Thank you to @macmillan.audio for this ALC and St. Martin's Press (SMPRomance) for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

Summary:

Katie Price is America’s Sweetheart. Will Green is YouTube’s It Girl. They were best friends in high school until Katie’s fame took her out of Green Bay, WI and into the limelight. When they reconnect 13 years later, Katie is on the precipice of redefining herself, and Will Green is ready to make changes of her own.

When Katie comes back to town for the holidays, they reconnect, but realize their friendship could have always been something more.

My main thoughts: This was a lot hornier and heavier than I was anticipating. Please check the trigger warnings, especially for grief and emotional abuse.

I was expecting a light Sapphic rom-com about kissing.

Instead, I got a deep, emotional story about people healing from trauma and finding each other along the way.

The audiobook narration from Mia Hutchinson-Shaw was fantastic - but was 13.5 hours. I sped it up to 2x speed to get the plot moving.
The writing in this book is also wonderful. The duo that forms Mae Marvel did each character’s emotional journey justice, but it got to be A LOT OF FEELINGS and much less kissing than you’d expect. However, the kissing scenes were pretty top-notch. I sincerely didn’t get the vibe that this was two separate people writing, which means they did a great job of working together/editing to get the feels right.

I’d definitely read more from Ruthie Knox and Annie Mare.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4 for great narration.

Such a fun read, a little bit of pacing issues at first but I found this book to be a very sex positive, and a fun take on the celebrity comes back to their hometown trope. Even though the middle of the book did drag on a bit for me, the ending was extremely enjoyable and made up for it!

A slow burn...

A long slow burn, with kissing and more.
What I liked was that both Katie and Wils could communicate.
Very few books include their lead characters having the ability to communicate in a healthy, constructive, meaningful way. Yay.
Recommend.

3.5 rounded to 4

I loved the premises of this and wanted to love it. I found myself getting lost and wanting to do other things while reading it. The pacing was off at times, and I felt like I couldn't really care what happened to the characters. It has some good scenes that make the book worth reading; however, I probably won't pick this one up again.

Arc received from the publisher; all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Everyone I Kissed Since You Got Famous is Mae Marvel's best work yet. What a fun, upbeat, and raucous romance—I could've kept reading about these characters forever. Thank you for the opportunity to read an advanced copy!

2.5

I think this was a solid second chance romance featuring a celebrity who has taught her cats to speak via button and her childhood best friend/first love who is now TikTok famous. It's sweet and inclusive and there were some really hot scenes and other people seem to be really loving it but overall it didn't really work for me.

While I appreciated the lack of a third act breakup and I generally love a cozy good time, there never really seemed to be a driving plot for this book which made it feel longer than it should. I also struggled with some of the dialogue because honestly who talks like that in real life? I probably should have put the book down the first time the cats spoke via button (which to my surprise I ended up thinking was sort of cute) but I didn't and while I don't regret finishing this book, I also know it won't stick with me at all.

Other people seem to be getting along with this much more than I did so if it seems interesting give it a shot!

This truly adorable queer romance novel began with a premise I just couldn't get my head around - Wil and Katie were best friends growing up, due to their moms being best friends, but after high school, the two didn't speak for thirteen years, due to Katie getting famous, despite the fact that their moms continued to be best friends. And Wil's mom saw Katie regularly since she was best friends with her mom. The idea that these two women would NEVER see each other or speak in thirteen years - despite the lack of any real fight or falling out - made no sense to me. And then their first meeting after all that time was like no time had passed at all, which also lacked believability.

However, I loved almost all of this book! It was so sweet and the chemistry was fantastic, and it has my two favorite tropes - friends to lovers and famous person regular person. I wish the premise wouldn't have been so difficult for me to get past, because besides that, I truly loved this book. I enjoyed every moment I spent with it and with Wil and Katie. I also love that the authors are a married couple. Just so cute.

I tried multiple times to get past the first few chapters of this book, but I could not. It was not well-written, and the character's connection was sloppy. How could you be childhood best friends who fell in love with one another at a distance, but it's been a decade since you've even texted because one of the characters was "secluded in Hollywood" due to a controlling boyfriend while she was traveling the world, visiting the hometown that FMC1 still lives in - while their moms are best friends and talk all of the time. None of it makes sense.

DNF 6%. I hated the main character Katie. The way she was written pissed me off and I can't do the creepy pet buttons that make them talk. They weird me out. Also, who cares that your not so secret project got leaked. IDK I need to fill in words here, but Katie needed a therapist bad and I just don't have it in me to listen to a grown woman go through the "woe is me" vibe ever.

nothing really happens in this book, and i still don't understand why they didn't speak to each other for 13 years??

So much going on in this sapphic delight! You’ve got friends to lovers, slow burn and second chance all in one. Two main characters who are unsatisfied with different aspects of their lives, getting inspired to take charge and make changes, multiple settings- Green Bay, WI and Los Angeles ( and a bronco wink) and it’s taking place around the holidays. Captures you from the beginning, and stays great all through.

This was just fine. I wanted to love the story but had a hard time keeping up. A lot of the writing felt over embellished or over explained, where I found myself wondering what the heck I just read. The characters were funny but sort of bland. I just never bought into the full thing.

DNF @ 15%

This was just too slow to start for me, and there was too much happening during set up.

I really enjoyed this book. Both Wil and Katie grew so much as they reconnected and realized how they felt at 18 and now. They both had very unique situations but it really worked for me. wil’s TikTok experiment was pretty intriguing. I appreciated how the author handled Katie’s toxic ex. I also loved the friendship their mothers shared.

Pride month read #3 and Mae Marvel killed it. I was honestly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. The miscommunication trope was thrown out the window, This allowed for the characters dialogue to shine. What a refreshing read. Smiles all day.

Thank you to St. Martin's Press | St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for providing an eARC for a honest review.

A sapphic celebrity romance is always an immediate yes from me. :)

Thanks to the publishers for the advanced audiobook and e-arc. I enjoyed both formats!

Thank you NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This book was okay, like it was just fine. I liked the premise and the best friends-to-lovers trope with a sapphic romance but the writing was slightly boring. I kept getting distracted easily with other things which isn't normal for me when I read.

I do plan to try out other books by this author in the future but this one was just okay.

This was so much more emotional than I had anticipated, but I’m not complaining. It really delved into how hard relationships would be if you were insanely famous and the world had expectations that you couldn’t live up to.

There was such history between these two with so many years of longing and when they were finally able to get on the same page their chemistry was electric and the spice was definitely spicing!

Thank you so much to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for this eARC. All opinions are my own.

This was an excellent slow burn sapphic romance. I loved reading about Wil and Katie falling for each other and how they helped each other move forward in their lives and with their goals. The book was wonderful!