Special thank you to Forever (Grand Central Publishing) and NetGalley for allowing me to read and review this digital ARC of The Hookup Plan.

I mean - who doesn't love an enemies to loves romance?! Let me preface this by saying I didn't know it was the third book in a series, but it stands alone well (this was my first read of Farrah Rochon too). With all that being said I found this book to be fun and very enjoyable! I enjoyed the MCs, their relationship that built throughout the story plus the steamy moments were a nice touch :)

Farrah Rochon is officially one of my auto buy authors and I look forward to her books coming out every single year. She has an amazing way with character development and I can hardly ever put her books down! The Hookup plan is no different and I loved every bit of it. Cannot wait to read her next one - will definitely be recommending this series to everyone! Thanks for the opportunity to read and review early!

This was a cute, quick romance read. The main character, London, was well written. I appreciated the strong and supportive female friendships.

This was such a good finale to The Boyfriend Project series! I really enjoyed the rivals to lovers storyline between London and Drew. Sometimes it can feel a bit silly for adults to be holding onto a high school grudge fifteen years later, but I think the way that London’s mindset was explained made a lot of sense. And it was fun to see her open up and start caring about Drew.

The plot outside of the romance added a lot to the story. London’s strained relationship with her father and half-siblings were interesting to read about. Also the fate of what would happen to the hospital where London worked and other aspects of her career journey heavily impacted the story. And Drew’s reasons for wanting to be involved with helping out struggling hospitals added a lot to his character.

Something that I wasn’t a fan of is how Drew and London’s first couple sex scenes don’t happen on page. They start hooking up very early in the book but you don’t actually get to read them fully until it’s already happened a few times. I personally like to be present as the reader for the first time between the characters. It just felt like an odd choice because the whole book isn’t fade to black. But overall I had a great time reading this. I’m definitely going to be looking forward to more books from Farrah Rochon.

I'd never read Farrah Rochon before, but in my new life as a romance reader I thought I'd give her a try. Her new book The Hookup Plan is out in August and finishes off her trilogy The Boyfriend Project. It might have been better if I'd started at the beginning, but this book works okay on its own. Things to know before you read:

If you're looking for a steamy read, this novel gets right down to business.
The book follows the enemies to lovers trope.
It features multiple strong and capable black female characters.
The author also touches on strong family ties, both good and bad.

Farrah Rochon does a fantastic job of creating well rounded, nuanced female characters, and London was no exception! Not only did I love the romance in this book, but I loved London's relationship to her dad, friends, family, and job perhaps even more. The author clearly researched the life of a surgeon well, and adds the wonderful nuances of race and gender to the typical representation of surgeons and the patriarchal workplace which made London such a compelling character. Her relationship with her dad was also so interesting to read about, and how that affects her relationship with her siblings, though I wish the plot was integrated a bit more heavily in the first half.

The romance in this story was also very good, and reminded me of January and Augustus, my all time favorite book couple, which is always a plus. However, their relationship got a bit repetitive, to the point where I was skimming through parts because no additional traits were being added to their relationship even as it progressed. Still, I loved Drew, and especially loved how we got some chapters from his perspective. Definitely a strong read, would recommend for Emily Henry fans!

What a wonderful book! I have enjoyed my time with the ladies brought together because of no-good Craig. This by far was my favorite story and probably because I am a healthcare provider. What I loved was Drew's unwavering support. All patients should have a health care provider and advocate like London.

This was just what I was in the mood for! I’m not sure why it took me so long to read a Farrah Rochon book, but I’m so glad I righted my wrongs and picked this one up. I love enemies to lovers and The Hookup Plan takes things to another level by adding high school rivals to the mix!

Drew and London are such fun characters. They’re both incredibly smart and successful but they’re also genuinely good people. The chemistry is insane and the banter is perfect. I really loved this one!

Being a book #3 in a series I had no clue existed I am now scrambling to get the other 2 books! This was the perfect enemies to lovers book.

The banter between our MCs left me giddy and giggling most of the way through the book. I believe I have now found a new favorite author to spread the word about all over bookstagram and in my book club!

Thank you Netgalley for the e-arc of this book!

Patient-focused and successful pediatric surgeon like London Kelley is challenged by her best girlfriends. She needs to get a little more balance in her life, shift her focus off of work, they think. With that in mind, London heads off to her high school class reunion and ends up hooking up with her arch-nemesis Drew Sullivan. Sparks fly!

ARC received by Net Galley for review. This is the 3rd part in a series. London and Drew were high school rivals who hated one another until one night changes their status to lovers. The characters had chemistry at times however London was doing too much sometimes though I loved her loyalty to her patients and the hospital. I liked Drew he remained level headed even when she was being horrible to him. Glad London came to her senses.

I jumped at the opportunity to read an ARC of Farrah Rochon's newest book in the Boyfriend Project series, The Hookup Plan. I'd read the first book and loved the premise of three women becoming friends after discovering they were dating the same guy.

The Hookup plan is the final book and tells London Kelley's story to end the series. London not only is a compassionate pediatric surgical resident at a local Austin hospital, she's also someone who takes command and gets shit done. Sometimes to the detriment of her relationships and her health.

When she runs into her old class rival, Drew Sullivan, at the reunion, all her problems coalesce. But unlike high school, London has a different plan to neutralize her enemy. No-strings sex. And the ability to de-stress is a happy side bonus.

As their attempts to keep things casual disintegrate, London is also faced with an unknown future. Trying to figure it all out may mean she loses the hospital she loves and the man who is becoming more than friends with benefits.

I think this is the best book yet in the series. While London's strong woman routine may sound like a sugar-coating for bossy, Farrah Rochon does a great job showing us the squishy center for why London cares so much. Along with a delectable Drew Sullivan, this was a fun read I'd recommend.

CW - Toxic family dynamics, discussions of medical conditions

In a way, I can’t help but feel like I’d enjoy The Hookup Plan way more if I had read it in a single night binge versus small increments over a week. Then again, after finishing, I’m struggling to think up what makes this book different from any other cartoon romance covers. It’s definitely fun, has great tropes (hello enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, and he falls first), and managed to avoid miscommunication, so in theory it should be checking all the boxes for me. But why can’t I really remember a think about it one day after putting it down?

The Hookup Plan is a dual-POV that follows Dr. London Kelley, a pediatric surgeon at Travis County General Hospital in Austin, TX, and Drew Sullivan, a multimillionaire hedge fund manager. At their 15 year high school reunion, the co-valedictorians are reunited and London sees red. Since high school, she has hated Drew for taking away her pedestal and straining her relationship with her father further. Drew, for his part, has been in love with London since they met and did everything to impress her. When he is hired to conduct an audit of her hospital, she comes up with a plan to have causal, no-strings-attached sex with Drew while he’s in Austin. Seeing this as his chance, Drew decides to use this hookup plan as the chance to make her fall in love with him. As the audit speeds towards completion, London works through her feelings towards the men in her life and Drew faces his own Texas sized ghosts.

Something rather large that made me give this book a higher rating is that it managed to allow characters to explore their parental issues without using them to tear them apart needlessly. London has a narcissistic father and Drew struggles to grieve his mother after she withheld her cancer diagnosis from him. Both are wildly different circumstances, but London and Drew help the other perfectly. It was refreshing to see them acknowledge their help wasn’t perfect but did play a small part in working through the obstacles.

With London’s father comes the thing that will either make a reader love or hate The Hookup Plan, being London’s mindset. As a teen, the only way London could get a modicum of his attention was to be the very best. Any thing that kept her from that was a threat that needed to be removed. Now 32-33, she is constantly working towards changing that mindset and doing things for herself, not her father. This means that she is thinking about her father, her actions, if she’s doing the right thing, etc. CONSTANTLY in her chapters. As somebody who overthinks, I didn’t mind her voice, per se, but I did find it exhausting as the book went on how she acts in relation to her father. Even when she claims to have let him go, she’s still thinking about him and bringing him up. In the few instances she is not thinking about him, she’s thinking about Drew and how she cannot commit to him. She tells herself rather weak reasons and denies the feels she catches rather quickly. Again, normally I wouldn’t mind this, but I shouldn’t be just rolling my eyes and waiting for large sections of the book to hurry up and be over.

I will likely buy this book when it comes out to support the author but at this time I don’t really see myself ever rereading The Hookup Plan. It’s a strong book, but it registers in my mind as interchangeable with other books I’ve read in the past 2-3 years. It captures the romance formula perfectly but doesn’t have anything truly remarkable about it beyond the mutual parental issues being worked on in a healthy way by the main characters.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.75/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶.25/🌶🌶🌶🌶🌶 (One-two semi-explicit sex scenes, several references on page to sex)

**I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.**

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for the advanced readers copy!

Dr London Kelly and Drew Sullivan were once high school classmates, competing for top of their class. They meet again as adults at their 15yr class reunion and pick up right where they left off. London does not like Drew, Drew pretends not to like London. After the reunion, they have what's supposed to be a one night stand. It turns into a weekend of adult fun. London soon discovers that Drew's company is in charge of the fate of her beloved hospital. She realizes the more she gets to know Drew now, that her adversarial feelings towards him were never actually about him, and that he's a fantastic man.

I really enjoyed that this book was centered around two 30 something adults. They had their own careers and baggage to deal with while also falling in love with each other. They also never break up which was so refreshing!

Something I didn't care for in this book:
-London is supposed to be a resident doctor in the last year of residency. The way she is written in the book, she acts much more like a veteran attending physician. In my experience (RN) with hospital systems, residents are not invited to high level administration/budgeting meetings, nor are they in such high esteem hospital wide that their opinions on those subjects would matter much. Hospitals are incredibly hierarchical. London is written like she's right at the top and able to influence these things. As a resident, that would not generally be the case. This was distracting to me and required me to suspend belief more than I expected. Without my real life experience I don't think it would have been an issue.


*The relationship between food choices and London's health is mentioned a lot. She struggles making food choices because she is prehypertensive and feels she can't eat whatever she wants anymore. She desires cupcakes but then tells herself she shouldn't have them, but buys and eats them anyway. That is just one of many examples. It feels very "diet culture" to me. I'm not assigning judgment to this theme being included in this book, just wanted to let people know in case they don't want to read about that subject.

What a cute and funny book! I love these characters! This was a adorable and hilarious book, if you need a fun book pack this one up.

The chemistry between these two is the best!

London is a celebrated pediatric surgeon who is trying to get some balance in her life and have some life outside of work. She has been through the wringer lately with a very terrible dating experience and is feeling hesitant about dating again. At her class reunion, she runs into Drew, who is like, a multimillionaire former hedge fund manager who now saves hospitals from poor management so that people have access to quality healthcare. Oh, and London hates Drew. You know, it's just an old-fashioned high school rivalry turned into a lifelong grudge. The only problem is that Drew has basically been in love with London since high school, and he's incredibly hot, emotionally intelligent, in town for a few weeks, hilarious, charming, smart, and a super desirable rich bachelor.

All of these steamy conflict and hooking up is overlaid on the foundation of a strong female friendship that nourishes London and her two besties as they support each other through drama with careers, family, and romance. Two prominent tropes like Strong Female Friendship and Enemies To Lovers can feel like a lot for me, but Farrah Rochon can walk and chew gum. It works.

If you like Greys Anatomy, you're required to read this. It's a legal obligation. I don't make the rules.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a digital ARC for me to read. I really enjoyed it.

Wow, what a fun read!! This was the first book I've read in The Boyfriend Project trilogy even though I own The Boyfriend Project and now I'm very disappointed in myself for not reading that one as soon I bought it. This book was everything I needed it to be, full of laughs and heart felt moments. The last book I read didn't really do it for me and this was just what the doctor ordered, see what I did there? Lol, I'll show myself out. Anyways... I really liked watching London and Drew's relationship progress and I also loved how Farrah included London connecting with her half-siblings. And on that note, Kenneth sucks. But so does Dr. Coleman, can't forget him.

Will definitely be reading more Farrah Rochon in the future!!

Thank you NetGalley and Forever publishing for this eARC.

There’s so much to love about this book that I want you to run to your nearest indie bookstore or click one of the links below to pre-order The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon as soon as possible. (I do not receive any compensation for promoting independent bookstores but I do get a lot of joy out of directing sales away from that big internet store that’s trying to ruin the world.)

In this enemies-to-lovers story, protagonist London is a pediatric surgical resident at a community hospital. Her high-school nemesis, Drew, is a very successful health care consultant whose company helps financially at-risk hospitals in underserved communities. Yes, that’s a lot to absorb but the story arc really helps to make the romance more meaningful and more engaging.

I’ve said in reviews before that I abhor drunk sex with the fire of a thousand suns. Apparently, so does Drew and I love that. He’s honorable and passionate about his work. Even better, he has a legitimate, believable reason for his passion that allows us to know him better. He’s well-drawn and likable.

London is a bit hot-headed. She could – occasionally, at least – look before she leaps. But that’s a complaint I have about myself too. I love that she’s written as a highly skilled surgeon, that she lifts up the people around her, that she protects more vulnerable staff at the hospital. Rochon has created a community of strong, assertive women who play many roles throughout the story. And that is delightful.

I received a digital arc through NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. But don’t kid yourself. I loved this book and you’d better believe I pre-ordered a copy.

The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon is scheduled to be in stores on August 2, 2022.

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The Hookup Plan is the third book in a series but can be read as a standalone. I know this because I haven't read the first two but really enjoyed this one! London and Drew have been enemies since high school but fighting to be at the top of their class. What happens at a high school reunion changes everything! Both main characters have busy, important jobs so they don't have a lot of time to meet people. So when fate throws them together it's fun to see what happens! Now I have to go back to check out what I missed in the other two books!

The Hookup Plan is the third--and the best--installment in the Boyfriend Project series. It follows London and Drew, high school rivals, who hook up at their school's reunion. London thinks this is a one-time, no strings attached hookup until she discovers Drew is part of the team doing an audit on the hospital where she is a doctor and will decide whether to save or sell her hospital.

This book was the melty romance I needed. The tension between London and Drew made for the perfect chemistry--excellent banter, sparks, and complicated feelings. Drew's longtime crush on London, sensitivity to her needs, and patience as her feelings caught up with his were endearing. Watching hardened London open up and fall in love in degrees was also a delight.

Drew's grieving his mom and London's complicated relationship with her father and much younger siblings added another rich layer to this compelling story, even if not fully fleshed out.

All in all, a very satisfying read!