I don't think this book is for me. It is overly sweet and cute. I like my romances with a little more oomph. It is well written and I can see the appeal for readers that are looking for this kind of romance or someone looking for something a little more ''fluffy'' to read. I could see myself watching a movie version of this book it didn't engross me enough to want to finish it.

This book has such an interesting concept. I love the fact that it’s in a small town and references a lot and our assumptions of small towns. I adore the way the heroin really gets control of her life. The batteries, cute and the book is entertaining from start to finish.

If you are a fan of Hallmark movies, you will be a fan of this. City girl moves to a small town and meets charming boy. City girl discovers things about herself and what she wants out of love.

Overall there were cute moments but it was a little cheesy for me.

this didn't do it for me, while I watch hallmark movies it was a little much for the lead to actually believe she could make them true.

My review is a year and a month late because I thought I sent it but never did. I read this book on a sick day and it made me not feel so sick. It captured the vibe of a small town pretty well and I thought Adina was fun and witty and everything that a rom com heroine should be.

3.5 stars rounded up

I was definitely here for the Stars Hollow type setting and the Gilmore Girls references. Add in the Hallmark Channel and Million Dollar Listing references and I was hooked.

LOVED this one! The small town multimedia references sprinkled throughout the book are pure gold, and Finn and Adina sparkle as the leads! I flew through it in a day and a half! Pick this one up if you’re looking for a fresh take on a well loved trope: city girl moves to small town! It’s lighthearted and funny, charming and indulgent. Congratulations Meredith on a beautiful trad debut!

DNF at 17% - life is too short to finish books like this

I don't know how this book managed to be both so incredibly bland and incredibly annoying all at once. As someone who grew up in a small town, I just....could not with this book.

Adina reads as WAY too young for her age, has the sense of humor of a teenage boy, and is a horrendous journalist, and it's wild to me that we're to expect that all she knows about a small town is based on what she's seen on TV. She lives in New York, not a backwoods cult, for crying out loud. It was also wild to me that this book went through SEVERAL rounds of professional editing—I've read independently published books that were more compelling.

Overall, this entire book feels so incredibly dull and flat and I just could not bring myself to keep reading. (Fun fact - it was also the lowest rated book on my ENTIRE tbr, and I'm wishing I had paid the reviews more attention).

I started this one and the writing just didn't work for me. The main character felt super young and while I potentially could see myself getting sort of invested in the story I didn't see myself giving this more than 3 stars so sadly I had to DNF.

I have seen decent things about her next book which I might give a try.

I couldn’t get into this book at this time. The language felt too immature for my liking. I hope to come back to it at another time. DNF at 22%

This unfortunately was not my favourite book. I couldn’t bond with the narrator due to her inner dialogue just not being realistic. Some of the spicier parts I found to be very cringey and not well written. I wanted to like it but couldn’t even be drawn in by the plot. I also think the pacing of the book was off because the narrator hooked up with Finn 30% of the way through the book. Not my fave, don’t recommend.

Overall, I enjoyed this book, but my frustrations with the main character almost outweighed the things I liked.

I really liked the male lead, Finn. I liked how the community Adi already has in the city mirrors what she was expecting to find in her small-town adventure, and I liked reading about the residents in Pleasant Hollow. I really liked the Jewish representation and the premise of Adi’s career as a writer being put to the test with a challenge to “win” a permanent writing position. I was also pleasantly (no pun intended) surprised by how steamy the romance was at times.

Adi’s insistence on forcing Pleasant Hollow into the mold of what she thinks a small town should be was incredibly annoying. I think it took her too long to accept that her assumptions were wrong, which made the pacing in the first third to half of the novel too slow in my opinion. I enjoyed Adi and her story more after she gave up her preconceived notions and leaned into actually looking for a story angle, but then the way she reacted to both the incident that caused her fight with Finn and its fallout frustrated me again. I was glad to see Adi learn from her experiences and grow by the end of the book, though.

I also felt that some of the references specifically to Gilmore Girls characters were so overt that they were almost distracting. For example, directly explicitly comparing Adi and Kate’s relationship to Rory and Lane’s after you’ve just described their relationship and name-dropping Taylor and Miss Patty during a town hall meeting scene were not necessary in either scene. Either the reader is a Gilmore Girls fan and picked up on the reference without needing it clearly labeled, or the reader doesn’t have the pop culture knowledge to make the connection to the reference anyway—labeling the reference doesn’t add anything for that category of reader. As a fan of Gilmore Girls myself, it felt like the author was overexplaining a joke’s punchline every time it happened.

Tired of NYC, Adina is looking for a story, basically looking for her own Hallmark Christmas situation - big city corporation comes to destroy a small close knit town with their development. She thinks she comes across this story.

What she finds is more of a small suburb that is at best welcoming of the development, and worst, ambivalent. Which was not what she was expecting. As Adi is doing her best to force the small town made-for-TV narrative she came up for, to the point where she's trying to get the town to start all these festivals and activities she's seen on TV, she's also starting to get along with Finn, the representative of the corporation behind the development. And maybe sees some of the good that the company is doing?

At least that's small town story is what Adi is telling people she's looking for. As a reader, you know she's looking for more, but don't think she knows she's looking for more until she finds it.

I enjoyed this novel, and how Adi comes to see that not everything you see on TV is true, even when it's fiction. That it's not the population of the place where you live, it's the people that you surround yourself that can give you that small town feeling. The family and friends that will help you celebrate the Jewish holidays, even though they aren't the same religion. The traditions that you make up with your neighbors that have grown through the years. That your community makes up a found family.

However as someone that doesn't watch these made for TV movies, all the references (because there's just a perceived stereotype to these movies that you know its a reference without having watched) were just too much for me. I really wish there was more found family, and less of the forced small town.

I thought I would love this book, but I just didn't. As Seen on TV starts slow and doesn't really pick up until the last 25%. In addition to the issue that I had with the pacing, I never related to Adina. Given her age, she seemed more immature (emotionally and professionally) than she should have been. And Adina was so quick to make assumptions.

A few things that I enjoyed were the unromanticized version of small-town life, the quirky residents of Pleasant Hollow, and the wonderful mother-daughter relationship between Adina and her mom.

I read and listen to As Seen on TV. I would recommend the audiobook, as the narrator was engaging and entertaining.

This was a nice story idea. Everyone loves Hallmark movies and sometimes it’s nice to have a story that is light and fluffy to read. As Seen on TV is that read. I think a lot of people were put off by the slow start of the book but once the two characters get together I found myself rooting for their relationship. Adina and Finn show a perfectly imperfect couple that learns the hard lesson that relationships take work. I gave this book 3.5 stars because of the slow start and the main obstacle to their love story was solved off page. It was funny and sweet and I’d check out another of Meredith Schorr’s books in the future.

I absolutely thought this was super cute and definitely a book I would recommend!! Loved the characters so much! Highly recommend!!!

*Thank you @readforeverpub for the copy in exchange for an honest review.*

If you're a Gilmore Girls girlie, you need to read this small town romance that's got so many Stars Hollow references. If you're a seasonal (or year-round) Hallmark viewer, you'll get a real kick out of this stereotypically setting that isn't what it seems. This is an anti-cheese, fun, charming romance that won't be for everyone, but it totally was for me! Read this if you want a quick, lighthearted, popcorn book by the pool this summer or by the fire next fall.

A cute Hallmark-esque book about a girl ditching city life to search for the ideal small town life.

And it doesn't work like that.

Entertaining, but not my favorite.

I found Adi quite annoying; constantly comparing everything to a Hallmark movie and hoping she lives one out got old fast. I feel like she has never left her house based on the way she thinks small towns work. I love Gilmore Girls and the thought of a small town like that existing, but you can't change an entire town to make it the way you think it should be. Also, the first draft she submitted to her editor drove me mad - it was just mean and I can't believe no one thought to tell her that until he said something!

Finn was an okay character, I don't think they belonged together and didn't have chemistry. The ending was cute although I think he could have done better but as long as she makes him happy...

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely love Gilmore Girls so when I saw that fans of Gilmore Girls would like this romcom, I had to read it! It was lighthearted and really funny. I love the small-town feel of books, and I liked how this one was told in the 1st person POV.