Things I loved about this book: the meeting notes as ways to advance the plot, Sweet Potato, the unabashed queerness, the friendships.

I struggled with the pacing of the story, it felt like I was waiting for something to happen until about 70% of the way through. I think it was still enjoyable, it just didn't quite hit it out of the park for me!

3.5 stars ⭐️

Liyah and Daniel reconnect in an unlikely way, that also gives us insight to Liyahs prior experiences as a Jewish WOC. Now both are forced together due to their respective careers. As they begin to collaborate we are given their previous history and see how it has affected each of them.

Liyah has dealt with trauma while growing up; which she navigates by going to therapy and uses it to adapt her methods of companionship with others. Daniel is also grieving a great loss in his life then begins to find ways to aid in healing. Through it all their friendship blossoms and they can find solace in each other including their shared encounters of prejudice in their Jewish community.

They form a special group with two other friends where they talk about life, work, dating and whatever may be on their minds with addendums/rules as needed which I really enjoyed. Neen was also a good sounding board and friend

Saying “Thank you for sharing” can mean so much without people realizing, and is truly a great title.

Thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity, all thoughts are my own.

Thank you Netgally for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

There was a lot about this book that I really enjoyed, but there was also some aspects of this story that didn't really click with me.

I liked the meet cute for the two MCs, I thought it was fun and really adorable and I really loved the banter between them. The back stories really helped the reader understand the mindset of both Daniel and Liyah. On top of that, they had some great chemistry.

I also really enjoyed the side characters. They were a lot of fun.

What I didn't really vibe with was the pacing and some of Liyah's character development.

The pacing was just a little off, I got really bored towards the middle of the book. It felt like a lot of information was being repeated and I felt like I was skimming some of the pages.

Liyah's character development was just too slow then all of a sudden at the end. It was just jarring and I was a little confused about it.

All in all, it's around a 3.25 for me. I would suggest this to someone that wanted a low stakes romance with Chicago vibes. I would be interested in reading from this author in the future!

Thank You for Sharing is a second chance love story. The main characters, Daniel and Liyah, were childhood friends that shared a special moment in their early teens and the aftermath of that led to the end of their relationship. Fast-forward a number of years and a work project brings them together again. The chemistry is still there but so too are unresolved feelings of betrayal.

Daniel and Liyah become friends and along with two other work colleagues form a close-knit social support group. I enjoyed the diverse characters represented in this story and also enjoyed the development of the friendships and banter within the group.

In addition to the development of the relationship between Daniel and Liyah, the story also dives deeper into the characters other relationships, including their own self beliefs about themselves.

Some traumatic past events are mentioned in this book including death of a parent and sexual assault.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martin's Press for providing me with an ARC for review.

This one is really a slowburn, and has some very charming moments, as well as some deep character development. Both of the main characters are multiracial and Jewish, and knew each other from Jewish summer camp. Liyah and Daniel were close during camp, and even shared some kissing as teens, but Liyah holds a mean grudge when she feels like Daniel has betrayed her. When they meet up again as adults, Daniel makes a horrible "first" impression, so it makes things tense between them for a while. Of course, since this is a Romance, the two end up having to work together, and because of that, clear the air, and start a new friendship. What's best about this book is how they both have to do a lot of growing up and learning how to communicate. Liyah's grumpiness can wear anyone down, but Daniel is infinitely patient. He's also a bit of an idiot at times (their words, and I agree). One of the other really strong relationships in this book is Liyah's with her best friend Neen. Neen does an excellent job listening to, supporting, and challenging Liyah. Overall, I recommend this book.

Thank you NetGalley for the digital ARC of this book.

I really liked the diversity in this book and how it represented different perspectives. The rep of being bi-racial and Jewish added such a complex layer that I never see!

This story had a lot of potential, and I enjoyed getting to know the characters better through the dual points of view. Liyah's friends were amazing and brought so many smiles to the pages. At first, I had a hard time connecting with Liyah, but Daniel, the main character, was as charming as ever. I'm sure readers will love him and his adorable relationship with Liyah. They had great chemistry and their love grew beautifully. The plot picked up in the second half, and I liked how the characters developed internally. It would've been cool if the focus was more on Liyah's personal journey of self-love rather than just the romance with Daniel. I also really despise the miscommunication trope so that took some enjoyment away.

Overall, it was a pretty good read, especially if you're looking for a diverse romance book.

Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for this ARC in exchange for my review!

This was a cute book!! A first book for this author and it did not disappoint. The chemistry between the two was great and just the right about of spice and you felt like you were really rooting for them! I’d highly recommend this one

Thank you St.Martin's Press and NetGalley for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Unfortunately this book was just an okay read for me and I struggled to get into this one. I think that it had a lot of potential, but it definitely fell flat for me. Liyah and Daniel's relationship was a cute relationship, but at first Liyah annoyed me and I could not connect well with her. Our MC Daniel, was just as charming as ever, and I think future readers will love him and his relationship with Liyah. This book is dual POV which helped me understand both of these characters better and their growth. On another note, Liyah had an awesome group of friends and I enjoyed reading about them. They definitely made me smile while reading this book. Overall, I loved the diversity in this book. So if someone wants to read a diverse romance book, give this one a try.

Daniel and Liyah have a meet disaster and continue jabbing and bickering until eventually it morphs to flirtatious jabbing and bickering. The progression of their relationship felt genuine. I enjoyed the friend group and the writing was smart and witty. I used to watch and love the show The Bold Type and it gave me those vibes. My only holdup was the 3rd person present writing. It took me a good 80 pages to not be mentally taken out of the story to adjust. There was a line 80ish% in that made me think that POV was used intentionally and made sense, I just wasn’t used to it.

This book is just DELIGHTFUL and a fabulous debut for Rachel Runya Katz. The character development was so rich and I was left wanting more of main characters' Daniel and Liyah's story. Representation in romance is so important (yet often lacking) so I was thrilled with the thoughtful, intentional way this story was told. Cannot wait to recommend this to friends when it comes out this fall!

I really loved reading this book. The representation was top notch and the characters and story line were entirely entertaining. Liyah is a prickly, overthinking heroine and Daniel (who overthinks in his own right) loves her for it... as did I, the reader. This is a slow burn, mild enemies to lovers, with a full exploration of the only one bed trope kind of book with representation of multiple communities not often seen in media.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing an advance copy of this book.

As someone who is delving into her Jewish ancestry I really enjoyed how well parts of the Jewish faith were explained.

Daniel and Liyah met each other at a Jewish summer camp when they were preteens/teenagers. Things didn't end well back then, so when they run into each other as adults there is a lot of tension between the two. They end up being forced to work together on a project and have to get over their past in order to make the time spent together less terrible.

What a modern day love story! In real life, people come into relationships with baggage, and working through your own as well as your partners can be challenging.  'Thank You For Sharing' follows both Liyah and Daniel as they do just that. What an amazing debut novel for Rachel Runya Katz.

Thank You For Sharing is one of the best contemporary romances of 2023, with its quick wit and soft-hearted love story. I adored the central protagonists, and I loved the way they move with aching slowness toward attachment after years of bitterness.

Liyah Cohen-Jackson hasn’t seen Daniel Rosenberg since they had a huge blow-up fight at summer camp when they were thirteen. Bumping into one another on a flight to Chicago, they find themselves hashing out old wounds an in uncomfortable way. They think that’s the last they’ll ever see of each other.

Then Liyah learns that Daniel is the marketing guy helping out the museum at which she’s currently a junior curator. If her latest project comes off without a hitch then Liyah’s looking at a promotion. She and Daniel spend time together on the job, and soon they’re spending time together off of it. Picking apart their old wounds and fostering new connections is all well and good, but will Daniel and Liyah truly last forever?

There is a painful, wonderfully wounded tenderness to Thank You For Sharing that makes it a cut above most other contemporary romances. Liyah is understandably self-defensive after all of the things she’s been through and experienced (she’s a sexual assault victim who was raped by her college best friend, and constantly battles prejudice and stereotypes as a bisexual Black Jewish woman working in a museum setting), while Daniel is apologetic. He’s a bisexual Jewish man, and is carrying baggage of his own into the relationship. Your heart will ache for them, and you will smile and laugh and cry as they take the long, winding trip toward true love together.

How they settle into this relationship – and how Daniel learns about Liyah’s rape – is both touching and heartbreaking. The book handles her growth as a human beautifully. I did feel as if her fear of settling into a relationship came a bit out of left field, but it makes sense due to her past. And a special shout-out to Daniel and Liyah’s friends, Jordan and Siobhan, who are wonderfully developed.

The book also does an excellent job of capturing life in Chicago, and life within the Jewish community when one is a PoC, and in the museum world. But the romance is what’s going to keep people coming back to Thank You For Sharing, and it is wonderful. Pick this one up and read it to your heart’s content - you’ll be glad you did.

Thank you to the publishers and netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I LOVED the representation in this book. I also loved Daniel and Liyah's relationship. I like how their relationship progressed throughout the book. This book is so much more than just a love story. I really enjoyed seeing the characters grow throughout the book. Also a book set in Chicago?!? LOVE!

Overall, an enjoyable book!

I think this book had great representation and had a good premise but I just couldn’t get into this one. Liyah is not even remotely likeable and so much of the story felt forced. It was advertised as a romance and it just fell flat for me.

Thank you to NetGallery and St. Martin’s Press for this eARC!

"Thank You For Sharing" disappointed me. This novel has good (maybe even great) bones but I believe it is too constrained by its genre.
Liya began as unlikeable. I enjoyed this aspect because it ultimately made for richer development and interactions between characters. But ultimately it also caused my major grievances with this novel; the romance was undercooked and the pacing was uneven. The male main character never gave as good as he got. Liya's backstory was revealed too late in the novel and was such that I began to wish we could focus more on her moving through her life, struggles, and trauma rather than the romance.

Daniel was great. Too great. So great that honestly, the characters felt mismatched. He was almost always perfectly sweet and accommodating and never really seemed able to rebut Liya's more acerbic moments. They did have chemistry and I do believe that they did grow to love each other.

The plot felt restrained to the back half of the book and the deep internal character development felt at war with the by-the-numbers romance and workplace shenanigans.

I believe this author can tell a truly moving and gripping story of living with trauma and the burden that plays on the individual. I wish this was just Liya's story and that the romance with Daniel was one step on her journey to self-love. Is it fair to wish this novel was other than it is? I don't know. But that's all I got.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this ARC. This review contains my honest thoughts and opinions.

While I find the title of this book a little uninspiring and it probably wouldn't have grabbed me from the shelf, I am so glad I had a chance to read an ARC of THANK YOU FOR SHARING! I was happy to be proven wrong by the so-so title. I loved the perspective of two biracial Jewish main characters, which I can't recall ever having read before. While some of the miscommunication aspects of the book felt too predictable, this was overall a really enjoyable read and I'd recommend this book to any romance reader!

Give me a curator chatacter and I'll be happy. Give me a Jewish FMC who's a curator and I'll be estatic! Katz provides both in her debut novel. And I couldn't be more grateful.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press, St. Martin's Griffin, and NetGalley for providing an eARC for a honest review.

This book was just so good and I just lost myself in the story. I will most definitely be reading more books by this wonderful author.