I absolutely loved this book! Sarah is a makeup artist for a hot country band, Lex is the guitarist; their chemistry is off the charts but neither makes a move. Lex has sworn off "feelings" and so just uses the groupies that come along. Sarah sees all of this and is a relationship only girl; so feels him off limits. The supporting characters are fleshed out and real! it makes for a fun, lighthearted read that I couldn't put down. There is an lgbt couple and some steamy sex scenes with Sarah and Lex. I am excited for the next book!

The Makeup Artist By Sophie Sinclair (2020/06/11)
Rating 3/5 Stars
Disclaimer: Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with an ARC to review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
TW: Drugs, cheating, death of a loved one

The Makeup Artist is the second book in the Coffee Book Series by Sophie Sinclair. This can be read as a standalone novel; however, it does feature characters from the first book so I suggest reading that so that you can enjoy the full experience of this one. This story follows Sarah Bowen who has a lifestyle boutique with her two best friends and is a makeup artist for a country band. She's been in love with the Band’s Guitarist Lex Ryan for two years.

This year she vows to finally put her heart out on the line and tell Lex how she feels so that she can either be with him or move on. Lex Ryan is a Irish lead guitarist who is known as a womanizer and has no plans to ever have a relationship. When the band travels to Ireland Lex’s past starts to haunt him. He must decide if he is able to truly let go of his past and love Sarah or if he just let her go.

I enjoyed this story; it was really easy to get into and there were many funny scenes which I enjoyed. However, many of my dislikes from the first book stayed the same. I still felt like the characters were way immature especially for their age. It was hard to connect with the heroine at times especially when she would cry over things that she had no control over. I liked how friendship was such a significant part of this story. I liked that TJ got his happy ending with Connor (Lex’s brother).

I really liked Lex as a hero, I found him really sweet. I didn't really like the surprise baby plot that was thrown in there, I found that it was unnecessary and didn't really add to the story aside that it was used for a conflict. I didn't like how Lex didn't know when to draw the line between him and his ex-girlfriend (Alana). I feel like a lot of Sarah's concerns were understandable especially with how kind Lex was treating Alana.

I wish we had got to see the hero grovel for the heroine at the end. I feel like although he spent time and worked on himself, he didn't really work that hard to get the heroine to forgive him or for the relationship in that matter.
Overall, I would recommend this to someone who wants to read a cute country friends to lovers romance.

I really wanted to love this, but it fell a little short for me. Things I liked: the friendships, and Ireland. Things I didn’t like: the wishy washiness of Sarah and Lex’s relationship. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC.

Oh the cuteness!! Lex and Sarah took my heart for a rollercoaster ride and left me feeling that exhilarating thrill of the wild ride to happily ever after.

Kiki and TJ are comedic dynamite. I loved the antics, the friendship, and the ridiculously adorable nicknames. Lex’s family was so realistic, loving, and sweet. Sophie’s descriptions of Ireland were vivid and completely drew the mental picture for me. I swear when this pandemic nonsense is over I am getting my arse to the UK!

If you loved Coffee Girl, The Makeup Artist will not disappoint—more smiles, delightful romantic comedy, swoontastic love, and such an endearing cast of characters. Can’t wait for Cam’s story next in The Social Hour!! Thank you to the author for my review copy—get The Makeup Artist on your kindles now and prepare to fall in love.

I have absolutely enjoyed the hell out of this Coffee Book series so far. The Makeup Artist is the story of Sarah and Lex. I was suuuper excited to get to their book after I read Coffee Girl.

The Makeup Artist does end up being notably more angsty than the first book. I'm not typically into OW drama and the whole letting past relationship significantly alter everything about your daily lives, but I'm a salty married lady so, what do I know. But where there was extra angst there was also serious laugh out loud moments. (And I, again, was up until the wee morning hours reading this- did, in fact, wake up the hubs laughing so loud- Sorry, not sorry!)

There were quite a few moments I did want to smack the shite out of Sexy Lexy and his Ex, or his just his stupid male-ness, ::shrug:: But, he's a dude, and they can just be simple arseholes sometimes. But again, the funny would catch me or just the crew/fam getting together to support each other or the saucy times. And, all was right with the world again.

Oh, and I was super excited we got not only Lex's twin in the story but we also had a little love action for Kiki's BFF TJ. But, I'm a little disappointed we didn't get more on that story. I would have enjoyed some more MM representation.

I am so excited to where the series will take us next. I think it's Kiki's brother (?). Either way, More, Please!

*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.*

Thank you to NetGalley and Sophie Sinclair for the ARC copy of The Makeup Artist in exchange for my honest review.
Sarah has gotten a dream job being the makeup artist for a country music band. She is whisked away on their latest tour.
Lex Ryan is a member of the band and sparks fly between the two. Sarah has been trying to keep her feeling inside but the chemistry between the two takes over.
While on tour in life gets in the way and Sarah is sure it is over between the two and she goes back to the US while Lex stays behind to work out the kinks in his now complicated life.
While reading the book you can feel the emotion between the two and with each page you want the outcome to be the best for them.
This is the second book in the Coffee Book series. The first book Coffee Girl will have you hooked and wanting to pick up this book the second in the series. Thank you, Sophie Sinclair, for keeping the journey you have us on with this series.

Loved this one! The story makes you laugh out loud one minute then cry along with the characters another.

This was fun and flirty! I found myself flying through it, although I didn't really connect with it as much as I'd hoped. I'm not sure what the issue was exactly, but it was "just okay".

The MakeUp Artist by Sophie Sinclair a five-star read that will make up your day. This is number two in the Coffee Book series and they are stand-alone, but I simply adored them as the series as they each tell different characters stories, they do follow on from each other in timeline and number three cant come soon enough, but I don’t know what to think of that one after the teaser we have already!! Anyhow this one simply took my breath away, honestly my heart was soaring, and I was so happy then my feet were knocked from under me and my heart was in my stomach and I wanted to sob my heart out several times during this story, at one point in this story I had to stop reading as I so badly wanted to punch something, anything honestly I just saw green and not the good type that came later. Lex Ryan, what a little Irish charmer you are, he is so smooth you could hear those sweet nothings whispered in your ear, and you can imagine being around that breakfast table, laughing at him folks and just soaking in the love. Sarah Bowen was such an easy character to relate to, not just as she gets called Sare more often than not like me, but it wasn’t just the name, it was her whole character. What a sublime author, I am so excited to see what words will come next.

I read Coffee Girl a couple of months ago and thought it was one of the best books I had read in ages. The Make-up artist is just as good. I enjoyed it from start to finish. The characters were brilliantly written and so funny and relatable. If I could award more than 5 stars I would. It was definitely a book that I did not want to finish as it was so enjoyable being involved in their story. The only good thing was the teaser about Cameron at the end. Really looking forward to reading that one.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read a preview copy

After reading, well devouring Coffee Girl in one sitting I was so excited when The Make Up Artist came out. We don't learn much about Lex in CG which makes him an intruiging man of mystery. I was laughing from the off at this one. Sophie brings such a good level of humour into her romances which I love. Lex came across as such a damaged and tortured soul and we finally discover why. I loved the story line with his ex coming out of the woodwork although it was a tad predictable near the end. I really like Sarah shes such a nice character but at times I did want to shake her and tell her to get it together. TJ is still my favourite his scenes always provide much hilarity and I adore his wit and the banter that he has especially with Sarah Kiki. A fab addition to the series and I'm eagerly awaiting Kikis brothers story next

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Thank you to @sophiesinclairauthor for not making me wait another month to read the second book of Coffee Girl. I loved being able to dive right into the next story to follow Lex and Sarah, the perfect follow up from Tatum and Kiki.⁣
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This book was laugh out loud funny. TJ couldn’t get any funnier. His friendship with Sarah and Kiki couldn’t be any more fun to follow and these three have each other’s backs through and through and it’s awesome. ⁣
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So we are here for Sarah and Lex, and their story is beautiful and heart wrenching all in one. I could feel their darkness at times. Their friends to lovers romance was a perfect drama filled, steamy rainstorm. They both had so many feelings and such a difficult time just letting the other one in because of their pasts but they couldn’t be more perfect for each other. I couldn’t get enough of them.⁣
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Can Sunshine tear down the hot Irish bad boy’s walls and lead him into her light?! ⁣
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Sinclair did it again with this wonderful story of Lex and the Make-Up Artist. I loved revisiting these old familiar characters just minutes after finishing Coffee Girl. I already cannot wait for the third book in this series. I am so excited that Sinclair is keeping these characters alive.

3.75 stars.

Thank you to the author Sophie Sinclair and NetGalley for a gifted copy. All opinions are my own.

Sarah Bowen is the makeup artist to one of the country's hottest bands and she's been in love with the lead guitarist, Lex Ryan, for over two years. Too bad he is a commitment-phobe and swears he cannot give Sarah what she deserves. When the band travels to his hometown in Ireland for their tour, Lex must overcome his past heartbreak in order to give his heart another chance at love with Sarah.

Let me start off by saying that I am a huge fan of Sophie Sinclair and will read anything she writes. I loved Coffee Girl and The MakeUp Artist was one of my most anticipated books this spring. I enjoyed it alot but I didn't love it as much as Coffee Girl. Lex and Sarah just didn't appeal to me as much as Kiki and Tatum did. She was a bit too emotional for me because she was constantly crying or trying not to cry. Also, without giving anything away, I thought the conflict came up and then got resolved so quickly, I felt like I was on a high speed roller coaster. The ending did tie everything up very neatly and I appreciated that. And of course, the scenes with TJ are the best and made me laugh so hard. Overall, it's a fun romance with lots of steam.

4.75⭐️
Sarah is a makeup artist for the hottest country band in the US and Lex is the lead guitarist. They both have had secret feelings for each other for two years, but Lex is very closed off .... so nothing has ever moved forward.

I love that this story starts out with another great coffee meet cute. You get a great follow up to Coffee Girl, with so much more of all your fave characters, Kiki, Tatum, TJ - and some fun new ones! There are some parts that I just laughed so hard out loud at, which isn’t something I do easily.

Ok. The goods. Lex is a HOT, I mean HOT Irish guitarist with an accent and tattoos and all the swoon worthy bad boy stuff you desire. He has a hard exterior from being badly hurt, which is proving super tough to crack. He calls Sarah “sunshine” and it will just melt you. A large part of the book is set in Ireland and I loved how she incorporated accents and talked about the landscape there.

I think the reason this one lost 0.25 is that I wa Sarah was a bit of a pushover when it came to Sexy Lexy.... mostly forgivable when you realize how sweet their connection is.

“I’d like to mash his Irish potatoes.”