To Sir, With Love was a cute story similar to You've Got Mail but with a twist. Gracie has been running her family's champagne store after her parents' passing, but the store is struggling. Sebastian is head of the company that owns the building the shop is in and is wanting to buy out the lease, in which case the shop would close.

I enjoyed the back and forth messages Gracie had with her Sir on the messaging app she was trying in her quest for her happily ever after fairy tale. There was some great banter and witty quips and they genuinely seemed to connect very well while messaging.

I think the story was interesting and showed promise. It was cute and fun and a little different from the norm which was nice.

Lauren Layne's newest book does not disappoint! It has all the feels and I love the nod to "You've Got Mail". I absolutely loved this book! There were so many aspects of this story that was so relatable as someone who is also in their early 30's still looking for "the One" and having high standards and fairy tale-like hopes and dreams. The artist in Gracie Cooper also spoke to me as my creative artistic side is only used as a hobby in my life, but would never dream I could ever make a successful career out of it. Sebastian Andrews' "Darcy-esque" qualities will definitely make you swoon over him and I only wish we could have read his POV. The messages that Gracie (Lady) and Sebastian (Sir) sent to each other were so endearing and the final ones we read in the epilogue are so sweet and a perfect way to end their story. This book is definitely now on my all time favorites list by LL and I can't wait for her next release!

Gracie Cooper has always been the people pleaser in her family. So when her father passed away and left the family champagne business to his three children, it was Gracie that decided to hold off on her dreams and take charge. Gracie had other ambitions, but wants to preserve her family legacy.

That is until Sebastian Andrews starts sending notices to buy out the family business. You see, Sebastian is the landlord of the shop and profits for the shop haven't been doing so well. But Gracie isn't one to back down without a fight! Let the games begin.

To complicate matters further, Gracie has been corresponding to a man known as Sir on a dating app. They're both not looking for anything serious and not in the right place for a relationship, but their interactions online have become meaningful to Gracie. She frequently turns to Sir when her interactions with Sebastian leave her frazzled. Will they ever meet? And the more Gracie and Sebastian start spending time together - would she rather not meet Sir and pursue Sebastian instead?

To Sir, With Love was a unique twist on the classic You've Got Mail It was a charming book. I do feel like the romance perhaps took a bit of a backseat in the book at times. And while I did love the secondary cast of characters, I couldn't help but maybe want something more from the relationship between Gracie and Sebastian. Perhaps some more angst, longing or more chemistry between the two.

Overall I would give To Sir, with Love between a 3 and 3.5 stars.

4 Learning To Really See Stars
* * * * Spoiler Free-A Quick Review
Lauren Layne is an automatic click for me. She has given me many many hours of reading enjoyment. Her talented crafting allows her to give us all sorts of life lessons along with humor, insight, and heart. Oh, and let's not forget the heat.

To Sir, With Love highlights how handy it can be to communicate with someone we haven't met. The internet has provided this option. Faceless, judgment-free communication can lull us into being more open and willing to strip away all the walls we put up to protect ourselves.

The other added benefit to this form of relationships with these faceless people is they can become your support system, your allies when in your Real Life you may not have that outlet for your frustrations.

Ms. Layne has taken these concepts, married them with "enemy to lovers", and a dash nod to "You Got Mail", and made sure it all added up to a winning Layne book.

To Sir, with Love is an excellent enemies-to-lovers story. Very fun, with a heavy nod to the movie "You've Got Mail". To Sir, with Love is a story of love for one's city, one's family, and one's dreams. The rich details had me picturing the little shop, Bubbles &amp; More as well as the small apartment where Gracie lives. All of the characters are incredibly likable and well thought out. I love how Gracie learned that it's never too late to dream new dreams or to follow old ones.<

Gracie Young runs her family’s champagne boutique in Manhattan, but times have changed and customers are moving to online sales, leaving running the small business a challenge. She loves the family business, but keeping the business afloat requires creative thinking. Her love life is non-existent but maybe her Prince Charming is online? In walks the gorgeous Sebastian Andrews determined to buy her lease out and turn her family legacy into another parking garage. Underneath his arrogance, there seems to be a connection. Soon she finds herself with feelings for two guys—and both are available. Or are they?

When I read the summary and the comparison to “You’ve Got Mail” I was in. To Sir is a charming and modern update of You’ve Got Mail, with a better ending. The characters are likable and the book was impossible to put down. A charming and fun romance enjoyable from start to finish that will keep you laughing. I found the novel relatable and believable, but that maybe because I met my boyfriend on Bumble.

I love Lauren Layne but this one just fell flat for me. I figured it out/knew from the very beginning who "Sir" was going to be so it kind of just dragged on. I wished for a little more action and a little bit more steam. I did like the idea of a champagne shop though. I need to find one of those in my city. Can't want for whatever Lauren writes next... this just wasn't it for me.

Gracie Young runs her family’s champagne boutique in Manhattan. But times have changed, and customers are moving to online sales, leaving running the small business a challenge. She loves the family business, but keeping the business afloat requires creative thinking. Her love life is non-existent, but maybe her Prince Charming may be online? Then in walks the gorgeous Sebastian Andrews determined to buy her lease out and turn her family legacy into another parking garage. But underneath his arrogance, there seems to be a connection. Soon she finds herself with feelings for two guys—and a either are available. Or are they?

When I read the summary and the comparison to “You’ve Got Mail” I was in. To Sir is a charming and modern update of You’ve Got Mail, with a better ending. The characters were likable, and the book was impossible to put down. A charming and fun romance.

This was an excellent enemies-to-lovers story. Very fun. With a heavy nod to the movie "You've Got Mail", To Sir, with Love is a story of love for one's city, one's family, and one's dreams. The rich details had me picturing the little shop, Bubbles & More as well as the small apartment where Gracie lives. All of the characters are incredibly likable and well thought out. I love how Gracie learned that it's never too late to dream new dreams or to follow old ones.

I don't even know if I could have loved this more. Super sweet and cutesy, but done tastefully and enjoyably. Even though you start out knowing the basic plot line, it keeps you hanging on to see how it gets there.

OMG To Sir, with Love is adorable. I am already a Lauren Layne lifer, but this is one that I am going to be pressing into my friends hands. It's so sweet and fun and the banter is fantastic. I didn't even notice that it was closed door because the pacing and story swept me away. If you are a fan, you must read. For my friends who love British rom-com, family stories and all of the versions of the Shop Around the Corner/You've Got Mail - you probably need this one.

To Sir, with Love
Rating: 5 awesome stars
Thank you to the publisher for the ARC given through NetGalley for review. All opinions are my own.

To Sir, with Love was wonderful! I can honestly say that it has been the best book I've read so far this year. It was just so sweet and I loved Sebastian and Gracie. Their romance was a slow burn, but I never got bored or annoyed with the story. If you are a fan of "You've Got Mail" you're going to love this one.
It actually left me with a happy heart at the end and was hesitant to pick up my next read. My review is not long because I really have no bad things to say about it.

I highly recommend it!!

I loved how this was a little bit Sleepless in Seattle and a little bit unconventional. The female main character is older than your typical romance heroine and classic hero who is a bit arrogant but soft inside. I love the play of her perfect dating app man vs the actual man who has inserted into her life. It's a fun little story and I always enjoy my time spent in the uptown worlds Lauren Layne creates.

I absolutely loved this book. With all the tension between Sebastian and Gracie made this a really good book. The slow burn and the little mystery of who Sir was kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading this. This book will also pull all of your emotions out and have you on the verge of tears the whole time you are reading. I will definitely be reading this one again. Such a great book.

I am a huge You’ve Got Mail fan so when I read the description of To Sir, With Love I knew I had to read it. It was such a sweet story with definite You’ve Got Mail vibes. Gracie Cooper put her dreams of becoming an artist aside to take over her family’s struggling champagne store, Bubbles. Her love life is also struggling. She is in love with a man she’s never actually met and who has a girlfriend, a man she connected with on an online dating app. When Sebastian Andrews enters her store and makes an offer to buy the building, Gracie never expects to form a friendship with the man who wants to destroy her store but Gracie’s feelings for Sebastian grow leaving Gracie confused as to how she could be falling for two people.

If you are a fan of You’ve Got Mail (and really, who isn’t??) you will fall in love with this story just like I did. The entire cast of characters was super relatable, and the love story was adorable. Thank you Netgalley and Gallery Books for the egalley in exchange for my honest review.

This is my first Lauren Layne book and won’t be my last. Really cute rom com. This story is about Gracie who has taken over running her fathers champagne store in NY. The store is struggling and Gracie is having a hard time making it work. Gracie has always loved the fairy tale and is waiting for hers. She meets “Sir” on a dating app and begins talking to him but has no idea who he is. Then she meets Sebastian whose company is trying to buy out the lease on the champagne shop. There is an initial attraction on both their parts but things are complicated. Gracie figures some things out along the way about what she really wants. Good clean romance story.

Lauren Layne once again delivers a heartfelt romcom centered around a couple who are enemies in real life, but close friends online. This book has a few tropes including hidden identity, miscommunication, enemies-to-lovers, and friends-to-lovers. The short excerpts of online conversations between Sir and Lady are sweet and sometimes prompt laughter.

“He has a girlfriend. I have a . . . pen pal.”

I found myself getting frustrated that the pair didn’t recognize each other as the online penpal. This was definitely more realistic, but as the reader with all the information, it felt so obvious. Naturally—to add tension—one of them finds out and doesn’t tell the other. This is another part of the hidden identity trope that bothers me, because it’s a thin line between protecting yourself from getting hurt, and manipulating the person you’re falling for. Regardless, I really enjoyed this book. The ending was better than I imagined for both Gracie and Sebastian. The epilogue in particular has me laughing and simultaneously swooning.

Quick read, sweet story, and a clean romance. Gracie inherited her parents' NYC champagne store. She's spent her life believing in fairy tales, and she's been corresponding with "sir" on a dating app where the users only write messages to each other, no identifying info. Sebastian is the attractive and interesting man who wants her to sell the shop to his company. They butt heads, but a mutual attraction sparks, and it takes quite a while for any realization to occur. I wish there'd been a bit more of the characters as a couple, but I did enjoy the book.

Thank you NetGalley, Gallery Books and Lauren Layne for gifting me a copy of this book in advance in exchange for my honest review!
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QOTD: WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE 90’s ROMANCE?
A: I LOVE 90’s romance movies and I pride myself on owning quite the collection but
Hope Floats will always be my favorite! In early high school there was one summer where I watched that movie and that movie only, on repeat, for three days straight. Give me Sandra Bullock, a cute guy and stuffed cats and I’m sold.
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Needless to say when I saw that Lauren Layne wrote her own version of You’ve Got Mail, I clicked on the request button so stinkin fast. I HAD to read this book! If you’re like me and a major fan of 90's era romances, light angst, likeable characters and a sweet story that makes you feel all the nostalgia, this one's for you! The romance was clean and I wouldn't say the chemistry was necessarily jumping off the page for me, but this worked as the perfect palate cleanser and just makes me want to read more!

This is the perfect quick-read romance that you need on your shelf!

Set in NYC, Gracie Cooper has taken over her family business, a champagne shop that businessman Sebastian Andrews wants to buy her out of.

Gracie confides in "Sir" the man she 'met' on a blind dating app and things get complicated as she debates taking their online relationship into the real world.

The middle child in me fell in love with Gracie, the romantic in me adored the texts in between chapters and once I started, I couldn't put this book down.

Even though you know this storyline, to author Lauren Layne's credit, the characters, dialogue and setting pull you in--even if you know how the story may end. There's a lot of depth in the sub-plots and family dynamics, outside of the romance, that I really enjoyed.

Thank you to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an advanced copy of this and the opportunity to share my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you to Gallery Books and NetGalley for the advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was super cute! A very quick and easy read. It’s on the fairytale romance side of the scale; meaning not quite believable (as it’s a little over the top), but it’s absolutely a feel good!

I enjoyed the enemies to lovers and friends to lovers troupe combination most of all. I found myself very excited in between scenes to see the dialogue between Lady and Sir.

While the main characters had great on page chemistry, the book has a low steam factor as there is not much happening on the physical side of things.

If you are a diehard romance reader, definitely pick this one up! If you lean towards more of a realistic romance that isn’t a modern-day fairytale, maybe skip this one. The little bit of cynicism I do have prevented me from giving this one five stars, but overall I really enjoyed it.