This book killed me! It had me hooked from the beginning. I still cannot get over the way she went viral in the beginning of the book. However, the way that she pulled through and decided it wouldn’t define her is what made it for me. Then, there’s the love story mixed with the revenge for her ex. Ugh. It was so good. I definitely recommend this book for a quick and cute read!

This novel is pure enjoyment and flirty fun. If you’re looking for a fun, light rom-com, I highly recommend Lizzy Dent. I enjoyed watching Amy’s journey to get her mojo back after going through a heartbreak and subsequent social media humiliation. The relationship between Amy and Jake is fun and sexy (but ultimately stays mostly closed door). I could have done with a few less f-bombs and c words, but otherwise this was a great read if you’re in the mood for light romance.

“The Sweetest Revenge” by Lizzy Dent is such a cute rom-com. I couldn’t put it down.

The FMC felt very relatable. She was strong, messy, and everything you’d want to just root for throughout the book. The MMC was so dreamy as well. Readers will be excited to follow their story

I enjoyed every moment of this book and can’t wait to read more by Lizzy Dent.

Thank you NetGalley, Lizzy Dent, and G. P. Putnam’s Sons for this ARC.

Adored this book. This is the first book I’ve read from Lizzy Dent and it won’t be the last. Amy is a fantastic character and there were many times I was cheering for her (Audi moment) and I just knew from the first page I was going to love her. Hilarious with moments that will have you swooning.

Thank you to NetGalley and Putnam for the eARC! Lizzy Dent is an author I’ve been wanting to read for some time and I was so excited for the opportunity to read her third novel, The Sweetest Revenge, early.

This was such a cute romance between Amy and Jake, I could see why Amy was instantly charmed by him. I thought the setting of the TV development world was unique and interesting. The “revenge” was satisfying, but Amy overcoming her shame and knowing her worth was even better. This was a very quick read with fairly short chapters which is always a plus for me!

The Sweetest Revenge by Lizzy Dent is a fun romcom. This story is relatable, funny, and keeps you guessing the whole time. I was really liked the characters of Amy and Jake and felt they were so compatible. I like how this author writes and look forward to more.

Finishes The Sweetest Revenge, immediately adds all Lizzy Dent books to wishlist. What a perfect romantic comedy.

This is a story of Amy and Jake, both with some recent drama and embarrassment in their past and looking to move on with their lives. I love Amy and her spunky realness. Jake might just be one of the sweetest characters I’ve ever come across in a romance novel. I laughed out loud, swooned, all of the things.

Read this if you want a little romance, humor, and revenge in your reading escape. Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Christina Lauren. I highly recommend.

Thank you to NetGalley and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for the advanced digital copy.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

✈️ to: London, Wales, NYC

The Sweetest Revenge is Lizzy Dent's newest rom com centering on Amy Duffy - a power house tv development executive who flees to a life in London after her boyfriend breaks up with her and she takes some regrettable and very public revenge on him. Years later in London, Amy is finally ready to take her shot with a new tv pitch -- which she is working on with her hot/former reality tv star neighbor -- when her ex is hired at her company. Will she stick the pitch?
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This is a perfectly fine love story, but I don't necessarily think it needed to be written. If I heard about this love story in real life, I don't think it would really register as anything special to me, EXCEPT for being jealous of the main MC finding a hot British man whose family owns a cottage in Snowdonia (a beautiful area of Wales!).

This took me longer than it probably should have to read at 368 pages, but I just found the whole thing a little underwhelming. If you're looking for spice, looks elsewhere... this was a fade to black romance. I also didn't really understand the MC's next level embarrassment about what she did to her ex when he broke up with her -- to the extent that she didn't see her family for TWO years! That seemed a little blown out of proportion.

The Sweetest Revenge is by no means my favorite of Lizzy Dent's books (that title belongs to The Summer Job), but it's also not my least favorite.

This book was so good!

The anger I felt for her ex justified her actions and I loved the budding relationship between the two main characters as they wrote their tv show.

A must-read!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for allowing me to read an Arc of this book!

Loved this story of turning a hot mess around and accepting your past!

Amy Duffy works in production of TV series in New York and is in love with her boss. He screws her over at work and steals the show - literally - and dumps her on the eve of her cousin's wedding. In her rage (& bridesmaid's dress) she decides to get revenge. Unfortunately, this revenge is caught on video by a passerby.

In her embarrassment, Amy runs off to London, takes a lesser job and keeps to herself. UNTIL Jake moves in upstairs. He is fresh off of a reality show where he is the talk of the town. Amy wants to know more about him and asks her friend to reach out to his agent.

Amy also finds out there is a competition at work, led by her ex, of all people. She HAS TO pitch a show that is worthy of being picked up. Jake turns out to be a talented screenwriter and they start working ideas together.

I loved the bits of them going around London, checking out areas for the show. Their banter and looks are EVERYTHING.

Amy hasn't learned her lesson from the first time she was burned, but is learning the hard way now.

What fun read, it is for every girl that does something way out of character! Lizzy really touched on what happens to women when we make a mistake vs man when they do. LOL This story is relatable, funny and keeps you guessing the whole time. I was really cheering for Amy and Jake, I loved that they both had relatable connection. I loved the parts when they were working together to come up with the best TV series. I felt they pushed each other, just enough to make the best team.

I also think Dent could breakout into thriller stories, I would totally read.

Amy's one-time drunken night of revenge to her boss/ex-boyfriend comes back to haunt her including the loss of her job. She up and leaves across the country to a job in London for a fresh start. Soon she starts believing made the mistake is in the past and maybe she can open her heart again. Sparks so start to fly with her very hot new neighbor. Both start working together to help each other or is Amy only helping herself, is her past mistake really in the past?

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group for a copy of this book for my honest review.

This was SO FUN! Lizzy Dent is becoming an auto-read author for me! I loved loved loved this one. My only gripe is that while the main character was American, she sounded VERY British 🤣

3/5 stars

I enjoyed the set-up at the beginning of the story. Amy, who was embarrassed and betrayed by her boyfriend and boss, left the country to start over. Except she's now gone from coming up with show ideas to working on advertising for shows, which she doesn't love. I really liked the behind the scenes look at the TV industry and the friendships our FMC had developed. I struggled to connect with Amy after the way she disconnected from the people who cared about her. I did like the friendship that developed between Amy and Jake. The relationship between the two felt a little shallow and based solely on attraction. I did enjoy the conclusion of the story. I always enjoy when people who have done the main character wrong get their comeuppnace.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for the early copy to read. All thoughts and opinions expressed are my own.

Super cute! Really enjoyed this closed-door love story between Amy and Jake. It was fun & lighthearted, and I loved their banter. Would definitely recommend especially if you're looking for a rom com!

The Sweetest Revenge
⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Author: Lizzy Dent

I requested a digital advanced readers copy from NetGalley and Penguin Group and providing my opinion voluntarily and unbiased.

Synopsis: Her past is a mess. But her present is about to get delicious.

Amy is more than one disastrous night of drunken revenge on her boss/ex-boyfriend’s Audi—the night that tanked her rising TV producer career and led to a hasty move to London for a fresh start. She is thirty years of awesomeness. At least, that’s what Amy tells herself every morning before trekking to her mediocre job making trailers at a failing British TV channel.

Two years later, she’s finally starting to believe it. Sparks are flying between her and Jake, her handsome new downstairs neighbor, and there’s a competition at work that just might get her career back on track while bringing her and Jake even closer. But then, in a twisted turn of fate, her past and present are about to epically, hilariously collide.

My Thoughts: A am little behind on reviews due to have surgery in May and finishing my Master’s Degree in June, so I did the audiobook on this one. Brittany Pressley is the narrator for the audiobook and she is one of the best and I just LOVE listening to her voice. Amy Duffy, a developmental executive for TV is supposed to he on the way to her cousin’s wedding when her then boyfriend drops a bombshell, many shots later, a missed wedding, Amy does the most embarrassing thing, which is captured on video that goes viral. She escapes to London to reinvent herself working for a small time studio. After a merger is announced, her boyfriend that she fled from is now a ‘consultant.’ Her neighbor is also fleeing from his life. A meet cute brings these together in unspectacular fashion as she works hard to regain her composure. This follows a friends to lovers and next door neighbor trope.

The story is narrated by both Amy and Jake, it their perspectives. Amy has been in London for two years and now has the opportunity for promotion into a role similar to the one in NY before her life exploded. Her neighbor, Jake, also running from an embarrassing event, is a writer that has given up. This new project involves a writing project, so the two (Amy & Jake) team up together, spend an absorbent amount of time together… When Amy’s former boyfriend, Chris, is the one that decides her fate on the promotion, will that explode? Or end blissfully? The characters were developed well with depth, witty banter, chemistry, and intriguing. The characters were likable and relatable. The author’s writing style was complex, humorous, swoony, and kept me engaged. The flow worked well and the pace was a little slow in the beginning and the ending felt a bit rushed.

Content warning of f-bombs and the c** word for those that would take offense. This is a closed door romance, otherwise. The synopsis gives a little too much away, so I took out one part of it. If you can go in blindly, it really is the way for this book. Overall, I enjoyed reading this and I have loved other works by Dent. I would recommend this quick read/listen to other readers.

Lizzy Dent is a new-to-me author and one I will be reading more from.

Banter & Bark
Heart & Hilarity
Sweet & Swoony
Revenge & Regret

Dive in for the hilarity but settle in for the heart. A solid story of growth, family, friendship, and love.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for providing the eARC!

Following a viral incident fueled by a night of drinking, Amy makes a decision to relocate to London, seeking refuge from the humiliation. She intends to continue her career in television, albeit in a more junior capacity. Regrettably, her plans take an unexpected turn when her company undergoes a merger, bringing in her former boss (and ex-boyfriend) Chris as her new temporary supervisor. Concurrently, Amy finds herself with a new neighbor named Jake. He, too, is evading his own embarrassing past, having participated in "Fantasy Island," a reality TV show.

In my view, this book is an incredibly charming, swift, and uncomplicated read. It led me to contemplate the idea of escaping from New York to London at least once!

This was such a well written thought out book. I really enjoyed everything about it. Amy Duffy had it all. The career and the boyfriend, which happened to be her boss. Some things didn’t work out for her and she took her revenge. She ran away to London only to run into and find out her ex boyfriend is her boss again. This book had it all. Revenge, new love, and everything in between!

Many thanks to NetGalley, Penguin Group Putnam, GP Putnam's Sons, for gifting me a digital ARC of the new book by Lizzy Dent. 4.5 stars!

Amy knew she shouldn't be dating Chris, her boss and the one who had the power to green light her TV series project. When they were heading to her cousin's wedding where she was to be a bridesmaid and Chris was to meet her family, he dropped a bomb on her. She missed her train and ended up spending her time in a bar getting drunk. In that state, she pulled a stunt that was caught on video and went viral. Shamed, she fled to London where her best friend Maggie lived. She got a job making trailers that she wasn't happy in, and was to ashamed to go to NY to see her family. Then she meets Jake, her new neighbor, and sparks seem to fly. There's a competition at work and a new job on the line and it turns out that her and Jake could collaborate. But then Chris is hired as her new boss.

This was just a fun story. Amy is kind of a train wreck with the best of intentions and a good heart. She just can't seem to catch a break. I really liked the characters of both Amy and Jake, and appreciated them taking their relationship slowly. This would be the perfect rom com - no steamy sex scenes but there is some language that feels out of place. It's about second chances, owning your mistakes, moving on. I enjoyed Dent's The Summer Job and this one was a fast, fun read as well.

In Lizzy Dent’s third novel, we meet hardworking NYC-based television executive Amy Duffy. Unfortunately, we meet her on one of the craziest days of her life. Her boss/boyfriend (never a good combo!) gives her some really bad news just before they’re supposed to attend her cousin’s wedding and she ends up self-soothing with alcohol and going viral while attempting to get revenge on him. Fast-forward two years to London, where Amy fled to after “the incident”. Amy hasn’t forgiven herself for making a fool of herself, and is now working at a job she’s seriously overqualified for and basically hiding out. A new neighbor, Jake, moves into the flat above her, and it turns out he’s also hiding from a huge embarrassment. They find out they each have skills that can help one another - but will this be enough for them to move on from their past mistakes, and show those who wronged them just how sweet success can be?

This is the second novel I’ve read by Lizzy Dent, and I’ve liked them both. She clearly has a lot of television experience and really used that to set the scene of Amy’s workplace, and later on, the work that she and Jake do, I had a hard time remembering that Amy was American and not British - I thought the language and phrases she used sounded just like that of her coworkers. I also felt that the ending in relation to Amy’s job and future plans wrapped up kind of quickly and would’ve liked some more explanation there, I liked the character development and overall plot, and would recommend this to anyone looking for a fun read :)