Such a cute heartfelt read 💖
I think Lizzy and jack are the cutest couple they are definitely end game
It has self growth and books what else can you need

Lizzy and Jack have been best friends for decades, but live 4 hours apart. They finally get to spend time together when Lizzy takes a long vacation and spends it in Jack's hometown. The only issue is that she is starting to notice more than just Jack's sparkling personality.

This book was fine, but I didn't love it. I enjoyed the bookstore project, but overall this isn't one I would recommend.

Booked on a Feeling follows Lizzy Cheung, a high achieving, albeit burnout, lawyer from LA. After a very demanding case, which resulted in her first Trial win, Lizzy takes 3 weeks off to go see her best friend in his small hometown. Lizzy, an avid reader, falls in love with the bookstore below the apartment she's staying in.

Booked on a Feeling is a dual-POV romance of two 30-somethings, that I personally felt read as a YA novel. From the get go, the MMC is already head over heels for the FMC. I do love a friends to lovers, but I didn't really enjoy the MMC's POV. Like I said, this read as if it were a Young Adult Romance, rather than two established adults. So, in my head I aged them down A LOT. Both characters internal monologues came across quite juvenile, and I found myself skimming a lot of the book.

I can definitely see a lot of people enjoying this book. It's a HEA, friends to lovers, centred around a bookshop renovation, warm and fuzzy small town romance. I just think it wasn't what I was looking for. I can handle a little miscommunication, but it got to the point where the will they, won't they narrative got old quite quickly.

As far as Romances go, this is an extremely easy read. I definitely think this will be enjoyed by the wider Romance community, however, I found the lack of character background and development lacklustre.

2.5

Thank you for providing me with an eARC of this title.

I liked this book. It was a sweet rom-com but it didn’t pull me in. I like the best friends to lovers and the pining tropes but I didn’t love the way it was set up. I think they got together a bit too soon for my taste and though they were “taking it slow” it went really really slow. I did love the Asian cultural references and the mentions of all the yummy food references! That’s probably my favorite part of a Jayci Lee book!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the gifted copy in exchange for my honest review!

Lizzy Chung has lived her life in the manner that her overbearing Korean mother wants. She got her law degree, joined a prestigious law firm, is on her way to making partner, and is completely miserable. Her best friend Jack has been in love with Lizzy forever, and when Lizzy decides she needs a break from her anxiety-inducing life in LA, she plans a 3 week's vacation in Jack's small town of Weldon. Lizzy is living her dream of living above a book store and helping the owner renovate the book store. Jack is glad to help out Lizzy with the renovation, but spending so much time with his best friend, that he is in love with poses all sorts of problems. Can the two remain friends but deal with the growing sexual tension? As always, Jayci Lee brings fun characters, laugh-out-loud circumstances, and some pretty hot and steamy love scenes. I loved this third installment in the Sweet Mess series. I can't wait to see what Lee writes next. 4 stars. Thank you, NetGalley for the eARC.

Booked on a Feeling is an enjoyable contemporary romance! Although this is the third book in the "A Sweet Mess" series, I read it without reading the previous books and had no problems. Lizzie and Jack have known each other since they were little and Lizzie's family vacationed in Jack's hometown. They are best friends and know each other better than anyone else does. Jack has been keeping a secret, he has been in love with Lizzie for years, but is afraid it will ruin their friendship if he tells her. When Lizzie has a major panic attack during a trial, she takes a leave from work, and goes to spend three weeks in the place she was happiest, Jack's hometown. With him there, she will have someone to support her and help her figure out what she really wants out of life. While she is there, she volunteers in the small, local bookstore and is happier than she has been in years. Working with Jack on her special project and spending time with him, she realizes that what she feels for Jack is more than just friendship. With both of them at a crossroads in their lives, they have some serious decisions to make.

Lizzie and Jack have a great friends-to-lovers romance. Being friends for so long, made it easy to slip into something more. The chemistry was amazing and as their relationship grows the steam picks up a notch. Both of them had feelings toward the other before they revealed it as they were both afraid to ruin a wonderful friendship, but love wins out. Just when it seems like things are going well, they have to make decisions about their future that seem to work against their relationship. I liked both of these characters and felt bad for all they were dealing with. Both of them have career issues they need to figure out. I was not impressed with Lizzie's mother. She didn't care if Lizzie was happy, she just wanted her to follow the path she had chosen for her. Jack's family didn't pressure him, but he always felt that they needed him and he couldn't let them down. They were actually very close and supportive, but Jack didn't necessarily see that. This story is very realistic and the characters very relatable. I was rooting for Lizzie and Jack to work things out. I loved that Lizzie was happiest working in the bookstore, as that would be my dream job. Themes include following your dreams, standing up for yourself, the importance of communication, family relationships, friendship and romance. Overall, Booked on a Feeling is a sweet contemporary romance with great characters, themes and a bit of a steamy romance.

thanks so much for giving me the chance to read an early copy of this! unfortunately, i didn’t enjoy it as much as i hoped i would. the writing style wasn’t personally my favorite thing.

This book was cute, but it felt like it was missing something. I got bored reading this. It wasn't terrible, but it was just meh for me.

This was a delightful romcom from Jayci Lee! I loved the characters, and the story. And this cove is so cute! Overall, I would definitely recommend!

I received an e-ARC from the publisher.

2.5 stars

There was no plot or twists - everything is pretty straightforward as far as the story goes. I think if it was told in 1st person rather than 3rd, it would allow more of a connection with the characters and be captivated into the book. Overall a slow romance book that I didn't really connect with or get pulled into.

This book was so cute, I didn't realize that this was the third book in the romance series. So I am excited to be able to read more of Jayci Lee's books

Lizzy Chung thinks she has her life planned out until she's steered in a different direction. This slow-burn, friends to lovers romance, was a super cute read. It was a little too slow for me, but the overall story was good! I wish there was a little more spice, but that's just a personal preference!

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

A friends to lovers trope? Count me in! Childhood friends falling in love as adults? This is my real life story, so of course I love reading it in romance books! The guy falls first and pines for the girl?! SWOON! Again, my life! Now, you throw in a love for books and some panic attacks? Did Jayci Lee write about me or what? This is my first book by Lee, but it won't be my last! I loved this one so much that I purchased it from my favorite small, local bookstore just to add it to my personal library. I cannot wait to read more from Lee! Too da loo, off to my library to check some more of her work out!

Booked on a Feeling ticked all of the boxes for me. Lovable and relatable characters: friends to lovers trope in the best way possible: smart heroine and swoon worthy hero. Sigh… This was my first Jayci Lee book but it won’t be my last! I couldn’t wait to see what happened but I was sad when I finished the book.

Lizzie is an attorney working her way to partner when she takes a moment to reevaluate what she is doing with her life. Jack is Lizzie’s best friend and support system reevaluating his own life. Enter time together during project bookstore with a side of falling for each other. I loved it all!

I did not like this book. I DNF'd after 120 pages because it simply wasn't for me.

The premise is cute—lawyer is so caught up in climbing the ladder that she's blind to the fact that her decades-long best friend is in love with her. Cute. I can work with that. What I didn't like was that the characters read like teenagers, not thirty-year-olds who are well into their adult lives and careers. Their emotions felt a little overexplained (how many times in the first 50 pages did I have to read "but she's my best friend" from Jack's perspective whenever he mentioned his feelings for her?)

It definitely reads as rom-commy, but in the way a YA rom-com would read. The emotions felt very surface-level without digging too much into their history together. It felt like it would have made a better movie script than a book with how one-dimensional the writing style felt at times.

I really enjoyed this story, just like I did Jayci's other two books in the series! I am so glad we got to see how the characters in the previous two books so it felt familiar! There was plenty of humor and there was some steam along with the tension/build up to the relationship. Now I'm excited for the next book. This book did feel like it was over too soon but I really liked it!

Lizzie Chung was a success. She had a promising law career and a LA condo. She was on the fast track to becoming a partner, but a panic attack and a hollow victory made her reevaluate her life. She opted to spend three weeks taking a break and headed to the small town where her best friend, Jack, of twenty years lived. Jack had been hiding his true feelings for Lizzie for decades. Could this be his chance to make her see him as more than a friend? If not, would his attempts jeopardize their friendship?

Packed with witty dialogue, passion and engaging characters, this well plotted story is easy and enjoyable to read. Highly recommended.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from St Martin's through NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are my own.

Booked on a Feeling is a childhood friends to lovers (he falls first!) that is so sweet and charming. The pining - oh the pining!

Jack and Lizzie are best friends until the end. When Lizzie suffers a panic attacking during her opening statement, she realizes that maybe this life and career she has fought so hard to obtain isn't what she's really looking for. At the same time, Jack wants more from his own life. He's happy working in the family brewery, but it's not his life's ambition. When Lizzie takes three weeks off from her job, she decides to spend the time in Jack's small hometown of Weldon.

This book was a great blend of sweet and spicy. At some points it seems like Lizzy has a one track mind - mainly getting Jack naked. I loved the book shop setting and it was so great to see Lizzy put herself first for once and stand up to her mother. The small town vibes were really great in this one and I loved all of the dates Jack planned for them to go on. Overall this was just a really sweet and enjoyable book.

This is the third book in the A Sweet Mess series, with the other two focusing on Jack's siblings. They can be read as standalones, but I can't wait to go back and read the other books in the series.

Thank you so much to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for an advance copy.

Thank you to netgalley for the ARC. I think this one will be enjoyed by lovers of contemp romance, but it just wasn't for me. I was bored with the relationship early on and found the writing simple, but I can see how it would be fun for the right reader,

Lizzy Chung is a burnt-out lawyer who has spent her adult life trying to appease her parents by making partner. At her first trial, she has a panic attack and passes out. This causes Lizzy to reevaluate her priorities and take some much needed time off. She desperately needs an escape from billable hours. She decides to visit her best friend Jack in a rural California town for three weeks. As a lover of to-do lists, Lizzy fills her time by giving the local bookshop a facelift.

I adored the town of Weldon and the locals that live there. Jayci Lee's writing gave me Lake Tahoe and Virgin River vibes. I would most definitely book a ticket to visit the cute bookshop, hardware store, brewery, and bakery.

Both characters are Korean. Lee's writing about Korean food and culture is immaculate.

I loved the slow burn of this friends-to-lovers story. I will not be surprised if this book goes viral on Tiktok. I am a sucker for a romance book and books about people who love books.