4.5 stars rounded up.
First of all. Um . I didn’t realize this was a book two until coming to write a review of the book. Oops.
Absolutely loved it.
We have a short king working on his sobriety and doing a bunch of crafts on an anonymous TikTok while he figures out what he wants to do. He definitely doesn’t want to continue acting like his toxic ass family is pushing.
And a messy romance author that has never been in love.
She lives in the house behind his house on his property. She is writing a speech for him to give at his famous dad’s Hollywood star ceremony and he is helping her reconnect with her exes.
We have so many great tropes including ONE BED.
I loved the chemistry and the spice was great! 🥵
I did knock a half star off for some of the conflict. As a Scorpio I don’t understand when people get so angry when all the cards aren’t left on the table? Isn’t that part of getting to know someone? Why do they need to reveal every part of themselves immediately… trust is earned bitch. Lol.
Overall it was very cute.

Thanks to NetGalley and Harlequin Trade Publishing for an eARC.

I loved this book for me personally! Dash and Sophie dealt with some heavy issues…some of these issues were handled in a lighthearted way. However, their connection and love was absolutely perfect. I loved the story line before I started it and it did not disappoint. My first by this author and not my last. I highly recommend it.

Plot Twist was an adorable book that gave a fun view of the book industry. It's always fun to have a writer show you the inside of what they do, even if it is fictionalized. La Rosa does a great job building a fun book.

this was such an adorable read! truthfully it wasn’t all i thought it was going to be, but i still really enjoyed this story and the characters a lot.

sophie is a romance writer who has never been in love, which is a fact that she drunkenly confesses to the world on accident when a breakdown in public goes viral on tiktok. dash, her landlord and best friends older brother, is a recovering alcoholic who’s main focus is staying sober while navigating his hollywood royalty family. their paths begin to intertwine after dash helps a hungover sophie, and soon their relationship starts to turn into more than a friendship. however, sophie is looking for the real deal - the commitment, the deep love - all while trying to figure out who she is when she isn’t with someone, and dash isn’t quite ready for the real deal.

i was honestly a little iffy with all the tiktok references because i guess i just didn’t realize how big of an impact that app had on the story, but i didn’t think it was the worst. i’m not someone who hates like modern references in novels bc most of the books i read are contemporary novels and if it’s set in modern day times… like yeah, there’s gonna be modern day references. but i thought the inclusion of the app was pretty neat and i really liked how it was done!

i also really loved sophie and dash’s relationship. they were perfect for each other in so many ways. sophie was able to be herself around dash, whereas in previous relationships she made herself smaller or different to appease the other person. dash felt calm and safe around sophie, and while he’s focusing on staying sober, that’s exactly what he needed. they also were excellent with their communication, i really enjoyed that aspect! it was refreshing, to say the least. they were both real with each other and didn’t downplay any of their feelings or worries.

this was genuinely such a great read! the writing was so easy to fall into, and i really had such a blast while reading it. i think i’ll be picking up erin la rosa’s debut novel after this, because i didn’t realize it followed nina, sophie’s sister! i’m very excited to read more by this author! ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨୧˚

<i> thank you so much to harlequin and netgalley for providing me with an arc in exchange for an honest review! </i>

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of this book. It was a fun read that dealt with a lot of heavy subjects actually, maybe too many in one book since I feel like some got short shrift if that makes any sense.

Sophie Lyons is a writer who lives in the carriage house on Dash Montrose’s property. Sophie published her first novel and is on deadline for her second but she just can’t find the HEA for her characters. So she decides to track down her exs to determine if the reason she can’t write the ending is because she herself has never said I love you to anyone. And then she will post about it on TikTok.

Dash is the youngest child in a famous Hollywood family and was an actor in his younger years. The pressure from his family to continue to act and be a Hollywood star was too much and after years of drinking, Dash realized it was time to go to rehab and sober up. He has been working on his sobriety but he hasn’t told anyone except his sponsor Chris. And he channels his energy into making pottery and putting it on TikTok. Dash is the one to suggest that Sophie go on TikTok and talk about her quest for love

So I liked the characters but I am not sure that I fully bought that they were actually good for each other. Dash tells Sophie that he can’t be in a relationship because he is worried about his sobriety and feels like he needs to focus on that but then will hook up with Sophie. And Dash keeps his rehab stint, his pottery, and his sobriety so close to his chest, he won’t share it with anyone. And he is so down on himself. I like a little angst with my heroes, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes it felt a little much. But I was cheering for him when he finally stood up to his mother and then did what he needed to do, and I think that the end resolved itself nicely and I think Sophie and Dash will be able to have a good relationship. I mean, life is usually messy, right?

I think the plot twist about the exs was a bit weak; I think it added an element that took me away from the story of Dash and Sophie. To be honest, the way that Sophie treated Carla was kind of poor. And then there were fights with her sister, Nina, and then her best friend, Poppy, neither of which painted Sophie in the best light.

This is the first book I read by Erin La Rosa and though I didn’t love love love this one, I am definitely interested in reading the first book in the series, For Butter of Worse, about Sophie’s sister. (less)

This book is adorable and fantastic and I would definitely read it again!
It has a little bit of spice that is very well written. And the main characters Dash and Sophie are just so sweet and relatable that you can't help but root for them the entire time.
There are twists and turns that kept me guessing and I couldn't put the book down!
10/10 recommend, I want to get a physical copy when it comes out.

This book was not quite what I expected. It was slow to start but I did get more invested in the second half. Dash is an absolute cinnamon roll of a book boyfriend! I didn’t really love the TikTok references but I’m trying to look past it. There were a LOT of different layers and things happening in this book. I do wish the author dialed it back on a few things and focused more on others. Overall not a bad read just not my favorite.

I was really excited to read this, and there are lots of things I liked about it, but it was just-so long. The characters were all very fleshed out and interesting, but I struggled liking them, and I just felt like there was very little growth there. I liked the idea, I just found it so hard to enjoy the characters in the book at all.

I was a little disappointed after finishing this book. It was spicy, flirty, cute, some level of realism with substance abuse/rehab, but it just seemed so "reality TV".

The super hot child actor with family issues who drank too much and the young pretty romance author who has "never really loved" go through what was somewhat of a predictable romance with its ups and downs, crazy stalkers, etc. all to just end up together and ending the book with them doing a quickie. Meh. Not one of my favorite romance/spicy books, sorry to say.


Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for this copy of the e-arc in exchange for an honest review.

This book was a cute, unputdownable best-friends-brother romance. I loved the chemistry between Sophie and Dash.

It emphasizes finding yourself through the process of facing your past, and not letting it or your mistakes define you. Both Sophie and Dash have their own pasts to overcome, and they both get their redemption in the end.



My only gripes are the constant TikTok references, the word guffaw is used too much, and the “perverted canine tooth” (…huh?)

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for letting me read this book in exchange for my review!

Sophie Lyon, a romance author, is facing writer's block as she has never been in love herself. To overcome it, she decides to reconnect with her exes and document her journey for her followers online. However, this means confronting her ex-girlfriend, Carla, whom she still has feelings for. Sophie's landlord, Dash Montrose, a former teen heartthrob, offers to help her with social media. But Dash has a secret, he is an anonymous online crafter who uses it to maintain his sobriety. As Sophie and Dash grow closer, they find themselves attracted to each other. Sophie proposes a friends-with-benefits arrangement, but Dash is unsure if he is stable enough for a commitment. Sophie also needs to figure out who she is outside of her relationships.

The beginning of this story was great! I get like over time it started to feel like the tropes took over the characters, that the tropes were the main focus and the characters were written a round those tropes. I started to slow down reading the book towards halfway and slugged through the second half. Overall okay story!

2.5 ⭐️ 2 🌶️

I really don’t have a ton to say about Plot Twist. The premise of the novel was cute and fun, but the execution was…not. The writing felt bland and formulaic, and I was ambivalent about most of the characters - main characters included. Honestly, I found Sophie to be downright insufferable at times. And if Dash mentioned Sophie’s “perverse canine tooth” one more time, I was going to lose it 🙃 *insert IT’S ENOUGH SLICES soundbite*

There were several things that happened in the plot that felt disjointed, unnecessary, or were left completely unresolved. It felt as if the author was trying to throw in as many tropes as possible without making sure it actually WORKED in the context of the story. The intimate scenes between Dash and Sophie felt weirdly conversational, but maybe that’s just because I wasn’t invested in them as a couple.

Overall, Plot Twist isn’t great, but it’s not terrible either. There was some good commentary on the realities of addiction recovery. At times it felt like the author was trying a little to hard to be ~relatable~ with the TikTok stuff, but I’m sure some readers will find the internet culture references fun. This one just wasn’t for me!

Thank you to Harlequin and NetGalley for the ARC!

I truly don’t understand how perfect this book is. I fell in love immediately with both MCs and I was rooting for them from the beginning. The FMC is very unique, but not in off putting way. I really love that she is pansexual, and it is just accepted- there is no conversation around her being interested in more than just men with the MMC. I do love queer books that delve into the deeper feelings and trauma around being queer, but sometimes just having it be treated as normal is what a person needs. Such a breath of fresh air. I love the MMC as well. He is very relatable and I believed his actions, they didn’t seem unreasonable at all. Perfect book.

When Sophie hits a writers block, she decides to talk with her exes about why they didn't work out and documents the experience on TikTok. Her landlord, Dash, knows more about social media and offers to help. Both are working on themselves and aren't sure they are ready to get into a relationship. But as the two get closer, they discover an undeniable connection between them that they can't ignore.
Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa was a cute next door neighbor romance. This book was good and a quick read. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to others. I gave it 3/5 stars. I liked the tropes that were in this book. Some of the tropes that were in this friends with benefits and the next door neighbor trope. I liked Sophie and Dash but not really any of the other characters. Although I did like Chris. The other characters were a bit annoying and not likeable. The plot was okay but I don't care for the use of TikTok in books. The writing of this book was good. It was easy to follow and did not have anything that was very different from your average romance. Overall, I liked this book and would recommend it to others. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

Does Erin La Rosa have a looking glass into my brain? The tropes. All of the tropes. All of my favorite tropes smashed into a blender together. How did she fit so many in?!?

So, to backtrack just a little, this is the second book by Erin La Rosa in this series. I read and liked the first book. I easily liked it enough to pick up another. Still, I did have a few small gripes that built up by the end. When it came to reading Plot Twist I knew by the second chapter that I was significantly more into this story. I suppose retrospectively, it seems to me like Leo and Nina in the first book were amusing, but not people I could really imagine being in the shoes of. Dash and Sophie however, both felt very relatable. I loved that balance of silliness and personal growth that the story took on, it made it so easy to root for the character’s and their relationship. As mentioned there are so many cute tropes sprinkled in- best friend’s brothers, childhood crush, only one bed, but overall this rang through as being wholly original. The personalities and struggles that Dash and Sophie deal with make it entirely their own unique story.

I loved this book and would definitely keep it on hand as a go to comfort romance. Highly recommend ❤️

What an excellent sophomore book! I'm a sucker for books with writer/editor main characters, and this one doesn't disappoint. I don't know what it is about Erin La Rosa, but the chemistry between her love interests always gets me going.

I'm always a fan of a romance book where both love interests have their own personal journeys that need to be worked on before getting into a relationship with healthy communication. Call me a dreamer.

Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa ended up being a fun romance book that surprised me. I don't usually read romance books but I wanted to try something new and this was the perfect book for that. It was fast paced, hilarious, and the main characters were likeable and interesting enough to keep me going. In the end, if you're a fan of fun and steamy romance books then you might want to add this one to your TBR asap!

Actual rating: 3.5 stars, almost 4
Full review: to come closer to release date

This novel was slightly different than what I typically read. There were a lot of modern themes and references to pop culture. There’s also a lot of TikToking (is that what the kids are calling it nowadays?), which I thought was kind of cringey but maybe that’s just me.

BUT the love story in this was great and the characters were incredibly diverse and well thought out. The FMC is pansexual so it’s LGBTQIA+ friendly ☺️ also Sophie is quirky and just trying to figure her shit out in a lovable and laughable way that made me like her character a lot. She struggles with trust issues throughout the novel and I can definitely relate there. AND Sophie is an author so lots of good bookish references. ❤️

Dash is the MMC and he’s a tatted up dream boat who’s incredibly crafty 🤤. One of the main themes in this book is addiction and how that affects one’s love life and family relationships, which I thought the author did a phenomenal job of writing about. Dash is an ex-movie star that comes from a famous Hollywood family…and he’s got mommy issues big time. He is much more sensitive than most MMC I’ve read recently and I honestly loved that because it was a nice change of pace.

Overall, great story and great characters, but I didn’t love the overuse of pop culture and Tik Tok. Both of these things made the story modern and relevant, but when it comes to reading I like to escape the bs of the modern world and want to be reminded people can exist outside of social media. 🙃

First of all, look at this cover! I am in love.

Sophie is a romance author who has never been in love. She has a major deadline coming up for her next book but she has writer's block. So she goes out and gets drunk then has a sloppy, embarrassing video go viral on TikTok declaring this. And in order to "take control of the narrative", her neighbor suggests she create a response video and tell her side of the story. So she does and it unfurls into a series of meetups with her exes to find out where it all went wrong: why did she never fall in love? And if she can figure that out, maybe she can figure out the HEA for her book.

I love the premise of this. I love romance novels with flashbacks and though this wasn't written that way, I was excited for her to revisit her old flames and go on this journey of self-discovery with her. However, as the story progressed, there was too much going on and it was hard to focus on the characters or the multiple mini plot lines unfolding (lots of "plot twists" I guess).

There was also a lot reference to TikTok. Almost every other paragraph had it for maybe 2-3 chapters. I almost DNF'd at 25% because of this. And though there is definitely a space of social media in books, I felt that TikTok became the basis of the plot progression and didn't translate well into the story. Plus her actual meetings with her exes were very minimal so it seemed that we only really got Sophie's reactions and not their "feedback" which is why she was doing the meetups in the first place. It was hard to gauge whether or not these meetups added depth to Sophie's character or her quest to finding her/her book's happily ever after.

I liked that Dash was explicitly described to be a shorter MMC (we need more of this! Not every guy is 6'5') and that he liked crafts which is not (as some might say) a "manly" hobby. I also liked that he was very real about his challenge with sobriety and his struggle with being from a famous family. But other than that, he seemed a bit bland? I don't know if it was intentional that he was consumed by his recovery to showcase how hard it really is--because I bet it is-- or if he just read one dimensional.

I also liked that Sophie is curvy, identifies as pansexual, and that she's very comfortable with her sexuality. I think that makes her a strong FMC. Unfortunately, she is also very quirky, almost to a fault? As in, it didn't seem like the character was written decisively. There was a lot of contradicting personality traits as the book progressed so it was hard to cheer her on. Some instances she was portrayed as selfless that she never spoke up about her needs, but some of her actions showed that she was selfish and didn't consider how she affected other people. Sometimes she even seemed hypocritical.

The side characters had a lot of background information which was sort of thrown in at random and a bit unnecessary, but they seemed more developed than Sophie was. However, I don't think they added to Sophie's or Dash's growth because they seemed like they only popped up when convenient to the plot.

There was also a lot of "telling" and not "showing" in terms of the story and way too many tropes. And plainly told "this is the trope" as it was happening. Just the fact that Dash was her neighbor/landlord/childhood crush/best friend's brother/ex-teen heartthrob/friend to lover was already too much. Maybe this is why I didn't feel the chemistry between Sophie and Dash. It was just written to be accepted that they were endgame.

There was definitely spice which was nice, but the "dirty talk" was kind of cringey at times. Though I loved the highlight of asking for what we need/want in the bedroom!

I think the ending was my favorite part. I liked where Sophie ended up in terms of her emotional maturity, but I don't think there was evidence to support that she got there. It was just given to her. I was more in favor of Dash's growth with dealing with his demons and his family, though there could have been more there. But it was a nice wrapped-up-in-a-nice-little-bow ending, grand gesture included, which we all love.

Overall, I think this had a lot of potential but ultimately wasn't for me.

Thank you to the author, the publisher, and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for an honest review.