A gorgeous and sexy small-town romcom featuring two absolute fools thrown into a fake engagement by circumstance (and a boat accident).
Mel, an influencer with the world on her shoulders, needs a place to stay. Evan is Not Thrilled to have her at his family B&B. Yet as they spend time together, in one of my favourite fake-dating premises ever, their attraction and connection grows. The only problem is that Mel’s only here on holiday and her life is back in Boston.
Mel is a wonderful protagonist; I loved her story of learning to cope with perfectionism and her need for control. She is brilliantly messy and has become my favourite character of the series. I really appreciated how much Evan just utterly adored her, and how she became part of his family.
‘The Catch’ is also incredibly atmospheric - it takes place in a world of love and beautiful landscapes. Cora’s Cove, the town, is almost a character in itself, exerting a pull on Mel from the beginning.
Amy Lea’s Influencer series is romance perfection.

This is a really cosy book.

The characters are really likeable. The romance between Melanie and Evan was really sweet. A great easy to read romance.

I think you’ll really like this is you like grumpy/sunshine, fake engagement with forced proximity romance with a little spice.

Thank you to Amy Lea, NetGalley and penguin for this arc.

This is actually the first Amy Lea book I have read and certainly won’t be my last. I loved the storyline of Mel who is a social media influencer going to Canada for work when it all goes wrong! She meets Evan a rugged fisherman who’s b&b she ends up staying at! This is grumpy/sunshine, enemies to lovers, fake dating, small town romance. Lots of angst, mutual pining and slow burn! Will defo be reading the other 2 books in the series now!

It’s cute, it’s an easy read, it’s small town.

But it happens way too quickly, I know it’s fiction but still. One minute she thinks they are enemies and the next it’s like a switch has flipped. The tension didn’t really exist, and for me tension is necessary.

Fans of It Happened One Summer are going to really love this one, it has the same broody male fisherman in a small town vibes and I was totally here for it!

I love an enemies to lovers and a small town story line so this was already ticking my boxes but I really loved the addition of the fake engagement and all the characters in including the side characters like Evans Cousin (please can we have her story next) and Nana! My only mild criticism is that I would maybe have like a little more of the enemies before the lovers as it felt like it swapped over very quickly once the fake engagement was announced

Thank you Michael J and Netgalley for my review copy!

Really loved this booked!! super fun, cute and wholesome. Amy Lea's writing always impresses me! four out of five stars!

When picking up The Catch, you can expect:

🏡 small town romance
🌦️ grumpy / sunshine
🏙️ city girl / small town guy
💍 fake engagement
👀 forced proximity
🌶️ spice

I have to admit that I haven’t read the first two of this series (although The Catch can be read as a standalone too) so I am pretty new to Amy Lea’s work, and wow, I loved it!

Lea provides everything you want in a rom com and then some. I found it so charming, funny and lovely. I loved the characters and thoroughly enjoyed escaping to Cora Cove every time I picked up my kindle. Also, Evan is a very swoon-worthy book boyfriend! 👀

Highly recommend this one for all rom com lovers out there. You won’t regret giving Mel and Evan’s story a go. ❤️

Really loved the story and plot. The characters were very loveable and I was hooked from chapter 1. Great rom com from a great author

What a lovely book!

Thank you to NetGalley for the e-arc of this book. Enemies to lovers isn’t my favourite romance trope, however I really enjoyed how this book spanned out. I definitely preferred the second half of the book, as it gave me all the feels and even made me emotional towards the end! The ending pipped my rating up to four stars as it made me feel giddy and so happy!

Really enjoyed reading this after reading Exes and O’s, I definitely preferred that story but still loved this one!

Definitely recommend and I can’t read to keep reading more from Amy Lea, she is definitely being added to my list of auto-buy authors!

📚BOOK REVIEW 📚

The Catch @amyleabooks

Exe's and Oh's was one of my favourite reads last year and so I was so excited to read the third and final book in the influencer series. I feel very lucky I got to read this ahead of publication and it's definately one to add to your "to be read" pile.

Oh this book just had everything I love. The enemies to lovers is one of my favourite tropes and also fake dating and we get them both in this delightful read. I feel like this book is just waiting to be made into a film. It has similarities in some of my favourite films with "The proposal" and "While you were sleeping"

This book focuses on Melanie who is a beauty and fashion influencer. When she is offered an all expenses trip to Seaside Resorts, in Canada, it's too good an opportunity to turn down. The only problem is leaving her brother who she feels responsible for. However she decides to go on the trip. When she gets to the resort she finds there has been a mix up with the booking and she can't actually stay for another week. So she decides to find another hotel to avoid flying back home Olly to come back out a week later.

This is when she meets Mr grumpy, Evan Whaler who is less than thrilled to see her turn up at the B and B and tries to turn her away. But it's her last resort and the other person running the hotel, Lucy let's her stay.

What follows is a fun read with some hilarious family members, some great banter and friendships formed. There's also a love story which is great to see the journey of how they get there. I loved this book. Loved the characters and there's some real funny scenes too with some spice thrown in also.

Thank you to @penguinukbooks
@netgalley
@amylea for letting me read this book before release.

Thank you NetGalley for the e-arc in exchange for honest review.

This was a disappointing conclusion to the series. It had less of the usual Amy Lea charm and was very very cringey. The characters were childish and the reasons for them fake being engaged didn’t make sense at all. I really didn’t care for the characters and think the MMC was especially horrible and makes excuses for his behaviour.

I really loved the vibes, descriptions of the surroundings and Canada in general. The B&B storyline was a great one and I would’ve loved it to have had a more satisfying ending. Love declaration was cute enough.

Just not my favourite from the series unfortunately.

This is the third and last installment of The Influencer series. I haven’t read the first one yet but I loved the second book. While I enjoyed reading this, it wasn’t hitting it for me.

First of all, I liked the setup of the story: a fashion city-girl influencer out on a work travel experience only to land in a family inn in a small coastal town and pretend to be engaged to a fisherman whom she didn’t see eye to eye at first. Said fake engagement occurred due to him falling overboard, having to be taken to the hospital, her announcing herself as his fiancee so he wouldn’t be alone, and word gets to his overbearing family which defuses an ongoing tension.

I loved seeing Melanie and Evan go through their misbeliefs of their selves and each other, and I was invested in seeing them bond, grow fondness, care, and eventually love. There is a message here about one’s sense of belonging, finding one's home, appreciating and seeing what matters, and creating compromises to meet someone you love halfway.

Here’s the thing though: I think it was rushed, in the sense that the timeline of the whole story is so short to me. Although the writing does make it seem like a slow burn romance, the timeline is too evident for me to feel 100% invested in it. I didn’t get to dive deeper into their character arcs, the conflict, her job as an infleuncer, so it feels underdeveloped in that way. I also struggled to picture out the characters in my head for some weird reason that I can’t pinpoint (despite really loving how cute Melanie and Evan are).

With all that, I kind of feel removed from the story a little bit. Now looking back, I can’t really remember how the story flows in one cohesive picture. I’m also saying that this is most likely a me thing, that my preferences include slow burn romance that takes time more.

Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin General UK for this eARC.

Rating: 3.75 ⭐

The third instalment in the influencer series sees Melanie travel from Boston to Canada to market a hotel only to find herself stuck in a small town B&B run by a grumpy, but attractive fisherman.
This enemies to lovers to fake dating was fun, whilst also covering deeper topics along the way.
I really liked both Mel and Evan as characters, and the side characters as well as getting cameos from the first 2 books.
The romance was a bit insta love, but I enjoyed the book as well as the romantic aspect.
The setting made me want to pack up my things and move immediately. If you liked It Happened One Summer, this gives similar vibes, so definitely give it a go.

The romantic month is upon us so what better than a new Amy Lea rom-com to get you in the loving mood?

In a last-ditch effort to rescue her brand from the brink of irrelevance, Boston fashion influencer Melanie Karlsen finds herself in a rural fishing village on the east coast of Canada. The only thing scarier than nature itself? The burly and bearded bed-and-breakfast owner and fisherman, Evan Whaler.
After a boating accident lands Evan unconscious in the hospital, Mel is mistaken for his fiancée by his welcoming yet quirky family, who are embroiled in a long-standing feud over the B&B. In a bold attempt to mend family fences, Mel agrees to fake their engagement for one week in exchange for Evan’s help with her social media content.
Amid long hikes and campfire chats, reeling in their budding feelings for each other proves more difficult by the day. But is Mel willing to sacrifice her picture-perfect life in the city for a chance at a true, unfiltered love in the wild?

Just as her previous books were, The Catch is a harmless and trope indulgent romantic read, and it's easy to fly through the book in a couple of sittings. Characters are all likeable and the relationships are rather sweet - particularly between Evan's family. The romantic timeline moves FAST, and I was unconvinced by how unfazed both Mel and Evan were by their first steamy kiss, which came out of nowhere but neither of them blinked? Maybe I'm an over-thinker. Also some of Mel's choices and the way the plot resolved were a little tenuous (I'm looking at you, Julian) but I'm willing to overlook these.

A sweet fake-dating rom-com with it's steamy moments - harmless and definitely worth a go.

I really enjoyed the first two books in The Influencer world, and was excited to delve back in with Mel's story! I absolutely LOVED this. As much as I love the Boston setting of the first two, I really enjoyed the small town romance that this brought all the way from Nova Scotia. I adored Evans family and loved the fake dating/engagement plot line, as well as getting small glimpses back into the lives of Mel's friends. This had to be my favourite of the three and I'm so sad it's the last in the series!

I read this book as an arc thanks to Net Galley and I really enjoyed it.

This book is the 3rd book in this series and it is also my favourite one. This was a book that I read in some sitting and couldn’t put down at all.

This is a small town romance and also a social media influencer x fisherman with them also fake dating and I loved it so much and highly recommend to anyone

Thank you Net galley for the ARC COPY!
This is the Amy Lea book i read, and i didn't know that it was part of a series. I was a really fast paced romance about an influencer who has to stay in a small village with this grumpy fisherman who pretends not to like her. At the beginning i thought it wasn't a book for me, because i prefer slow burn, but then, when they got to the fake dating part, i started to enjoy it! I'm giving 3,5 stars, but i want to check out the rest of Amy Lea's books because they seem really promising!
The tropes:
-small town romance
-city girl x small town fisherman
-grumpy x sunshine
-fake dating
-third act breakup

4.25 stars……
I really adored this story of watching Melanie and Evan! It’s a small town romance, fake-dating lovers dream.

It was a heartwarming story of fond families and just couldn’t get enough.

It had just right amount of spice and all the cutesy lil moments that made my heart melt

Thank you NetGalley and the penguin random house Uk for a copy of Amy Lea’s book for an exchange of a honest review.

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin UK for the ARC! I received an advanced copy of the book and am leaving an honest review 😊

This was my first Amy Lea book and the third book in the Influencers series. I will immediately be reading the first two, because this book was a delight!
It follows Mel, a fashion/beauty influencer who heads to the island of Nova Scotia to collaborate with a resort for her Instagram page and Evan, the surly grumpy lobster fisherman she accidentally gets fake engaged to in a mishap.

I loved this book! It was a slooow burn that was sooo satisfying with the payoff. Even though the story takes place over a couple of weeks, I loved the development between Mel and Evan. It was great to see them go from enemies to friends to crushes to lovers.

And all the shenanigans with Evan’s family were hilarious, they were a hoot! They just added so much to the story and I loved how Mel endeared herself to them and she opened up in the process.

My only complaint was that it wasn’t dual POV. I would have loved more from
Evan’s POV throughout the story, but it didn’t detract from the story. This was such a fun story from start to finish. I would definitely recommend and I would reread this again in a heartbeat.

When Mel, a social media influencer, is offered a fully paid stay at a spa in Canada she has to take it. Her followers are dropping and brands have stopped getting in touch so the change of pace might do her social media the world of good.
A scheduling mishap and fishing season mean she has no choice but to stay at the only available Airbnb for miles around, in the small town of Cora’s Cove.

Evan- the grumpy, bearded, plaid wearing fisherman/B&B owner and Mel do not have a great first meeting or a second or a third.. but when an accident out on the water sends Evan to the hospital, Mel has to pretend to be his fiancé to stay with him. The only problem is, his family believe the lie too..

The Catch is the third and final instalment of The Influencer series and dare I say, my favourite of the three. I throughly enjoyed this one and pretty much read it all in a single day.

I loved Mel and Evan, and of course Evan’s family. I would have liked to have seen his friends a little more and maybe a few more nights in The Anchor. The setting was gorgeous, I wouldn’t mind a stay in Cora’s Cove!

Read if you like:
• single POV
• small town romance
• grumpy/sunshine
• found family
• fake dating
• forced proximity

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review