Thank you to NetGalley, Mary Hollis Huddleston, Asher Fogle Paul, and Harper Muse publishing for providing me with an advance copy of this book. While I did receive an advanced copy all thoughts in my review are strictly my own.

What first drew me to this book was the premise of a Dallas socialite who has fallen off and basically been blacklisted by her family. Add to that the premise of weddings and a hot guy from New York City and I was sold. This rom com was such a fun ride for me, I felt like I was watching a movie. I found Claire to be super relatable in her problems (not in that she's a ex Dallas socialite). She struggled with trying to measure up to everyone around her and ended up self destructing and I think that's something a lot of us can relate to. Additionally, I felt that the content in general was very timely and relatable. It mentions the social and economic impacts of the quarantine and shut down. Additionally, this book focuses a lot of content creators or influencers and I found that the way Dominic came to his notoriety was also something that seemed very relatable, especially for people trying to make it in content creation.

This rom com is a slow burn, but I enjoyed watching Claire and Dom's relationship build. They started off as enemies in the workplace and then grew a friendship before ever trying anything romantic. While there was 0 spice, I think that the flirting and relationship building was cute. Overall, I gave this book 4 stars and I truly enjoyed the story, I liked following them along to all their different weddings and finally seeing Claire find herself, in addition to their budding relationship.

The only negative I had for this book was that when downloading to Kindle the formatting was messed up: the page breaks showed as qqq, Harper Muse banner was across every page in inconvenient places, and some of the formatting of the pages was very strange. I checked my Kindle version against what was available in the NetGalley shelf app and it was completely different and much easier to read. Additionally, I found two things I think may be errors and wasn't sure if I should point them out but have them listed below if interested.

pg 136 typo says Claire's engagement party I'm pretty sure it should be Lucy's
pg 161 after Bon Voyage there is brackets that I don't think are meant to be there- also somewhere else in the book these two brackets showed up but my apologies I must not have marked them I think it was around Daphne's wedding.

Withholding feedback because of Harper Collins Union strike, their workers deserve better wages and for HC to go to the table

Sorry, but this book was not for me. I found it to be unnecessarily long and the tension/chemistry between the main characters was just not there for me. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Thank you Netgalley and Harper Muse.

Piece of Cake is a slow burn romcom, following Claire as she struggles to make a living after being cut off from her family's fortune. She and Dom, a contracted social media content creator, work together on a wedding docuseries in an attempt to save a failing magazine.

Claire and Dom find themselves getting to know each other more and more as they spend time together working. Claire was a very hard to like... Even though she underwent quite the transformation, I still couldn't find it in me to like her. Dom was a bit better, I actually quite liked his character. The banter between the two of them was my favourite part, very entertaining.

The slow burn was too slow, next to nothing actually happened until the end few pages of the book. The book was also too long, with too many irrelevant details and internal monologues. It almost felt as though it hadn't been edited yet, considering there were many paragraphs that I thought were unnecessary. There were also a lot of acronyms, which may be all well and good for an American reader, but as an Australian reader, I had absolutely no idea what half of them were - especially when referring to airport codes.

Despite the cute (although extremely rushed) ending, unfortunately this book was a miss for me.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for approving me for a copy of this. I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

I love the descriptions of all the over the top weddings!! So many florals and massive tents. But I didn't love the slow burn. I mean it was so slow that nothing really happens and then you're expected to believe that they are in love at the end.

Overall, this was an ok read that is probably more aimed at a younger audience. It had a great premise but just lacked that certain something to make it special.

I thought this sounded super cute, but it fell short for me. It seemed to be trying too hard to be a rom-com and it just made the story cringey. I didn’t buy the chemistry between the main characters at all, and I felt that, on the whole, they were underdeveloped. The main characters were also rather mean and unlikeable, which made for a serious disconnect between the reader and the characters.

Thank you to NetGalley for a copy of this book in return for my honest review.

I really liked the premise, but I think it tried to hard to be cute. There were a lot of over the top moments that just made me feel awkward and cringey.

I just finished this, in one evening, because I couldn't put it down! Claire is a former Texas socialite, who's living in Nashville now making her way on her own. She's a writer for a bridal magazine. Dominic is a bridal influencer from New York brought in to help the failing magazine.

Together they work to help save the magazine and get closer and closer! I really enjoyed their bantering and flirting!

Thank you to netgalley for allowing me to read this ARC and to the publisher.

1.25/5 stars! This book was not ready for readers. The premise sounded kind of fun. I thought it would be rife with miscommunication tropes and grumpy sunshine energy. But the follow-through just wasn't there. Somehow, both of the characters seemed petty and unlikeable and I didn't buy their chemistry at all. There was an overall lack of personality in the book and I don't think I'd read something by these authors again.

I received an advance review copy for free through NetGalley, and I am leaving this review voluntarily