I received a Digital Reader Copy through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions expressed are my own.

I wanted to love this book but for some reason we just did't click. I felt the story line was rushed at times and some aspects seem to have been just thrown in. Overall the story was ok!

𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗜𝗙 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘:
🌞Grumpy/sunshine
🌷He falls first
🏡Forced Proximity
🗣️DUAL POV
🔪ENEMIES to lovers
🩺Chronic pain rep

I loved this super cute book which had lots of positive rep!

I was really excited to read this book at first. However, as I go through 5 chapters I just cannot get it and I cannot finish this.

This is another book I wanted to like so badly, but ended up not wanting to finish it because of the narrator. The blurb and the tropes sounded VERY interesting. But when I picked it up I just couldn't get into it.

I received this book as an ARC from @netgalley and it was written by @callaghanwriter. Thank you so much for providing me with this wonderful story! 💜

I loved every page of this book. It starts as your typically grumpy-sunshine relationship between the main characters, but their relationship development is so adorable and also heartfelt. It was nice to read about a main character with chronic pain, since I can relate to that myself and it isn’t really a topic commonly used in books.

Okay, so the story is about Autumn and Elijah. Autumn has been renting a house for years. Then one day, out of nowhere, this utterly happy-go-lucky guy shows up with his stuff and moves in with Autumn without her knowing at first. This ofcourse doesn’t give them a great start in getting to know each other. Since Autumn has had a pretty though time the past years since her accident, she’s really attached to her privacy and all. That obviously doesn’t work well when all of a sudden some stranger comes to live with you.

This handsome stranger Elijah, is working on a game to put his own business on the map. But he has this deal which means he has to live with Autumn for a while. Since Elijah doesn’t just accept the fact that Autumn treats him like an intruder of her privacy, the war between them starts and they keep annoying each other wherever they can. But as time goes by and a lot of well, mysterious things happen, they both understand their relationship is in need of a change. But what happens if that relationship changes in something they both didn’t expect to happen?

I loved everything about this book and loved the plottwists in it. I could really recommend this book to anyone looking for a funny, adorable book that still has a bit of mystery in it. I gave the book 5 stars! 💜

💜 “𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥.” - Elijah’s mom
💜 “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴.” - Nina

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I received this book for free for an honest unbiased review from Netgalley.

I wish more books were this well written. Characters were witty and the setting fantastic.

A quick, interesting read. It was a Cute story, but at times, I felt like something was missing. Idid enjoy the characters.
Many thanks to CallaghanWriter and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advanced copy of Ms. Perfectly Fine by Kate Callaghan.

Love an easy to read romance with a great book boyfriend!

Ms Perfectly Fine is a very cute read and both main characters were really good and easy to like!

If the book has a playlist, I'm immediately gonna add it to my TBR and this book was no exception.

I loved the FMC and MMC - their chemistry was literally coming off the pages for me. Their friendship, banter, romance. It was everything I needed. Their interactions had me laughing and I couldn't believe how much I loved them!

I do think that the plot was a bit sticky for me - it didn't do exactly what I felt like it was going to do. It ran to the finish line and honestly that was fine, but I was looking forward to the suspense being drawn out a smidgen more. Mainly because I truly didn't anticipate any kind of suspense in this book!

You'll love this book if you love
- Close proximity/ Roommates
- Reverse grumpy sunshine
- Chronic pain rep
- Friends to lovers
- Spice
- Little bit of suspense

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

sorry for the late review and thank you netgalley for giving me the arc. LOVED AUTUMN ADLER IN THIS SHE WAS MY FAV THE WAY THE AUTHOR DESCRIBED HER STRUGGLES FELT SO REAL. Elijah was the perfect book boyfriend and loved their banter it was so cute, overall a well exceuted romance

Ms. Perfectly Fine was a perfectly fine book. Enough romance to keep the reader rooting for the characters, but nothing too over the top. The book held my interest as I spent 10 years of my childhood learning and performing on the piano. It was nice to have that musical connection. I was a bit more interested as the book took a turn for mystery/thriller and things went awry! Coupling romance with mystery will always be my favorite way to read about love!

Thank you NetGalley, CallaghanWriter, and author Kate Callaghan for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

I felt this writing was very repetitive. The author told us the same thing in different ways multiple times. It was hard to get into a story when it seemed like every other paragraph reminded you of the FMCS back story.

Ms Perfectly Fine is a typical grumpy meets sunshine and enemies to lovers romcom with forced proximity and changing perspectives - Autumn and Elijah. There were also some thriller elements which I‘m not really sure I liked or not. It was not bad but I had the feeling it was not really thought through especially as out of the blue it escalated pretty quickly and the solution was not that convincing. A bit over the top.

All in all, I liked the mostly well-written story of Autumn and Elijah, their backstory and development. But as I love a good slow-burn I felt the characters fell in love too quickly too hard.

Even though there were some serious elements, especially Autumn‘s back-story and chronic illness issues - it was a fun contemporary read which I enjoyed. Nothing overwhelmingly outstanding but a solid read.

The chronic illness issue was really interesting. To show how Autumn struggled with severe pain and spasms affecting her daily life was important to talk about and raise awareness. A great addition to the story!

3.5/5 💕
Anne

Was the first thing that popped into my head Taylor Swift’s Fearless vault track? 100%. However, Kate Callaghan’s novel is a far cry from the poppy tune, tackling grief and chronic disability for her main female character. I fully admit that I had some pre-conceived notions about this before reading it based on the description and the cover art. The representation and the beats highlighting Autumn’s coping with chronic pain are a standout component of this read. The romance didn’t immediately win me over, but there were some charming moments. Interestingly, it seemed like there were some big pendulum shifts from “endearingly grounded” to “bafflingly outlandish” in the romance between Autumn and Elijah.

For some of the standout elements of this book, I think there’s a chance it may have simply bitten off more than it could chew. Between the incorporation of the past pieces of Autumn’s accident/grief/processing, Autumn’s romance with Elijah, his family and professional subplots, and the suspenseful/thriller subplot, the narrative gets lost in the sauce. For me, the weakest part of the narrative was the suspense subplot because while I fully acknowledge that groundwork was laid early in the book for pieces of it, the resolution of that plot-line ended up causing a pretty harsh tone shift in the last quarter of the book. My gut reaction is that this book could’ve benefitted from some edits. I think some of the bones have potential but it didn’t quite live up to it.

Romantic, Charming, Intense.

I really enjoyed reading this book, there were unexpected twists and turns which turned into a page turner for me.

My main conclusion from reading this book is everyone needs an Elijah. I love the name Autumn and I really think it suited this Autumn.

I would love to see a sequel or a short story follow up to what is happening in Elijah and Autumn's lives.

Content warnings for the book are listed on the copyright page. Tropes can be found on the author's website.

If you like enemies to lovers, forced proximity, suspense, I definitely recommend checking this one out. It was a 4.5 star read for me. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a gifted copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

this was a cute story but it left me wanting more. i enjoyed the tropes in this book: reluctant roommates to lovers, reverse grumpy/sunshine, close proximity and he falls first. i loved the funny banter between the two main characters! this is one aspect that was really well done in this book. i also loved the chronic pain/mental health representation and thought it made autumn more relatable. the characters were likeable enough, especially elijah, but we never really got to know them on a deeper level. i did love elijah's dog, brinkley, though! there was a suspense/mystery aspect that only became prominent towards the end that i felt like the author should've brought up sooner because it felt rushed. i also kind of got whiplash from how fast they went from hating each other to loving each other. overall, it was a fun cute read with tropes i love and good representation, which is always positive, but i had some issues with it that made it good rather than great.

Ms Perfectly Fine is a romantic suspense dealing with topics of chronic pain, anxiety, and post traumatic stress. I enjoyed Elijah and Autumn’s banter in their early stages of getting to know each other and I absolutely loved Brinkley and wished she was my dog! Overall, I found this is to a great read and would highly recommend to a friend. Thank you again to the publisher and netgalley for this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Ms Perfectly Fine is a new contemporary romance story from Kate Callaghan. It is the forced proximity enemies to lovers romance story of Autumn and Elijah, with an added element of suspense/thriller as Autumn has a stalker whose identity is unknown. The narrative is well-paced and an easy read, perfect to curl up with and read in a single sitting.
Autumn was a fantastic female main character and I loved the contrast between her grumpy side and Elijah’s sunshine personality. We have incredible chronic pain and mental health representation through Autumn’s character and it was wonderful to have this representation without it defining the character. Her monologue towards the end of the book about chronic pain was really powerful and a standout aspect of the story.
I’m a sucker for any story where he falls first and harder and this was no exception. Elijah was a fantastic, charming love interest and I loved the banter between the two of them. He really looked after Autumn whilst still supporting her to get out of her comfort zone and more towards a place of healing which was wonderful to read. Elijah and Autumn had incredible chemistry and I loved the spicy scenes which were very well written.
The suspense thriller element added another dimension to your typical romance novel and I thought this was really interesting. The stalker’s identity was predictable for me but based on other reviews I’ve read I seem to be in the minority with this one. I would have liked this aspect of the story to have been more drawn out however as it felt rushed and more of an afterthought than the well-crafted plot point it could have been. My gut says that this was because the book was almost trying to be two things in one: a romance story and a thriller. This could have worked but in order to effectively tell both aspects of the story the book needed to be longer.
Overall, Ms Perfectly Fine is a great cosy read for fans of the forced proximity, grumpy x sunshine and he falls first and harder tropes. It is also good for readers who like both the romance and thriller genres as the book combines the two into one story.

⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

I have posted my review on my blog www.yourschloe.co.uk and the post is linked.

A thoroughly great read. I don't usually go for books with a serious thread such as chronic pain, but it was done so well, still being entertaining whilst raising my awareness of some of the issues. The main characters were very well crafted and I really invested in their relationship. I felt some of the background characters needed a little more fleshing out, for example Autumn's parents. Other than that, a really well written novel.