Definitely shades of Bridget Jones' Diary, but set in down-home Austin, Texas. There were times, while reading, I had virtual writer's cramps from the length of her letters. A creative, talented soul stuck in a dead-end job behind a deli counter, our heroine, Roxy, finds small treasures during her struggles to pay her mortgage and keep her four-legged friend healthy. Add two other strong, independent women, Anne and Artemis, one rather steadfast to her career and the other wild and mischievous, they help and abet in Roxy's journey. The rest of the congregation of zeros and heroes around Roxy keep the days and antics flowing.

A cute/fun read! Roxy is quite the character- stumbling around her life like a lot gals her age. I like how the book is written - in letters to her ex boyfriend who is still a good friend. The Pharma trial thing was weird but maybe strange to me since I’m from a very small city and that’s not a thing around here! Nice to have things all work out in the end for all the fun characters.

Thank you Simon & Schuster and NetGalley for the advance copy of this book, which will be published April 7, 2020.

This book is made up entirely of letters that Roxy writes, but never gives, to her ex-boyfriend. It is funny, charming, witty, and (again), funny.
Roxy is every millenial stereotype you can think of, and the definition of a hot mess. She is a sometimes vegan Whole Foods employee who struggles in her both her love life and financial life. She reminds me of Lena Dunham's character on 'Girls', who starts out being adorable and quirky, but by season 2 you realize she is selfish and self-absorbed. Nonetheless, I did find myself still rooting for Roxy up until the end. I laughed out loud throughout all her crazy stories and would recommend this book as a light, fast-paced, and enjoyable read for other millennial females.

Roxy is trapped in a dead end job working behind the counter at Whole Foods. One day an over the top customer sets her off, almost gets are fired and begins a quest to shut down the new Lululemon. Along the way, she finds a friend called Artiemus who changes her life. This book was just okay. I found myself speed reading just to finish it.

CUTE READ! At times I think she dragged on and on about stuff that did t seem important. But overall I like it :)

I'm a little dismayed and disappointed by some of the other reviews on this book. (Admittedly, this is WHY I do not usually read the other reviews....) I really enjoyed this book. It was lighthearted, cute, and laugh-out-loud funny at some points. I am guessing others might have expected something more/different, but I went into this with no expectations, as I had forgotten what it was about since I'd been approved to read it... and I truly REALLY enjoyed it! Admittedly, the format is a bit odd, but it reminded me of Bridget Jones's Diary, one of my all-time favorites. I'll definitely recommend this, and I hope others end up liking it as much as I did.

Fans of Sophie Kinsella, Helen Fielding and Meg Cabot meet your new best friend. I Really enjoyed this book as told through letters. You will embrace the title character right away. She is honest (sometimes too much) and hilarious..

This book started off pretty well. I thought Roxy seemed a bit intense, possibly a bit over-the-top, but still potentially likeable. The chapters are all formatted as letters she is writing to her ex-boyfriend, Everett, who has just moved in with her. That set-up made sense for the first few chapters, until you learn he moved out. Yet she continues writing to him? I was not understanding why the format remained the same after that. It would have made a lot more sense for Roxy to just have kept a diary.

The plot was fine. But the formatting annoyed me at the start of each chapter after Everett moved out. I didn't feel a very strong connection to any of the characters. I thought Roxy was kind of a hot mess, Annie was stuck up, all of the Whole Foods co-workers were immature, Artemis was just too much, etc. The most interesting character by far was "Texas"".

There were some funny scenes, like the one with the cars and bologna. And I thought the topic of mental health was handled with great finesse, and I really did love seeing that included in this novel, and having it be normalized. However, overall this book was not a hit for me.

I didn’t like the first couple chapters of this book because the narrator is writing letters to her ex-boyfriend who has moved in with her, and it took me some getting used to this style. I’m so glad I stuck with it because I FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS NOVEL.

The narrator, Roxy, is a vegan who works at the original Whole Foods in Austin, TX. Austin is where she grew up, and she hates the way it’s changing, including the influx of people and corporate (instead of local) businesses that have been taking over. She’s an artist who can’t create art since her heart was broken, and she’s broke thanks to her animals’ endless medical bills and low-wage job. Cleary, nothing is going her way.

Her strong friendships with women, her misguided forays into relationships with men, her love of her furballs (a dog, Roscoe, and a cat named Charlize Theron), help her ultimately get out of her rut, but naturally she has many misadventures along the way.

I will caution you that there was one portion of the book that made my eyes go wide and think, “oh, I really hope that’s not a real thing but I’m not going to Google it because that will be in my search history for eternity.” But the very fact this activity is so out there was an important part of her relationship with ex, Everett, and her own growth and change.

I recommend this novel, you just have to get used to Roxy writing letters that are never returned, very often because she never puts them on the table for Everett to find.

Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to read this book, which RELEASES APRIL 7, 2020.

A super cute, fun, whimsical book. I really enjoyed the style, and surprisingly to me, the letter style of the book worked. I'm actually really glad I was able to review this book, as I literally chose it solely for the cute cover. So what a nice surprise to find an engaging read!

The main character Roxy in this book is very obnoxious. I thought the format of reading her letters would be fun an intriguing. Instead it came of as extremely obnoxious. The main character is rude and the way she speaks in her letters made it difficult for me to make it through the book.. By the end Roxy does grow on you a bit.

Roxy is a deli maid at the Whole Foods in Austin. She is an artist but hasn't been able to do anything since the breakup with Brant Bitterbrush and is looking for ways to get back at him for leaving her. She is a vegan who worships Venus, is determined that Austin doesn't fall to corporate greed and is determined to close the Lululemon. The story is written as letters to Everett who is an ex-boyfriend and roommate. After Everett moves out she continues writing to him but really it's a journal.

I thought I was going to like this a lot more. There were some laugh-out-loud bits in the beginning but I didn't really like her. I found her to be pretty selfish and wanting things her way. She was looking at men strictly as sex objects and pursuing an orgasm not provided by her vibrator. She jumped to conclusions and behaved badly. I'm not against a good sex scene but there were some that were quite crude. Of course in the end things wrapped up quite nicely.

I would not recommend this book to anyone.

I kept seeing references to Bridget Jones Diary but this book is MUCH better than BJD. It is an entertaining, engaging story told through letters set in Austin but it could anywhere, USA. The characters fit so well together and their lives bounce back and forth so you're never bored. A really, really good read.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC. The book is a series of letters written to Roxy's current roommate and ex-boyfriend. The letters start out as a list of rules to living together but the book ends with the letters more of a diary. I felt this book was a little young for me. It was able to grasp current trends so it was able to relate but Roxy is in a stage in life that is too young for me. It was however easy to read.

The cover, coupled with a premise that strongly compared this book to Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, led me to request this book with tickled anticipation from NetGalley.

The first chapter started out promising: Roxy as new landlord, laying down the rules for ex-boyfriend Everett as new tenant. The tone was hilarious and the set-up, oh-so-promising.

Chapter two wasn't too bad as we get a feel for the kind of life Roxy is stuck in, but I began to get a sense of, "Well, as you know, Bob ..." because doesn't this ex-boyfriend know anything about her life, other than she has a place he can crash?

From there on, the "letters" aren't so much notes of communication as they are a one-way, self-involved monologue.

You know when you go to a party or any social get-together, and there's that "one person" whom everyone seems to avoid? But you somehow get trapped by them over by the bar or while you're simply trying to leave the restroom. And you quickly learn exactly why everyone is steering clear. This person has no interest in conversation. They're too in love with the sound of their own voice while they regale you with minutiae, their woes in life topping all others', and soon enough your heart is pumping while your brow sweats and your panicked mind races with, How the hell am I going to get away?

That is Roxy and this book for me.

I wish I could see the humor like so many others. I wish I could have been engaged and cared.

Just didn't happen.

I struggled with this book a lot. Roxy has little to no self-awareness. And while that can be fertile ground for a story about a woman who comes to a deeper sense of self, this book falls short of delivering. Any change that happens to Roxy is unearned. Instead, she continues to make all the wrong decisions and maintains an alarming level of self-righteousness until she starts praying to Venus and her life just starts fixing itself on her own. Effectively, she never has to learn from her mistakes until after her life has gotten better and she can finally see all the good things she has in her life. Overall, the book never hit the right spot. It's funny at times, and the author creates a rich and interesting world surrounding Roxy, but Roxy herself is not all that compelling or redeemable. Unlikeable characters are all well and good, but there should be a hook that makes the reader still root for them and this character misses the mark in that regard.

The Roxy Letters is a portrait of disillusioned millennial life. Roxy is underemployed, living with her ex-boyfriend, under-romanced, and determined to save Austin from gentrification. I wanted to love this epistolary novel, but I found the voice of the novel to be one-dimensional and self-absorbed.

Roxy is in her late 20s, failed artist and work in the deli at Whole Foods in Austin Texas. She's unlucky in love and having so much financial issues that she's renting her ex Everett a room in her house. Everett is not her first choice as a tenant but she needs the money, she also knows he can help take care of her pets. She writes Everett letters when he's running late on rent, or when he brings cheese to the house. Roxy is a wannabe vegan and cheese is her weakness. As her life unravels with drama, Roxy continues to writes these letters to Everett, talking about her woes, failed attempts at dating, outrage at Lululemon and more. Sometimes you read a book that is just so different, Roxy is a millennial to the T but deep down she wants to get her life together and her journey will make you shake your head, laugh and eventually love her.

This book is reminiscent of Bridget Jones's Diary or Where'd You Go Bernadette in that it's told through letters written by the main character, addressing an ex-boyfriend, but essentially as a diary. It's silly and far-fetched but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I wanted to know what happened, even though the ending was entirely predictable. It's a quick, easy read. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advance copy.

Roxy tells customers to f**k off, dabbles in the fine art of blackmail, pilfers food from her employer (not only for herself, but also for her favorite customers), fantasizes about some hot guy nibbling her sweet-and-sour peach, and generally says f**k quite often. What a charmer!

Obviously, I do not care for the main character, but that is not my biggest problem with the book. I really dislike the fact that Roxy uses her letters to tell the recipient things he should already know (like the names of his dogs). I read the first chapter, then bailed.

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. My thanks (and apologies) to the author, the publisher and NetGalley.