mike has do deal with having to retire and figure out what to do with the rest of his life. Luckily, he’s run across Tiffanie at just the right juncture in his life. And luck also for her.

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.

I hated this book. It just didn’t interest me at all. I nearly gave up reading it after a few chapters but persevered as I hoped it would improve. Unfortunately it was no better as the book progressed

This novel is hilarious! I laughed so hard that I cried. It reminded me of a Sofia Kinella or Marian Keyes novel. Anything that can go wrong did. Tiffanie Trent is having a rough week--her boyfriend of ten years dumps on their anniversary at the same restaurant that they had their first date and since they lived together at his place--she's now homeless. Tiff has more bad news--her longtime friend and father figure, Frank Blackie dies. Frank was her first bookkeeping client and was a prominent figure throughout her life. To add the icing to her crap-tastic cake--her childhood boyfriend and first love Mike "The Assassin" Fellner returned for Blackie's funeral looking more gorgeous than ever while Tiff has gained a few pounds and feels worse about herself than ever.

At the will reading, Tiff finds out that Blackie has left his most precious gift to her--his boxing gym. Blackie's assistant coach, Ron makes numerous sexist remarks that Tiff isn't cut out to run the gym since she's a woman--and making a remark about her weight. Her ex-boyfriend Gavin tries to talk her into selling it because he think she doesn't have the motivation or business sense to run a business with employees. Tiff is determined to prove them both wrong. With the help of her best friend, Shelby and Natalie, a Blackie customer's wife--the three are determined to upgrade the gym into a full service experience for all genders. Tiff runs into some trouble beginning with the fact that she is secretly living in one of the gym's storage rooms. She is also receiving haunting crack calls, mail with dog poo, and the gym is vandalized. Oh and Blackie's ex-wife and step-son feel that they should have been given the gym. The more Tiff works on the gym the more she comes in contact with Mikey. Mikey keeps coming back to the gym for nostalga or so he says. All of her old feelings for Mikey are starting to resurface especially after the spend the night together. But Mikey is offered a job in LA--a once in a lifetime opportunity. Tiff doesn't want to get in his way. Gavin has returned when he sees that Tiff is turning things around with the gym. What will Tiff do? Will Mike take the offer or move back home?

This book was fun to read as the heroine progressively became more sassy, confident and comfortable with who she was. A great beach read.