This was such a good book! I loved how relatable Tara was and just how well her character was written. I also adored Trevor! I have to say, even though I did love Scotty, Trevor was definitely the superior romantic interest. These characters felt so real and relatable, and this book did an amazing job in just how well it was embedded into reality.

Amy Lea really knocked it out of the park with this one! These characters sit high on my favourites list and I can't wait to see what more Amy Lea has in store for us.

Soooo, i'm a huge Amy Lea fan. I loved her last book and i'm sure this won't be any different.

But i had trouble with my copy? It was formatted strange and had numbers on the end of each line. Not an author issue at all! I know i'd enjoy this so i'm just going to buy it - i'lll do a review on my Instagram.

Let the publishers know about formatting - hopefully it was just my version that was like this.

Either way, love you Amy.

As someone who read Amy Lea's last book, I was excited to see if this one would be just as good. And my god did it live up to my expectations. If there's one thing i love, it's that the fmc's are not the kind of influencers you'd expect. Especially in Exe's and O's. I loved how Amy wrote the fmc. She was relatable but also not cliche. I loved the whole second chance.

I feel like anyone who loves Romance will find this book enjoyable.

Completely devoured this within days, I absolutely adored it. You know you've enjoyed a book when you struggle to put your thoughts into words. Our FMC Tara was incredible and very loveable, I saw so much of myself in her. I loved the fact she was a bookstagrammer and the entire ex mission! Was so much fun to read about.
I will definitely be picking something else up from this author, got my eye on the first book from this series!

After reading Set On You and loving it, I knew I had to read Exes and O’s immediately (or as soon as I could get my hands on it!). Tara was the perfect protagonist! A book lover who categories her life into tropes? Sounds a bit like myself haha!

When Tara moves into her new apartment with Trevor, the old roommate of Crystal’s (her sister) boyfriend, she is met with a surprise. Tara and Trevor didn’t have the perfect first meeting, in fact, Tara saw a lot more of Trevor (and the woman he was with) than she bargained for. Tara is a book influencer, she has a very popular bookstagram, and her love of romance novels, reminded me a lot of myself! She is determined to have her perfect book-worthy romance, and has decided that dating apps are not the way to go.

‘Big feelings. To the point where I don’t even know what to do with myself half the time. I’ve tried to get you out of my head for months, but your stubborn ass just won’t leave.’

One of Tara’s favourite tropes is second-chance romance. After having a conversation with her Grandma, who recently reconnected and married her childhood sweetheart, Tara decides to create a list of all her exes and reconnect with them to find her second-chance happily ever after. Of course, she can’t possibly go it alone, so Tara enlists the help of Trevor. At first, he appears reluctant, but over time he starts handing out a few bits of advice. As these two spend more time living together and their spare time outside of the house together, they grow closer and Tara begins to realise that maybe Trevor is one of the only guys out there that likes her for who she is.

Obviously, I fell head over heels for these two. The tension between them, and their almost kisses had me swooning. Tara and Trevor had a slow build up but what made them perfect was that they got to know each other very well before their friendship could even entered relationship territory. There was so much chemistry and Amy Lea has solidified herself as an instant-buy author!

4.5

Tara loves romance novels and after her grandmother has her second-chance romance, Tara sets out to find the same for her. She decides to contact her ex-boyfriends to see if she can rekindle a spark with the help of her new roommate, Trevor.

I devoured this book, it reeled me in, and who can blame me? The MC is a bookstagrammer! If you’ve read Amy’s previous book, Set On You, you’ll know that Tara is Crystal’s little sister, and this is Tara’s story.

I loved the interactions between Tara and Trevor, they were polar opposites in a lot of ways, and I found myself laughing so much!

This may have been predictable, but that did not dull my enjoyment one bit. Very excited to see what Amy Lea comes out with next.

Set on You was one of my favourite books of 2022, and I was so excited when I was able to get an ARC for Exes and O's. I would read Amy Lea's middle school assessments and call them classics. Expectations were through the roof!

While it was really good, it fell short compared to her debut novel. In part, it could've been due to my inability to fully relate to and empathise with our female main character, Tara.

I loved Tara when we first met her in Set on You, but I struggled to comprehend her obsession with her exes and romance in general, and I ended up finding her a tad bit annoying at times.

I liked how her friendship with Trevor develops (can I please have a Trevor for my 30th birthday? thank you), and their interactions were amusing and endearing, but that was the end of it. They sounded like they were really good friends. Period.

Some people are Dual POV type of people,  while others are not. I respect that. But in this case, it would be immensely beneficial to be privy to our MC's thoughts and feelings. I'm not surprised Tara didn't suspect that he liked her, I didn't think he did either!

He's really sweet but comes across as friendly, brotherly even. 

It's a slow burn (injured turtle, going up a hill type of slow burn), but that doesn't make it boring or uninteresting; just something to consider before reading.

Perfect for hopeless romantics and Taylor Swift fans (I'm afraid I don't relate to either).I will surely read whatever Amy Lea writes next, even if it's an essay on endangered amoebas.

Much thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

4⭐️ A cute slow burn romance with a sunshine FMC who loves books and a grumpy hunk of a firefighter

Thank you to @netgalley and @vikingUK for an eARC in return for an honest review

So the author described this as being To all the Boys I loved before but adult and that’s a great way of describing this book. Tara loves the second- chance romance trope and decides that maybe she can have her own by writing a list of all her exes and tracking them down. Meanwhile she is growing ever closer to her roommate, Trevor, a closed off, fire fighter with a one night stand only rule. Here’s what you can expect:

💖Grumpy x Sunshine
💖Slow Burn Friends to Lovers
💖Book Influencer/ NICU Nurse Heroine who wants her own novel worthy romance and loves Taylor Swift/Disney/The Bachelor
💖Tattooed Firefighter MMC who ‘doesn’t do love’, can bake and ends up ALSO loving The Bachelor
💖…and they were roommates
💖Forced Proximity
💖Hot Tub Steam 🌶️

This was a really fun and funny book that was a quick and easy read with a happily ever after although it didn’t shy away from discussions of some slightly harder topics such as childhood illness, gaslighting, mental health and death of family members although I felt like the author approached these well.

It took me a while to read this but I really enjoyed it! I will say that the the formatting of the ebook made it so difficult to read... but that has nothing to do with the finished copy. Anyway, I loved the plot, it was fun! The main characters were brilliant, especially the female m/c. She was relatable and unapologetically herself. I loved Trevor as well, and what I found about him was that he was also realistic! Not something you usually get in romance books. I love the search for the ex and all the little side plots! I definitely recommend this book

The cover is also beautiful and of course I keep singing the song whenever I see the title!!!

Amy Lea does it again and has officially become an auto-buy author. This book made me genuinely laugh out loud, gasp, feel HOT and most importantly smile.

As a bookstagrammer Tara is very relatable I find her such a lovable character, and I fully understand and relate to the way she thinks and the decisions she makes. As someone who used to try to be the cool girl and pretended to dislike grand gestures and valentines day, but as soon as I decided to be my true self (A WH*RE FOR LOVE) I found the love of my life and the best man I have ever met who I am very lucky to call my boyfriend. WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT.

I LOVE LOVE. I DO, it's why I love romance books, it's why I cry at tik tok videos of couples dancing in the snow, so yes, I fully believe this book was written for me, or maybe about me, who knows. All I know is I LOVE BEING A PERSON WHO LOVES LOVE AND I LOVE THIS BOOK.

Trevor is so dreamy, so kind, so funny, just THE PERFECT PACKAGE (with a perfect package apparently). I LOVED LOVED LOVED how their relationship developed and formed over time, I loved how they were roomate and friends first, I loved how he helped her try to reconnect with her exes even though he had feelings for her, he's JUST AN AMAZING PERFECT MAN OK!!

This was brilliantly written, the characters were perfect, the pacing was perfect, the plot was perfect, the humour was perfect, the discussion of romance book tropes was perfect, the spice was perfect. Can you tell I think it was just perfect? I love Amy Lea, I love these books, I can't WAIT for the next one! Please never stop writing and please keep on blessing us with these wonderful perfect characters!

OKAY BUT HOW IS THIS BOOK SO DAMN CUTE AND ADORABLE?! I think Tara might just be my spirit animal, honestly, I related to her on a soul level.

This wonderful book was absolutely fantastic! I loved Set On You so I already knew I was going to love this one too, I just didn’t realise how much I would love it. The characters were all brilliantly developed, Trevor is a prince among men, there was lots of humour and incredible banter, and lots of pop culture references to boot.

If you’re looking for a romcom that’s as brilliant as the cover is vibrant then pick this one up.

Thank you to Vintage and NetGalley for the e-arc of this one.

Firstly I’d like to thank the publisher and NetGalley for the eARC 😍❤️

Exes and O’s tells the story of Tara Chen, a romance bookstagrammer who is unlucky in love. She’s had her heart broken lots of times in her life but still she’s open to the chance of love. After breaking up with her fiancé Seth she finds herself moving in to her besties fiancés old apartment. Enter the handsome fireman Trevor Metcalfe. Unlike Tara Trevor doesn’t do relationships, he doesn’t like to get attached and prefers says love his not his thing.

Tara makes the bold decision to try and reconnect with all of her exes as she’s sure she’s already met ‘the one’ and enlists Trevor to help her with her endeavour. But as they spend more time together Tara starts to feel an attraction to Trevor and, as he starts to let her into his life, she’s sure he feels the same way. Will he give love a chance or will she find it with an ex?

I knew I was going to enjoy this book before I even picked it up!! 😍🥰 The blurb pulled me in straight away and after 1 chapter I was COMPLETELY hooked!! Amy Lea has written the perfect man ❤️😏 I am in love with Trevor Metcalfe and I don’t care who knows it!!

There is not one page of this book that I was not absorbed in, I’m obsessed with both the characters and I know there’s no sequel but I want more!! 😂😅 I just loved it so much!!
How can I not give this book 5✨?? It’s perfection!!

I found both characters likeable, I found the plot engaging and I found the whole thing adorable and cute, loved it!! Perfectly funny

We met both Tara and Trevor in Set on you and I was excited to read their book.
While they had a not so meet cute first encounter, may I even say a very hilarious one, I loved how their friendship and relationship develops in this story.
It’s a slow burn romance that comes handy when you want to read more about young adults like Tara who makes a few mistakes but is always hopeful for a second chance romance with her ex. Turns out he’s not a good material for it. She’s an influencer and I understand her wishful thoughts of reconnect with the one she once loved but I honestly didn’t liked the fact that she had to post about their interactions so public.
I loved Trevor, he’s not the guy I thought he would be at the beginning of the story, he’s much more considerate and a sweetheart overall.
I loved Set on you a lot and I loved how everything turned out for Tara and Trevor in here, even if she was unlikeable to me at times.
Beautiful romance story that will fulfil those cravings hearts for a HEA.

Very grateful to the publisher for my review copy

Thanks to NetGalley UK and Penguin for sending me this advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Charming and funny, this slow-burn romance is perfect for fans of the genre

Since I read “Set on you” by Amy Lea, I have been very intrigued about Tara and Trevor’s story since we get a glimpse of both in the previous book. Of all of the characters in this Lea’s world, I could identify most with Tara since she is an avid romance reader like me. This book tells the story of a woman who had her heart broken 10 times and decides she wants a second-chance romance with one of her exes. Discussions of romance tropes in the middle of the book? Amazing! At the beginning of the book, I was really into the story and characters. Tara’s journey with her exes is amusing, and I was wondering how someone can be so optimistic when it’s constantly facing heart-breaking. On the other hand, Trevor is very quiet and introverted, the opposite of Tara. I like how both balance each other, and I love how their relationship was developed and evolves throughout the book.
Amy Lea has a great writing style, and I was even more pleased than “Set on you”. My only issue with the book (that made me remove one star down) is that I felt like Tara was very clueless and naïve at the age of 30. Let me rephrase it better. It was funny how she approached relationships; she is clearly a hopeless romantic. Despite behaving and doing stuff that sounds like a 15-year-old girl would do, around 70% of the book, she was still acting very immature toward relationships. I couldn’t believe she was like this because she only reads romance. After all, I only read romance and stopped being like that after I left my teen years behind.
Apart from that minor issue that didn’t work for me, I truly enjoyed this book. Trevor is amazing, the story is funny, and they have great banter.

I really enjoyed Amy Leas first book, Set on You as it had the right balance of plot to romance. I really hoped this one would be just as good but personally I just found Tara to be a really irritating character. It was a bit over the top and cringey in places and didn’t quite have the same impact as the first book.

Did I still enjoy it? Yes.
Would I read the third book in the series? Also yes.
Is it going to win any awards? (In my opinion) no.

This book me by surprise. I didn’t expect to love this as much as I did. What a beautiful story! I love how clearly Amy Lea reads romances as well as writes them. She gets it. She understands the recipe, and damn, she gets it perfect. I couldn’t adore Trevor and Tara anymore if I tried. A must read for romance lovers!

I breezed through this blissfully romantic novel with a smile plastered on my face. It was a love letter to love and all the hopeless romantics out there brave enough to keep believing in it. The story’s trajectory was predictable but I didn’t mind at all because I was swept up in the fun concept and charming characters.

This rom-com would not have worked without the right kind of heroine and luckily Tara was just that! She was kind-hearted yet relatable and became surprisingly inspirational towards the end. It was empowering to watch her realise that she shouldn’t feel ashamed of loving fiercely. Instead, she should be commended for having the bravery to strive for true love.

It was sweet watching Tara and Trevor’s romance gradually blossom, especially as it was built upon such a genuine friendship. As they grew to know each other better, they became more comfortable opening up. This was particularly rewarding in Trevor’s case as he definitely started out a little bit emotionally-stunted. However, he was always so thoughtful when it came to Tara. I didn’t know a hero could be both broody and cute at the same time. Maybe Trevor was a tad too dreamy but I let that slide as Tara deserved the all-consuming, fairytale type of love that she had always wished for.

The novel wrapped up perfectly and I appreciated its overarching message to not be ashamed to experience our emotions and embrace our passions.

OVERALL: This joyous read was helmed by a delightfully relatable heroine who you couldn’t help but cheer for on her quest for true love. It was sweet and hopeful, with just the right amount of whimsy.

After reading the teaser at the end of Set on You, I was DYING to get my hands on this and read Tara’s story.

Tara was such a fun MC read about, and a fellow bookstagrammer and romance lover to boot (I was in my element reading this). She’s the sister of Crystal and love interest of Trevor, who was Scott’s firefighter best friend. Trevor helps Tara on her journey to reconnect with her exes to see if she can find ‘the one’.

What ensues is a series of my favourite tropes:
• roommates/forced proximity
• friends to lovers
• slow-burn romance
• opposites attract

Tara was so entertaining to read about. Sometimes she was bit OTT for me and overshared a bit too much, but I loved how she was true to herself and she charmed everyone around her. I would’ve LOVED to have seen how Trevor reacted to her internally so this would’ve benefitted from being a dual POV in my opinion.

I can’t wait to read the next book in the series! Thank you for the advanced copy

*arc provided by Netgalley*

I seemed to love this book so much more than the first, so easy to get into and read. I really do wish it was a dual pov but I loved the fact it was a rom-com. It might have been a slow burn, but the spice was spicing when it happened!

3.5/5 stars!