A book about BOOKS!!!
Review to come, but this book was 500/5 stars.
Quite frankly, I would read Jayci Lee's grocery list after this masterpiece.

DNF at 32%

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. The premise and copy drew me into this read but sadly I could not get through it. This reads as a YA & I felt like Lizzy seemed more like a teenager.

I think pre-teen readers will have an easier time enjoying this!

Jack and Lizzy are childhood best friends who are destined to be together. This is a story of how that happens.

What I enjoyed:
-The storyline of them fixing up the bookstore! I wish the book was 100% about this.
-The family relationships and friendships surrounding them. I was more interested in those relational dynamics than in the romantic relationship between Jack and Lizzy.

What I didn't enjoy:
-If Lizzy "giggled" at something one more time...
-There was no relational tension? I didn't love how we all knew from page one that they were both into each other? So it didn't feel like anything was on the line when they got together.

It's a classic friends-to-lovers, but it was just missing anything that made me feel invested in what happened to them.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-arc in exchange for my honest review.

A story about a burned out corporate attorney just before starting my job as… a corporate attorney. Even though this book maybe hit too close to home, it was still an enjoyable and cute read.

The trope is friends-to-lovers. I wish we had learned more about Lizzy and Jack’s friendship earlier on; their characters felt a little flat and so it was hard to connect to them. The book also had a very slow start - unless you are interested in the intricacies of a trial (I’m a lawyer, but even so it was too boring for me). At about 30% in, it picked up and I began to connect to Lizzy and Jack more. I loved how Lizzy and Jack fell in love over renovating the local bookstore and how that foreshadows the end. The references to Korean food and culture were an awesome bonus. Besides the great food, Lizzy’s culture also weighed on her because of her family’s expectations, which drove her into a career that gives her anxiety. The family dynamic was somewhat underdeveloped but still was a really interesting part of the story.

Overall, I recommend if you are looking for a cute and fluffy romance and don’t mind skimming through slower sections.

PS - this book would make an incredible movie, and I won’t be surprised in five years if I see a “Booked on a Feeling” movie out in theaters.

I DNFed at 20%. I felt there wasn’t enough backstory to go with Jack’s “years of pining” and Lizzy’s anxiety read like it was from a psychology textbook, with coping strategies pulled directly from self help books and sounding just as stilted. The dialogue wasn’t how actual people speak, and internal monologue wasn’t how actual people think.

Booked on a Feeling is a feel-good romance that leaves the reader satisfied. This story deals with anxiety, parental pressure, and love. I loved that the love interest was LIzzie's best friend. One thing that I did wish this story had more of was tension. I think that it is good for the reader to want the main character to get with her love interest but don't get that satisfaction right away. I felt like Lizzie and Jack got together very fast and very early on in the story. I also wished that the reader felt the passage of time. One chapter began saying that it was months later, but it didn't feel like it was months later to the reader. One specific scene where I think symbolism would have been great was the dinner scene where Jack makes dinner with the Instapot. I think that would have been a great symbol for the pressure that has built up in both of the characters.I rated this book two stars and here is my scale on how I rate book:

1 star= good story
2 stars= good character development/arc
3 stars= social/political/religious commentary
4 stars= good world/setting building
5 stars= good writing (sentence structure and word usage)

Based on my scale, I felt that Booked on a Feeling was a good story and had a good commentary on parental pressure/anxiety. I think that this book was a good book and any reader who enjoys feel-good romances will be satisfied with this read.

Take a shot every time one of the characters "growls like a feral animal". You will be drunk by page 10.
Of course they are married and pregnant in the epilogue, is it not possible for a romance book to have any other ending? They have only been dating for a year but add a baby.
Here is the thing, for the first 50% of the book, it didn't seem Lizzie liked Jack as more than a friend at all. Even when she started lusting after him, it is always about how she wants to bone him and not about how she has feelings for her best friend.
Also lady, your parents live in Korea, you don't have to tell them you are taking 3 weeks off of work. Just saying.
And Jack...you are 30 years old...not 15 so maybe grow up a little?
Every interaction the two many characters had felt so forced and clunky and awkward. For people who are best friends, they sure act like they have just met.
If you can't tell, this was a hard no for me.

A cute romance novel with a happy ending (of course). Lily, a 30-year old attorney in Los Angeles at a prestigious, high-pressure firm, has just won her first lawsuit at trial, but doesn't feel the elation that she expected to feel. Her helicopter-mom had pressured her into a career in the law, and she's starting to question whether it's really what she wants. She decides to take 3 weeks off and return to the small town 4 hours away in the Sierras where she was raised and her best friend, Jack, still lives. Jack works in the family business, a popular and successful brewpub, with his brother and sister-in-law but feels unfulfilled. He and Lily have been best friends since they were 9 years old, but have remained safely in the "friend zone" - until she shows up and they spend more time together and sparks start to fly. In the typical romantic novel narrative arc, miscommunications and misunderstandings drive them apart and neither knows how they'll breach this gap, but they know they have to because they can't stop thinking about each other.

Booked on a Feeling is an absolutely adorable continuation of this series. It was a heartfelt and fun read! Super lighthearted with minimal drama and an overall feel good story. I genuinely enjoyed Jack and Lizzy's love story. I appreciated the dual POV that allowed readers to get a peek into both characters' minds. Jack was swoon worthy :)

Can't wait to see where the series continues!

I could not stop thinking about this book. While I was at work I counting down the hours until I could be reunited with it to find out what happened next. This book is the classic friends to lovers tale, mixed in with one of my favorite things- an independent bookstore. I loved the Korean culture/pride mixed into the book. Many of the meal descriptions left me researching them because they sounded so intriguing. If you are ready for a new romance read, pick this one up!

Childhood best friends, Lizzy Chung and Jack Park are finally about to take the next step. Throw in a failing bookstore, a family brewery, checklists, delicious food, and most of all, learning how to take the next step and following your dreams. Lizzy Chung is an overachiever, she is aiming to get partner at her law firm and is well on her way to doing so, only she’s not happy, her anxiety attacks are getting worse and her job makes her feel lonely and suffocated. The only solace she has is her best friend Jack who lives far away who visits her and a cute bookstore she visits. When she passes out from a panic attack during a pivotal moment in her career she ends up driving to Weldon for three weeks to recover, Weldon the home of her best friend Jack. Jack Park is a bookkeeper at his family’s brewery and has been in love with Lizzy since he was 10 years old. They have been friends since forever and he feels like he wants to not only take the next step in his relationship with Lizzy but he wants to make a change in his career and branch out, but that means telling his family he wants to leave his job with him. Jack is in for a surprise when Lizzy suddenly shows up and now he can’t keep his feelings in check, especially when he now gets to spend three weeks with his dream girl. Jack and Lizzy have to now deal with the first steps of going from best friends to lovers but can they make it work or is their friendship too precious? Lizzy wants nothing more to take the next step but Jack is afraid that they’ll ruin their friendship and wants to take a slower steadier pace, yet the more time they spend together the less they can resist. Lizzy ends up taking up residence in a living space on top of a failing bookstore and ends up helping it get back in business, and discovers that maybe there is something else she wants to do. Both Jack and Lizzy are working to not only find their career paths but their place in each other lives as they take the next step. This was a cute read and the romance between them was really sweet.

*Thanks Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin for sending me an arc in exchange for an honest review*

Absolutely adored this book. A sweet meta take on friends to lovers. I love that absolutely everything didn’t get wrapped in a bow, although the logistics of Lizzy buying the bookstore at the end was kind of skipped over.

This book was just okay for me. I really wanted to love it- it has all the things I enjoy: friends to lovers, a book about books(tore) and romance. How it just fell a little flat for me.
The beginning was reallllly slow, but once I got a third of the way through it picked up and I found it much more enjoyable. All in all, I liked it, but didn’t love it.

Booked On A Feeling is a contemporary romance told in alternating POV's by our two main characters, Elizabeth (Lizzy) Chung, and her best friend, Jack Park. It's a novel about finding yourself and digging deep to realize what makes you happy.
This is a book for those readers who love friends-to-lovers with spice, bookstore plots, capable and strong female main characters, and sweet and sappy love stories with happy endings.

It was a great concept and I loved the bookstore theme throughout, but it was a miss for me.
I almost stopped reading as the first 30% of the book felt juvenile. It was dry and there wasn't anything happening to keep my interest piqued. However, I persevered, and after about 30% of the way through, things took a better turn! There was wit, banter, and some romantic tension between our two MC's.

The book wrapped up neatly with a perfectly happy ending, and if you're a contemporary romance and rom-com lover, you'll want to check this one out.

I received an advanced reader copy from NetGalley for an honest review.

Unfortunately this did not work for me. I DNF'd at 28%. The premise of this book was cute -- a young, female lawyer realizes that her job isn't satisfying and she takes a break to explore her interests. There is a friends to lovers element as well. However, at 28% of the way in, nothing had really happened and the writing is tedious and disjointed for me. The chapters are long with a break in the middle where it switches from female to male perspective. I would have rather had those be different chapters instead of both parts in 1 chapter.

I wanted to like this because books, high achieving MC, strong own voices/multicultural rep. It just didn't do it for me, and life is too short. Maybe it will work for someone else!

Booked on a feeling is a friends to lovers story where the guy falls first and a dual pov.

Personally I enjoyed it. Although it took a while for me to finish it because I couldn’t really get I to it in the beginning, so I wouldn’t read it for a couple days and then continued. When I got like a third way through the book I devoted it after that, because it was so cute and I just fell in love with the characters.

Booked on a feeling is about an attorney, Lizzy, who goes on a “vacation” after having a panic attack in a courtroom to where her childhood best friend ,Jack, lives. Jack works at his family owned brewery who has had a crush on Lizzy since he was ten.

🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗/5

Cute Rom com to remind us once again to take a better look at why you are such great friends with that guy/girl. Is it just friendship or love?
And that your work and life goals need to make you happy- not just wealthy.
Feel good romance for the summer!

Thanks to NetGalley for my gifted copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion and review.
Booked on a feeling is an adorable rom com about two childhood friends who don’t realize the other is their person. Lizzie is a rainmaker lawyer on the fast track to partner. Jack is a numbers guy helping his family brewery in their small town.
On a whim, Lizzie decides to vacation in Jack’s small home town. Liszt is thoroughly enjoying the slower paced life and the run down bookstore that she’s decided to help turn around. Through hard work and late nights, Lizzy and Jack realize that there is so much more to their friendship than either of them wants to admit.
Such a cute book. Love the characters and plot line. Solid 4 stars!

Thank you Netgalley and St. Martin’s Press/ St. Martin’s Griffin for the arc for an honest review.

A fun and heartfelt story about best friends figuring out what they want from life. Jack is the biggest gentleman when reading from his POV and makes you swoon. Lizzy is the type of FMC that you want to be best friends with. I mean checklists are pretty amazing. ✅✅✅✅

If you are looking for a book that is a light hearted read where you fall in love with the characters while they are falling in love then this book is for you. A book that screams sexual tension is one that I would buy and re-read and recommend for others to read especially for just an escape.

This book is adorable. I loved it. As a lover of books this story is right up my alley and throw in such a cute romance and it was perfect for me! I haven't been reading rom com all that long but this one certainly made it to a top favorite!