Julie is late to meet her friend Liz at the skyline cafe. Who will fuss at her for being late. Traffic is held up due to an accident. Julie checks out a good looking guy in a black truck . Julie is hoping to get his phone number but cops are directing the traffic to move . Liz's on and off boyfriend Derrick works at skyline cafe and gives free drinks . Liz is trying to find a guy to hook Julie up with but Julie still wants Patrick . Julie misses the guy at the restaurant Liz wants to hook her up with.julie is a banker and lives in a condo. Luck is always on Julie's side. I can relate to julie being stuck on a particar guy even if you know he's bad for you. Julie is tired of waiting around on Patrick planning to go see him after everything he said to her.I can relate. I'm not sure about Liz's insistence that Julie find another man so soon after breakup. Liz says that Patrick does not deserve Julie and she should not feel like her life is over because he's not in it. I didn't care for the cussing. I can relate to needing to lose weight, I prefer walking.

While I was excited for this book prior to starting it, I had a very rough time truly enjoying the book. I could not connect with the main character at all. I actually did not care for any of the characters in the story, but its hard to like a book when the main character leaves such a bad taste in your mouth. I have heard great things about the author so I am hoping to check out one of her other novels in the future.

What an aptly titles book: Mixed Signals garnered Mixed Feelings in me about what I thought of the novel.

If you’re looking for a light hearted book, easy to flip through without devoting too much time and energy and don’t mind underdeveloped characters, then this is for you.

For me, however, I hated Julie, the main character. I hated the fat shaming. I hated her best friend. The relationships in her life were toxic. I can deal with this if characters are developed further. But this wasn’t. This book seemed to throw bits down and expected you to make what you could of it.

I liked the premise; I enjoyed the revenge body idea - who hasn’t broken up with someone and decided to revamp their hair or wardrobe? I just thought it could be a little more sensitive and bypass the body shaming our main characters goes through. Who’s best friend would tell them to go to the gym because they’ve got fat, and allow them to be measured in front of an audience and then screamed at until they accepted they were angry with themselves for allowing themselves to become so disgusting? Urgh. It just puts me on edge.

I liked that Nico and Julie kept running into each other. I thought that was well done.

Overall I wouldn’t recommend this book. It made me more angry than happy and when I open a book like this I just want to feel better, not worse.

I received an ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions in this review are my own.

I am trying to be more intentional about reading books from authors of color so I was really excited to read this. It definitely seemed right up my alley. It is a very light and easy read. However, I had a hard time liking the characters and that made it difficult to connect with the characters. The beginning of the story was great and I thought the rest would be like that but it wasn’t. It was difficult to even finish. I would not recommend.

Mixed Signals is my first book by this author. And even thought this is first book in a series I would not be continuing this series.
I would say this is light, chick lit read...perfect for summer read. But I found it at times very boring and hard to continue. I couldn't connect with the characters. They were annoying, without depth and overall toxic to each other. I loved the beginning of the story and plot line was very promising sadly actual book was not for me.
Not my type of read even a lighter one.

This was my first book from this author so I wasn't sure what to expect. From the summary, I thought this would be a great book. Great storyline and I love books where enemies fall in love and become lovers. This novel is about Julie and Nico.

I disliked Julie from the start; she was a walking disaster. Liz, her best friend, is mean. She tells Julie to get back to her ex she needs to exercise and get a makeover (insert eye roll). I just couldn't get into the stories that were told, they seemed so far fetched and the judgments that Julie jumped to when overhearing conversations about Nico was just stupid. I was mad at her for being so naïve. LOL Not sure why Nico would still be interested in Julie after how she treated him, with the mixed signals (that's for sure!) throughout the book. It was a light read and a little too superficial to truly enjoy it.

Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.
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This is Julie and Nico‘s book, Julie is a corporate banker when she gets stuck in traffic the man of her dreams just happens to be right next to her in a sexy black truck ,he would just be the perfect rebound that is until he opens his mouth! Julie doesn’t even know him but she knows she already hates him and because the universe is blind to all the warning signs sexy Niko just keeps happened to pop up in all the places that she’s at but soon Julie discovers he’s not what she thought he was oh he still hot but he’s not a jerk like she thought he was !LOL this book was definitely ok it was funny and a light read no major drama and angst happens it’s just a nice even keel book, it has some steam to it but not too much if you like a nice light read this one’s for you! Thank you netgalley and the publishers for sharing this book with me!

I received this book from NetGalley for a honest review.

Seeing a hot guy in traffic is the best and worst thing that can happen, especially when you never see them again or talk to them. Rip all hot guys in passing. ;(
I liked this book a lot and thought it was funny. I do wish Julie would have been a little more easy going with Nico but I’m glad they actually go together. Seemed like she needed to sort through her stuff in order to move on and I’m so happy she did. Also that sex scene caught me by surprise lol. Her ex is trash and I do wish Nico would have beatbox him up lol

If uh the author is seeing this, can we get a book from Nico’s pov :p

This book had such a good start! I was hooked right off the bat. While our MC isn't necessarily the most likable, I can think we can all admit that we've been there, or been our worst version of ourselves at one point or another. I'm a reader who doesn't need to like a character to be able to like a book, if that makes sense. So I took our MC's outbursts, and poor interactions with fellow human beings with a grain of salt. Not to mention that her father had died, and her boyfriend had out-of-the-blue broken up with her. The girl was probably due an outburst or two. Some people (coughs-me) hide away in their room eating their body weight in ice cream until they're ready to face the world again, while other people just take out their aggression on the wrong person. That's how Julie meets Nico.

I really enjoyed how their lives were constantly crossing paths. It put me on the edge of my seat, wondering when they would by chance meet again. Nico is honestly described like a saint. He handles all of Julie's outbursts, bad behavior, and vomit (uh...yeah) like a champ. If there is one redeeming character in this book, it's Nico, Nico's mom, and Julie's mom (okay, I guess there are a couple redeeming characters).

I do think a few of the relationships portrayed here borderline on toxic. Julie's relationship with her best friend is in many ways uncalled for, and how the women in her family treat each other was a little displeasing. As a personal note, I've dealt with a lot of toxic relationships in my own life, and tend to see them everywhere. Maybe girlfriends really do yell at each other, tell each other they are ruining their lives, and then five seconds later say they're the best in the world? To each their own.

In terms of writing, this was an admirable attempt. I felt at times really thrown off when scenes would cut in and out of each other. One second we were in a conversation with Julie and her mom and the next second she was with Nico two days later. There was no explanation of how things left off with conversations, or how a date would end. Suddenly, after a major event (like running into the ex), we just flashed forward to the next day with no mention of how Nico reacted? It felt really unrealistic and pulled me out of the story a few times.

I think the overall plot was super cute, but felt the novel was strongest in the first half of the book. It sort of lost steam after that, and I stopped caring what happened to our characters. I finished the book because I wanted to know how their love story ended, but I didn't necessarily need all of the descriptions of why her ex was such a tool, or how her heart was changing now that she had Nico. I think a little more editing would have been beneficial, but it wasn't an overall disappointment.

I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks for the opportunity.
I want to preface this review with this - if my best friend were to EVER speak to me the way Liz speaks to hers, there would be no friendship. I struggled so much at times with their interactions.
At times I felt like Nico was trying too hard but, at the end of the day he was kinder about the misconceptions. I liked how there wasn't a great deal of drama thrown in by some of the side characters and stories. These two were doing a good enough job of that themselves.
Overall this was a quick, relatively entertaining read showing how human frailties have the potential to spoil our greatest chances. A little humility goes a long way.

Sometimes it takes a whole lot of time to work through the hurt and disappointment of love before you give yourself room to love and feel again, and that's what happens with Julie here. She's intelligent, a great friend, a loving daughter and all this doesn't stop her from hurting when her boyfriend, Patrick, decides to leave her for another woman because in his view she's "boring."
Then comes along, Nico, and she's attracted to him and he's not what she expected and she does not know if it's a good thing or a bad thing and the rest of the story is about her figuring out what to do.
Thanks Netgalley for the eARC.

I enjoyed this romantic novel. The characters were well developed. It had the opportunity to be a heavy read, but the author kept the plotline light. I would have enjoyed an epilogue that let us know how their relationship matured. If I had to choose the best part of the book or theme it would be the relationship between the protagonist and her best friend - I loved how she was there for her and told her things she did not always want to hear. Now the romantic interest was terrific - I wish we were able to see more character development with his side of the family. Overall Mixed Signals was an engaging read that I will recommend to friends and readers of my blog.

Unable to finish at 45%. Julie is a wildly unlikable character, mean and jaded for unknown reasons and seems to hate all other women. Liz is allegedly trying to help Julie after a breakup, by mean girling her into a new beauty and fitness regimen and berating her about punctuality. Nico is not a fully fleshed out character by the point I had to stop reading, but he seems like a general bland nice guy. However, he is weirdly described as looking like a combination of khal drogo and superman - those two don't visually go together, nothing relevant to the plot but a general logic quibble.

Thank you to the publisher, via NetGalley, for providing me with an arc for review. This is no way influenced my opinion.

Mixed Signals is an apt name for this book, because I kept having mixed feelings while reading it. When I was offered an ARC in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley, I was excited to read the book because the description was intriguing - I love a good enemies to lovers romance and thought the book might follow that sort of trope. When the main characters, Julie and Nico, kept running into each other unexpectedly, I liked that they got to know a little more about each other each time. I also liked the humor in the book, and the author’s writing style was enjoyable.

Unfortunately, I really REALLY did not like Julie. Her personality was grating, her doubts seemingly endless, and her treatment of Nico unacceptable. She overheard one conversation about him and lept to some pretty extreme judgements, then used that conversation as a reason to write him off and treat him poorly. I think there was definitely a way to handle her snap judgements better; I get that the point of the book is not to judge someone without getting to know them first, but it was even clear at the time that Julie had overreacted. So while there were things that I enjoyed about the book, overall I had a difficult time getting invested in the story.

The story of Julie and Nico.

A series of events mean that Julie and Nico nearly meet, but not quite. When they do meet, she is not sure she likes what she hears, so will she give him a chance?

Overall an entertaining read.

Looking forward to the next book in this series

Really enjoyed this. Refreshing read, great job. Full review on the blog coming shortly. . Really great job!

This book was a fun read. Having never read anything from Heintzelman before, I based this selection purely on description alone. The premise of finding someone by fate or kismet is a fascinating plotline to play with because it can so easily become clichéd and an easy card to play. The main character Julie has solid character development throughout as we meet her struggling with heartache, gaining confidence and a new love interest and fixing other personal and professional relationships in her life. My criticisms through are based on the type of characters she chose personality wise. Julie was, unnecessarily so, very jaded by Nico at first based off of an overheard conversation and kept giving him attitude with not a single apology. Not sure if her lack of father or terrible boyfriend were reason enough to create such an annoying character. Nico was also bothersome in that the author never touches upon why he puts up with her difficult behavior. Nico, although dreamy and seemingly perfect, lacked any real substance. It was a solid read but could've been better. Thanks for the ARC NetGalley