This was a sweet friends to lovers romance! Jack and Lizzie are both trying to please their parents in careers that they are successful at but are unfulfilling to each of them. I loved watching them grow together and find the things that made them happy in the end. Jack is one of the sweetest male leads and when he sang to Lizzie, I melted!

“His smile and touch made her heart pound and great flocks of birds—butterflies were too small to describe what she felt—take flight in her stomach. And knowing that they were together filled her with so much joy that she felt like it was going to ooze out of her.”

I looooove a good book about book lovers, especially when it’s a romcom! This was such an endearing and wholesome story. I adored Lizzy and Jack, I adored Jacks family, I adored Shannon and her son. I am a sucker for falling in love with the side characters! The bookstore steam was 🥵

Read if you like:
📚 Friend to Lovers
📚 Second chance romance
📚 Slow burn
📚 Guy falls first
📚 Bookstore spice
📚 Dual POV
📚 FOODIES

Jayci Lee also keeps us true book lovers in check 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

“Despite her vow not to buy any more books—she could almost feel the accusing glare of her TBR stack back home—she predicted an overly enthusiastic book haul in her near future.”

“And who doesn’t love happily ever afters?” “The cold, bitter people with shriveled raisins for hearts who disparage romance for being formulaic. That’s who.” -this is also basically what I say every time I see a sour review for a romance/romcom 😅

Thank you Netgalley, St. Martins Press and the author for a copy of the book!!! This releases next month!

ARC provided by St. Martin’s Press in exchange for an honest review.

3.9/5 📚

This book is apparently about me. Lizzy is an overachiever lawyer (she even tries an employment case!) who loves lists, checking things off those lists, and absolutely adores bookstores. She’s also trying very hard to live up to the expectations of her Asian mom she will never meet. Dang, Booked on a Feeling, why did you have to write about me like that. Enter Jack Park, her very best friend of 20 years who has been in love with her just as long who doesn’t think he’s good enough for her or her family’s expectations. I am not normally a friends-to-lovers trope person because I always feel so bad for the one friend who’s been pining forever because it always feels like they give so much the other friend just takes. It didn’t feel that way in Booked on a Feeling (though she did her fair share of asking favors), it felt more like friends who love spending time together. And I love any book that talks about traditional family foods (here, Korean). I was surprised to find myself enjoying it so much and recommend to anyone ever wishing they could give it all up and run a bookstore.
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Booked on a Feeling has a cute premise and chemistry between the leads, long-time best friends Lizzy and Jack. Lizzy is a lawyer in LA on track to becoming a partner. She has anxiety and, after fainting, at a trial smartly decides to take a break! She plans to spend three weeks off a few hours away in her best friend's hometown of Weston. While there, Lizzy finds herself a bit bored and ends up helping her temporary landlady spruce up her bookstore. Of course, there is Jack. Will her short stay in town bring them closer together?!

Though Lizzy and Jack had a great friendship and blossoming romance, I was more invested in the subplot of Lizzy figuring out what career might make her happy than in the storyline with Jack. The characters are 29/30 years old but seemed younger regarding experience and behavior. We don't really find out much about them or their backstories. Still, this was a sweet comfort read. 2.5 stars. Give it a read if you enjoy friends-to-lovers romance.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to read this ARC via NetGalley. This is my honest review.

Such a sweet romance, it was an easy fast friends to lovers read. Not usually my favorite trope but it was sweet.

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press Publishing and Netgalley for the E-ARC of Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee!

This was a fun and charming book about chasing after what makes you truly happy, even if it requires a leap of faith. Lizzy is a top-performing LA attorney on her way to making partner at her firm, but a panic attack and burnout makes her take a step back. She visits her hometown to visit her childhood best friend and help a struggling bookstore.

This book was funny, sweet, and both characters worked to find what they loved over what was merely expected of them. I loved the inclusion of Korean culture and food (definitely had me craving some home cooked food!).

Favorite quote(s): “There was a right book for everyone whenever they needed it.”
“Every second he wasn’t in her life felt like a drop of blood falling from the crack in her heart. She couldn’t let life hemorrhage out of her.”
“Jogging buddies forever”

Friends to lovers is my absolute favorite trope. The pining just calls to me. And sometimes unrequited love is just the perfect addition. In this case we have Jack the best friend that has known our FMC for 20 years and is completely in love with her. He is unhappy with this life in the small town of Weldon.

Lizzy is the up and coming uber successful lawyer. But she has lived for her mom and she isn't sure the life she is living really is her dream. So after a panic attack she takes a 3 week vacation to the small town where her best friend lives.

Suddenly she has a wonderful project, and the persona she loves the most beside her, nothing can go wrong right?

The story was funny and sweet. Lizzy was very lovable and Jack was a sweetheart, definitely giving me the best friend vibes all the way. Lizzy's train of thoughts were hilarious making laugh out loud quite a bit.

I did sometimes find those thoughts from both Jack and Lizzie quite repetitive and found myself skimming through certain parts because I felt I already knew where they were going. Also sometimes Jack felt too unrealistic the way he was thinking, like not what a man would think in certain situations.

Overall, it was a very cute ROM com of finding yourself even if you thought you were set for life. Falling in love with your best friend and standing up for your own dreams.

DNF @ 40%. The premise was promising but the execution left much to be desired. I loved all the Korean culture and representation. It read like YA to me but not good YA writing and that wasn’t what I signed up for.

Thank you St. Martin's Press & NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

What an adorable book! I won’t be surprised when this book is all over bookstagram within the next couple of months.

This book has the coziest small-town and bookstore vibes. Not to mention — how cute is the title and cover?

I loved the banter and budding romance between the two main characters, Lizzy and Jack. I compared myself to Lizzy’s character on multiple instances throughout the book, including her love of making to-do lists and checking things off when they are done!

I also was appreciative of the way that the author wrote about Lizzy’s anxiety and panic attacks — the descriptions were realistic and relatable.

I recommend this book to anyone who has ever wanted to open their own bookstore.

(I just found out that this is Book #3 of A Sweet Mess series, and I will definitely be checking out the first two books! I love when books have intertwined characters and storylines but do not have to be read in order.)

Once again Jayci Lee has managed to create an adorable rom com with just the right amount of tension and spice and mouth watering food depictions.

I loved the first 2 of her novels and they’re only getting better. I could really tell her writing has evolved and improved over these books.

I really appreciated that she brought in more of Korean-American perspectives and brought in a bit of the characters culture in this book. The characters in this one were also more developed with a lot more background than her previous and it was so well done.

If you’re looking for a good summer read that’s easy and keeps you on your toes, Booked on a Feeling would be a great choice. It’s the small town romance/ friends to lovers/Second chance romance we all need.

Booked on a Feeling is the perfect rom-com for any "friends to-lovers" or "books about books" fans. I absolutely love Jayci Lee's writing style, and although this book's premise didn't draw me in as much as the previous two of hers, I loved the characters. The anxiety representation was great, and the love interest was pining so much, it made for such a cute story. Overall, I'm really glad I picked this up and definitely recommend!

Super cute and fun Rom Com. Plus, BOOKS! A sweet read perfect for the Beach or lounging by the pool. I loved it and look forward to more from Jayci Lee!

I really enjoyed the book. It was a little slow after the 50% mark however. But the sweet ending made the book worth the read! This was my first book by Jayci Lee and I absolutely adore her writing style! I would definitely recommend this book to other readers as well as pick up a copy💖

I’m torn on this one. It was a light, easy, and quick read. It kept my attention enough to want to know what happened.



But it was also predictable from the beginning, with a few small twists.



Also, I just felt like the whole “we’ve been best friends for 20 years” didn’t really align with things that were said / happened - they only lived 3-4 hours from each other but only spent a couple days a year together, they didn’t know semi-basic things about each other, and Lizzy didn’t know fairly basic things going on for Jack’s siblings who he’s close with.

 That doesn't say best friends to me.

For being best friends for that long, there were times when their chemistry felt really there and there were times (like when they couldn’t communicate) that it was really not there even at the basic friend level.



Quick & easy read - definitely.

But just felt like there were a few things missing.



Thank you to St Martins Press & Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I’m torn on this book. I absolutely loved the concept of the book but I was a little disappointed when I read it. I found it a little slow and really hard to get into especially the first half of the book. That being said the last half of the book I did really enjoy. If you like a cute quick friends to lovers SLOW burn romance, this a definitely the one for you!

Thank you so much to NetGally and St.Martin’s Press for giving me the chance to review this book!

I received a copy from NetGalley, but the review is my own. “Booked on a Feeling” is not a very good title for this very good rom-com novel. Our heroine, Lizzy (yes, no doubt in reference to every romance reader’s favourite heroine, Elizabeth Bennet), is a burnt-out lawyer who takes a leave of absence in small-town California where her best friend, Jack, lives. I usually prefer enemies-to-lovers to friends-to-lovers / second-chance romances, but this was a cute story of two people trying to figure themselves out while realizing their love for each other. While many modern romance novels seem to have an element of self-optimization (everyone always lands their dream job, and before 30 too!), this felt real, perhaps as family pressure and expectations was an important plot element. Lots of yummy food, set in a book store, with a refreshing lack of some of the worst tropes in romance books (while still having some standard romance scenes, like the karaoke bar), made this an enjoyable, recommendable read. 3.5/5

Cute friends-to-lovers book! This was a breezy read, I loved the characters of Lizzy and Jack, and I liked their shared experience of helping with the bookstore. It was a bit of a stretch for me to believe that Lizzy would just take a leave and move to Jack's city for several weeks without having any feelings for him... but once I got over it I loved the story.
If you think it's getting a bit boring, stick around - the end was very satisfying!

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin's Press for a free eARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

This book was sweet, fluffy, and a whole lot of pining. I’m a huge fan of friends to lovers so I really enjoyed the romance in this book.

I gave this book 3 stars because I thought there are so many unnecessary descriptions and some parts are repetitive. I also wanted to know more about Lizzy and Jack but there’s not much back story about them other than Lizzy is an attorney and Jack is part of a brewery. There are some parts where the transition of the story is a bit off but I still enjoyed it. It’s toothachingly sweet but still cute!

I recommend this if you are looking for a quick fluffy read! Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Publishing for the ARC in exchange for my honest review 🫶🏼

Friends-to-lovers is my favorite trope, by far! This is a great follow-up to the first two books. Caught up with those original characters and got to see Jack and Lizzy’s story. (Don’t need to read the other two books first, but it’s fun to read them in order.)

Lizzy is dealing with overwhelming stress and anxiety and needs to take some time for herself. So she heads to the small town where she spent summers growing up to spend time with her best friend. She helps out at the local bookstore since she has a lot of free time and ropes Jack into helping too. I love a good love story set in a bookstore ❤️

And I’m just throwing this out there… Alex and Shannon? Could that be book #4 in the series? ;-)

This is a fun tale that fellow bibliophiles will love. The romance was entertaining and if you find yourself spending a lot of time in bookstores, then this may be the story for you.