A bookish romance?! SOLD!
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A best friends to lovers trope novel done so extremely well. Lizzy and Jake are so adorably loveable.
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Any romance book lover will find this story delightful as childhood best friends attempt to save their local book store.
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Their first kiss left me swooning. and wishing I had a childhood best friend to kiss.

This is a great friend to lovers' romance!

I didn't realize it was part of the "A Sweet Mess" series though, so going back to read those!

Friends to lovers. Adorable. What reader could resist something set in a bookstore! It dragged at some points for *tension* but it was a cute PG love story.

Such a delightful story, great description. Character development was strong, loved following the plot line, characters you were rooting for!

Jayci Lee’s Booked on a Feeling was a lovely book!

Lizzie is your classic overachiever trying to please her parents by becoming a lawyer. While working hard to make partner, she struggles with panic attacks which prompts her to leave LA and spend 3 weeks in Weldon where her bestie, Jack Park lives.

Jack is thrilled to have Lizzie in town for a few weeks since he’s had a huge crush on her since he was 10. Jack helps Lizzie realize her passion for books and privately owned bookstores while spending her vacation together.

Jack and Lizzie’s relationship is so sweet and a tad spicy as each character works to follow their dreams in their careers and their relationship.

4.5 stars! Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc of this book. All opinions expressed are my own.

It took a bit to get into, but I found myself rooting for Lizzy and Jack. I really liked their friendship dynamic as well as their relationship dynamic. They were funny. I also loved the way food was described too.

i had a hard time getting into this one. i just don't think this authors writing style is for me. i think it has a great concept and others might still like though

thank you netgalley and st. martins press for an ARC of this book!

3 stars

while this was quick and fun, it was ultimately pretty forgettable. i really liked Lizzy- she was smart, successful, and funny, but she did have some questionable tastes (watching to all the boys i've loved before 6 times??) i also really liked the diversity and cultural aspects of this book. the hero, jack, was pretty plain and didn't have many defining personality traits, but was overall nice. that said, there was SO much miscommunication and just a lack of communication overall that really got on my nerves. the 80% breakup seemed so unnecessary and out of character for them, and then one of them moved across the country for a bit before they even talked it out. it was so easily avoidable and didn't seem very believable. definitely a great fast read for passing time, but it wasn't anything special.

This was another ARC that caught my attention while browsing on NetGalley, mainly for the title and the cover so I had very few expectations going into it. It was such a lovely surprise! It revolves around 30 year old Lizzy, an LA lawyer who just won her first solo case but also experienced her first panic attack during her opening statement and knows she needs a break. She goes to her best friend's town four hours out of the city for three weeks to stay in an apartment over the town's bookstore. She ends up volunteering herself to help spruce up the shop to bring more customers in because she loves bookstores and also loves a to do list. She of course enlists the help of her bestie Jack, who helps run his family's brewery and restaurant in town. As they spend time together she starts to feel attracted to Jack and is worried it might mess with their friendship. What she doesn't know is, Jack has been pining for her and stuffing his emotions away basically since the moment they became friends as kids. He also understands feeling like your career maybe isn't what you want. The chemistry between these two was HOT and I got so drawn into both of their POVs that I felt myself welling up when I got to the inevitable misunderstanding and seperation part of the story. I quickly grew to love these characters and I think you will too! This book releases July 26/22, so thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my advanced copy!

Booked on a Feeling is a sweet and funny contemporary romance that gives readers a great look into what life can be like when you start chasing your own dreams, instead of the ones laid out for you.

This contemporary romance checked so many boxes for stories I love, but it just didn’t get all the way there for me.

I loved:
A book about books and book lovers
Overachievers chilling out
Telling toxic family to take a hike
Friends to lovers and so much pining
Food! So much food talk!
On those fronts, this book was a delightful read. All the fun tropes, very sexy slow-burn and characters that are genuinely interesting (not manic-pixie-dream-quirky).

But…after all that great character development and making the reader truly fall in love with this couple, its conflict, crash and burn, magic turnaround that works out perfectly, and DONE! For such a beautifully developed love story, the ending was just “and then HEA with perfect lives.” However, I am interested in reading Jayci Lee’s other books, so I would still place this one on my “Recommend List.”

Love books about books, love romances, love the references to Korean food. I was really excited about this one but it just fell a little flat.

I didn't realize this was part of a series, I'm definitely going to go back and read the other books. I get the feeling this just wasn't the couple for me.

The miscommunication was frustrating, there just wasn't a good enough reason for them not to be together. The whole time I was reading I was internally screaming 'you both love each other! it's going to be fine! just be together!'

The spice is also fade to black so if you're looking for that sort of thing this is the book for you.

*Spoiler*
That being said I actually really enjoyed the ending, the middle dragged a little. But I loved the way she wrapped it all up. And I enjoyed the personal growth of both characters. I think most people will enjoy this book.

A sweet, romantic read about two lifelong best friends who fall in love and spend time in a bookstore. Nothing too complex and yet a nice, light read. Thank you netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest opinion.

Sweet and not overly angsty!
Lizzy is in Weldon for three weeks to shed the burnout and figure out what went wrong. And what better place to recharge than the small California town where she spent her childhood summers with her best friend, Jack Park.

Jack Park didn't expect to see Lizzy back in Weldon, but now he's got three weeks to spend with the girl of his dreams.

3.5-4 stars! There’s literally nothing better than a romance book about childhood best friends working together to bring a cute local bookstore back to life. I genuinely loved the way the bookstore was progressing throughout the whole book, the author was so descriptive in explaining the things they were changing, i created a whole mental image of the bookstore in my mind. As far as the romance aspect of the book, both main characters had this level of stubbornness that drove me absolutely insane, but it built up so much angst. The friendship in this book was also super cute, realistic and relatable. Another very cute first kiss. This is also one of the first friends to lovers romance books i’ve read that focused on a lot of the firsts in a relationship such as a first date, first kiss, etc and I really enjoyed that. Lastly, Jack is literally the sweetest most perfect boy best friend ever, i adored him so much. The overall writing in this book was so cute and wholesome. I genuinely loved it. *Thank you so much to Netgalley for providing me with this arc*

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for this ARC! This was a sweet, friends for lovers rom com. It was enjoyable to read but I felt like I needed more between the main characters. Overall sweet, fun read and it involves a bookstore! 3.5 stars

sighs. sighs aggressively loud. sighs because the premise of this book gave me false high expectations. believe me, nobody wanted to like this more than i did. SIGHS.

booked on a feeling follows lizzy, our protagonist who after having a panic attack during an important meeting in her career, takes some time to figure out why and what she wants in life. to do this, she journeys to where she spent her childhood summers, in hopes of gaining some perspective and resetting. the catch? she used to spend her summers with her best friend jack. and better yet? jack is still there, as a bookkeeper for a family business. the two meet again and decide to help spruce up their local bookstore. as they spend time together, feelings grow, and they move past friendship into something more.

from that description, you're probably thinking OMG this sounds amazing. and it does. but it fell flat for me, which is pretty unfortunate. i think my biggest issue was with the writer's style of writing. this read like a bad wattpad book written in 2014. the word choice and sentence structure didn't really match the vibe of the story, which made it extremely difficult to finish. from the description, i would gather that lizzy and jack are well-rounded and deep individuals, but this is really missed on when we see their actions and learn more about them in the book. i am a huge fan of the friends to lovers trope (AND miscommunication, it's a toxic trait of mine), but this just did not work for me. i'm sure other readers will enjoy this more than i did, but it was frustrating to be let down as much as i was. 2/5 stars.

thank you netgalley and st. martin's press for an e-arc in exchange for an honest opinion. all thoughts are my own.

Great sweet romance. The characters could have been a little more fleshed out though. Loved the backdrop of Weldon.

Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee is every bookworm’s dream - fall in love with your best friend while in a bookstore. Lizzy needs a break from her law career so she takes refuge in her best friend’s hometown and decides to help out at the local bookstore too. She learns about herself and her feelings for her best friend, Jack, along the way.

What I liked: Obviously the book connection was my favourite part. I also dream about running away to a bookstore so Lizzy was relatable in this regard. As well, I am a sucker for, ‘he has secretly been in love with his best friend since they were kids,’ trope.

What could be better: I felt the sparks in this book but it just never really caught fire for me. That is to say, it was fine. I never felt fully connected to the characters or their relationship.

Overall, this was a three out of five stars read for me. It was fine and I enjoyed it enough but it won’t be memorable to me by the end of the year. You might like this book if you want to read about job/identity crises and friends-to-lovers.

*Please note that the ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*

Lizzy Chung is on path to make partner at work, so all should be right with the world. So why is she having panic attacks in the courtroom, seeking refuge in a bookstore, and asking to an extended lead be from work? Thankfully she has her best friend Jack Park to turn to while she tries to figure things out.

Jack wants nothing more than to be there for Lizzy in any way she needs. After years of unrequited adoration, he wants to take advantage of her leave to see what life could bring. But are their differences to large? And can they overcome misunderstandings, both large and small?

Thanks to NetGallery for the digital advance copy.