I am sorry for not reviewing fully but I don’t have the time to read this at the moment. I believe that it wouldn't benefit you as a publisher or your book if I only skimmed it and wrote a rushed review. Again, I am sorry for not fully reviewing!

Meg Cabot's quirky little series are always fun reads with amusing characters. In this one, Miss Molly is the new-ish children's librarian in Little Bridge (in the Florida Keys). She is not impressed with the seemingly arrogant Sheriff, but he keeps turning up.

Yeah, we know where this is going, and that's okay. Besides making another love connection between two of the island's residents, this book also has a crime to solve - an abandoned newborn in the library's bathroom! Could it all tie in with the crime ring of the Summer Kids? Miss Molly knows it isn't her job to put all the clues together, but she's wondering whether the Sheriff is capable of doing it without her help.

No Offense was a great summer escape or beach read. I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars and consider checking out others in the Little Bridge Island series. This was the second book, and I haven't read the first yet. This one stood alone just fine.

As a Librarian, I can relate to the new Children's librarian. But the romance was not realistic at all. It felt more of a cozy detective mystery but was a fun read. As others have mentioned. Meg Cabot is a great writer. However, no offense was not what I was expecting.

I've read and enjoyed several other books by Meg Cabot, but this one didn't hit the mark for me. My main issue was that I just didn't enjoy the characters and found them annoying.

Even though Miss Molly, the children’s librarian, makes a number of professional faux pas in this story, I enjoyed how she used her research skills to try to help solve the many crimes Sheriff John Hartwell was investigating. There developing romance was by no means smooth sailing given her involvement in his cases. The setting of Little Bridge Island is just right for a quick feel-good read!

Little Bridge Island, first introduced during a hurricane in No Judgments, has a new children's librarian--and she has just found a baby (quickly dubbed "Baby Boy Sacks") in the restroom of her rundown library. In the midst of a move to their new location, Molly then stumbles across the baby's mother squatting there! She butts heads with the local sheriff over whether or not the mother has committed a crime--and that's where this book lost me. Though it lacked some substance (as did the first), the major draw-back for me was Molly's combination of naivete and needless self-righteousness. Although I did appreciate how Cabot had clearly taken a more in-depth look at the life of a librarian, Molly unfortunately also carried a great many of the virtue-signaling stereotypes that are becoming more common now, which made her fairly unlikeable and hard to relate to. The story itself was okay, and there is some humor--I enjoyed the sheriff interacting with his daughter while rolling my eyes at the same. However, I won't be continuing with the series.

Normally, I love Meg Cabot's books - Children, YA, and Adult. . . but I just didn't get that delightful and witty fun that I usually do from her works in "No Offense". As a librarian, I was offended by Molly's closed-minded approach to, well, everything. She didn't want to get to know the quirks of the community, she didn't want to understand things from John's (or anyone else's) point of view that didn't immediately coincide with her own, and she certainly wasn't interested in listening to her patron's wants. . . only her own ideas of what they "should" be reading or wanting to read. When it came time for John's Mr. Darcy-esque apology, I completely believed in his contrite admission that he was in the wrong and was willing to work hard to correct his issues. Molly never delivered on the change of heart that she so desperately needed. Even her "apology" had blame shifting and excuses. Meg Cabot's writing flows well, and the descriptions are lovely - but it couldn't overcome the issues I had with the main character. I wanted to like Molly, I really did. But I just couldn't, and that made me sad. Rom-Coms shouldn't leave you feeling sad.

* I received an eARC from NetGalley. This review is voluntary. *

A sweet, cozy story about life in a small town. I can easily see this morphing into a series. The earnest librarian and the hunky sheriff is always a fun read. I enjoyed it and I know my patrons will too!

Cabot created a great flirty read about the new librarian and a local sheriff. With a great balance of spicy and sweet, the characters find that their absolutely opinions about the world aren't always correct and sometimes, you've got to find middle ground to make things work.

This is book 2 of 3 in the Little Bridge Island series and is a fun, flirty romance.

I received an advanced reader copy for an honest review.

Yawn. Like a Hallmark movie come to life. Fluffy and cozy but predictable and dull. Definitely think a certain older lady book club population would love this book (series). But wasn't my jam.

It starts off slow and kind of dense, but once the action begins, it's hard to resist the story as it drives forward. It reads as a true epic, one that makes you feel the world really has been reshaped as you read it. Would recommend.

Meg Cabot is one of my very favorite authors. I have been a devoted fan ever since The Princess Diaries with Mia Thermopolis. Cabot has written pretty prolifically since then. She has a whole line of princess themed juvenile fiction books and has branched out into every age group. Her adult fiction romantic comedies are pretty dependable for an easy, fun read.

No Offense tells the story of a newbie local librarian, Molly, trying to find her place on Little Bridge Island. (Little Bridge Island is the setting of one other book by Cabot, No Judgments. A third installment is due out September 2021.) Molly has her dream job as the Children's Librarian and doesn't anticipate anything more difficult than winning over a surly teen who hangs out way too much at the library. Unfortunately, everything is thrown into disarray when Molly finds an abandoned newborn in the library restroom. She and the local sheriff John are forced to work together to figure out who abandoned the baby and why. Initially they don't get along but it turns out they complement one another quite well. It's a cute, quick read.

I found the beginning of this book quite slow and difficult to get through and I couldn't read any further. The plot with the entire intrigue about the baby just seemed contrived and a little boring. I wouldn't recommend this book.

I received this ARC from NetGalley and the publisher for an honest review*

I cannot stop laughing! I absolutely loved reading about a job, MY JOB, that hardly ever gets written about: a children's librarian. Cabot perfectly wrote about the ins and outs of a library and what we deal with in the children's section. Growing up loving Princess Diaries, it was fun to turn to her adult books, now that I'm an adult, and find that they're still something that I love.

No Offense is the second book in the Little Bridge Island series. This book could be read as a standalone. This book was ok for me. This book is told from dual points of view from Molly Montgomery and John Hartwell.

Molly is a librarian and John is a sheriff. Molly finds an infant in the libraries bathroom and John meets her when he's doing the investigation. They start to have feelings for each other while find the missing mother. There is also someone breaking into houses and stealing stuff. This person is known as "The Highschool Thief."

John is looking for the culprit, and Molly does her own investigating. During the investigations some things happen and they end up arguing over what the other did.

Can the find the baby's mother and the Highschool Thief? Can they get back together or will it tear them apart for good.

This was an ok book. Very predictable. You can tell Cabot is typically a writer for YA. If not for the on-page sex and the age of the main characters, I would say it was a book for teens. The characters are likable but the story is very predictable. As a librarian, I found the constant reference to her role as a librarian annoying. If the town is that small, everyone knows her job. Plus, she doesn't have to keep saying how she needs to keep her patrons privacy, or some of her other references to being a librarian. I would say it's a good, quick, mindless spring break or beach read.

I enjoyed this book. I love anything by Meg Cabot. I enjoyed the small town vibe of this book and being a librarian, I loved that the main character was a a children's librarian. I also really like the relationship between the father and daughter,

Thank you, Netgalley, for allowing me a chance to read No Offense by Meg Cabot.

I really wanted to like this book because the main character, Molly, is a librarian and I happen to work at a library, but sadly I did not like this book. I was enjoying the library atmosphere in the beginning, but the drama with finding the baby and the mother, and then the break-ins all felt a little forced. The main character ended up annoying me with her 'I'm a librarian and I also can be a detective because I've read all the Nancy Drew books' attitude. No, Just, no. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love being an armchair detective reading or watching a good mystery, but I do not imagine myself being capable of stepping in the shoes of a police officer.

This book was the perfect read on this snowy Valentine's Day. I've been a fan of Meg Cabot's since the beginning and I have yet to be disappointed. And the sheriff and librarian characters made this librarian's heart go pitter-patter. Well done!

This was my first read from author Meg Cabot, so I wasn't expecting anything going in. I love a good librarian story, but find that most librarian stories are dry. This was not the case with No Offense. I liked the back and forth relationship between the children's librarian and town sheriff- their chemistry was undeniable. The incident that brought them together was out of the ordinary (a baby left in the library bathroom?!) but I enjoyed the mystery/detective style of the plot. I found that the sheriff was not my favorite character as he was often condescending toward the librarian and I also did not enjoy that she had a difficult time sticking up for herself. This could have been because of her father's inherent misogynistic attitude toward her and others in the town. Overall, I thought this story was ok, but I'm not sure I would read the rest of the series.