Thanks to Netgalley, the publisher, and author for the copy of this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Very enjoyable read! Already purchased my own copy!

I really appreciated how thoughtfully this book depicted panic attacks/generalized anxiety and how good the couple was to each other.

I love the fake dating trope because it invariably involves two dopes who are so SURE that they can pull off their scheme without catching real feelings for each other. And of course, they ALWAYS end up catching feelings for each other.

There’s also an opposites attract vibe here as well: Stella is very much a type A personality, and Olive is… not. Without going into too much detail, Olive’s personality has shifted since her brother’s accident and it has affected every facet of her life. But she’s willing to go along with Stella’s request for fake dating since it is 100% fake and not at all a real relationship.

But of course, fake affection leads to acknowledging the real chemistry the two women have been trying to ignore since they first met.

The overall tone of this book is light, although there are some heavy moments involving Olive’s family, especially her brother. There are several characters who display antagonistic behavior– and are the main source of conflict– but there isn’t really a single central antagonist. Stella and Olive are able to lean on each other to deal with the toxic behavior they encounter. However, Burke demonstrates an aptitude for somber equal to the lighthearted banter and more fun parts.
I would absolutely recommend Fly With Me. Stella and Olive have great chemistry and the fun fake-dating setup delivers a well-rounded narrative. This is apparently a debut novel, and quite frankly, a debut has no business being this good. I am definitely looking forward to Burke’s next book.




I received a digital ARC of this book from St. Martin’s/NetGalley

Absolutely loved this book! Such a sweet story and loved the romance between the two characters.
They were relatable and story had good depth!

This book was everything!!!!!!!! It felt like a warm hug in the coldest day. The vapor rub boobie massage??? Ugh my heart! The mental health rep was so well written and felt so relatable. The love between Stella and Olive was everything!!!

Fly with Me had so many of my favorite elements: fake dating, running at Disney, and a steamy, sapphic romance.

Olive and Stella were just so good for each other and their meet cute was chef’s kiss. I loved seeing them navigate their newfound fame together and watching them go from fake to very real was everything!!

Watching Olive struggle with her grief and dealing with her toxic family was hard. I understand what a complicated situation they were in, but she deserved so much more respect and compassion that I wish she had gotten.

Overall, I really enjoyed this and definitely recommend it to my sapphic friends!

Thank you so much to St. Martin’s Griffin and NetGalley for this eARC. All opinions are my own.

First of all, as a Disney adult, I really loved that part of the story takes place there. But that's just one of the reasons I enjoyed this read. @andiewritesandreads did such an amazing job touching on sensitive topics in a respectful manner—the grief, the difficult, controversial decisions Olive and her family were faced with and how it widened the rift between them, the mental health rep, $exism in the workplace... Everything feels so realistic because the situations were penned with artful humanity.

Olive and Stella are very likeable, and I loved how one complemented the other in their relationship. And that the sweet, funny moments between them gave the story the levity it needed to balance all the drops along the emotional roller-coaster ride it took me through. This book made me cry, laugh, feel indignation and get angry, smile. I felt it all. And that's what's really special about this one: it immerses you in Olive and Stella's lives and you can't help feeling like you're living it right along with them.

Fly with Me was my very first Sapphic romance and it won't be the last. I can't wait for Andie's next book!

I unfortunatly decided that it would be best for me to DNF this book right now and maybe come back to it in the future.

-The characters are actually relatively likeable but I had a hard time connecting with them because we are kept on the outside. I can see that this is for the plot and will likely be revealed as to why it is so relevant to the character but the set up didn't make me that interesed.
- I thought the love interest was going to be interesting and the reason for their relationship brought out a lot of great conversations.
-Our main character also had wonderful friends that helped with the connection you felt.

Overall, I didn't like the writing and couldnt get myself to care enough about the story.

I love a good queer romance, and when you throw in an aviation element, you know im gonna be a sucker for it! I loved how accurate the aviation elements of this story were, because if they weren't it would have been an immediate DNF. Olive & Stella represent the couple we see so often, the one who is terrified of flying, and the one who solves their fears.
It was a cute simple read, and i will deff read it again!

This book was published by St. Martin's Press, which is unfortunately being boycotted. If the boycott reaches a resolution, I hope to come back and review this book.

I love a good meet cute. These two meeting in such a chance encounter kind of way was adorable. I didn't love Olive's storyline as much and felt like it was overly wrought and convoluted in a way that didn't add much value or development to the character. Stella's storyline wasn't much of an improvement and definitely lost me a few times as well.

Thank you St.Martin's Press publishers and Netgalley for an E-ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

I enjoyed this novel, particularly I think I enjoyed the second half more as opposed to the first half. I knew the author was giving the character development of Stella and Olive individually, but I couldn't quite grasp the chemistry between them until roughly close to the start of the second half. I enjoyed that this novel had more than just romance (e.g. family and work drama) but was still a romance at its core. I also appreciated the mental health representation and commentary in this novel giving more than surface level characters.

Looking forward to what's next from Andie Burke!

This book hooked me right from the start. I really loved the romance between the two MCs. It was probably one of my recent fave sapphic reads!

Olive Murphy is a traveling nurse, scared of flying. She is on her first flight, when someone has a medical emergency, and she saves his life. Unfortunately, she misses her next flight that she needed to catch in order to make a marathon she was going to run in honour of her brother. Co-pilot Stella Soriano, offers to give her a ride to the race and they spent a day together. When the video of Olive saving a life goes viral and brings big sales to the airline, Stella brings forth a proposal of fake dating to gain her Pilot wings. As the two grow closer, they can't deny their chemistry.

I loved this cute sapphic story! I loved both of these characters. They went through a lot of character development not only together, but on their own as well. We only get Olive's POV, but I enjoyed my time being in her head. At the beginning, I wasn't the biggest fan of Stella, and the things she said to Olive, but as you read on she grows on you. You see she doesn't mean to be insensitive at times, she just sometimes speaks before she thinks it all the way through. Fake-dating is one of my favourite tropes, so I ate this one up. I loved their banter, and felt that their connection was very genuine. There are some deeper topics such as mental health, anxiety, misogyny and grief, that I think were handled really well. The complicated relationship between Olive and her family in contrast to Stella and her father was also an interesting part of the story. Bring in Olive's ex, and that's a whole other complicated relationship to deal with. I wish that Lindsey would have had some consequences for the things she did to Olive, but it is what it is in the end.

I will definitely be checking out more of Andie Burke's writing in the future!

When I say I’ve been looking for new stories? This is definitely something new. It’s a new take on fake dating, and better yet, it’s sapphic. It was a cute and yet also intense read and I loved every moment of it.

Fly with Me by Angie Burke is a sweet story of an airline pilot named Stella and a nurse named Olive meet in a very shocking way but cannot seem to stay away from each other. They overcome their own internal struggles to to be able to be together.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.

Thank you St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the eARC of Fly With Me! All opinions in this review are my own.

I know this is very early in the year to say this but I think Fly With Me is going to be my favorite read of this year. I absolutely adored Stella and Olive! Olive had me laughing from the opening chapter and I looked forward to reading it every time I picked the book up. As I say constantly, fake dating is my favorite romance trope so I was an easy sell for reading Fly With Me in the first place but the depth and range of emotions that the characters go through is so good! I can't believe this was only Andie Burke's debut and I am impatiently awaiting Derek's story in her next book!

This was a wonderful, cute sapphic that also touched on some heavier topics. I fell in love with the characters and this will definitely be a book I recommend to others!

This was a good read and every bit a rom-com, the characters were so cute you just fall in love with them. There was so much good content and depth to the story that it kept me wanting to continue.