Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the chance to read this!

This was a great heartfelt romance and a perfect feel-good read to get you out of your slump. Friends to lovers is always a nice laidback trope to read and Lizzy and Jack were so sweet.

I liked that the author approached issues such as anxiety and the growth and healing aspect was nice to read about and it added more depth to the characters.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this but I do think the plot was a bit bland at times hence the 3 stars. although Lizzy and Jack were fun characters to read about, they didn’t have as much depth as I wanted them to have.

The absolute best part of this book is that the MC got to live my childhood dream of owning a book shop. Living vicariously through her fed my soul ❤️

The actual romance portion between Lizzy and Jack felt rushed for me. I almost put down the book a few times when the love interest’s internal monologue commented on our heroine’s workout routine and eating habits. That may have made the book less swoony for me.

However, because it was friends to lovers and had to do with books, it was worth sticking it out! Thanks to NetGalley for my ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thanks Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This is a little late because I got busy but –

I was really excited for this book because it sounded good based on the description. However, I wish I’d known it was the third in a series. Maybe I just completely missed it or it wasn’t stated? Not sure but onto the review.
The plot
- interesting
- the development however was slow. i feel like it could’ve been paced better because it felt like nothing was happening and then suddenly everything was.
- not as exciting as i expected

The characters
- i’ll be honest they were okay but they weren’t super super memorable. i liked them but i don’t think they’re reread worthy
- i’m not a hugeee fan of friends to lovers if im being honest but this book did it well

I loved Lizzy and Jack. Their friendship was sweet and adorable until they both realized they had feelings for eachother and things became a little steamy. This friends to lovers story had me consistently cheering on Jack as he debated following his heart and potentially losing his best friend. The fact that Booked on a Feeling revolved around two bookstores had me loving Lizzy's obsession with everything bookish. This was a fun and quick read.

Not quite as good as the others set in this setting but a fun and easy read. Jack was easily like able but Lizzy not so much.

Absolutely Adorable!

I was hesitant jumping into a third book in a series without having read earlier books however... the past few years have really made me see that life's short so I've been DNF-ing books I'm not enjoying AND jumping in mid series (although of course, I still try to make sure that they're ones that can stand alone like this one). This particular book in the series appeal to me because it's one of my favourite tropes AND set in around books!! You guessed it, I read it in a single sitting.

The shaky beginning was followed by so much sweet cuteness and sparks overload reaching to a crisis that ended so very precious, I really felt like I was so warmly hugged by this whole book. To have characters who actually talked to each other! Ohmygosh, they communicate (!!) mostly and even if they were still hiding or uncertain of some things which I found a tiny bit frustrating at times but overall, I found these two to be quite mature and refreshingly somewhat functional adults. Now, I've really gotta dive into author's backlists!

My thanks to St Martin's Press for ecopy of book via NetGalley in exchange of my honest thoughts

Thank you NetGalley and publisher for this ARC publication for an honest review.

Booked on a Feeling
by Jayci Lee
Pub Date: 26 Jul 2022

This was a sweet story about childhood friends who secretly want to be something more...but will they risk that friendship for that chance? Lizzy and Jack had such a pure commitment to each other. I love how supportive they were and wanting what was best for the other. If it wasn't for insecurities, stubbornness, and miscommunication blocking the path to their forever with each other... (but then I guess you wouldn't have enough to write a book!) This was a quick read with kind of a predictable (but happy) outcome.
3 Stars

Friends to lovers? ✔️
Second chance romance? ✔️
Guy falls first? ✔️
Slow burn? ✔️

This book has it all!! Cute, fun and fast-paced. I very much enjoyed it. The cover alone sold me. It’s absolutely gorgeous!! I definitely needed this book after reading a bunch of thrillers. It warmed my heart. Can’t wait to read more from this author!!

Thank you, Netgalley and St. Martin's Press (St. Martin's Griffin) for gifting me an eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Booked on a Feeling is a sweet romance about Izzy and Jack. There were themes of friends to lovers, second chance romance, and slow burn. Best friends since they were 10 years old, Izzy decides to take a 3 week vacation to Weldon, Jack's hometown. In spending all of his free time with this best friend while she is on her 3-week vacation, Jack and Izzy decide to start dating. As 30-year olds, they have known each other for 20 years, and unbeknownst to Izzy, Jack has had a crush on her the whole time. Their lives take them in different directions and they have to find a way back to each other after saying hurtful things to each other and ending their relationship just shy of the end of Izzy's vacation.

Overall this book was a fast read and enjoyable. I tend to prefer spicier romance books, and this book did build up the heat, to only have closed door romance scenes. If this is what you prefer, then this would be a great book for you!

#BookedonaFeelingJayciLee #NetGalley

Firstly, I want to thank @stmartinspress and @netgalley for the ARC. Secondly, let’s discuss the book and this gorgeous cover! I read The Dating Dare last summer and loved the writing, the characters, and the story. So, I was thrilled to read Jayci’s newest book!
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Friends to lovers is a slow-burn trope with a lot of self-questioning about whether or not to take the chance while debating the ‘friendship’ part. For me, when it’s done right - it is the best story, and this is exactly how I love this trope. I guess the only part I found a bit off, was how quickly they were obsessed with the physical aspect of their relationship....
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I enjoyed this one and look forward to Jayci's next book!

I REALLY wanted to get behind this friends-to-lovers romance, but unfortunately I couldn’t get behind it.

Lizzy leaves her law firm after winning a big case, needing to step back due to her overwhelming and demanding life. Insert best friend, Jack. Lizzy decides to move and help a small town bookstore to be closer to Jack, who works for his family’s brewery. Meanwhile, Jack is secretly interviewing for a job in the city to be closer to Lizzy.

This book read very light, and very predictable, more like a YA than an adult romcom, and as things heated up between these two friends? It just felt weird.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC!

I was super excited to read this one and I throughly enjoyed it. The characters were a highlight and easily lovable. I would definitely recommend.

This book was super cute! I loved that it touch on mental health and anxiety too. It had everything: genuine connection, spice, and HEA.

"The point was he had no plans to shake things up. He would take their friendship with a side of pining any day if it meant he would always have her in his life. Besides, a little pining never hurt anyone."

4.5 stars

I love friends to lovers plus a book with a bookstore as the primary location - it's perfect for book lovers! Lizzy and Jack have been friends for 10 yrs. The kind of friends who knows each other's quirks and family drama and have been there through all the awkward phases. I love seeing the transition from friends to more! Being Japanese I love seeing Asian MC and feeling understood having grown up Asian. The food, the family, the need to make your parents proud. It's all there and it felt real!

I felt their relationship was natural and realistic. There's a little second chance romance happening at the end and I loved that none of it felt rushed. They both and crap to figure out and that takes time. There were moments that made me laugh out loud and moments I cried. The only thing that bothered me was Lizzy was so "adorable". Literally, about every other page it says adorable and it got on my nerves after awhile. But that's a small complaint - I felt the book was amazing otherwise! This was my first book by Jayci but I'm definitely going to look up the rest of the series! Thank you Netgalley and St Martin's Press! I really enjoyed reading this one!!

This was my second book by this author. I read the second in the series and I decided to see how well this would be as a stand-alone. I found it didn’t matter if you read all of the series of picked and chose. There were some mentions of the last book’s main characters, but nothing hard to make out.

Lizzie wasn’t my favorite character, but I understood her personality. She was a go getter overachieving lawyer, her attitude definitely held up to that. When that major panic attack hit, I really felt for her. I suffer from panic disorder and they tend to happen in the worst possible moments.

The romance aspect of the story was lacking a bit in my opinion, it was a sweet childhood friends to lovers story. Jack’s love for Lizzie was adorable, but I wished Lizzie was a bit more reciprocal sooner. Jack was one of my favorites he was just so damn sweet and everything you would want in a man.

Overall, this was a cute romance, with a great plot. Other than finding the romance a bit lacking, I really enjoyed the story as a whole.

This book was very cute. A fancy lawyer climbing the corporate ladder suddenly finds herself in desperate need of a vacation away from the stress of the city. She goes to stay in the same town as her long-term best friend who would love to be more than that but thinks she doesn't reciprocate those feelings. Incidentally he's applied for a job in LA to be closer to her and to pursue his dream, but he's kept this information to himself.

As they navigate the few weeks together, she busies herself with helping out a local bookstore she fell in love with and gets to spend a lot more time figuring out what she wants out of life. And of course as they spend more and more time together, she realizes that maybe he is more than a best friend.

When the two each have big news to share with each other, trouble ensues, and they are each left to decide what the rest of their respective lives will look like.

This was a cute romance novel especially for someone looking for a slower-paced small town romance with a lot of talk about books in it :).

Thank you @netgalley @stmartinspress for my gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.

I found the summary of this book to be so much more interesting than the actual content of the book. Lizzy is a high strung lawyer and, having just won her first case, she should be on top of the world. However, she’s filled with anxiety and stressed by the future looming over her. She takes a few weeks off to visit her childhood town, and spend time with her friend, Jack. They have feelings for each other and quickly act on them.

I don’t like how Lizzy acts when she’s with Jack, or vice versa. I enjoyed the dual points of view and feel like it was well written in some respects. I didn’t like how the romantic scenes were written because they felt so trite and typical of sugary romance. It was the same thing, without any new twists, and too plain to stand out in the genre as a whole. Plus, it felt incredibly fast, even considering Lizzy and Jack knew each other for over ten years. The way Lizzy would act, all excited about lists, and the things she would say, felt out of character, for a character I hardly knew at all. It was an odd disconnect, to be sure. I was hoping the addition of Lizzy’s anxiety would change the story a bit, but the anxiety all but disappeared the moment Lizzy left the office.

Aside from the romance, the rest of the story moved fast as well. Lizzy becomes good friends with the owner of a local bookstore within seconds. She gets to know the owner’s kid and starts running the renovations of the bookstore, all within days. There’s too much packed into so little time. Suddenly, the bookstore is successful, partnering up with local businesses to have events and fully renovated and thriving within three weeks. It’s entirely unbelievable to me.

I skimmed over a lot of the cringy dialogue and the “spicy” scenes because they were just too uncomfortable. I read a ton of smut, and smutty fanfiction, even, and this was just not on par with what I usually read.

Thank you to NetGalley for the eARC of this book! I enjoyed the opportunity to read more romance, and from a new author. Some of the other books by Jayci Lee are well rated and sound fun so I might give her another try!

I am so in love with Jack and Lizzy's love story. I had no idea going into this book that it was part of a series and after finishing this book I will immediately be reading the other two. Loved the writing style and representation throughout. Highly recommended.

Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee is another friends to lovers trope. My favorite kind of rom-com! Lizzy and Jack were friends for a long time, they sure have feelings for each other but like any friends to lovers premise, these characters are hiding their feelings and denying what they feel.

I like Jayci Lee’s writing but I can also honestly and sadly admit that it is not my favorite. I do love the Asian references. Being Asian myself, nothing beats the Asian foods. Ever. Though this did not hook me as much as I want to, please do not take my word for it because I know for sure that this is an awesome rom-com and anyone gets entertained with this reading experience!

Thanks Netgalley and PRH for the ecopy to review in exchange of my honest opinion.

This book was cute but it wasn’t my fav. Definitely a quick read but nothing really wowed me

Thank you NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review