Amy Lea does it again! I love her writing style and she really hit the nail on the head with this one. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone! My patrons will love this!

I really enjoyed this enemies to lovers romance novel. I liked this better than the second book in the trilogy, but set on you is def my fave. I loved the setting and the vibes and all of the characters. I will 100% buy this for my romance collection at my library.

While I *liked* the first two books in this series, I truly *loved* this one. Mel's book by FAR has the most chemistry, swoon, and spice. I really has zero complaints.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for this advanced reader's copy of The Catch by Amy Lea! Another absolutely delightful rom com from Lea!

Perfectly fine and cheesy. It's the third in a series, but you don't exactly have to read the other two in order to understand. The main characters of the previous two books play somewhat major roles in this book, but since they're romance novels, one can pretty much guess how the previous two end without reading them.

Melanie is probably the most believable of the three in the series, and I liked the play "While You Were Sleeping." Isn't a book I'll go back and reread, but it was good for what I needed.

Thanks, NetGalley!

Mel traveled to Canada for an influencer gig, all expenses paid, at a luxury hotel. When she finds out there’s a mix-up with her hotel reservation, she’s debating where to go back home, or find another place to stay for a week. She finds this inn at a small town. When she arrives at the inn, it doesn’t look like the online pictures.

She meets Evan, a grumpy fisherman running the inn with his cousin, Lucy. Mel and Evan don’t exactly get along. Thanks to Lucy, Mel is able to stay for a week until she can go back to the hotel.

After a boating accident puts Evan in the hospital, Mel feels terrible. They will only allow family members to stay with him, so she tells them she’s his fiancée. Mel then has to keep with the charade, when Lucy hopes to have some family relations restored.

Having to go through a fake engagement, Mel and Evan’s forced proximity start making sparks fly.

It was cute, sexy, and it made me laugh many times. Nana was my favorite character. This is the first book I read by Amy Lea. I did not feel lost while reading without reading the first 2 from the Influencer Series.

Thank you NetGalley, Berkley Publishing, and Amy Lea for the ARC!

The Catch by Amy Lea

Amy Lea has become one of my all time favorite rom-com authors this year. Exes and O's will forever hold a top spot of my all time favorite books. I was really excited to read The Catch. When I got the Netgalley approval, I let out a pretty loud screech. 

This book did not disappoint! It was 5 "couldn't put it down" stars. It had all the best tropes wrapped up in one perfectly written rom-com.
-Enemies to lovers (the best trope IMO) great banter and tension. 
-Opposites Attract (fashion influencer and Canadian fisherman)
-Fake Dating/Fiancé
-Found Family 

What I also loved about this book:
-Nova Scotia small town setting
-I fall hard for an outdoorsy man wrapped in plaid, that is able to show his emotions
-Side characters
- Amy Lea knows how to write the perfect quirky grandmother 
-I loved the underlying story about family 
-Even though I could not relate to Melanie's character on a personal level, I loved her back story and it made her very likable. 

There was nothing I did not enjoy about this book. When you're getting sad at 90% that is going to be over soon, you know that is a good book! 

Thank you to Berkley Romance, Netgalley and Amy Lea for the gifted copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was SO cute! The Catch was one of my most highly anticipated books & it definitely didn’t disappoint. I’ve loved every single book I’ve read by this author so far, & I can’t wait to read more!

the first half was slower for me to get through, but i really liked the back half. i always love a small town or seaside setting, and this book has both. i came to enjoy both leads, even though they weren’t my favorite to begin with. i kind of got the vibe the evan’s surliness was masking more emotional feelings from the start, so it was nice for that the be vindicated. the way the whalers welcomed mel into the fold was heartwarming considering her past.

#netgalley

The Catch was one of my favorite reads in quite a while! Amy Lea is on her way to becoming my new fav author! I’m currently reading a collaboration she did with Mindy Kaling for Amazon and loving that as well! This book has me swooning, emphasized how important family is, and also teaches us that what we see on someone’s social platform is not their real life. I loved the interaction between our main and her close relationship to her brother. It took me a little while to get into the romantic aspect, but I liked how they also didn’t jump right into love either because that wouldn’t be believable. Plentoy if fun dude characters and crazy but lovable family members as well as a family feud make this one a delight to watch unfold. I think this is a series so I really want to go back and read the first one as well as check out the new one!

QUEEN AMY LEA DOES NO WRONG

I read this book in one night and with no regrets. I have gone around telling everyone how perfect this romance is, with grumpyxsunshine to clear communication I absolutely devoured this cutie.

I never thought Amy would be able to top Exes and O's as it was in my top 5 books ever but I have to say this one honestly may be a little better.

I absolutely fell in love with these characters and their town/family. I am looking forward to rereading again!

This book did not hit the spot for me. I thought I could look past the main character being an influencer, but alas I could not. I know the author was trying to show that she was a layered character and was more than what her profession portrayed her as but I still felt that she came across as superficial and I couldn't get on board with rooting for her.

The Catch by Amy Lea is a lot of fun! Each of her books in the influencer series gets better. This time around we follow Mellanie to Nova Scotia where her influencer trip to a luxury spa turns out not to be what she had planned. Instead she has to find a room and the only Air B&B available is in a small fishing town well off the main sights. There, she meets Evan, a grumpy lobster fisherman who likes his flannel shirts, but seemingly not much else. Queue romance to ensue!

Especially if you like small town, opposites attract, fake dating, large family topes, you will enjoy this books. Lea keeps it light and funny while still giving the characters enough depth to identify with them. Both Mellanie and Evan are faed with how they take on too much responsibility for their family's well being in different ways. This will be a great romance read for the spring. I can't wait for this one to hit the shelves. Don't miss it.

Thanks to Berkley Romance and NetGalley for access to an eARC of this book in exchange for a fair review!

When a vacation booking goes wrong, Melanie finds herself at the mercy of grumpy fisherman Evan who doesn’t much care for her big city rich girl attitude. Do opposites really attract or are Melanie and Evan’s differences irreconcilable? For fans of It Happened One Summer, The Catch is a charming small town fake dating romance with plenty of spice.

Thank you Net galley for the arc
I love Amy Lea, she’s quickly becoming a favorite. After reading this I want my own Evan, I want somone to see through me the way Evan does. Feel good hug in a book with a plot that does not stop

Enemies to lovers rom com, City meets country with grandma wearing fake eyelashes

Nothing to complain about here, but nothing exciting to report either. There is a cool grandmother character who is easy to like, but everyone is just so forgiving and understanding about everything...it's...fine.

I really loved Exes and O's by Amy Lea and immediately grabbed this one when I saw it.

I have to admit I had a hard time NOT comparing this to another similar story (It Happened One Summer). While there were a few clear differences to this story, there were a lot more similarities that were hard to get past and not think "that was done so much better there", and add in the fact that this wasn't half as entertaining as the other I found myself skimming quite a bit.

The build-up to this romance was kind of uninteresting and it just sort of happened. I missed any kind of tension. The fake dating trope and enemies to lovers (were they really enemies?) I just wasn't invested in either. The characters were fun (Lucy and Grandma) but I also feel like we only really got to know any of them very surface level.

This was a bit of a miss for me.

I was so excited to be able to read this! I loved the first two books in this trilogy and I was impatiently waiting to read about Mel since I read the teaser. It did not disappoint. I loved everything about it. It reminded me of the Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds movie, the proposal. So good! I cannot wait until it's released!

Amy Lea is an author that is a drop all other books for me. Since reading her debut, #SetOnYou , I’ve been obsessed with her work. #TheCatch is the final book in the influencer world and while it doesn’t come out until February, I just couldn’t wait.

Mel and Evan were exactly the five star grumpy/sunshine, fake dating, fish of water couple I needed and I loved every page of this book. I loved watching them peel back their exteriors and see each other for who they really were. @amyleabooks writes so well that these characters truly become friends you do not want to say goodbye to!

What a way to “end” summer! Amy Lea does The Proposal with IT HAPPENED ONE SUMMER undertones?! I’m here for it!!!!!!!