Mia Summers can do no wrong. The premise of this sounded implausible to me, but Summers really makes it work and gives enough detail to make it seem like it could happen! I loved watching our protagonists fall for one another and learn to navigate their different lives. More please!

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!

I wouldn't say this was terrible, but it definitely had more potential.

The insta-love was a bit too much and too fast in my opinion.love the cover though

This was a fun, light read! Perfect for a cozy night in or reading on vacation. I love a good rom-com, and that is exactly what this is! It is a little cheesy in places but has plenty of sweet moments between the main characters. I loved that it had the forced proximity and fake dating tropes while also being a closed-door romance.
A massive thank you to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for the complimentary copy in return for my honest review.

I enjoyed reading this book. The drama wasn’t too over the top and there were some very sweet moments between the characters. It did feel like some moments were super cheesy, but overall I would recommend and read again.

Hooked On Hollywood: A Fake Dating Celebrity Romcom by Mia Summers is such a fun rom com. I loved the premise of this book and how it gets childhood friends back together, but now one of them is famous. Readers of rom coms will love this book so much. I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher with no obligations. These opinions are entirely my own.

This is a good book. The two main characters are Olivia and Ryan. They have known each all their lives. Olivia is a professional dog walker. Ryan is a movie star. He just finished a movie and has returned to his hometown to help raise money for the theater. They are auctioning off a dinner date with Ryan. Olivia’s friends buy her the dinner date with Ryan. While on the date they get handcuffed, no one has the key. They go five days without it. They lots of difficult situations, but they manage. They fall in love.

Hooked on Hollywood was cute, but not a book that I would want to come back and read again. I feel like insta-love only works if it's for the purpose of sex scenes, and as this is a closed door romance, it didn't make sense with the overall feeling of the novel.

Ich weiß ehrlich gesagt nicht, wie ich dieses Buch bewerten soll, da ich es aufgrund relativ kurzer Ausleihdauer (ohne Verlängerung) nicht lesen konnte.

This was a light and enjoyable book which kept you reading on. It was a cute and cheesy rom com following Olivia and Ryan. while I felt this book could have had more potential it was overall an easy enjoyable romance read.

Your typical romance novel. Very cute and cheesy moments and perfectly did the small town romance and ex best friends trope. I just felt like so many other books I read.

Her celebrity crush becomes her enemy. She can’t forgive him for a scandal that took place. There’s an auction and her friends win her a date with him. They get handcuffed together and can’t find the key. This book was so good, so funny, and so addicting. I gave it 5 stars and I highly recommend it.

This was a great book. I connected with the characters. I felt engrossed with the plot. I would read another book by this author.

2.0 stars!

Hooked on Hollywood is a light-hearted romance read that follows Olivia Bloom and Hollywood actor Ryan Jones, both back in their hometown—Olivia after a bad breakup and Ryan to recover his public image—and get handcuffed to each other for days after an auction dinner date for the community theater.

While an easy read, this book felt flat. It needed more depth with its characters and storytelling. Everything was too convenient or instant with adult characters being too juvenile. I wanted more tension and exploration, an unpredictable plot, and chemistry.

Although, I see the potential for the story or that this would be enjoyable for someone looking for a quick and cute read but overall, I found this very lackluster.

HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD was a light, cute read and sometimes that's exactly what you need.

Our love interests had to navigate the ins and outs of a small town and Hollywood all while handcuffed to each other.

This was an interesting premise as the plot covers a week of events between Olivia and Ryan. The two had an encounter in the fourth grade. All these years later neither have forgotten that Sock Hop.

I thought the book needed a tad more spice and chemistry between the two. Yet this was still a fun story.

Thank you NetGalley and Sterling & Stone for an e-copy of HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD to review.

I rate HOOKED ON HOLLYWOOD four out of five stars.

Really.liked this book. Cute little rom-com. I loved the storyline was great and the characters were great. Had some.humor

ok, this book had moments that were really good, but lacked the connection I was looking for. Handcuffed to each other?? Really, seems like this was so over the top, that you have to work harder to include in everything. I thought Ryan's character was kind of ding dong. LOL

This is my first book by Mia, so I am not giving up that quickly I am going to read what she does next because I believe she has room for improvement.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sterling & Stone for a copy of this book for my honest review.

Olivia Bloom just won the jackpot: a dinner date with her former childhood crush and now Hollywood hunk Ryan Jones. The only problem? She hates him. And those handcuffs that were supposed to be “just for show” aren’t coming off.

After discovering her fiancé’s affair, Olivia retreats to her small hometown and swears off anything to do with love. Unfortunately, her well-meaning friends have just the plan to pull Olivia out of her funk – they’ll pool their money at a silent auction and win the big prize: a one-on-one date with Olivia’s celebrity crush, Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Jones.

Charming leading man Ryan Jones credits his love of acting to his childhood community theater teacher. When he hears that the theater might close, he volunteers to be auctioned off for a dinner date, where he’ll be handcuffed to the winner. The last person he expects to win the bid is the one girl he never forgot.

The date goes poorly – ever since a terrible video of Ryan went viral, Olivia can’t see him as anything other than an egotistical jerk.

Things go from bad to worse when they learn the key is missing – and they’ll be locked together for the next five days.

And worse than that – Olivia’s starting to catch feelings for the man she’s shackled to. Will being stuck together become the spark that reignites old feelings, or will it only drive them apart forever?

Loved, loved, loved the story of Olivia and Ryan

I really wanted to love this book but unfortunately between the sloppy writing (at one point a character was called Linda and I couldn't figure out who this was and then realized that it was a typo and should have been Lydia or that the author couldn't keep track of the costume that the main character was wearing having it go back and forth between a police officer costume and a robber costume) and lots of little missing connecting words like a, and, the and then which made the book harder to read. There also seemed to be some issues with the time line. I wish the author had just taken a bit more time to review/proof the book before it was published as the story had a lot of potential.

thank you to netgalley for the advanced reading copy. I really enjoyed this and will be getting copies for my shop.