“I’m lost. This is unknown territory for me. I have no idea what I’m doing.”

I loved this book from the start.

Chemistry, friendship, heartache, betrayal, loyalty, humor and steaminess is just a taste of the ride you’ll be on.

“The combination of his gaze and each of the time periods he’d mentioned caused my heart to take off as though I were several paces past the starting line. It wasn’t a steady increase of thumps. This was an explosion of beats, my pulse hammering away in my neck.”

I loved the backstory, build up even the twist…I can’t wait for more of this series.

“I was alone in this world. Losing their respect, trust, their support pained me more than all of this.”

Marni Mann delivers yet another scorchingly hot office place romance! YOWZERS- Mr. Hook-up is chock full of sizzle and spice!

Easton and Drake's connection begins on a beta-style hooking up app developed by Harvard student Easton and his two friends. Easton is matched with "Love" (aka Drake) and a firey connection begins. The chemistry is explosive Until she ghosts him. Years later, their paths cross again...and work and life collide in the most deliciously sexy way.

This has a bit of the social network vibes with the fun college student developed into world wide sensation- and how fun to have a story that begins with a dating app. The chemistry between these two is ultra sexy. Their love is a bit insta and their bond starts ultra lusty, but once these two reconnect we get to see their bond deepen. Their is immediate attraction that grows into more depth of feeling...and of course they have some great banter and tons of workplace sexual tension.

Fans of Marni's Dalton Brothers series will feel RIGHT at home with the workplace tension and the luxurious spice! This one certainly is hot and heavy! The end result is certainly a bit predictable, and I wish we'd had a bit more emotional connection between these two characters, but all in all it's a fun and sexy read and hits all the right notes for something a bit smutty and entertaining! Curious to see what is next in the Hooked world!

3.25⭐️ | 3🔥

• Billionaire
• Workplace romance
• Second Chance
• Instalove

Easton and his friends are the founders of a hook-up app called Hooked. When Easton matches perfectly with ‘Love’ it almost seems too good to be true. Their connection is instant. They meet up - not knowing each others true identity - and have a one night stand. Love suddenly cuts ties not long after that and Easton doesn’t hear from her again.

Years later, they reconnect unexpectedly. Not knowing who the other is. Cue the second chance.

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I would have liked a bit more to the relationship development as I’m not the biggest fan of instalove. Overall, this was a quick and spicy read. Low angst and no third act breakup.

Thank you to Marni, Valentine PR and NetGalley for the ARC.

4/5 Stars
Mr. Hook Up is a fun and exciting new book from Marni Mann. I loved everything about the concept of this book as well as Easton and Drake. They had great chemistry from the start and it flowed throughout the book.

“They say time stops at nothing. I say time stopped when I met her.”

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
🌶🌶🌶

Marni Mann my Queen of Spice has outdone herself AGAIN! She knocked me off my feet with this new Hooked Series. I am definitely hooked.

Easton Jones and his two best friends created an app called Hooked. This app is made for hook ups and anonymity. Easton ends up matching 100% with someone. A percentage that is unheard of. After chatting and messaging via the app they decide to meet at the masquerade ball Hooked was hosting. The connection between them was instantly strong. Due to there crazy schedules they weren’t able to hook up again. She ended up ghosting him.

Five and half years later Hooked has become the number one dating app. In walks Drake Madden the newest recruit at Hooked. When Easton meets her he instantly feels a draw to her. A passion that hasn’t happen since his match. Excited about these feelings he gets knocked off kilter when his match reappears. How will Easton handle the new girl in his life and his fantasy girl from his past? Who will he choose?

Now… ladies Easton Jones has a swagger and amazing BDE. When he turns on that panty melting charm, he will have you running to the shower. Drake is amazing. She is smart, witty, and bad ass. Love is exactly the same way. The chemistry he has with both women is off the charts. Body, mind, and soul. I’m so excited for the rest of the series.

Tropes: billionaire, second chance, forced proximity, instalove, online romance, secret identity.

Thank you Marni ,and NetGalley for the ARC. This book is fantastic.

Marni is a vastly talented author with wonderful range. I’m thrilled that Amazon is now publishing some upcoming titles from her.

What you can expect in this book ⬇️
🔥 Anonymous Texting
🔥 Then & Now
🔥 Right Person Wrong Time
🔥 Second Chance

Easton and his friends created an app to match you with a hook-up. A 100 match should have been impossible. Easton and his mystery match fall hard and fast, getting to know one another without revealing their identities. Things are heating up until she suddenly disconnects from the app and from EASTON’S life entirely.

Five years later, Easton doesn’t want to get serious with anyone. But when Drake walks into his office and the chemistry is instant between them, Easton is forced to reconsider putting his heart on the line again.

Having read some of Marni’s more thrilleresque titles, I saw a different outcome in my mind 😆 have no fear, this is a romance with a HEA 🫣

This is a great second chance romance to start off the new Hooked series, about three friends who have created the ultimate hook-up app!

Easton (Mr Boston) get an unheard of 100% match on the app with Drake (Love) and these two begin a whirlwind virtual romance until the night the meet up at a masked ball and explore the chemistry that their compatibility foretold. Despite the connection, Love ghosts Easton, who doesn’t even know her real name.

Drake reappears in an unlikely place with neither of them the wiser about their past and sparks fly. This is definitely a fun and sexy read with some twists and turns. I loved how Easton really stood by Drake.

The friendship and banter between Easton and his friends was terrific and I can’t wait for the next book in the series to see who falls next!

5 She’s Everything He Didn’t Know He Needed Stars!!!

What a phenomenal start to a new series. The minute I started Easton and Drake’s story I was captivated by them. Ms. Mann has given us a story that at times is abundant in it’s steaminess and other times filled with emotions that even surprised our H/h.

Easton and Drake first meet when he and his two friends started a “hooking up” app. They’re a 100% match so how could they not meet in person to see if the app was accurate… let me just tell you that their first meeting literally drove how they approached life going forward. Their connection was instantaneous and filled with witty banter and chemistry. I thought to myself, how can their story get any better. I shouldn’t have worried because when Ms. Mann brings these two back together again, it was so delicious to watch them try to figure out why they have a sense of knowing each other but have never met… or so they think.

Easton along with Holden and Greyson have taken their app and turned it into the largest matchmaking app in the country and are hoping the world. But they need someone to help with this endeavor and Drake fits the bill. This woman is incredibly intelligent, savvy and is the best in her field so she’s a perfect for the Hooked organization.

This story moves with fluidity and there’s a smoothness to how their story builds now that time has passed. I literally devoured this book in one sitting. They’re just as smoking hot, if not more so, the second time around! But there’s so many other things that come into play this time around. And I loved the twist we’re given as well… and I didn’t see that coming!

This book sets up this series so wonderfully. I cannot wait to get Grayson and Holden’s stories. And I’m just a little in love with Belle, the precocious daughter of Holden and the little girl that’s grabbed both Grayson, Easton and now Drake’s heart!

“Mr. Hook-Up” is the newest release by Marni.
I loved everything in this relationship between Drake and Easton’s. The way they love each other and the chemistry they shared is crazy hot 🥵🤯🔥.
I wouldn’t change a word or a chapter in this story. I enjoyed it so much, I couldn’t put it down.
Marni is amazing with contemporary romance. Her writing is a luff of fresh air in my reading challenge every year.
One of my favorite books of this year.

Easton conquered my heart with the way he was for Love (Drake). The way he loves her after she runs away from him six years ago touched my heart.
Drake is an intelligent woman. Life wasn’t easy for her, but she always fought to make her mom proud in her work life.

What and amazing book readers.

Tropes you can find in this book and that I loved it:

✔️Contemporary Romance
✔️Friends to lovers
✔️Billionaire
✔️Forbidden romance
✔️Office romance
✔️forced proximity
✔️alpha hero

Readers if you love everything trope that I wrote above you will love this book so much, guess what “Mr. Wicked” is now available to pre order.
I can’t wait to read it 🤣.

When Easton and his partners created Hooked, he wasn’t prepared for how accurate the matches would be. It finds him his perfect woman however before they could truly realize the connection between them life and circumstances got in the way. More than five years later he finds himself conflicted over Drake, the woman who works for him, and the woman he has never forgotten.

Drake has overcome a difficult past but the one thing she does know is that getting involved with her boss is bad for her career. Despite the chemistry and connection between them she is determined to keep her distance, but Easton isn’t about to give up on the one woman who makes him feel.

The interactions between them are entering and the chemistry radiates off the page. Easton knows who and he wants and isn’t afraid to go after her while Drake is feisty and his equal in every way.

Easton and Drake met as Mr. Boston and Love in a dating app called Hooked. Easton is one of the 3 founders and he has matched with her at 100%. Something that he and his friends were shocked to see. Therefore, Easton and Love begin talking and eventually meet up and hook up. They go back and forth from there, trying to make plans to meet up again, but life happens and they never do. In fact, they lost contact for more than 5 years.

After that time jump, Easton and Drake find each other again once she gets interviewed for a position at Hooked. Then Love comes back online. Easton finds himself stuck between two women he doesn't know are one and the same. They decide to meet up and this is where they out who they really are.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Easton is so sweet and caring and protective of her. Drake was a little infuriating in their back-and-forth texting initially, but I have to admit I get it - she was busy making a life for herself. Do you know what was the best thing in this book apart from Easton being a perfect book boyfriend? There's no third-act breakup!!!

❀•◦𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒔+𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔◦•❀
• billionaire romance
• booty play
• boss x employee
• consent king
• dating app
• estranged lovers
• forced proximity
• hidden identity
• mutual pining
• one-night stand
• second chance

Easton and his best friends in their final years of grad school decided to create an app that matched people with their perfect one-night stand. When Easton is matched with “Love” it is an unprecedented 100% match. Easton even asked his friends to check to make sure there wasn’t a glitch in the system, to make sure everything was working properly. When they meet their chemistry is off-the-charts and when he begins falling for her, she disconnects from the app and disappears from his life.

Five years later, Hooked is very popular and hiring an app developer and in walks Drake Madden. She seems familiar to him but he cannot figure out why and she brings feeling back that he hasn’t experienced in years. When things begin to get real between them, “Love” resurfaces, and she wants to explain everything. He realizes why everything he was feeling came back because of her, she is the one woman he never forgot.

Drake is a highly successful programmer and moved back to Boston to be close to her best friend and family. I am glad that she came back into his life the way that he did anything else wouldn’t seem authentic. I was excited to read this book after the wait, and it was different than what I was expecting, it was better. The title of this book is deceiving, I think, because it makes you think of a man who just has hook-ups, but the title comes from the app that was created. Once I got to part 2 of the book I I starting liking the book, Easton and Drake together really changes him, making him better. I will admit part 1 of the book is kind of boring but it is the stepping stone to part 2. If you like steamy books, this one would be for you.

Received ARC in exchange for voluntary honest review.

rating: 5⭐️
spice: 3🌶️

tropes:
- second chance
- workplace romance
- he falls first

thoughts:
y’all this one threw me for a loop real quick!! time jumps always hurt my heart cause something sad generally always leads to that jump! but all that being said… Marni DELIVERED with this story! i really enjoyed it!

I love a great second chance romance, throw in the forbidden office romance and BAM… hot hot hot 🥵❤️‍🔥

as some backstory without spoilers. Easton and his friends create this dating app… Easton matches with this woman at 100%… which is beyond rare! they immediately have a connection and have a mysterious hookup… continue to talk almost daily… WITHOUT KNOWING WHO OR WHAT THE OTHER ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE! Easton is definitely falling for “Love” but she up and ghosts him and completely cuts ties 🥲🥲 Fast forward five years and he finally meets someone who makes him feel again like he did with “Love” and even though Drake works for him, he is chasing that feeling.

Easton was this delicious dominating man who was maybe a bit obsessed with his woman. She was ALWAYS first 😜

Drake is a bad ass woman who made a name for herself in the tech world and earned her position at “Hooked” the company/app that Easton owns. I love how serious she took her job and how dedicated she was and made sure Easton knew he definitely came second when they were at work 😂

As always, Marni delivers on the spice. not too much but certainly enough that you shouldn’t read this at work 😂😝 Easton and Drake were explosive to say the least.

I cant wait to see where this series goes! and hopefully learn a bit more about Hooked too!

thank you again Marni for this ARC 😘❤️🫶🏻

This is the ultimate second chance romance. Love and Mr. Boston get hooked together by an app. The connection is an instant 100% perfect match. What was supposed to be a one night hook-up turned into more. They only met up the one time, at a masked event, because of travel and work obligations but the constant texts and phone calls, the banter, everything was perfect except timing. Work takes Love across the country and right out of Mr. Boston's life.

5 plus years later Mr. Boston, aka Easton's company, Hooked is thriving. It's growing and hiring like crazy. Enter the perfect candidate, Drake. Except, Drake isn't as they appear, a masculine named Drake, is actually Love. The Love from the hook up app. What happens when they end up in the hiring room together. Who recognizes who first?

second chance. forced proximity. workplace romance. tons of chemistry. a sweet relationship. eternal bachelor finding the one. HEA always

Book 1 in this new series by this highly inventive author and I’m “hooked”!

We begin this story as 3 roommate seniors grad school buddies celebrating their new invention.
A hookup app that’s a sure easy thing for these busy college students to enjoy before they graduate…hopefully with a lasting financial legacy
after graduating!
The premise of this hook up app is anonymity, no profile pic and only surnames!
Meet SaraasLove and Mr.Boston!

Mr. Boston and his grad school buddies create their own hook up app to minimize the problem of hooking up.
But they learn that when things seem too good to be true…they are. He thinks he hit the jackpot when he matches 100% compatibility with someone on the app.

Meeting Love leads down a rabbit hole Mr. Boston never expected, and while I’m at it this story is more that a super exciting super hot story!
It’s twisted and full of unexpected surprises.
But as the story evolves and develops, things are not what they appear and this story.
This is not a college student romance nor is it a typical sexy read. It’s intense, emotional and heart wrenching.
It’s purely unapologetic in its unadulterated steam but as always this insta lust story leads to something else!
Smart, well paced with yummy funny characters, this story had me wondering about the many facets of app “dating”.
How it all ends is the fun of reading this story and not only am I hooked but I can’t wait for more!

This was my first book by this author and I was impressed! I’m going to have to check out her back list now because that wasn’t enough.

They meet on a hook up app and attend a masquerade party. They had an amazing connection that night and then she ghosts him. Five years later.. he’s her boss! I love a good workplace romance..with the close proximity and forbiddeness of a boss/employee relationship.

And the spice? Yes, please. It was great.

Read if you like:
Workplace
Second chance
Forced proximity
Billionaire
Spice

I’ve heard a lot about Marni Mann on Instagram and now I understand why! Definitely recommending this to my romance reading friends.
4.5 rounded up

Welcome to Marni Mann newest series!

This was a really fun, short, spicy read.

I'm not the biggest fan of insta love, but I actually enjoyed how this one went. You could feel the chemistry between Drake and Easton from the get go. I loved the aspect of the dating app and finding your person. I love seeing a power house woman being the center of the business world. It is really refreshing to remember that it isn't just men that try to run the world. The way that Marni write her spicy scenes are out of this world. I would say the this book was mostly spice with a side plot. However, I am on board with it!

Thank you Marni and Valentine PR for the gifted ebook. All opinions are my own.

Thank you Netgalley and Montlake for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is my first Marni Mann read and I honestly have mixed reviews. I'm still giving this 3 stars. It is setting itself up for a decent series. I didn't love the first part - I know it was setting us up for the rest of the book, but Easton came across as a real f*ckboy and really one dimensional.

Once we hit part 2 - and got into dual POV, I thought it got stronger and less one-dimensional. Drake and Easton together were cute - supportive, loads of chemistry and there was SPICE (this is identified as one of Marni Mann's contemporary romance - and some of her other books are identified as erotic -- This one is SPICY - so I can't imagine what those would be like). We have no third act break-up (which fits with how Easton feels about Drake). This reminded me a little of old school Christina Lauren (their "Beautiful" series).

A little work-place / second chance romance with lots of spice. Solid read.

This is the first in a new series and this is Easton and Drake’s story. Easton and a couple of his friends designed a dating app, which is successful, and he connects with “Love”, until she disappears. Now 5-years later Drake comes into his life, and they embark on a no strings attached hook-up, but their hearts know differently.
This is a well written story which is easy to read, with undeniable chemistry, friendships, romance, humor, witty banter, and love, which leads to an entertaining, unpredictable, and fun addictive page turner.
I look forward to reading more from this talented author whose work I highly recommend.

Hooked is an interesting take on the forbidden office romance trope.

Easton and his two best friends develop a one night stand app called Hooked, it matches you on percentage and he never expected to find someone a 100% match to him but he does with Drake, however all he knows is her username!

He starts chatting to his match, Love, and they hit it off and decide to meet at a masquerade ball and they continue to hit it off straight away with an instant connection, at least he thought so until she disappears and he has no way of finding her.

Flash forward, Drake is hired at Hooked, now one of the most successful dating apps, making Easton her new boss, but they don’t realise they’ve met before straight away.

Easton and Drake are hot together, this is a faced paced book with instant connection and spicy scenes. I’m not a big fan of Insta love but if you’re looking for a fun read with light angst then this is the book for you.