Okay, I'm not one to give this kind of book 5 stars (yes, I am, sadly, that baselessly discriminatory jerk), but, oh my, my feelings. Loooooong sigh. If Fizzy is perfection, Conner is slightly better. The ancillary characters are true gold. This is a fucking gem.

While I really enjoyed this story and was happy that it revisited characters from The Soulmate Equation, I found it a bit predictable. In the end I would have liked more about Fizzy and Conner’s happy ending…but maybe there will be another book in the series?!?

I was given an ARC by #netgalley

I absolutely ADORED this book! Everything about it was amazing! The tension, the romance, the character development, it was all SO GOOD! Christina Lauren always hits it out of the park and this book is no different!

I was very happy that Fizzy got her own story! Fizzy is full of spunk, and deserves a happy ending! The chemistry between Fizzy and Connor was notable through reading! While I found the ending to be pretty predictable, that is the ending that everyone should be cheering for! Great, quick read overall! Love this author duo!

What a delightful book!

I loved The Soulmate Equation so it was fun to see these characters return and focus on Fizzy's story. Fizzy is a romance author who believes fully in her craft, and is in a rut. She is in an emotional rut and a career rut. She needs to change of pace. What better option could there be than go on a reality show to find love??

As per usual, Christina Lauren do a wonderful job of writing a fun, light story, but adding depth. I felt and connected with Fizzy. I understand the idea of these ruts in life. Then, there was the fun part! The men So many fun characters and a great story!

This was a lovely follow up to The Soulmate Equation, it was delightful to see Fizzy have her moment, and revisit Jess and River. From the beginning, Fizzy and Connor have chemistry and it continues to build throughout the book. I love that both of them are in their mid-late thirties and have figured a lot out about who they are and who they want to be with. The ending is a bit abrupt, but it's still a super swoony and fun read! Thanks NetGalley!

I love a Christina Lauren book! I had forgotten reading about Lizzy Chen from The Soulmate Equation and I am so glad she got her own book. I enjoyed the plot, the characters, the romance between Lizzy and Connor, and the friends and family element included in this lovely story. I will definitely recommend this book! Especially for summer reading!

I really enjoyed the True Love Experiment. It was much better than the Soulmate Equation, even though some of the characters overlap. Fizzy, a romance writer who needs to publish her next book, lost her romance vibes and agrees to participate in a dating show where she decided what kind of men she would be willing to date and the show's producer must find suitable dates for her. After lots of entertaining encounters with Mr. Wrongs, she finds that Mr. Right is right under her nose. This is a sweet, enjoyable rom-com that should hook readers from the beginning and keep them reading to the end. Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read this book in return for my honest review.

I absolutely adore Christina Lauren and I was very excited to see Fizzy get a book after The Soulmate Equation. This book was super cute and while some stuff wasn't my favorite, I really enjoyed this book.

Pros:
Fizzy was super fun. Her energy was infectious even through the page and I loved her whole sex-positive attitude.
I liked that Fizzy was a bit older (37). Most romances use women who are in their 20s, which is fine, but most people don't start to settle down until their 30s, and the few romances that use women in their 30s tend to make a point that the heroine is older. It was nice to read about someone who wasn't like fresh out of college and somehow has her life together. Fizzy was a grown woman who had everything together and was ready for a partner to compliment her life, not to fill in and holes in who she is.
I loved the representation of the romance community.
Connor was awesome. I loved how we slowly see him relax and come apart from the uptight businessman he originally comes off as. His energy with Fizzy was awesome and his overall attitude made him a total dream.
I thought the concept of the dating show was interesting. I liked that they tried to make it more authentic and acknowledged the flaws in more popular dating shows that actually exist.
I thought the entire book was really funny and pacing was great. I liked that the chapters were pretty short. It helped keep things moving along nicely.

Cons:
There was a lot of pining throughout the book. At first I didn't mind it as much because it was more Fizzy and Connor getting to know each other but once they became friends I was getting a bit frustrated and just wanted things to move along.
Maybe it's as a result of having read The Charm Offensive recently, but I didn't really think the dating show component (which I know is most of the plot) was very necessary. It felt like an unnecessary added component to prolong the incessant pining.
I'm not a big fan of having kids in romance books and the single parent trope. Christina Lauren wrote it well in this book, but I also could've done without Connor having a kid especially since the child was used at random times to push Fizzy and Connor together. It felt unneeded.
I would've liked more of an epilogue with some explanation for how things turned out with Connor and the higher ups. It was such a big deal throughout the book and then we get to the end and they're like everything will turn out okay because it has to. I would've liked something a bit more concrete.

Overall, I really liked this book and would recommend it to people. I give it 4.5 stars (which isn't an option in the star rating provided). I think if you want a fun and flirty romance, this is the right book for you. I also highly recommend reading the acknowledgements at the end.

"The True Love Experiment" is everything readers have come to expect from Christina Lauren: witty, funny, characters you love rooting for, and a slow, delicious burn that's positively swoony.

This not just a book. This is the book. Oh my god!! I loved every single second of it. I couldn’t help myself but finish it in a single sitting, it was that good. I loved the heroine, fizzy. She’s been my fav since the love experiment. But getting to read about her and see things with her PoV made me sigh with absolute adoration. And the hero was so sweet and swoon worthy. Overall, I enjoyed each and everything about it.

I absolutely loved every single second I spent with this book and it has my whole heart! I could not put it down nor did I want to! It had me laughing, crying, and screaming! The story itself was fun and well written and not having read The Soulmate Equation it was easy enough to follow along without it. I loved the plot revolving around this new dating show! But I think what makes this book a quick favorite is Fizzy and Connor! Fizzy is such a great mc and I absolutely love and adore her. She was funny and bright and brought joy to this book! Her relationship with Connor was everything, who is also a loveable mc who will be your next book bf and has a British accent! Their relationship literally had me screaming into my pillow because of their forbidden romance as she’s the dating show star and he’s the producer. The pining, tension, emotions, and jealousy were all there and were so well executed! Like this is literally true love as per the title!

Overall, this was an instant favorite for me and I cannot recommend this enough! It comes out May 16 so do yourself a favor and preorder!

Read if you’re looking for…
•forbidden romance
•reality/dating show setting
•single dad
•dual pov

Well, writing duo Christina and Lauren have done it again. Swoon-worthy, sexy, smart love interests in a story I simply could not put down. Any rom-com fan will adore The True Love Experiment. Romance novelist, Fizzy, and a documentary filmmaker, Connor, team up to make a Bachelor-esque dating show stacked with every dating trope in the book (pun intended), and spoiler alert, sparks FLY!

In the words of our leading lady Fizzy Chen, "book people are just better, I swear by it." Thank you NetGalley and Gallery Books for the ARC. I can't wait to tell everyone I know to read it.

I love Fizzy’s story maybe even more than Jess’s. Such a good read. I couldn’t put it down. Connor was such a good character that I was fighting for him the whole time.

Incredibly fun and heartfelt, loved the tension, chemistry between the two leads. All the feels and all the heart eyes. Highly recommend!!

I adore Christina Lauren. These two ladies have written some of my very favorite books ever and I always squeal with glee when I get my hands on a new title of theirs, which is why it pains me so much to say that I did not finish The True Love Experiment. I quit reading at 57%. This did not feel like a romance novel to me, and Fizzy is better suited as a side character. I just didn't like her. Also, there's more spice (that's more lust-based than romantic) in this book than I've seen in CLo's more recent releases, and it was more than I wanted to read. I'm disappointed, but will never give up on Christina Lauren! You can't win them all!

I love a Christina Lauren romance. So of course I had to jump on the opportunity to read this adorable extension of The Soulmate Equation. In The True Love Experiment, we follow Fizzy, Jess River’s best friend, on her journey to find love. You’d think it’d be easy for the best selling author of romance novels, but Fizzy can’t seem to find “the one”. Add in the fact that she’s in a writing slump, and you have one lost Fizzy. So when a genius deal falls in her lap from the British hunk that is Connor Price, Fizzy and Connor begin a partnership that ends up being more than they could’ve imagined.

All the love to CL, I loved the Soulmate Equation and don’t even get me started on Love and Other Words. This one wasn’t my favorite. I found Fizzy to be mostly likeable, but there were moments when I didn’t really care for her. The beginning was a bit slow for me as well. BUT this wasn’t by any means a bad read. And to my CL gals, you’ll probably really enjoy this book. Get ready to meet Connor and Fizzy on May 16 as they find true love.

I always look forward to the latest Christina Lauren books, and I think like a lot of readers I was so excited to hear that a secondary character from <i>The Soulmate Equation</i> would be getting her own book. <i>The True Love Experiement </i> gives Fizzy a chance at finding love, and she is aptly named for the book. It's a light, fizzy romance that's classic Christina Lauren style. I think other readers who have been anticipating this book are going to love it. The characters are great, and it's such a fun, breezy read. I already cannot wait for their next book.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC of this book.

This is the perfect romance novel. Fans of Christina Lauren will love it. It’s a fun, cute story with very likable characters. I honestly don’t know why I don’t connect more with their books. But I would definitely sell it to others!

I wasn't a huge fan of Fizzy when I stared the book, but the authors know what they're doing and by the end I loved her. It was pretty obvious how things would end up, so the stakes didn't seem that high, but nothing wrong with that!