Thank you Netgalley for the ARC!

I’m new-ish to Denise Williams, my first book by her being Do You Take This Man. I had fun with that read and was excited to get approved for this one, and this one was just as fun!

The collection of novellas set in the airport were short, sweet and just made you smile. It gave the warm and fuzzy feelings you look for in a romance without all the slow burn that most romances have since these were short and quick reads.

This would be a great pick for when you’re in the mood for romance but can’t settle on a specific book, or if you’re feeling a little slumpy.

Overall this was a fun and sweet read!

Love and Other Flight Delays was such a fun collection of sweet novellas! I wasn't sure about the airport setting because airports stress me out but Denise Willliams might have me slowing down the next time I need to catch a flight. Overall I really enjoyed all three novellas! The characters were all enjoyable with enough depth where I felt like I knew them! The novellas really were a great combination of funny, cute and steam!

The Love Connection: 4 stars
- Fake dating
- Ollie and Bennet were the cutest

The Missed Connection: 5 stars
- Work rivals
- GrumpyxSunshine
- The epilogue on this one was my fav!!

The Sweetest Connection: 3.5 stars
- Friends to lovers
- Guy falls first

Read this book if you like: Collections of novellas, multicultural representation, LGBTQ representation, banter

This was great. I love novellas and this was such a fun collection of airport romances.

The Love Connection ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I loved this one. Their meet-cute was perfect. It was hilarious and adorable. Denise has such a way with words. This one was sweet, funny, and spicy. 🔥

The Missed Connection ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Honestly, I didn't feel the connection with these two as much but their epilogue was my favorite one. It may have been all of the time elapsed without them talking. They weren't shown together long either.

The Sweetest Connection ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I loved this one. It was so creative. They were looking for two best friends that loved each other when they did too. I love how it flashed back throughout their friendship. I wanted a bit more from the epilogue.

I highly recommend these!

Thank you to NetGalley, the author, and Berkley for the gifted e-book ❤️

Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams is a captivating tale of two individuals who start off as mere annoyances to each other but eventually fall in love. The story is as steamy as a luxurious bubble bath, leaving readers feeling warm and fuzzy inside. Love and Other Flight Delays is an engaging read that makes it easy to get lost in the story. So, sit back, relax, and let yourself be swept away by this delightful tale of love and self-discovery.

Today I have to gush about this book that was exactly what I needed during my flights back to the US.
Love and Other Flight Delays (Pub date on March 14th) is a collection of three novelas that are interconnected by taking place at an airport. The concept is fresh and creative, I was hooked from the take off.

✈️ The Love Connection has my beloved fake dating trope compounded with dating for practice. Ollie, a heartbroken pet groomer, has a crush on Bennet, a frequent flyer who moonlights as a writer but is struggling with a creative block, and together they'll take a chance on love with the help of a certain dog with a penchant for running away. This story was so unique and fun!

✈️ The Missed Connection brings us women in STEM, rivals to lovers, grumpy and sunshine, forced proximity, and $exism in the workplace. It all starts two strangers sharing a wild kiss at midnight to ring in the new year while stuck at the airport, just to find out months later they are rivals who have to work together. Need I say more? Pure gold!

✈️ The Sweetest Connection is about two friends trying to find the author of a love letter while figuring out ways to confess their feelings for each other as time runs against them. This was my favorite one! I guess because it felt so relatable because I have been in Tegan shoes going abroad to explore the world. But also because this particular story had friends to lovers, grand gesture, and soooo much heart!

This wasn't my first contact with Denise Williams' writing and won't certainly be the last. My only complaint is that I wish they were full length novels so I could get more of these lovely characters.

Thank you, #NetGalley, @nicwillwrites and @berkleyromance for the free ARC. ❤️

This book contains four tales of romance found in an airport. Meet cutes while boarding flights, working in the airport, etc. Airports are a place where you are between real life events and obligations and what better place to run into love when least expected!

LOVE AND OTHER FLIGHT DELAYS - DENISE WILLIAMS
4⭐
Three novellas all set at the airport.

1) The love connection
Airport pet groomer meets frequent flier who being a professional risk assessor is also a romance author.
....unique professions, taking risks with fake friends.

2) The missed connection
2 strangers share a romantic moment only to find later that they are professional rivals.
.......enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine and even sSTEM representation.

3) The sweetest connection.
2 best friends ..one week to return a lost love letter and bring those people together but these friends have buried feelings for each other .. can they be revealed before one of them flies out of country .
.......friends to lovers and a very cute mystery.

These 3 novellas provided a perfect reading satisfaction in a condensed dose but with a proper story and a good character development. My favourite being The missed connection...loved Gia's character.

Thank you Netgalley and publishers for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Love and Other Flight Delays by Denise Williams is a collection of novellas, that I had previously read, that was set at airports. All three novellas were cute fun romantic stories, with great couples. Since I have already posted these novellas, below will be a condensed version. I do suggest you read these novellas, as Denise Williams wrote them so well.

The Love Connection:
An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and finds herself in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author. Ollie Wright loves her job as a dog groomer, but isn’t interested in a romance, until she meets Bennett Baker. Bennett has a day job, but at night he writes romance novels, and is currently facing writer’s block. When he rescues a pup in the airport, he meets Ollie, who he immediately becomes enchanted with. The chemistry between them opens her heart and he becomes inspired to write again.

The Missed Connection:
Gia, our heroine, is at the airport, on her way home on New Year’s Eve; she is coming off of a break-up with her girlfriend. She meets Felix at the bar, and they spent the evening talking, which ended with a kiss. A few months later, she recognizes the man she met at the airport, who happens to be a rival academic who always criticized her work, and now he is her new coworker. Gia is very outgoing, fun, friendly, and Felix is the complete opposite; he doesn’t like associating with others, keeps to himself and comes across as very stuffy. The Missed Connection was a short story, that was very well written by Denise Williams. I did enjoy the entire opposites attract romance, which was so very well done.

The Sweetest Connection:
We meet our heroine and hero at the start (Teagan & Silas), when they were freshmen paired up in an orientation event, which led to a wonderful strong friendship. The POV’s switched between past events and present time. They had a wonderful history together as friends, as their bond was special. Teagan has a job in a candy shop, and Silas works as a problem solver in the airport. Silas knows he is very much in love with Teagan, but refrains from explaining his true feelings, as he is afraid to lose his best friend. Of course, we know that Teagan also has feelings for Silas, with both hiding those feelings. The Sweetest Connection was a cute, friends to lover’s short story.

If you have not read anything by Denise Williams, I suggest you need to read her fun romantic stories.

Thank you so much for an advanced copy of Love and Other Flight Delays. These were such cute short stories!

First off, I love how Denise Williams crafts characters. Each couple in each of these three novellas brings something special and different to the table. The couples bring the sweet, the spicy, the pining, the tender, and the heat in various levels, and I love that I knew I always had something new to look forward to in each story.

Second, Denise did a wonderful job creating characters involved in unique professions, STEM, etc. I feel like the characters in her stories represent people I might know in real life, and I love that! I also loved that each of the stories had a different location yet all managed to culminate in the same place - the airport. How often do we pass people in the airport and wonder about their background, their life, etc? These stories gave us a glimpse into those untold stories, and it was just so fun!

Third, these stories are so well-balanced! Despite being short, they each gave me enough plot, character development, and romance to satisfy me! That's hard to do in a novella, but Denise Williams hit the perfect sweet spot with these three stories.

Thank you so much for an advanced copy of this book as well as a spot on the book blog tour.

Star Rating: 4⭐️

I didn't *love* this one. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but something just felt off. Maybe it's that the chemistry just wasn't there. I didn't feel anything while reading. In theory the plot is fun, but unfortunately lacks successful execution.

a lighthearted book filled with short stories that are interconnected by taking place in an airport! the couples are hilarious and the comedy in this book keeps you laughing along with the characters stories. A great book to pick up again and again!!

Williams takes a unique approach with this title by presenting three different stories that are all interconnected. Each love story is different but share the common denominator of the airport. Although good in theory, each story feels rushed.

Every romance trope is presented in this book. First, it's the "fake friends/business relationship to lovers". Then "enemies to lovers" followed by "friends to lovers". For those that love to read romance, this book feeds your appetite. However, by the time I got to the third story, I was tired. I was no longer interested in any of these characters.

It would have been great for Williams to make independent books with each of these stories. I wanted to know more about each character. Most importantly, I wanted a more fully formed story.

Nonetheless I love Denise Williams writing and I am so fortunate to have gotten an advanced copy of this book!

This was a fun series of novellas! Denise Williams also pulls off the rare feat of making my least favorite setting- the airport- a magical and entertaining backdrop for three adorable love stories. All three fall in the range of 4-4.5 stars for me.

First up was The Love Connection in which a pet groomer finds herself in a fake dating scheme with her frequently traveling airport crush. I am sucker for MMCs who are authors but Bennet is even better in the fact that he is a romance author (*cue the swoons*). My favorite part of this book was probably the couples meet cute, which involved a mishap with a pesky pet from Ollie's airport pet grooming business.

The Missed Connection was the second novella in this book, and it follows two professional rivals as they have to go on a long business trip together. Felix was such a lovable grump, and I loved his and Gia's first meeting. The pair had an instant spark, which turns into a resentful fire when they realize the stranger they shared a New Year's kiss with is in fact their harshest critic in their academic field.

My favorite by far was The Sweetest Connection. I am a huge sucker for a friends to lovers romance, and this one was so well done. I was blushing and giggling over the relationship between Silas and Teagan, which is told both in present day and in flashbacks. The supporting characters working in the airport really shined in this book as well, as Teagan drags Silas into her quest to find the author of a list that hints at a budding workplace romance in the terminal.

Overall these are a fun collection of novellas that you could either read all at once, or pick up whenever you are in need of a fast-paced palate cleanser between longer reads.

This book consists of three novellas that go together and is all featured at the airport. I have to say that I really enjoyed the concept of this book but it kind of fell flat for me. Williams is a great writer and I love where she is coming from with this book, but I felt the stories weren't long enough. I think that each story could have been a full-on novel itself just to get more connected with the characters. I enjoyed the fact of how the setting stayed the same throughout the book and you get glimpses of the character's life of where they go. The pacing was perfect for the book but the cute moments were too short for my liking. Each story is written from dual perspectives which is great but I won't go into detail of each characters.

There were two povs in each story which I enjoyed so you can learn about the characters though it was hard to get background information about them. I often didn't feel connected with the characters and what their purpose was in the story. Because of the stories being short, I was sometimes confused what their end was. There weren't many side characters but characters from the book were in the same friend group. My favorite story was the last one as it was a childhood friend to lovers. The romance is different for each story with not-so-spicy scenes.

The ending for each story was well done but I didn't really care much about it. I just felt that there was something lacking from each story that the plot mountain wasn't making sense. I still enjoyed it though and loved the candy shop being mentioned so many times. As there were some parts that were not for me, I think readers who like short stories will totally enjoy this book.

3 ⭐️

Overall these were super cute novellas ! I think I’ve just realized that I’m not really a standalone novella kinda girl 😅

<b>Age Rating: 18+</b>

<i>The Love Connection</i> 3.5 stars
<i>The Missed Connection</i> 4.5 stars
<i>The Sweetest Connection</i> 4.25 stars

I enjoyed this a lot! The first novella in this anthology was the first Denise Williams book I ever picked up, and I wasn’t sold on it. I tend to be picky about novellas, it’s easy for them to feel rushed, and that’s how I felt about The Love Connection. I did enjoy it. I liked Ollie and Bennett, I enjoyed the plot and the chemistry, but the third act break up was frustrating and not the most convincing, and it threw the pacing off. Everything that happened after that point felt too rushed to me.
The Missed Connection was my favorite of the three. I adored Gia in TLC, so I was excited to get to her love story, and I love myself a grump in the vein of Felix. The banter, the tension, the angst. All of it was immaculate. This novella was so easy to get caught up in, and it was everything I’d wished the first one had been.
The Sweetest Connection was a close second—largely because friends to lovers is my favorite trope. Teagan and Silas were cute, the pacing was steady and engaging, and reading this story just made me giddy. That grand gesture!
The epilogue was… weird. I think it was supposed to be cute, but it felt unnecessary and I wasn’t a huge fan.

All in all—highly recommend, especially if you liked Ali Hazelwood’s Loathe to Love You collection. This will scratch that itch for sweet, steamy, fas paced fun.

The Love Connection: An airport pet groomer meets her frequent-flier crush and finds herself in a fake-dating situation with a professional risk assessor who moonlights as a romance author.

The Missed Connection: Two strangers share a romantic night only to discover months later that they're professional rivals about to embark on an extended business trip together in this grumpy-meets-sunshine romance.

The Sweetest Connection: Two best friends have one week to return a lost love letter found in a candy store at the airport—and work up the courage to confess the deep feelings between them—before one of them leaves the country.

This was such a fun trilogy. I was traveling a lot when I was reading them and it made me rethink who is walking around the airport. The first one "The Missed Connection" was my favorite by far. It was so fun and flirty. These are definitely fun, light reads you'll want to pick up for your next flight!

Love & Other Flight Delays is a series of three interconnected standalone novellas: The Love Connection, The Missed Connection, and The Sweetest Connection. The Love Connection is a cinnamon roll romance writer MMC and an airport dog grooming salon owner FMC? There's a sentence I've never said before. The Missed Connection is a strangers to kissing strangers to enemies to lovers. The Sweetest Connection is a friends to lovers.

I'll keep this short. These novellas were not for me. These are the only exposure I have to this author so potentially a full length novel may provide different thoughts; with more time to flesh things out. But these novellas felt so dragged out and so rushed at the same time?! There were moments of fun banter and cute interactions but I felt like the dialogue was unrealistic and off. I can crush novellas and even full size novels in no time and I struggled to get through these. All that said, I did enjoy parts of each and it was easy surface level rom com chick lit.

This was exactly what I hoped it would be. Airport rom-coms featuring very awkward encounters, plane related hijinks, and so. much. longing.

The Love Connection The first novel was my favorite of the three. It was soooo cute. Bennett's rambling was adorable and the grand gesture and cute airport dates were swoony. 5/5 stars

The Missed Connection This second novella featured Bennett's BFF, who we saw a little of in the first novella. I also really liked this one. There was a grumpy/sunshine trope happening, a one bed situation, and an academic/work rivalty. We love a STEM queen! I wanted a little bit more angst/slow burn, but I still really liked this one. 4.5/5 stars

The Sweetest Connection This one was my least favorite of the three, which is surprising since I love friends to lovers usually. The years of pining usually makes for the most amazing slow burn. Somehow, this one fell short though. When the culmination of events finally came through, it was not as swoony and angsty as I hoped it would be. Still a good novella, but not amazing. 3.5/5 stars

Overall, I loved this collection of novellas and would recommend them to everyone who loves contemporary romance. Or for those who like contemporary in small doses, this is a good option for you! You can pick one short novella and not have to commit to an entire book. Lots to love here.

I didn't personally find myself interested in the stories/characters, although I appreciated the format and the ideas behind it.

Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for the ARC.