I enjoyed this book a lot! I think it's my first Tina Reber book and I'm sure I'll read more of hers.

Taryn Mitchell is a small-town girl who owns a bar. Ryan Christensen is a mega-star who never really wanted all of the over-the-top-attention that he gets from his (mostly) female fans, the paparazzi, and different filming companies wanting him for their movies. Taryn is just a bar owner who's never seen a single movie of Ryan's. So one day as he's being practically run down by fans and paparazzi, he darts into Taryn's pub and she pretty much "protects" him from all of it. When he learns that she truly has never seen a single movie of his he's almost shocked, but at the same time it's refreshing.

Taryn had just come out of a bad relationship, she has sworn off love and men. But for whatever reason she finds herself being protective of Taryn. She ends up inviting Ryan to stay at her place when he's in town or just needs a place to "hide out" and there is the place she can protect him by various means, such as closing down the bar. As she finds herself feeling angry and at times jealous, she realizes she's falling for him. And, of course, he is doing the same thing and falling for her.

One thing I loved about this book is that Ryan isn't all into himself. He is a guy who happened to LOVE acting, but her never sought attention, never wanted the fake girls wanting him because he's a star but not having a clue who RYAN is. But he knows that Taryn cares about him for himself and not for the characters he's played. I love that he's humble and he doesn't care what others think about his being with "just a bar owner."

A great escape read.
Many thanks to Simon & Schuster and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

I wanted to like this book, but I unfortunately did not. I love the idea of the storyline, but it was a little too saccharine and wordy for my liking. The dialogue was hard to follow and hard to digest, too.

Oh my! Looooved these books! This book series tells the story of a movie star falling for a regular woman. And I can tell you they´re quite a couple! I stayed up way too late to keep reading. Lost track of time. Went to sleep but then started to read via my mobile Kindle application..Safe to say they were an easy read! I read the first and tried to start reading 3 different books that are very promising, quite surely I will like or reaaaally like them eventually when I do read them. But right then I was not able to continue to any other stories. I was to say, stuck. The story and the characters got me so enveloped that they were still in my head not agreeing to leave me alone. At least not until I had read the next book as well. So I bought Love Unrehearsed. Not a euro wasted there!

I thought I started to read an erotic romance. Well there was some of that but not a lot. Having read only Fifty Shades of Grey before these I guess it is quite hard to make a comparison. I would just call them romance/contemporary romance.

I received the first, Love Unscripted, free to review from Netgalley ages ago. So thank you Tina Reber and Netgalley! Hopefully I will get to read the next one soon!


Warning, spoilers included:

Love Unscripted: I pretty much love all about it. But there was one thing in the plot I did not care for. I had hoped the couple in the story would believe and trust in each other through it all. So the point when Taryn thought Ryan was cheating her was the low point for me. And that part lasted too long. But as I get it read I was able to just forget it.

Reviewing old arcs, have tried to read but couldn't get into. Won't be trying again so no formal review will be posted on social media.

Sadly, this completely missed the mark for me. If I hadn’t felt obligated to finish it because of the review, I would have DNf’ed at 20% and not wasted any additional time on it.

Initially, Taryn was just irritating, but as the book went on it just kept getting worse. The hero, Ryan, was a sweetie, and he deserved so much better than what he got. Theirs was the sort of relationship where you look at one of the parties, (in this case Ryan) and wonder how in the world such a nice person ended up with a horror like the other person (in this case Taryn). I just wanted to grab him and yell “RUN! Run as fast as you can”. Whiny, TSTL, immature, and she even gaslighted him into believing that her total lack of trust in him was HIS fault rather than her own. As if all that wasn’t enough, the writing was amateurish and the book needed an editor to cut it down. I kept looking at my page count and thinking “wait, I haven’t even reached 50%? Just how long is this book?”. When I got to the end, I discovered it wasn’t actually done, there’s a whole other book about these two and their dysfunctional relationship. I think I’ll pass.

This book drew me in and wouldn't let go until I made it through the series. Very steamy and fun! If you enjoy the idea of finding your own movie star to love, you will enjoy this book!

I received a free copy of this book through NetGalley, for the purposes of reviewing.

Wow. I haven't read a book in a long time that had so much extraneous information included. I kept getting bogged down and outright bored with the play-by-play of where people were sitting or what they were wearing or the relationship state of someone unimportant to the overall plot. The formatting sucked. Quotation marks were used in place of apostrophes throughout, and that made this slow read even more torturous. There were lines missing, or inserted two pages later, and line breaks between chapters were frequently missing. I'm hopeful that these issues are fixed in the actual published copies.

This book is written in first-person. It's unusual, and not every author can make it work. Though Taryn is theoretically 27 or 28, the book, particularly the beginning, reads as though she's just out of high school. She's fixated on stuff that an older adult just wouldn't think too much about anymore, with totally juvenile thought processes about men and their relative hotness factors.

I really liked Ryan and Taryn at first. They seemed to genuinely like each other and watching an actor fall in love with a "nobody" and vice versa was interesting. Then, when Ryan left Taryn's city once filming was done, their relationship wasn't so easy and they each had issues with the other. Ryan turned into an overbearing uber-jealous prick with anger control issues, and Taryn became a super-gullible untrusting brat, and it just went downhill from there.

The denouement was way over the top, though well-written, and then the end was just too treacly for words. "I'm sorry." "No, I'm sorry." "I love you." "I love you more." "Let's live happily ever after." Gag me with a spoon. Yeah, I know. The eighties called and they want their colloquialism back.

For me, this book was just too long, stuffed with too much unnecessary information, and the way the relationship played out was unbelievable. Taryn's physical attraction to Kyle was given far too much emphasis, considering she's in love with Ryan, and whether or not she was attracted to Kyle had no meaning to the plot.

On the plus side, there were parts of the book that were extremely nicely done and touching. The early days of the relationship had many adorable and funny moments, and though packed with a lot of tell rather than show, were enjoyable to read.

Tried to get into this several times and this has been on my shelf way too long. Thanks for sending the book, but I'm giving up.

I read the galley here and then purchased the book for myself and my mother. I also own it it paperback too. Fantastic read!

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I thought I had already deleted this book from my to read a long time ago but it seems to be back on my list. Sadly it was one that I couldn't get on with and as I wasn't able to finish, I felt it unfair to leave a review.

I've tried on several occasions to read this book, but every time I pick it up I can't seem to get past the first 20 pages or so. It just doesn't hold my attention. I'm sorry to say it, but this will have to be a DNF for me.