Thank you netgalley for sending me a copy of this book.

I really enjoyed reading this book a d I would recommend this to my friends. Funny light read and a page turner.

This is a sweet romance, a friends to lovers! I enjoyed the characters. The story is just a bit predictable and expected.

This was cute! I think the writing was a bit juvenile at times, but overall this was super sweet! I love Hailey and relate to her in a lot of ways!

This is the third book in the Jansen Brothers series. I really enjoyed reading Wes and Hailey’s story. I will say friends to lovers is not my favorite trope but this one didn’t feel like friends to lovers to me.

I really loved the characters and the friendships throughout. I always love when we get little updates on the past characters.

I only have one complaint.
I didn’t feel like there was any real conflict and the miscommunication in this drove me crazy. It’s literally the worst trope 😅

Overall A Guide to Being Just Friends was super fun and enjoyable.

THANK YOU TO NETGALLEY FOR AN ARC OF THIS BOOK IN EXCHANGE FOR AN HONEST REVIEW!

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This was a different character combo than other books. She owns a salad store, and he is a millionaire. Such an odd combo. It was a cute story, and I did enjoy the characters and their relationship.

Our leading lady opens a business that is doomed to fail because she has no idea what she’s doing, but meets a group, including our romantic interest, that continue to help her until she starts to figure it out. The relationship in this book felt extremely stagnant, it didn’t really build up to anything and I don’t think the book have been any different if they had just remained as friends the entire time. The story was okay, but I wouldn’t consider this to be a romance so much as two awkward people figuring out how to make friends.

This was a very cute book though I feel like there was a lot of miscommunication which I am not the biggest fan of in my romance books. However, I will be continuing to read more from this author as I love their storytelling.

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an eARC.

This one wasn’t really for me. First, it was incredibly long. Second, it had a lot of boring chapters. Third, the main characters had bad love hang-ups (to be expected in a rom-com) but they were pounded on over and over again. It felt like the same conversation occurred multiple times. Fourth, I didn’t connect with the characters.

Again, just not for me.

I really enjoyed A Guide to Being Just Friends! It had a cute plot with a new restaurant owner and a grumpy/sunshine trope. I loved that the main female character was driven but also flawed. You got to see her growth as the book continued! I really enjoyed the main male character and his background story. The only real downsides I saw while reading was the side characters. At times, there were a lot added in and it made it hard to keep track of them. And then some side characters didn’t seem to be introduced at all? So it just got a bit confusing. Also some of the transitions from scene to scene could have been drawn out. They were a little too quick in my opinion.

3.5 stars rounded up

Thank you SMP Romance for my gifted arc in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve now read books about Noah and Wes and loved this just as much as Noah’s book. There is a lot of talk about salads, but I didn’t mind! It was fun watching Hailey grow her business and learn along the way. I loved the supporting friendships she found with the other women in the series. Wes was a little stupid and naive about love, but he still knows how to fix things and do a grand gesture!

While I enjoyed this read slightly more than my last Sophie Sullivan read, I just found the story to be super slow moving. Both characters were likeable enough but I was slightly confused by Wes's job/business ventures with his brothers and found all their relationships mixed with Hailey's friendships, cousin, and business friends a little confusing and underdeveloped.
I'm glad with how it ended (predictably) but it was one of the slower friends to lovers stories I've read in a long time. Unfortunately, 3/5 stars.

This one is more of a 3.5/5. When I started this book, I hadn't realized it was a series. I'm definitely interested in circling back to the previous 2 now that I've read this one! This is great for a fun, breezy read. This is a great friends to lovers slow burn. The "meet-cute" sets the scene for the rest of this relationship perfectly, and we get to follow two lovable characters with the perfect amount of witty banter. This is a great book to dive into and disconnect from everything else.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for my eArc copy. All opinions are my own.

So I really enjoyed this one! It was a friends to lovers with a hero who like predictability and therefore doesn’t want to be in love. I am sort of a sucker for these kinds of tropes. Any time two people decide to take their friendship to the next level but swear to stay just friends you know how it’s going to end. Someone is going to catch feelings and someone is going to run away haha.

This story doesn’t disappoint in the predictability department and honestly isn’t that why we mostly like romance books in the first place? We know we’re going to get that HEA!

I haven’t read the other books in the series but I didn’t find it hindered my enjoyment of the story. Normally I’d give a book like this 3 stars because I liked it a lot but it’s not one I’d reread over and over. However apparently 3 stars is a bad review and this is NOT a bad book. Id definitely recommend it to anyone who likes the tropes I mentioned and is looking for a good quick read.

friends to lovers / dual POV. It’s the 3rd book in the Jansen Brothers series. I haven’t read the first 2 but this can be read as a standalone. I loved Hailey being a business owner & and the salad shop idea was so cute. Wes was so likable along with his brothers - I can’t wait to read the first 2 books in this series. This was a fun light hearted read. Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with this ARC in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC!

I originally requested this book due to the cute cover and title, and didn't realize it was part of a series. You can read this as a stand alone or read the others first. I enjoy when books are like this because you get to know other characters.

The main character Hailey, after a breakup starts a salad shop. She meets Wes at a bakery next door. They become friends and Wes helps her build a website while she teaches him how to cook. They start to realize they have feelings for each other, cue the sloooooow burn.

I did really enjoy this book. It wasn't super steamy but that doesn't change my feelings about it. I did like the multiple points of view and friends to lover trope. I will definitely be going back to read the others in this series!

Hallie is focused on getting her salad shop off the ground when she meets Wes. They decide to be “just friends” - what could possibly go wrong?

I listed to the audiobook, and I thought it was solid narration. It’s a slow burn, and I just found this to be too much about salads. Ten Rules for Faking It was by far my favorite book in the series!

Abbie is prideful and annoying. She gets irrationally upset over kind gestures nonstop throughout the book. Wes is a walking contradiction. He’s incredibly sweet and kind, but his viewpoint on love even AFTER he’s clearly in love just didn’t work in my brain. He was so anti-love and harsh to Abbie at a point in the story where he had already softened. His harshness didn’t fit the character arc and threw me completely out of the story. If the author wanted to make him have this dramatic negative reaction, I think it should have been sooner. These two are just a couple of idiots. Every single problem they had was self-created and it was frustrating and exhausting to read.

On top of that, if you cut out half the salad talk, the book would be hours shorter, and better for it. The books in this series are overly long and a bit boring. I enjoy their brotherhood and their found family. I enjoy seeing their sweet relationships after the fact, but the actual process of reading the books is boring at best. I’m possibly being a bit harsh myself, but I just finished reading and the annoyance is fresh. 😬 Thanks to NetGalley for the ARC to review.

This was a fine contemporary friends to lovers romance. There was nothing wrong with this book, but the author's voice doesn't work for me (I read the first two books in the series before this to catch up).

💜𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲💜
A GUIDE TO JUST BEING FRIENDS
🩵𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗿𝗲: chick lit/romance
𝗠𝘆 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴: 3 ⭐️
📖 336 pages
𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗷𝗶𝘀: 🥗 ♥️🧁🏡💰

Thank you @netgalley for the #gifted copy!

Okay first off I definitely didn’t realize this was the 3rd in a series 😂 but it can absolutely be read as a stand-alone. You may want to read the other 2 first for more background / context on the convoluted relationship between the brothers & their father though, but do not need to by any means.

This is a closed door romance & I for sure prefer more spice than we get 👎🏼. I didn’t feel like there was any real conflict and the miscommunication in this drove me a little nuts tbh.

At one point, the female MC turns down a diamond Tiffany’s bracelet (‼️) bc she was trying to make a point… insert minion “Whaaaaaat” gif here.

I don’t have much else to say, except that this was just so-so for me & will not stick with me. 🤷🏼‍♀️

𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲:
🥗 salad
😍 hot brothers
👫 a friends ➡️ lovers trope💞
💘 a clean romance
𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗳: THINGS WE NEVER GOT OVER- bc of the starting over & supportive neighbors/community vibe, but the similarities ends there. I loooved TWNGO so I definitely wouldn’t hold much on that slight 🤏🏼comparison since this also has zero spice 😅

𝗕𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘁 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆: Hailey Sharp is new in LA & starting fresh after a bad breakup. She opened up a salad shop that connects her to Wes Jansen. Neither are looking for anything serious & made guidelines to stay friends…what could go wrong?

I enjoyed the other two books in the series and this was no different. Just cute and sweet while still tackling real life problems in relationships. I’ll read anything Sophie writes!