Hilarious, sweet, full of chemistry. I loved the role that Olivia's family played. My only complaint was that I would have loved to see Colin's voice fleshed out a little more. Great tropes, great banter. For fans of Sally Thorne.

If I could give this book 10 stars I would. This book was pure romcom perfection and made my heart grow a few sizes.

I LOVED Olivia, I LOVED Colin. Both characters' voices were very well-developed and I loved how the author provided us with glimpses into both leads' family dynamics. The insight into their family dynamics allowed me to understand the leads' (at time over-sensitive ) reactions to each other, especially when they were in conflict with each other.

Overall, this was just a perfect swoon worthy, steamy (just the right amount for me, not too graphic, not too closed door), laugh out funny romcom read for me. Olivia and Colin's textual chemistry (textistry?) was OFF THE CHARTS. Their (text) banter was SO good - probably the best I have ever read. I became a fan of this author after reading Better Than The Movies but after Mr Wrong Number I consider myself a true stan.

Thank you @netgalley for providing me with an opportunity to read an ARC of this book. All opinions are my own.

This book had me snort laughing 2% in! It was an absolute HOOT!! I loved how instantly I was sucked into the text conversations with Mr. Wrong Number! The banter was just so darn fun! I guarantee you won't be able to keep from smiling.

I adored the enemies vibes Olivia had with her brother's best friend, Colin! They bounced off each other so well! Olivia was a HOT mess but I loved how she lived life full of energy and she had a big heart (which I can relate to.) Colin was SEXY especially when he was rocking his serious, businessman vibes! Heyoooo!

I will say the only thing that kept this from being a 5 star for me was the conflict. The first half was definitely a 5 star in my opinion but the 2nd half brought it down a little. Lying/miscommunication is one of my biggest book pet peeves and I was so frustrated with how Olivia handled a couple of the situations. One of the conflicts specifically felt unnecessary.

Overall, I still loved this book and how funny it was! It put the biggest smile on my face. Plus it has one of my favorite things: text conversations! I absolutely loved Lynn's YA book and she did an awesome job with her first adult book! The steam factor was saucy and delightful!

What I loved:
•brother's best friend/roommate trope
•enemies to lovers
•HILARIOUS banter
•text conversations that will have you snort laughing
•sexy, businessman Colin
•chaotic and accident prone Olivia
•passionate sexy times - "I’ll take back-scratching, shoulder-biting, frantic-sex-against-a-wall for five hundred, Alex."

Overall, I liked the book but I did find I enjoyed it more in the beginning when there was more texting going on. The story had a nice pacing to it but it did seem to end rather quickly for my liking. I was glad that there were alternate POV because I did enjoy Colin's perspective and I think it added to my enjoyment of the book. This is the first book that I read by Lynn Painter and I will read another by her again.

This book was amazing! I could not put it down! I absolutely loved Lynn Painter’s debut novel, Better Than The Movies so I was very excited to read this one and it did not disappoint. Olivia moves in with her brother, Jack after accidentally burning down her apartment. When she gets to Jack’s, she realizes that he lives with his best friend and her enemy, Colin. Olivia also receives a text from the wrong number asking what she is wearing, which turns into a friendship with a lot of sexting. Olivia has no idea that the person on the other end of her texts is her roommate that she barely gets along with.

The banter in this book was amazing and I loved both Olivia and Colin. If you like the enemies to lovers and grumpy/sunshine tropes, this is the book for you!

MR WRONG NUMBER had me laughing from the first line to the last. Olivia (great name, BTW) is a lovable hot mess. Colin is her brother's handsome roommate. And Mr. Wrong Number is the sext factor.

Charming and hilarious, this delightful romcom will steal your heart. It is the absolute perfect balance between fade-to-black/closed door romance and explicit sex, while still delivering the steam.

Olivia Marshall is a bit of a walking calamity. But burning down her apartment building may take the cake. Until she lands on her feet, her brother has allowed her to move in with him and his roommate. It's too bad Olivia and roommate Colin, don't get along.

Things start to turn around for Olivia when she gets a job writing a parenting column (it doesn't matter if she doesn't have kids...right??) and makes an unlikely friend in a mysterious man who accidentally texted her. Olivia finds herself reaching out to Mr. Wrong Number more and more often and the banter between them is electric. Things only start to get complicated when she starts to look at Colin a little differently. And Colin is keeping his own secrets.

The dialog in this book is great. The writing and story are in the same vein as The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. You'll be rooting for the characters to get together the whole time!

Side note: The only thing I wasn't crazy about was Colin constantly reminding himself that Olivia was Jack's "little sister," his "little, tiny, baby sister."

Super cute, adorable, and funny book. I'm on a rom-com binge and this book did not disappoint. I fell in love with both Olivia and Colin, and enjoyed their banter, relationship, and journey. This was my first book by Lynn Painter, and I'm defiantly going to see if she has other books to read.

Sassy, saucy, stimulating and absolutely great choice for Sophie Kinsella and Christina Lauren book lovers, romcom addicts just like me!

I was at a business trip when I get the arc of this laugh out loud, steamy and hot as July in Florida book! After a few pages later I was so tempted to read the entire of it and skip my meetings. So I did something new and set my alarm at 3 a.m. in the morning to arrange my reading time and I devoured it till 6 a.m.

It’s worth to my all sleep deprivation, purple halls under my eyes give me free witchy look that my entire production team adores! I’m sooooo happy, smiling ears to ears and fully motivated! Such a great book makes you entire week and turn your most boring trip into unforgettable adventure!

Olivia -Liv-Livvie Marshall seems like walking talking thinking chaos: she’s carrying her bad luck like a torch, finding herself in the most extreme, awkward situations! She gets sagged-cheated -dumbed- homeless at the same day! ( FYI: she’s not kicked out from her apartment: she accidentally putted the place into fire when she tried to get rid of her ex’s love letters by burning them and you may guess how her bad luck gets under control! )

Now she has to live with her brother Jack and his douchebag and extra hot roommate Colin Beck who turned her teenage years into hell by mocking her nonstop!

Why this guy looks sexier in those suits? Why he’s looking exactly like photoshopped Ryan Gosling from “Crazy.Stupid. Love.” ( those killer abs make her extra hyperventilate)

But she has to focus to make a fresh start by finding a new job! She has great writing skills! Even though she has to act like she has two toddlers to take her last writing gig from Times. She will give alternative advises to moms but she already has enough experiences thanks to her hyperactive nephews she’s voluntarily babysitting !

And she has also have text- friend: a guy who wrongly dialed her number to ask what she was wearing. When their texting eventually turns into sexting, things get a little escalated!

What if the guy she’s texting and having a crush for months is the same douchebag roomie and her teenage nemesis!

Colin likes control, regularity, accurateness, great in maths. He thinks Olivia is train wreck free spirited chaos! But he realizes teenage girl he has been teasing for years, turned into a sexy, challenging woman who can truly confuses his mind!

What if she’s the misdial goddess he cannot get out of his head!

This is great example of enemies to lovers and sunshine meets the grump troupes!

I thought to fit some points because at some parts I didn’t like to see everyone in her close circle thinks little of Olivia including Colin! But I could cut only half star and still rounding this book up to 5 stars because it was so sarcastic, entertaining, sexy, enjoyable! Actually this book put a big smile on my face, changing my mood. If a book makes you happier, it deserves more than five stars! And this book truly accomplished its mission!

Special thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sharing this amazing digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest opinions.

This was an easy quick read. It is a classic brother's best friend trope. I enjoyed the story of the wrong number and watching them start to connect both over the phone and in person.

Thank you to NetGalley for an advanced reader copy of this book!

Spoiler laden review. Skip if you don't want spoilers


I found the female protagonist to be super obnoxious.

It mostly annoyed me because the areas for which I disliked her had nothing to do with the plot (meaning these scenes could fully have been excluded from the book, to its betterment)-- but rather her behaviour to her "roommates." Between spilling ink on her hosts' carpet, opening and drinking an expensive bottle of alcohol she had no right to, leaving a massive mess in the kitchen for someone else to clean up, sleeping in her host's bed when he wasn't home and denting a piece of expensive kitchenware, I found her to be the worst house guest and I couldn't get over it.

It isn't even just that she was horrible to her host, but she actively tried to make him feel irrational for his very justified feelings of annoyance, to the point where HE has to apologize to HER. Any amends she tries to make in regards to her behaviour is sarcastic and ill-intentioned (buying someone a plastic replacement for metal kitchenware because it is "just as good" is a jerk move and you aren't "down to earth" for it. It is actually a VERY bad idea to use a plastic strainer for BOILING WATER).

The book tries to frame it as quirky, isn't she just so relatable? Her life is a mess!
Her self centred behaviour after someone GRACIOUSLY lets her live with them, RENT FREE, is not relatable. It's cringy to read.

It's not a good look.

This book would have been a DNF for this reason, but I finished the book to see if she at any point would apologize for her actions or recognize that is was bad behaviour. She does not.

Thanks Netgalley for allowing me to read this book! The title and this beautiful cover drew me in and i was excited to read this book! I will be recommending this book to others for readers advisory.

NEW FAVORITE COUPLE ALERT!!!

When a text message pings the wrong phone, things get hilarious, and sexy. Olivia Marshall is having a run of bad luck, and her family thinks she's a mess. Colin Beck is her brother's best friend, and the kind of cool, put together man who finds Olivia annoying and a bit of a disaster. When he realizes exactly who he's sexting with, things go a bit off the rails but not before Colin's interest in this new side of Olivia is sparked.

Honestly, I couldn't get enough of Olivia and Colin. Olivia's zest for life, and her live in the moment style was completely captivating, her brash boldness refreshing. I adore her. When Colin and his snappy comebacks, and never-miss-a-beat wisecracks enter the picture, it's a match made in heaven. What I loved about our heroine is that Olivia is all of us at one point in our lives, trying our best amidst the trials and tribulations of dating, jobs and family. The story moved at the perfect pace, I couldn't put it down.

Definitely one of the funniest romcoms I've read in a long while. Can't recommend it enough!

Mr. Wrong Number puts the ''com'' in rom-com, delivering energetic, laugh-out-loud hilarity from page one. Painter’s mastery of sexy slow-burn tension and whip-sharp banter will have readers smiling from ear to ear. Perfect for fans of Christina Lauren, this deeply relatable romance proves that love may be closer than you expect.

If you're looking for a belly laugh, you need to pick this one up!!

I realized somehow that I never posted my review of Mr. Wrong Number by Lynn Painter. I loved her YA debut Better Than the Movies that was full of witty banter, and relatably flawed humans, which made me even more excited for her RomCom debut. I binged this in one sitting and didn't even realize how much time had passed.

Olivia's a hot mess, literally, she burned her apartment down, lost her job, and found out her boyfriend had been cheating on her. With nowhere to go and nothing more than a gym bag of smelly clothes to her name, Olivia heads home to live with her brother while figuring out what to do next. Olivia finds a friend in a mystery man, after getting a wrong number text that said: "What are you wearing?". His true identity is one she never would have guessed and makes her rethink everything.

This book was an immersive experience that had me cackling at a much-needed time in my life. Painter writes the best banter between characters. I was stoked to get both Olivia and Colin's POVs; Olivia had me laughing out loud and Colin had me swooning and understanding his motive.

I was obsessed with Olivia. She was unpredictable and reminded me of one of my best friends which I think is why I was rooting so hard for her. Having her perspective made it easy to understand how she was ending up in the crazy situations she did. I loved that Colin understood what made Olivia, Olivia. She lived in the moment and embraced all that came with it. Colin knew what he wanted in life and I think that meshed well with Olivia's go with the flow attitude. These opposites definitely attracted each other and I loved that Painter had a blend of some amazing tropes, throwing in enemies-to-lovers, brothers-best-friend, and close-proximity. The resolution for this felt realistic and not forced, which is something I love.

Also YES to having Olivia's brother Jack's reaction to finding out Olivia and Colin were together be (mostly) mature. Also, the sneak peek of his story had me impatiently waiting for 2023 to get here!

I am already trying to figure out when I can give this book a reread because it helped bring me out of a slump and brought so much joy to my life. Trust me when I say that you do not want to miss this one!

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review

MR WRONG NUMBER is a damned delight. Crackling with humor, charm and wit. This book is a good time and like the best good times, it's filled with genuine warmth and depth. Wherever Lynn Painter is going next, I want to be along for the ride.

One of the best romcoms I've read, it reminded me strongly of Sophie Kinsella's books, only steamier. I adored Olivia and absolutely swooned over #HotColin. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Fair disclosure: I'm acquainted with Lynn Painter online, and the fact she's as delightful and witty as her books did not influence this review. I sincerely think the woman is a romcom writing genius. I also think the cover of this book is sheer perfection, and it captures the tone and charm of the book itself. Without doubt this is in my Top Five Favourite Books of 2021.

All hail the queen of banter, Lynn Painter!

But seriously, I *loved* BETTER THAN THE MOVIES, and was excited to read MR. WRONG NUMBER. And I thoroughly enjoyed Lynn's first adult rom-com!

I don't necessarily think it was what I was expecting, (I thought the "wrong number" bit would last longer on both ends,) and it didn't necessarily surpass my expectations (the main character is often..uhm...hard to like) but it's still a funny, sexy, and ultimately satisfying romp.

I will happily read anything Lynn writes!

A big thanks to Berkley and Netgalley for the e-ARC in exchange for my honest, unbiased review. MR. WRONG NUMBER is out March 1, 2022.

Thank you to Berkeley and NetGalley for the ARC!

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get through this book. The writing and pacing felt extremely clunky and awkward, and I wasn’t able to get immersed in the story at all. I wouldn’t discourage people from buying it, and I might recommend it to people looking for a fun rom com, because just because it wasn’t to my taste doesn’t mean that it won’t be to someone else’s!

I was really charmed by this book. The characters were both really well defined and likeable. I was rooting for them to end up together and couldn't wait to find out how the author would make that happen.

My only complaint was that the end was super abrupt. It wasn't enough for me to take away any stars or not recommend the book to others. I just have questions that left me wanting a little more information.

I hope we get a sequel with Jack because he was a great side character!