For readers who crave a lighthearted, feel-good romance with a dash of playful humor and a sweet, swoon-worthy hero, and is the perfect fit, offering a delightful exploration of the charms of a genuine nice guy and the thrill of discovering that sometimes, the best love stories come from the most unexpected places.

I must firstly apologise for the amount of time it has taken me to provide a review of this book, my health was rather bad for quite some time, something that had me in hospital on numerous occasions and simply didnt leave me with the time I once had to do what I love most.

Unfortunately that does mean I have missed the archive date for many of these books, so It would feel unjust throwing any review together without being able to pay attention to each novel properly.

However, I am now back to reading as before and look forward to sharing my honest reviews as always going forward. I thank you f0r the patience and understanding throughout x

Thanks NetGalley for the preview!

A super fun read with some a+ spice! The romantic tension was awesome. I really enjoyed the clever quips and humor. This book kept me hooked and Tom is the sweetest.

First of all I want to thank Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for the ARC, and I would like to thank the publishing company and the author for the opportunity too.

I am glad I picked this one as my next read. It was a lovely book with all the feelings. Tom was charming and reliable, and a good guy through and
through. Chelsea wasn't my favorite female lead but she was cute and hardworking, she was a good character even though her taste in men was crappy. Their relationship was well paced and there was a good building up which I appreciated.

I would recommend it as a weekend read to friends and peers who enjoy romance novels.

This checked off everything I look for in a book. Was not disappointed. Really enjoyed this book. I will read more from this author.

My thoughts 



Narrative and Plot  



With the cover and description of the book, I was expecting Mr Nice Guy to be a casual, fun ride. It went that way for the first half, but then the story digs deeper and explores the characters and their deepest apprehensions. However, towards the ending, it shifts the tone to that playful steamy book again.

In short, the tone felt a little inconsistent with what I am normally used to. Now, I do not know if this was intentional or not. The first shift was fine, but the shifting back to the playful romance with an unexpected climax wasn't something that I could get on board with.



Characters and Conflicts



As the title suggests, Tom, one of the protagonists, is the epitome of the "nice" guy. Chelsea comes out as this ingenue with a warm heart who shares the same flat as Tom. Both the characters have a clear arc. They are quite relatable and definitely resemble the people we meet in our lives.

It is the characters that draw you into the story and make you curious to know how they turned out to be in the end. Nadia, the best friend, came out to be an eccentric character, but the subtle tease to the sequel definitely has my attention.






Conclusion




Overall, Mr Nice Guy is a quick romance read when you just wish to pick up something light but not too shallow. It is kinetic, steamy and has the heart that you look for in a romantic comedy.

I voluntarily read an ARC of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher/author for letting me read this book.
It was very easy to read, and the setting was idyllic. The characters were quite likeable, and of course, Tom is a nice guy. I guess it made the story come across as nice as well? There were just a couple of missed opportunities for more angst. For example, sharing the king-sized bed after the concert, maybe some random bathroom encounters at their shared place, and a bit more heat when she was on his lap. Overall it was a good read.
Nadia was hilarious and it'll be interesting to see where the next story goes.
3.5 stars

I totally enjoyed this book. Good boy romance was something new yet a fresh take. But even good boy has bad thoughts too. Loved that concept too. Fake dating trope is also amazing. Overall an enjoyable read

Mr. Nice Guy... If I had a drink for every time the word 'nice' was in the book, I'd be passed out on the floor. All jokes aside, excessive word use is one of my bookish pet peeves and I understand it was the main part of the book. Despite that, this was a cute romcom. Nothing I'd recommend or reread but certainly enjoyable enough. I didn't really connect with the characters but I'm intrigued enough to continue on with the series because Belinda William's writing does show promise.

Thank you Netgalley for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

DNF - Cute rom-com about nice guys not always finishing last, but after 20% I couldn’t handle reading the word ‘nice’ anymore. I understand that is a main part of the book, but the word was just used so much that I couldn’t focus on the story.

I received a copy of Mr. Nice Guy from NetGalley in exchange for a honest review.

Tom Pierce is tired of watching his housemate Chelsea date all the wrong guys. She’s forever going for bad boys who don’t treat her well, arrogant men who are essentially the polar opposite of dependable Tom. He shocks Chelsea with his offer to behave as a boyfriend would with her for a week, bedroom activities excluded, and show her what a relationship with a nice guy could be like. Curiosity peaked, Chelsea takes him up on his offer and soon begins to wish benefits hadn’t been taken off the table.

This was a cute read from a new to me author that I will definitely be trying again. Tom was adorable and yet he had so much depth and layers for Chelsea to peel back. He also helped Chelsea find her own layers and grow as a person so both our MCs here displayed great character development. The slow burning tension between Chelsea and Tom made them easy to root for, even as I sometimes wanted to smack them for their poor attempts at communicating. Thankfully, they were charming enough together that I didn’t even mind when the dreaded third act separation (a plot device I hate) was employed since it was kept brief, and the reunion and mutual declaration of feelings was quite satisfying. I enjoyed this story and will be continuing the series.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Thank you so much to Netgalley and BWrite for the opportunity to read and review this book. Trigger warnings for cardiac arrest, choking, cancer, grief, and some douchiness. I'll be honest, the cover on this particular book is very deceptive. But besides that, I have some minor issues with this story. One is that I didn't need the repeated aspect of both careers and how the male character was a nice guy. I understood that they were these people it didn't need to be repeated this much. I also was not a fan of the heroine personally, I understood want the author was trying to do with her but I just wasn't a fan. I did however, love the hero and it felt like he had a more flushed out character development with more believable motivation. Overall though, I enjoyed this story and I'm curious what is going to come next. Because of these points, I have to give this a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

This one was just "alright" for me. I didn't connect with the characters and some of the story was a bit convoluted/over written. That said, it was a cute, easy read and I'll likely continue the series despite not loving this one.

I LOVE a good friends to lovers trope. This was a cute rom-com, quick to read but thoroughly enjoyable. My first book by this author and I definitely would see myself reading again. Would recommend.

This book was a perfect summer-read with a hard to resist trope with a bit more of a twist. Chelsea has been dating all the wrong guys, so when her friend suggests she fake date her roomate, Tom to see what a ‘nice guy’ is really like, their feelings towards each other begin to grow.
The first in a series about the Pierce brothers, we are briefly introduced to the other siblings, so I’m excited to see where each story goes!

Received an Advanced Reader’s Copy from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you!

Mr. Nice Guy has an interestingly new-author voice (even though Belinda isn’t a new author). Not like the author is inexperienced, but like their voice is one that is evolving with each other book they write in a way a newer author’s writing would. For the first half of the book the writing did feel like it was a much younger until the book went deeper into the second half, after which the writing started to feel more surer. I was wondering about this and realized that this was because a lot of the things in the first half of the book felt like it was unreachable as a reader. In the sense, an emotion a character experiences doesn’t reach the reader with the depth that it is depicted in the character/s. We wonder if there was some backstory to the situation that we had missed and why it had become such an important part of this scene.

However, the second half started to really feel more relatable to me and the situation and the emotions it brought felt warranted and I connected to them. I realized that it really helped that the characters’ personalities started to become less fuzzy around the edges and clearer with more history to the personality traits that they are showed/told to have. The dip and raise in this aspect of the writing also affected the speed in which I read. 50-80% sped through my fingers but the first half was slower.

Tom and Chelsea were characters that you slowly start to understand with time and the further along the story we go, the better the “real-ness” of the personalities feel. The dual perspective certainly aided the narration well. I’ve mentioned before that dual perspectives are hard on me because unless done well, I struggle with it. However I was comfortable with the perspective shifts and didn’t struggle with any confusion between the voices.

My favourite part of the story was the very very interesting backstory to the main characters. Both of them brought to the page some very very human mistakes and frankly something that is not often brought to light in protagonists in books. I will admit that I wasn’t a fan of some of the later happenings in the book, but did appreciate it being called out. The absolute last page was my favourite part of the ending and it certainly urged me to increase the rating by a half because even if the actual ending of the story felt a little weak to me, the last page was super cute.

Three and a half stars. There were some heartwarming moments and some that fell, but it was still a comparatively light read with interesting moments and humour that will keep you reading. Stay safe and happy reading.

Another cute story! Huge fan of this book and loved the characters. Very enjoyable! Definitely recommend picking up!

When you start fake dating your roommate and realise that nice guys are better than bad boys.

Chelsea has always attracted bad boys and so after the last one takes money from her and doesn’t pay it back, she’s tired of the same routine of everything going poorly in a relationship. When she’s yet again complaining about her current relationship, her best friend Nadia recommends that she dates a nice guy, her roommate Tom. Tom has had feelings for Chelsea for sometime so he agrees to fake date her for a week to show her how a genuinely good guy treats their girlfriend. Only they don’t realise that they might actually like each other.

I would actually give this book 3.5 stars if I could. It was well done and I enjoyed the concept of Chelsea only doing this to see how she should be treated in a relationship. It’s so different from why people typically fake date in books — to make an ex jealous or to pretend for family.

Something that I wasn’t a fan of was their constant mention of what a nice guy Tom was. I would have preferred that the author show and didn’t tell that to me. I also wish Tom had spoken up earlier about his previous relationship so we could see more about how he and Chelsea progressed.

I received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review.

This book is a fun easy rom com that you can tackle in one sitting. This is my first experience with the trope brother’s best friend / best friend’s sister and I really enjoyed it. Chelsea was an okay character but she grows on you and the more time I spent in her head the more likeable she became. Tom was agreeable from the start and I loved that the author show how the death of this mother and his job as a paramedic made him feel like he has to fix people and how that played a part in his relationships. If you are looking for a quick light/sweet romance with a little spice you will definitely like this.

It's easy to date jerks and people who are clearly not going to go the distance, but its much harder to put yourself out there for someone who really could be good for you.

Tom is sick of his flatmate - and also best friend's younger sister - Chelsea complaining about the jerks she dates. Egged on by Chelsea's best friend, Tom decides to 'date' Chelsea for a week to show her what things could be like with a 'nice guy'.

Most enjoyable were the two characters. I liked that where I thought the story was going, it didn't and the characters did avoid some of the usual cliches we see in romance novels. It starts with Tom challenging Chelsea but she also challenges him and is just as much his equal.

The main quibble I did have with this book though is I wish the author Belinda Williams challenged "The Nice Guy'. In 2021 its been well documented that men who proclaim themselves 'Nice Guys' are, in fact, misogynists who feel entitled to women. This woul'dve been excellent to have woven into the narrative subtly given all that is being talked about when it comes to the gender divide. Especially because Tom, was actually not a Nice Guy, but a well formed human being who cared for people and treated Chelsea like a human being. He crushed on her but didn't feel entitled to her (which is what Nice Guys usually are/feel towards women).

Despite its terrible title, Mr Nice Guy was a thoroughly fun and enjoyable read. It is the first of a proposed new series by the author and i'm very much looking forward to seeing the next book, which is hinted in this book.