4.5 stars

Oh my god, Exes and O's was such a fun, adorable and steamy romance that I couldn't put down!

I love a forced proximity romance and this one ticked a lot of boxes for me, especially them being roommates!

I loved the banter the two shared and honestly I loved the chemistry! I had such an enjoyable time reading this one!

Also, whilst this is part of a series it can be read as a standalone which is what I did! I'm definitely going to be picking up Set On You very soon!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

4,5 stars! This was sooo cute, fun, emotional and just simply amazing. I just bought Set on you and I’m starting it right now (yes I know I read them in the wrong order, oh well). Amy Lea, you are a rom-com queen! I cried at the ending, this is everything I want to happen to me in real life. I could relate so much to Tara, and Trevor, please be real. Keep up the good work!

Booktropes:

* Close proximity
* Roommates
* Misunderstandings
* Grumpy x Sunshine

The story follows a book influencer whom after a messy break up decides to go through a list of her ex boyftiends in order to find a second chance romance. She enlists the help of her attractive roommate and along the way does she find love with one of her exs or is love closer to home?

I really enjoyed this book for the first half I found it funny however I just thought it was a bit basic, it had some sweet moments but overall it was an average read.

I really enjoyed Set on You so when I saw this on Net Galley I had to request it! And I am so glad I did, Amy'a writing style is right up my street - the characters as well written, relatable and you just get such a feel good time with them! Definitely recommend picking this up if you want a good feel good romance!

Tara is a bookstagramming nurse who loves a good romance book with all the tropes. She hasn't been the luckiest in love and because her grandma found love with an ex she decides to track down all her ex's to see if anyone is worth a second chance.

All while moving in with her sister fiancee's old roommate Trevor, who's a tattooed firefighter.

And like every good romance book they fall in love.

This book is super sweet and easy to enjoy. The family relationships in this book are so lovely to see.

I'll definitely be going back and reading the first now.

Thank you to the publisher and netgalley for giving me the opportunity to read this,✨

DNF
Unfortunately this book just I wasn’t for me. I really wanted to push through and see what the hype was all about but I just kept feeling myself skimming the pages. There wasn’t enough going on for me unfortunately but I can see why other people may really enjoy it. The characters were all likeable, the writing style was good so I’m basing my rating off of this rather than the plot as I didn’t finish it.

“Should I trust you, deliriously handsome stranger?” His mouth shapes into a crooked smile as he stands, towering over me on the bathroom floor. “Nah, probably not.”

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Quick Summary:
📚 Book lover FMC
👨‍🚒 Firefighter MMC
😬 Awkward meet-cute
♥️ Friends to lovers
👩🏻‍❤️‍👨🏻 Forced proximity
☯️ Opposites attract
🔥 Slow burn
🥵 Tension
💬 Banter
🌶️ Spicy
😘 Amazing first kiss that shocks the hell out of them both
🥰 He falls first

This was so cute!!! It gave me serious ‘What’s Your Number?’ vibes - that totally underrated rom-com with Chris Evans and Anna Faris.
I loved Tara. She was so funny, honest, and unashamed of her desire to fall in love. Her quest to track down and try for a second chance romance with her exes was hilarious and even more tension filled thanks to Trevor acting as her sidekick. Trevor doesn’t want a relationship and avoids all commitment, until Tara moves in. They are super cute together! From strangers to awkward roommates to best friends to lovers. And don’t even get me started on that epilogue. I’m pretty meh about proposals, but this one is BRILLIANT. A book lover’s dream. I liked Amy’s first book, but this knocked it out of the park! All the stars!

I was so lucky to receive an ARC of this book from #NetGalley

**This review has been published on Instagram and Goodreads

I really loved Set On You but Exes and O's just edges it as my fave out of the two. Tara is a bookstagrammer and loud and proud hopeless romantic. After her failed engagement she sets off on a quest to have her own second chance romance by reconnecting with all her ex-boyfriends - with the aid of her new firefighter roommate, Trevor.

Tara and Trevor jump from roommates to friends fairly quickly and their friendship grows very naturally and organically. Tara is completely herself around Trevor since she has deduced she couldn't possibly be his type and he "doesn't do relationships" but still manages to get him to open up to her, let his walls down and he let's her know him better than anyone else. The burn in this book is slow, deliciously slow, and the tortuous climb from friends to lovers is so so worth it. I laughed out loud, I swooned (hard) and I had to bite my knuckles and time or two - "you can take it, baby" 😮‍💨 - and Trevor turned out to be the perfect nonfictional boyfriend for Tara. His actions, his words and his grand gestures (THE BOOK HAD ME MELTING) had him staking his claim on MY *book boyfriend* list.

Being an avid reader, I enjoyed all the references to book tropes and the bookish discussions. I also appreciated the way Amy Lea tackles the nonchalance of people throwing around the word "crazy" especially in regards to emotional women or ex-girlfriends. We are all allowed to be emotional, passionate and, dare I say, a little clingy without being invalidated with harmful labels.

I think this was a fun read. I love the roommate trope I just wish there was a little bit more tension between the characters as felt he wasn't that interested in her until the end. But I liked that the story had heart.

I really enjoyed this and think I liked it even more than Set On You which was the first book in this series. This one follows Tara who loves to read romance books. She moves in with her roommate Trevor. She has dreams of having a second chance romance as it is one of her favourite tropes. She makes a list of all of her exes and with Trevor’s help goes through seeing them all again but perhaps the person she needs is right in front of her.

I loved he grumpy/ sunshine trope in this book and liked seeing Tara and Trevor get closer together. It was nice to see a main character who loved romance books and I felt that Tara was a really relatable character. I loved the romance in this book and the banter between the two characters. Overall I really enjoyed this and I can’t wait to read more from this author.

Adorable, charming, and very hard to put down - meet Amy Lea's Exes and O's!

In the second novel from Lea, we meet Tara; a hopeless, romance-book obsessed bookstagrammer (so cute) with an undesirable relationship history. She has 10 exes that all left her in the lurch and broke her heart, so after being dumped by her fiancé, Tara is left to move house and start looking for love - again. She decides to scrap anyone new and try to rekindle the flame with one of her exes, a challenge that mortifies her new roommate Trevor (and me, tbf).

Exes and O's is the perfect mix of easy relatability and believable modern society - she manages to incorporate social media/bookstagram/technology without it coming across as cringey or forced (as many many reads seem to these days). Tara and Trevor are incredibly likeable characters you actually want to root for, and the humour is well-placed and actually fairly funny.

An incredibly enjoyable read, and an easy rom-com tick. Would recommend to any modern romance readers - and it's made me want to seek out Lea's first book Set On You as a result... watch this space.

Hopeless romantic (and stage-five clinger) Tara Chen decides to revisit her former boyfriends, to hopefully find the perfect second chance love. Tara's extremely hot but guarded firefighter flatmate, Trevor Metcalfe, has no interest in relationships. When she enlists his help, he begins to let down his walls.

If you loved the movie, 'What's Your Number?' this one's for you. I loved Tara immediately. As soon as she mentioned pointy elbows on public transport, I knew she was my kind of person. Yes, she really is intense about love, and yes, she's sometimes impulsive, but, just like Trevor, I couldn't help but to love her. Meanwhile, Trevor was ADORABLE. I absolutely loved his seemingly resigned acceptance, then growing fondness for all of Tara's quirks. The slow burn was perfection, and I LOVED the mutual pining. The Disney references were perfection, and I could literally picture Trevor dressed as Flynn! *Chef's kiss* The Bookstagram moments were cute, although I didn't personally see the point of the staging directions. But that's a minor issue. This was my favourite kind of romance: utterly swoon-worthy.

Overall Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Heat Rating: 🔥🔥
Emotional Rating: 😂😱🙈🥰😬🤪💓😉😢💔😍🤤🥰

*Thanks to NetGalley for the opportunity to leave an honest review*

I really liked this, I’m a sucker for forced proximity and this surely delivered. I would be honest to say that I didn’t enjoy this as much as Set On You, but I still recommend.

Having read Set On You by Amy Lea a few months ago, I was eager to read this, especially when I saw it up on NetGalley. It was even more exciting when it was announced to be focused on the BOOKSTAGRAMMER sister from the first book. You heard me right, bookstagrammer. Something I like to think of myself as.

Anyway, this book had a lovely amount of pop-culture references (hello Taylor Swift references, I'm talking to you) to get me excited at every mention.

This was such an easy read, and I'm so glad to have read it, can't wait to go out and buy the physical copy to keep on my book shelves!

Massive thanks to NetGalley for the ARC.

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My thanks to Netgalley, Penguin and Amy Lea for an advanced copy of Exes and O's in exchange for my honest opinion.

I love a good romance book, and I loved the fact that Tara is obessed with them too. The whole dynamic between her and Trevor is really fun, and watching them go from roommates to more, all whilst Tara is on a mission to see if she can have her own second-chance romance story with an ex.

I really enjoyed this, and can't wait to get my hands on a physical copy!

This book has a fun and interesting concept behind it which makes for a very intriguing plot and kept me hooked from the first page. Whilst I occasionally found the main character a little cringy, overall I liked her bubbly personality and couldn’t help rooting for her to find the love of her life. I was expecting this to be a very typical romance book but I actually thought that the plot and characters were very unique.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Rating: 3,5 stars

Thank you to Netgalley, the publisher and the author for providing me with a free advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own!

This was good. I am kind of disappointed I didn't read the first book in the series beforehand however it wasn't impossible to understand as it is still a standalone book. I loved the premise of an "ex hunt" and as a sucker for a second chance romance I was looking forward to it. However I did wish it was done differently so we actually believe there could be another outcome. Maybe if we saw events from another POV such as Trevor's it would have been more exciting at times.

I did like the slow build up. It isn't a slow burn but it doesn't feel like instant connection/attraction either. There is some awkwardness between the main characters that makes it more believable.

Overall there was more potential in the whole "ex hunt" plot that could have lifted the reading experience. But I enjoyed the characters and their chemistry so much that I will definitely read more from Amy Lea.

Tara loves her romance novels but has yet to find her own hero. Then she moves in with Trevor but he's not into serious relationships so she decides to track down her exes. Maybe one of them is worth a second chance.

As a book lover and a hopeless romantic I loved this story. I enjoyed all the references to romance novel tropes that litter through the book. The plot is a slow burn but it keeps you reading as you meet all the exes. The ending was so perfect and sweet. Tara deserved her happy ending. I loved how final moment with Seth as well, she stood up to him well. I love Tara she reminds me of myself so much. A fun romantic read.

Unable to read due to bizarre formatting on the download. There are numbers at the end of every sentence for the entire book! Sorry.

Thankyou to netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this book. I loved it. I really enjoyed Set on You and it was great to read another book with characters that i was already familiar with. I love the second chance romance trope and this book was full of it. Tara and Trevor were fantastic characters, the plot flowed very well and i cannot fault the writing style of Amy. Cannot wait to see what comes next.