I also was given access to the ebook version of this book so my opinion will be based on the audiobook version. I felt like the narrator did a great job with the material and kept me interested even though it was my second time going through this story. Great job!

Cute childhood-friends-to-lovers tale, I liked both characters and related to their struggles but I thought for best friends of 20 years their communication could use some work 3.5⭐️

LOVED…. This one snuck up on me. In the beginning I think the cover had me anticipating the bookstore! Which leads me to share STICK WITH IT! I loved the storyline and how it all played out… best friends to lovers is such a new trope for me and really enjoyed. Haha at times I thought it was maybe awkward… the trope not the book… Life as well as parental expectations play a role in this one and loved the representation of anxiety. Definitely excited to check out Jayci’s others books.

Title? Adorable. Cover? Also adorable. Story? Meh.

This is book three in the "A Sweet Mess" series, but it totally works as a stand alone.

Lizzie is burned out so she leaves LA for a few weeks. She goes to a quiet, mountain town where her best friend Jack lives. Oh, and she has been in love with Jack forever. She realizes she wants the slower paced life, except Jack is unhappy in his hometown. They still want different things. Can they work through it all?

I am not sure why I didn't connect with this book, but I just kept wishing it was over. I didn't like Lizzie for some reason. I found her annoying. Jack was fine. But as with the previous book in the series, the whole book is basically them refusing to talk to each other.

I listened to the audiobook. Cindy Kay narrates and it is OK. Natalie Naudus narrated the previous two in the series, and I enjoy her work, so this was a bit of a letdown.

I received an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.

Cute romcom. A story of romance and finding out what you really want in life. I love that the main character's dream was to own a bookstore much like myself.

this was a good listen! I wouldn't usually read a romance in audiobook form so this was a bit of an awkward experience. This was a bit of a cookie-cutter romance but that's okay!

Thank you to NetGalley for the opportunity to review this audiobook in exchange for an honest review.

If you love a friends to lovers story, this one is for you! I enjoyed it and it was a quick listen but, unfortunately, it did not really connect with me. Lizzy and Jack were a lot of fun but a lot of this fell flat with me unfortunately. I will check out this authors other books though because there were some fun characters.

3.5. Cute story! I loved Lizzy and Jack together. I loved the Korean culture woven in.

For me, the pacing was slow to get going but once it was going it was a sweet & spicy read.

The audiobook narrator was great. The only thing I would have loved is dual narrators for the dual POVs of the book.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for the chance to read an advance copy.

Lizzie is a high end lawyer trying to make it as a partner in a high end law firm. Jake is trying to figure out what he wants to do with him life. Lizzie suffers a panic attack in the opening Lf her first ever trail and decided to take a break, and goes to Weldon for some R&R, where Jake lives. Will the two admit their feelings ..


This book fell so short I was so excited but it lacked so much. The charter development was slow and unrealistic I couldn’t understand how this story could be it just seems fake and not relatable. I often thought I was reading a young adult book at moments. The story was rush and the details missing I got to 60% and I couldn’t I didn’t care.
Thank you NetGalley for myARC audio for my honest review.

2.5⭐️

This wasn’t for me. It was longer than it needed to be and full of all the tropes that annoy me - especially the miscommunication one which should really just be called the refuse to communicate trope. I can’t with that.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced audio, the narrator was great but the story wasn’t for me!

This is your classic friends-to-lover romance. Lizzy is having a come to Jesus moment. she doesn't want to be a lawyer. she is suffering from anxiety when working at her law firm in New York and enough is enough. She's taking some time off so she can figure out what she wants to do.

Jack has been in love with Lizzy since he's known her. He has a brilliant idea to take things further but now Lizzy is in town for three whole wee.

This was a cute and spicy friend to a lover - I was really into the journey of these two and the clear misunderstanding waiting to happen
I enjoyed the culture embedded into the storyline

I believe Jayci Lee is the narrator and she did a great job of having Jack and Lizzy sound different. They sound like what I thought they would sound like.

Also, they got the sounds of the food correct so it was a hot mess

After a huge panic attack during a pivotal point in Lizzy’s career, she decides to take a 3 week sabbatical in Weldon where her best friend Jack lives. While there, she helps a friend restore a struggling bookstore with Jack. Spending so much time together Lizzy realizes she has feelings for her best friend and decides to give the relationship a try. They both realize there is big chemistry but Jack needs to learn some things about himself first and so does Lizzy.

I enjoyed this book except for the parts when the characters have the same reflections every other chapter it seemed. Jack has always had a crush on Lizzy but is afraid of going farther in fear of losing the friendship and he reflects on it ALOT. I did enjoy towards the end when both characters got their lives in the right direction and finally got their happy ending. I would recommend this story.
Thanks to netgalley and Dreamscape media for this audio arc in return for an honest review.

I enjoyed this friends to lovers romance. The narrator did a a great job. This was a quick read. I love books featuring bookstores. Not as much angst as I would prefer. But still a good quick read. Thanks for the chance to read this.

“”Be back in ten.” He grinned and tapped her on the nose, and she…blushed. Why was she blushing?”
“He’d kept his real feelings for her a secret for so long that the thought of being caught red-handed with hearts in his eyes made him feel a little naked and a lot vulnerable.”
““Just so you know, I could never stop loving you. That’s like telling my heart to stop beating.” “We can’t have that.” She slowly shook her head, wearing a tremulous smile. “You absolutely must love me forever, then.””

Friends to lovers will always be superior for me. Make it childhood friends to lovers and I. Am. Gone. I was ready for some cuteness and light steam, but on both counts, I got so much more than I could’ve asked for.

LIZZY. My sweet, smart, anxious girl. Anxious women on the path to finding themselves and figuring out what they want (spoiler: it’s happiness) ARE EVERYTHING. God she was so amazing and real and I just wanted to wrap her up and keep her safe from all the evils of the world. My heart ached for her.

Jack. JACK. Such a big heart and so full of love and fear. I know how fucking horrible it is to feel inadequate, when all you want is a chance to prove to EVERYONE you’re worth it. But that’s not really the goal is it?

The chemistry!? I was not at all expecting this book to be as steamy as it was and this book pulled off the balance needed with a friends to lovers romance. (Though I wouldn’t categorize this as “a spicy book”, it was still quite hot.)

I love “it’s not unrequited, they’re just idiots” friends to lovers, but it was so fucking beautiful watching Lizzy fall in love with this boy she’s known forever, only wait, he’s a MAN now and why is him being all handyman and shit so sexy??? And him hoping his crush would fade, only for it to become … so much more.

(Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.)

I've already read this book as an eBook from NetGalley but I saw an audiobook version and had requested it too. I did enjoy this narration, a little slow but to no fault of the narrator because I find almost all audiobooks way too slow and I have them on 2x or 2.5x speed. I'd recommend this narrator to people but still not this story. I'll copy and paste my review of the eBook which reflects my opinions of the book itself and not influenced by audiobook narrator.

" It's less of.. hating the book as it is hating the characters... which is kinda like hating the book.

Hate is a strong word in this case, because I wasn't mad I was more of just annoyed. Best friends for 20 years, but long distance best friends. He's been inlove with her this whole time but when she takes time of work to spend in their hometown and realizes she has feelings for him too, he get awkward. They'd go from flirting to him LITERALLY RUNNING away? They'd go from kissing to her mentioning more and he shuts down. Every advanced she made he shut down, but then he was the first one to get flirty again. Even when they were about to be intimate for the first time he's almost trying to talk her out of it. There's so much time wasted they could have been enjoying before she has to go back to work. Despite what he keeps repeating to themselves, everything already changed when they mutually verbalize there was feelings for each other, WHY WASTED THE TIME YOU HAVE. You're never going back to just friends at that point, so be romantic.

Redeeming about this book was actually the last couple chapters and then epilogue. The realization about her career and the connection that brings them into the same place. The call backs from the first chapter that i was thinking about the whole time like "Why mention that if it wasn't gonna happen." I also love when bookish characters talk about their relationships in book tropes and start to realize their mistakes because they've read it in a book before.

Overall, I wouldn't necessarily go out of my way to recommend this, but I wouldn't discouraged anyone from reading either? Kinda a middle ground. "

Thank you NetGalley and the Publisher, St. Martin's Press for the eARC (and Audiobook ARC) in exchange for my honest review.

***Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to read this book ahead of its release. All thoughts and opinions are my own.


Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee follows our main characters Lizzy and Jack as they try to help a struggling bookstore owner get her business running smoothly in Jack’s small home town.

Lizzy is a lawyer working at a prestigious firm in L.A. who ends up having a panic attack in the middle of a trial. Realizing she hasn’t been taking care of herself like she should, she takes a vacation from work to stay in the town her best friend lives in. Jack works for his family brewery but he feels like he doesn’t contribute much and is unhappy. When the two team up to help revamp a local bookstore, the sparks really begin to fly.

This book was fine. It is a very sweet, clean, cookie cutter romance. Childhood friends to lovers usually are. You can easily predict how it will end from the beginning. It isn’t exactly the kind of romance I enjoy. I like something a little more angsty. It’s hard for me to enjoy childhood friends to lovers when we don’t get the flashbacks of when they are growing up. I was hoping the bookish setting would make me enjoy it more but it really didn’t help a lot.

This things I liked about this book include the Asian representation. The author is Asian so you can really see how she pulled from that in this book. I loved all the talk about food. And I did really enjoy the scenes with Lizzy being a really awesome lawyer. I looked at the author’s bio and saw that she was a defense litigator for 15 years and that really shows in this book. I can tell Lee, as an author, writes about what she loves and cares about and that kind of connection with the author in the book is one of the main things that made me finish reading.

All in all, this isn’t the kind of romance I normally enjoy but if you are a fan of hallmark type movies, you would probably enjoy this.

Jayci Lee’s latest book is every book-lovers dream! Booked on a Feeling contains everyone’s favorite trope: guy falls first! With a female main character who has a love of reading and a swoony hero who is obsessed with her, all book nerds will be sure to fall in love with this sweet story. Lizzy is a corporate lawyer in the big city who just won a huge case… and wasn’t that excited about it. Devoid of happiness, she begins to wonder if the late nights and panic attacks are worth a shot at being made partner. She decides to cash in her paid time off and spend three weeks staying in town where her best friend, Jack, lives and works. As these long term friends spend more and more time together, in the same city--finally, they uncover feelings they have been doing their best to hide. Their lives have taken separate paths, but maybe it is time for them to go off-roading. Booked on a Feeling is a super charming book readers can finish in one sitting, I recommend this book to fans of Abby Jiminez and Alisha Rai! Thanks so much to the publisher for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review. I loved the narration and highly recommend listening to this one on audio!!

Thank you Net Galley for an audio ARC of Booked on a Feeling by Jayci Lee. This is a contemporary romance, friends to lovers book that is absolutely adorable. I really feel in love with the characters in this book while the main characters found themselves.

Hooked from the start with this friends to lovers romance. I loved this book and the pining! Thanks to the publisher for providing a copy via NetGalley. All opinions expressed are my own.

This was a really cute friends to lovers romance. Thought narrator Cindy Kay had such a soothing and smooth voice. Really enjoyed how Jayci Lee had both main characters find their passions/looking for things that would make them happy. Usually authors only have one character doing that but glad to see this one was different in that way. The pining in this one was probably my favorite part. Also really enjoyed the book store element in this book. Overall a great addition to the Sweet Mess series.

Book Rating: 4 stars
Audiobook Rating: 4 stars
Overall Rating: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️⭐️

Thank you Net Galley and Dreamscape for an arc of this audiobook in exchange for a honest review.