was a really sweet and cute book so glad that I read it. Another really great book by Lizzy Dent, love all her other books that I have read

Thanks to Netgalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam for the E-Arc. I know Im late to the party but I just want to say that this book was life. Im also currently packing to leave to London to find Jake because he is real right....I love how both Amy and Jake were on a healing journey and how it was so relatable. I absolutely loved this book I loved Amy's family and her Maggie and everyone else except for Chris of course.

Amy, a TV producer has to leave NYC after a video of her embarrassing herself gets around. After starting over in London she meets Jake, a reality TV star who also goes viral after an embarrassing video. When Chris, the ex who ruined her life reappears in London, Amy begins working with Jake in attempt to get revenge and prove her worth. While the premise seemed like it would be silly it actually turned out to be a great read with depth and character development. I loved Amy and Jake and really enjoyed London (and Wales) as the setting!

I really enjoyed the characters (I loved Maggie's energy) and the storyline was really cute but for some reason, it just fell a bit flat for me. Nothing really stood out one way or another, good or bad.

I love a good "forbidden romance" but was hoping for a bit more spice or pizazz in the romance department.

This was not what I was expecting, but still a good read. Although I really liked the writing, I felt myself struggling a little to connect with the characters and feel the chemistry between the MCs. Which was a bit disappointing, but not enough to make me stop reading.

Overall, I still enjoyed this book and the premise and plot were fun and engaging enough to keep pulling me in.

I love this book and can't wait to read more of Dent. She's the smoothest writer and draws you in with every story. I love how past and present collide.

This was a fun read, and Lizzy Dent always creates really vibrant characters that leap off the page, but my goodness the cringe factor in this was too much to bear at times! It is a simple story, does exactly what it says on the tin - but I couldn't get over the cringe!

I really enjoyed aspects of the main characters, Workplace romances are really hit or miss from me - and getting your own back on an ex is always really petty, but Dent did those aspects really well!

If you are someone who enjoys a cringe when you are reading - either with or at the characters - this one is for you.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

Since I swooned over “The Summer Job”, Dent has become an author on my radar.

There’s romance in this one but there’s also the past coming back to you (quite literally), family relationships and inner workings of working in TV.

This was a slower paced romance than I thought but it was pretty sweet in the end.

A fun book about a scorned women with a second chance of love and a side of revenge. The banter was light hearted and laugh out loud funny. Amy heads to London for a fresh start to escape an embarrassing past where she finds a new job and a hot new love interest. Things are looking up until a former lover shows up and becomes her boss. I loved that the book is set working for a television network. It is a fun quick summer rom com. Thank you net galley for the ARC!

This was an utterly riveting book that I literally could not put down, that kept my heart racing, kept me near tears for a good chunk of it, that had me hanging off of every word that I read, and the story just ripped my heart out but yet still had a very sweet ending.

This one was fun quick rom com. I especially laughed out loud in the beginning as our main character Amy seeks revenge on her newly ex BF but this goes completely south and she somehow gets filmed while going viral. She high tails it from NYC to London to start over and not be remembered by viral video. While a lot of parts were fun, I didn’t believe in the very slow burn romance between Amy and Jake. The chemistry just felt off . I just didn’t enjoy it as much as other rom coms because the characters were not as relatable to me. But overall an entertaining read! Thank you Netgalley G.P. Putnam’s sons for a copy of this ARC in exchange for this review.

This book was a cute romance! I did love the characters for the most part. I do wish they would of had talked more about the relationship over all throughout the whole story. But overall it was a quick cute romance to read.

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The Sweetest Revenge
By: Lizzy Dent
Publisher: Penguin Group Putnam
Pub Date: 7/25/23
When things go bad in Amy’s life they really go bad. When a work romance spins out of control she acts out, she ends up embarrassing herself, trying to hide she takes off to London. But she’s not only running from embarrassment but from her family too. When we catch up with Amy it’s been 2 years. She hasn’t been back to New York nor has she spoken to her old contacts and coworkers. Her family is begging her to come home for her grandmother's 80th. Amy however gets the shock of her life when the guy her ex Chris walks into her new job. He’s been hired as the interim boss as two media companies merge. Amy knows this merger is opening new positions in tv development, the area she worked in before moving. She teams up with a neighbor, Jake and they begin to develop and write a series to pitch. Chris wants to be back with Amy, for his own selfish reasons. He’s hoping this will convince Amy she’s got this new role in the bag, Only Amy has made a quick trip to NYC and has reached out to old coworkers and contacts. She now knows everything that happened after she left all the things Chris did to make her seem crazy. Only this time she is ready for him. She sends an email to all of her coworkers and puts herself on blast. Chris no longer has power over her. It was such an easy story to wrapped up in. Definitely bingable! Thanks to Penguin Group Putnam and Lizzy Dent for this ARC.

Amy Duffy is developing a TV show with her boss (that maybe is also secretly her lover) when everything goes south and her retaliation goes viral. Thinking her career and life completely lost, she moves to London to hide out, and that's where we meet her two years later.

All of the fates align to give Amy a second chance to get back at her boss, a hot neighbor who has also fallen from grace, and a new project to keep her busy and revive her career.

Amy and her hot neighbor Jake have tons of chemistry and banter, and they slowly burn through the whole book. I found myself truly rooting for them to make it happen.

The romance in this one is subtle, more of an underlying, secondary movement to the main themes and plot of the novel. I could definitely see this one as a feature film.

This book was written for you if:
1. You love the jobs of 90s romcom heroines that no one in real life has
2. You love a kind of workplace situational romantic comedy
3. You were a fan of Bridesmaids or Emily in Paris

This was a sweet, fun read. I appreciated Amy and Jake's relationship having an element of friends-to-lovers but I wish we had seen more of their relationship.

This was a good adult romance, that I would recommend to those who think sounds interesting!

I received an e-ARC from the publisher

The synopsis sounded so interesting and I enjoyed the book for the most part. I loved the premise but I had a hard time connecting with the characters as well as the chemistry between the MC's.

The Sweetest Revenge by Lizzy Dent was a fun British rom com. This book started in New York but quickly moved to London/Wales. The settings were interesting in themselves. The rom com was solid if somewhat predictable. Please note there was a lot of bad language in this book. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

This book was both funny and heartfelt. I loved Amy and her drama. She felt very realistic even if some of her situations were far fetched.

I really enjoyed this one. It was light, funny, and a quick read with a dash of spice. I read this in one sitting and found it super enjoyable. What more could you want?

There were times I wanted to absolutely strangle the main character, but I still found myself rooting for her all the same. I really enjoyed her character development, I felt like she had grown significantly, especially in her treatment towards her love interest.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.