Thanks to Netgally and the publisher for providing an e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars
I enjoyed this but I didn't find it to be anything special. It is a very quick book to read and it was fun to get snippets of Nina from the first book in this one. I'll continue to read books by this author

A romance author finds herself wondering why she's never found love herself and enlists her super-hot landlord to help her find out, contacting her exes to get to the bottom of it. Little does she know love might be just around the corner with her new friends-with-benefits landlord that she can't stop thinking about.

Super fun and spicy with a bit of harder topics as our MMC is secretly struggling with his sobriety. A perfect romcom to fly through on a rainy day, especially if you're a fan of Lana Fergusen or Sierra Simone.

I felt this book was irresponsible and tone deaf.

He tells her point blank that his sobriety is too new and too precious to him to even entertain the idea of a relationship. The next chapter has them fooling around publicly. This boundary stomp was very loud.

And then the ending? He STILL is not in a position for a relationship and she sets up a scavenger hunt as a love declaration. I cannot.

Thank you to Netgalley for a copy in exchange for a review.

Read if you like:
❤️ Romance
✍🏻 Romance Writer FMC
🥵 Friends with Benefits
💔 Revisiting Exes
🤳🏻 Tik Tik Viral Videos
🎥 Disgraced Celebrity MMC
🍺 TW: Alcoholic MMC

This book is such a roller coaster! Sophie I’d a romance author that hasn’t ever been in love so she decides what better thing to do than to revisit old relationships to figure out why…

But in comes her landlord Dash who offers to help her and then they begin hooking up which is just 🥵 🌶️

I love the depth of emotions that this gives from Sophie who has never really loved while Dash is battling feeling unworthy of being loved.

If you like a little more gritty emotion in your romances I highly recommend this one!

Thank you to the publisher for my ARC in exchange for my review!

GOD I LOVED THIS SO MUCH. THE TENSION THE ROMANCE JUST EVERYTHING UGH SO GOOD. okay gathering myself together now, i absolutely adored the character arc of the main characters and the setting was so fun. 5 stars for sure!!

Overall I enjoyed the premise of this book but felt like something was missing while I was reading. Although this book was not for me, I do feel like others may enjoy reading it!

I give the book 2.5-3 stars.

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of Plot Twist.

3/5 Stars

General Description: Erin has never been in love, except she's a romance writer. Problem right? Well, it gets even worse when her confession goes viral on TikTok. Her neighbor/landlord, Dash, sees the viral video and suggests that Erin does what she suggested in her response: go speak with her exes to figure out where it went wrong. Dash and Erin begin to work together on this project, but Dash quickly discovers he may not be ready for the socialization this requires. Dash is recently sober, and he's keeping it a secret from anyone. Will Erin be able to fall in love, will Dash be honest about his sobriety, and how will their relationship change?

The good:
- I LOVED the concept
- I liked Erin's growth throughout the book
- I think the book resolved clearly and definitely had a lot of subplots that I felt got wrapped up nicely, which I enjoy.

The loss of two stars:
- The main reason it lost two stars was because I could not get past the writing style, To me, it felt juvenile for an adult book, especially for the main characters being in their later 20s. If it was more early 20s or very late teens, I might have let it slide, but I definitely had a different expectation for the writing style. It also felt very modern, not just contemporary, where I feel like the verbiage will quickly become outdated in the next five years.
- The spicy scenes, TO ME, were a bit cringy at points? I am not one to add humor to a spicy scene, and that happens multiple times in this book.

Overall: If you can handle the writing style (maybe check out a preview on Google Books or read the first few pages in the book store) AND you enjoy rom-coms, you'd probably enjoy this book, but if you're sticklers for beautiful writing, this is not the book for you.

This one is gonna be hard to review, because I don't like writing negative comments on socials. But I have conflicting feelings so I figured I'd share both sides!
This was a cute read! The overall premise of the book was really good. I feel like the book maybe didn't deliver as well as I had expected...but still wasn't a bad book!
I loved Dash. He was a really good book boyfriend!
Sophie was relatable, kind of a neurotic mess g They compliment each other well!
I think the spicy scenes got a little messy, a bit unorganized
But there's a really nice exhibitionism scene that I think would have been SO GOOD, minus the clumsiness €
Also love the Igbt + rep!
Overall, I enjoyed the book. I do recommend it, and I would love to see if anyone thinks differently!

This was a really nice read. Sophie and Dash are both complex and relatable characters without taking away from the lightheartedness of the story. I also felt like the balance between their romance and both of their personal stories was better done than in a lot of novels I've read. Neither one distracted from the other.

A cutesy romcom.

It was a cute and fun read. The writing style took me a bit to get used to as it seemed dry in some aspects but did pull heart strings in others.

The character banter was witty and development was slow paced at first then speeded through.

More left to resolve in some aspects but overall it was a decent story.

3 Stars,
This was the 2nd book in a series but it actually could be read as a standalone - the characters from the first book are still prominent in the plot of this one, but you don't feel like you're missing any of the story by not reading the previous book first. The romance was just average to me and the smut was different in comparison to other contemporary romances I've read recently (am I supposed to truly believe a person's canine tooth is sexy??). I wasn't a big fan of the tiktoks written in, I kind of skimmed over those. The plot was kind of boring at times but the author tackled some heavy themes well and my heart felt for Dash those last few chapters.

Thank you NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for the ARC!

I enjoyed this one! It took a little while for me to get into it, but once I did, it definitely flew. I really liked both Dash & Sophie, they were cute!! Something was just... missing, It was a fun read, but I'm not really sure it was for me!

Solid Series Continuation, Maybe Slightly More For the Zoomer Set. As is my custom, I went in and read a lot of reviews of this book *after* I read the book myself. In a bit of an unusual move, I *also* actually went back and read my own review of Book 1 of this series - which I read roughly 200+ book ago. Here, La Rosa continues a lot of the things that made the first book so good - she isn't afraid to shy away from far deeper issues, but also tries to make sure that they don't overly weigh down the book (and for the most part, succeeds quite well there). She also uses various social media platforms - in this particular case, primarily current "darling" TikTok - to further the overall story, both in the actual plot and in the comments and DMs related to the various videos. Yes, that means that at some point this book will be quite dated - but it also means that it will serve as a bit of a time capsule for what this particular era really was like. So again, it actually works quite a bit better than its detractors in other reviews claim.

Now, about the Zoomer bit - our female lead is openly bisexual, her former partner is a lesbian, and there are a fairly good mix of sexualities, genders, and most other demographics present in this book. La Rosa actually used them quite well within the world she created here, though yes, depending on where you, the reader of my review lives and the life you lead... maybe this isn't as expressive of the world you've created for yourself. Further, I know nothing of La Rosa beyond her pen name and her general writing style. So while others may want to critique her on not being "real" or not being "own voices" or "authentic" or some other bullshit... I truly don't give a flying fuck about an author's demographics, and the story La Rosa has crafted here is genuinely *good*. So complaining about those things, to me, speaks more about your own issues than La Rosa's storytelling abilities.

Finally, the substance abuse angle. Yes, it is prominent. And yes, it likely doesn't follow the path of real-world recommendations, particularly in the last chapters of the book when it comes to a head. There again, the dominant real-world recommendations aren't the only ones, and there are many who have real-world problems with the real-world dominant recommendations. So the fact that La Rosa chose to craft a *fictional romance tale* the way she did... doesn't bother me as much. And to be clear, I say this as the grandson of an alcoholic and the cousin of more than a few drug abusers, in addition to all the other areas of my life I've worked with those affected by these choices. But there again, if this is a topic that is going to be particularly sensitive to you, it says more about you and your issues than it does about La Rosa's storytelling when you complain about these things in your review. So if you, the reader of my review, thinks this issue will be a problem for you... maybe spare yourself the hurt and La Rosa the 1* and just skip this book? No harm, no foul, and I wish you the best in your own struggles.

Overall, truly a solid sequel, and I'm truly looking forward to seeing how this series progresses. Very much recommended.

This book is a fun read that lovers of romance will enjoy. It was a bit predictable, but that is the point of Romance books, isn't it?
The characters are lovable, the plot moves well. I believe this book might be extra attractive to younger readers of romance.

This book was a lot of fun and I’d actually give it 3.5 or 3.75 stars if I could. I really liked both Sophie and Dash. They were fun together, and their individual problems felt realistic. They were flawed and charming and interesting characters, and they had great chemistry. Dash’s family, aside from his sister, we’re a bit hard to deal with most of the time, but not every character can be pleasant. They were villains-lite, but still needed.

There’s a major plot point at the end of the book that I think was so important but so rushed in the condensed ending that I can’t rate the book higher. If that had been more fleshed out and given more space to breathe, because it’s a legitimately big deal, I think the book would have been so much stronger. I think dash and Sophie deserved that.

Let's start with the premise of this book. I adored the idea of a romance writer who's never been in love, and to work through her writer's block, she decides to reach out to all her exes to see if they have the answer to her question: why can't I say "I love you?"

I also loved that Dash wasn't one of the exes in this trope. He's the sidekick along on this journey.

Dash and Sophie had such an immediate connection that felt so effortless. I loved sinking into the ease between them. It was comforting and sweet. You know, before it gets real steamy ;)

The friends-with-benefits setup was perfection because we could see clearly how head over heels they already were. There's nothing better than watching two dummies lie to themselves as they get in deeper and deeper.

Such a fun read with tons of banter and shenanigans!

I enjoy reading Plot Twist. I love how Erin La Rosa tackles soberiety, about the family drama and other details.

I loved "Plot Twist!" It took a second for me to get into it, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. I loved Dash and how kind and lonely he really was. It helped to have such a horrible antagonist as his mother. Sophie was a sweet hot mess and I am glad she was able to get her shit together and patch up her relationships. I didn't read Erin La Rosa's first book, but I will definitely be adding it to my Goodreads. I can't wait to read more of her books (Like Poppy and Rhys stories, perhaps?) AND the sex scenes :O *blushing* *kicking my feet* Thanks Netgalley!

Sophie is a romance writer who has never been in love. Dash is her landlord, a former teen heartthrob who comes from Hollywood royalty. Neither of them is in a position to enter into a relationship, but as the two spend more time together, things heat up...

This book did not really work for me, but it may be a good fit for you if you enjoy:
- social media-centric plot lines
- hot mess characters who somehow miraculously create "stability" in each other
- angst
- tropes aplenty

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing for gifting me with an ARC to review. All opinions are my own.

I thoroughly enjoyed this romance about Sophie Lyon, a successful but love-starved author facing writer's block, who embarks on a captivating journey to reconnect with her exes for inspiration. Her reclusive landlord, Dash Montrose, a former teen heartthrob battling alcoholism, offers unexpected assistance. The story beautifully unfolds with the irresistible charm of friends-turned-lovers, crafting an engaging narrative filled with necessary angst and addressing sensitive topics. Sophie and Dash's palpable chemistry, set against the backdrop of a dreamy cover, made me root for their unconventional relationship. La Rosa skillfully weaves themes of identity and overcoming personal struggles, leaving me eager for more of her enchanting romances. This was a delightful introduction to the author's work, and I eagerly anticipate her future releases.