3.75⭐️

2 people with the similar surnames, end up having to share a rundown cottage in Cornwall when the hotel makes an oversight with the booking.

Ella is an ex-actress who is trying to find her place in the world and Callum is a widow learning to move on without the love of this life. they are both in the same quaint Cornish town for 2 different weddings but end up having to share the run-down cottage. The events over the wedding days mean they end up being intertwined quite a lot.

Ella was so sweet, and you couldn't help but like her. I felt like Callum's character was done well so often we see the characters have lost the love of their life but really early on they easily move on. What I liked was seeing Ella & Callum develop a friendship, fall out and have arguments it felt more organic.

Thank you NetGalley & OMC Publishing

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My Top 3 things from this book:
•Cornwall Setting
•Circus Wedding
•Jessie


The Hotel Room Mix Up is a romantic comedy with the great romance tropes of one-bed/ forced proximity - which always guarantees a fun read.

My favourite character was Jessie - she was a riot! I would love for her to have her own book with her happily ever after with Oliver.

I really enjoyed the ‘will they won’t they’ of this story and that Callum and Ella were intriguing characters with a lot of back story and baggage.

Duel third pov is my personal hell. I also found the side characters more interesting than the actual main characters

While I enjoyed that this was a quick easy romance read, it did not pull me into the story has much as other contemporary romance has. The location of the Cornish seaside town was great, but the main FMC and MMC and situations were a little forced. There was too much back and forth from the MMC and the ending was very out of the blue. I did really enjoy the female side character Jessie.

I stuck with this one as I really like the 'forced proximity' trope, but this one was just too much of a slow burn for me. It was definitely a fun story but
I was almost willing myself to get through it to get to the romance bits.

really enjoyed reading this book! had a good pace and well developed characters and was generally lovely and heart warming to read

A lovely feel good story, with well written characters. This is the first novel I have read from Kathy Jay but will look for her novels in the future. A real escape novel

The Hotel Room Mix-Up is such a fun, romantic read set on the coast of a small Cornish town. When two weddings are being held on the same day, the hotel makes an error in booking and has three groups staying in the same room! Everything is booked causing Ella, once popular in the limelight of Hollywood, and Callum, a widower still recovering from the death of his wife two years prior, to seek out lodging elsewhere. The only available option is a dilapidated cottage near the sea. There they meet Jesse, owner of the cottage and large manor house on the property.

Really enjoyed this adorable story set in England. The characters are relatable, funny, and endearing. Following their journey of discovering their true joy in life and meeting the most wonderful people along the way was great fun! This was an easy, truly enjoyable read! Highly recommend if you need a little escape into a sweet meet cute!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for granting me free access to the advanced digital copy of this book.
This was a wonderful book and I'll be purchasing it for the library!

Great story with lovely characters. The author did an amazing job writing them and the story, and I would recommend it to anyone willing to enjoy a beautiful slow burn.

I really enjoyed reading this book. Although the romance aspect was enjoyable, there were moments where it felt a bit overdone. However, what impressed me the most was the way the author developed the characters' backstories and explored some difficult topics. This was my first book by this author, and I will definitely be reading more of their work.

The Hotel Room Mix-Up is a fun and romantic read that really captures the reader’s heart from the first page.

It’s a slow-burn romance that you watch spark and grow as the story progresses and the characters get to know each other. You find yourself really wanting it to all work out for the two main characters so much so the ending will leave you smiling. It’s a lovely read that you will want to pass on to your friends for them to enjoy, too!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It is well written with an interesting group of characters. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys romantic fiction.

Sadly this one wasn't for me, I just found it really hard to get into and somethings just felt a little all over the place. I think with me Romance is a genre that I really really enjoy and if it's not hitting the way I want it to then I can't get into it at all and it's definitely a me thing! My main issue is that I just didn't get them together, separately I found them okay but there just wasn't the chemistry I was looking for.

This is a sweet low steam romance set in Cornwall. It was a little too slow burn for me but I do love the forced proximity trope. Overall an enjoyable read!

I received a copy of this for my honest review.

Our FMC is a former model and actress trying to check into a hotel for he friends wedding, only the hotel has gone through some changes, and in so has two weddings booked that weekend, and overbooked the rooms. Our MMC is back in town for his sister-in-laws wedding, but having a hard time as she is the sister of his late wife. Unfortunately, their room is one in the same - as well as the mother and father of the bride of one of the weddings. Since not all 4 of them can stay in the room - but its oversold because of all the people, the hotel manager ends up finding the last available room for them in a small cottage. Although not ideal, they don't have to sleep in a car. As they spend time together solving problems for both weddings, the go from angry to intrigued. There is something there, but neither will act on it. She is set to go back to London, and he is buy a camper to travel across Europe - so it will just be this weekend. Fast forward a few months and she never left, and he is back for his niece's christening. She has convinced a movie to shoot on location there and is helping organize when a few mix ups happen. They fall back in step with each other, but is one night ever really enough?

An enemies to lovers rom com which was an easy read.
Ella and Callum , come to Cornwall separately to attend two different weddings. They were expecting luxury hotel suites but due to a booking error ended up in a cramped cottage together. This book was a light, hilarious romantic tale
Thank you to Netgalley, Harper Collins and Kathy Jay for letting me read this book in exchange for an honest review

Wonderful story, great character development, great writing! Highly recommend this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it

Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is just a shallow rom-com. Yes, it’s light-hearted and makes for great holiday reading, but Kathy Jay has created characters with complex backstories.

Ella Swift and Callum Smith arrive in the Cornish village of Porthkara on the same weekend. They’re attending different weddings, both happening in the small town: one a family affair, the other a large, celebrity event. For various reasons, both are rather apprehensive about attending their respective events. And then, to make matters even worse, they discover that there’s been a mix-up with their room booking.

Although every single bit of accommodation in the village is booked out due to the influx of visitors for the two weddings, a solution is found … if Ella and Callum are willing to share! They very quickly realize that they don’t exactly have a choice, and so begins a journey that the reader assumes will be the usual trajectory that follows a meet-cute like this one. Well … you know what they say: “Never assume anything!”

Ella and Callum have both arrived in Porthkara with baggage – and I’m not talking about just their wedding attire! Kathy Jay has woven a tapestry of deep layers and emotions into her story, ensuring that this is far more than the run-of-the-mill love story. 

I did find that there may have been quite a few characters who seemed surplus to requirements and I seemed to get muddled up with quite a few of those. But the main characters kept me focused on where I needed to be and I loved the unexpected twists.

The descriptions of Cornwall were beautiful and Kathy Jay obviously has an enormous fondness for the area, which is evident in the way that the place itself is almost like a character on its own. It brought a sense of calm and serenity to much of the upheaval that the characters were experiencing and allowed them to centre themselves and find their own peace of mind.

This is a gorgeous read that I thoroughly enjoyed!

The Hotel Room Mix-Up by Kathy Jay

I picked this one because I thought that it would be a fun read about a double booked hotel room in Cornwall. It turned out to be an enemies-to-lovers romcom about Ella and Callum and the setting was in an old cottage instead.

We follow Ella and Callum who have come to Cornwall for their friends' weddings. There are two weddings and the hotel is fully booked. Because of a new computer system and some mix up with their last names there has been an error and there are no rooms for them. The hotel offers them a cottage that they need to share together. The sparks fly between Ella and Callum but there is something holding Callum back.

There were parts I loved very much about this book, and there were parts I found very annoying.

Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for this ARC.