Another celebrity romance that slayed. Great representation, healthy communication, and a heartwarming story.

Wasn’t what I was expecting. While characters were fairly well developed, this wasn’t a plot or story that pulled me in and kept me engaged. Author is very gifted and dialogue is good- just not my taste

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💋BOOK REVIEW💋
Everyone I’ve Kissed Since You Got Famous
Mae Marvel
Pub Date: June 11, 2024

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I love a good celebrity romance and this delivered on all counts! I found myself enamored with Wil and Katie and the rediscovery of their friendship-turned-relationship. They were absolutely perfect together.

We should also account for the fact I am a sucker for friends to lovers, and when it comes to second chance friends to lovers, there is no doubt in my mind I love it even more (too many incredible trope scenarios). This was my first novel from Mae Marvel (or Ruthie Knox, or Annie Marie—which I hope to rectify in the near future). I found the writing to be captivating and held my attention from start to finish, with a story to match. As a (long-suffering) Bears fan, I appreciated the sports jokes made in the story about Bears fans buying your house in Green Bay (*gasp*). With a captivating story that included a trip to Costco, social media, the cutest cats, an old school Bronco (classic 👩‍🍳🤌💋), I cannot recommend it enough.

I can’t wait to read what Mae Marvel puts out next!

Thank you to the authors and St Martin’s Press for my new favorite book of this summer!

This book reads like Taylor Swift fan fiction.

I found the book to be very mediocre. I wanted to like it, but it just never hit for me.

It was a fine story, with okay characters. The writing was a bit confusing at times, like there wasn’t enough explanation for some parts. But other parts were referred to ad nauseam.

Overall, it’s was an okay read.

An ARC was provided by NetGalley and St. Martin’s Griffin in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you netgalley a d smp for the e-Arc. My opinions are my own. I wanted to love this but was feeling underwhelmed. I felt it was dark to slow moving and put it down many times. I liked the cover and the title was interesting.

Suggest to give it a try.

This one has every romance trope you could ask for however the story draggggged on. I would have given it a way better rating if it had ended earlier.

Really fun romance about two believably successful weirdos with great chemistry.
I like the Red White and Royal Blue vibes—this is a fantasy world, but the people feel vibrant and real.
Recommended!!

As much as I wanted to like "Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous," something just didn't click for me. That in no way should take away the author's unique plotline, representative characters, honest story and adept writing skills. I just felt a bit slow to me personally. However, I can see the merit in the writing.

CW: Sexual Misconduct (a tad)

This was amazing! I loved the sweet celebrity romance with a lot of witty banter. MCs were really relatable and engaging and fun to watch their romance bloom.

Wil and Katie were inseparable in high school, but when Katie left Wisconsin and become an incredibly famous actress, the two friends didn’t stay in touch. Many years later, they finally get the chance to reconnect—and it’s only then that they realize what they had in high school was probably a little more than friendship. They have a second opportunity to explore their connection, but doing so is easier said than done. Katie is under constant scrutiny by the media, and Wil has certainly put herself in the public eye by filming viral videos of herself kissing a new person every week.

This got me from the beginning and I couldn't stop reading. Looking forward to reading more by Mae Marvel

Cute and fun and refreshing that there was no third act breakup! I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a fun and quick read!

Very cute! I loved the main characters and their romance. They weren’t perfect but they knew themselves and it felt like they were healthy and ready for the relationship. It felt so mature compared to some romance stories I’ve read.

Sapphic romance. Katie and Wil had a thing years ago in high school. Now Katie is an A-list celebrity and Wil made a personal challenge to kiss two new people a week, which has made her popular, but her love life isn't really going anywhere. When Katie comes back, their chemistry leaps off the page, but do they still have enough in common to be a couple?

Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin's Griffith, and St. Martin's Press for this advanced copy! You can pick up Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous on June 11, 2024.

I thought I'd tear through this cute, adorable WLW romance. The premise had me hooked, the characters felt real and engaging, and I was invested in the storyline for the first 20% I managed to read. But the pacing in this book really took me out of the story.

It took me DAYS to read the first 67 pages, all because each individual scene seemed to last FOREVER. I couldn't even tell you why so much time was spent on these individual moments because they lasted so long I would forget what had happened earlier. Maybe I'm just used to quicker-paced romances, but I could not imagine reading the remaining 230 pages at that speed. It felt like it took ages for events to occur or build up, and that pacing just wasn't for me.

But like I said, the characters were phenomenal and I love the idea of this second-chance/friends-to-lovers queer romance. I enjoyed the stakes being set, and I think other readers who really love character-driven stories will LOVE the direction the author goes with this story. It just wasn't for me personally.

Thank You Netgalley for the ARC!

i love this….. it was sexy and hilarious and talking cats and just so much fun and love and taking back one’s own story and it was great..

This story follows two high school friends one who is now, 13 years later, a tiktok influencer who left law school after the death of her father and the other an a-list actress haunted by her abusive ex.
They reconnect like no time is lost and find out how to move forward past all of their ghosts and back into each others lives.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous by Mae Marvel.

There is a lot to like about this book. The characters are unique and interesting with fully developed, complicated lives. There is a plenty of humor and authentic emotion. There is also a very realistic representation of grief and trauma.

This book was a very slow burn. The chemistry between Katie and Wil was off the charts, Although they had known each other their whole lives and were instantly drawn together when reunited, the pace at which their relationship advanced was glacially slow. At first that was appealing but ultimately went on for too long.

The thing I struggled with was how Katie’s parents kept her isolated even from long-time family friends they knew to be trustworthy. I know it was important to the plot, but it’s the one thing that made this story feel less authentic.

Overall this is a very interesting and fun read. Rounding up from 3 1/2 stars.

This book had one of my favorite romance tropes- friends to lovers. The characters were very well written, engaging, and overall very likeable. Katie and Wil's relationship even had me swooning at parts!

Until the following items are met by the SMP team, I will be withholding any promotion or review of any St. Martin's Press titles (including SMP Romance and Wednesday Book titles):

1. Address and denounce the Islamophobia/racism from your employee.
2. Offer tangible steps for how you're going to mitigate the harm this employee caused.
3. Address how moving forward, you will support and protect your Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab readers, influencers, and authors in addition to your BIPOC readers, influencers, and authors.

The author launches right into the narrative, leaving the reader to slowly discern that Katie is famous and Wil used to know her/have a crush on her/have a relationship? with her, and things are now Awkward, with their only communique from messages passed between their mothers, who appear to be friends.

In chapter two, Katie is revealed to be a cat mama who has taught her cats to talk to her through using buttons to pick our words from a 50-word controlled vocabulary using an arrays of . While I could suspend my disbelief for this concept with Seven the dog in Lessons In Chemistry, I didn't buy it here, and put the book down at 7% complete.

Overall, I liked this book. I liked the romance and the sexiness, and the tropes were all the good ones. I didn’t exactly buy into the premise too much though. I think maybe those who are more interested in internet fame and media might click a bit more with the storyline, but I unfortunately did not.

Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous combines a few of my favorite romantic comedy tropes into the same book: famous person/non-famous person and internet sensation. I loved this non-traditional romcom!