I listened to this on audio book and enjoyed it.
The characters were quite likeable and it was easy to get into and want to know what came next.
Good story about girl power almost, the main character being single for a bit, then ultimately ending up back with her first love.
The narrator was ok, I struggle a bit with different accents on audiobook, but that's me, not the narrator.
3.5 stars.

Love Love Love!!! The cover got me, I didn't read the description before starting and I was hooked from the beginning. Narrators were great, very engaging and upbeat. The different voice changes for each character was different enough to know it was a different character.

Rachel Miller is a successful lawyer; she's married with two young kids...but when personal letters and photos of her and her high school sweetheart surface in a tabloid, her life turns upside down. Jack Bellow is her first love, and he's also a hugely famous actor. He recently confided in an interview that he often thinks about what his life would have been like if he'd settled down with her. When the truth of the leaked photos and letters is revealed, Rachel has a lot to reckon with as she decides what is right. This is a lovely book. It's certainly a romance, but it's also a great story about a woman really finding out what matters to her and pursuing it.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the advanced listeners copy in exchange for my honest review.

I love the story on audio and recommend it for any fan of Nora Goes Off Script.

Rachel Miller is a successful working mom who is content with her life. Her marriage had gone stale years ago, but if you ask her, she’s perfectly happy with the way things are. That is until NSFW photos from high school with ex-boyfriend, Jack Bellows, go viral. Jack has become a very successful actor. To Rachel, he was always the one that got away. As Rachel and Jack reconnect, Rachel begins to look at her mediocre life and wonder if she really is as happy as she thinks she is.

I absolutely loved this book. It was very well written and intriguing throughout. I could not put it away. The characters were all super relatable. I appreciated that Rachel and Jack’s relationship was slow to rekindle. That’s just the reality of being in a relationship after marriage and kids. I thought the author perfectly captured life as a suburban mom. The soccer games, PTA, and gossip queens. It was entertaining.

Jack was the ultimate golden retriever boyfriend. His love for Rachel was a fairytale. I was rooting for them from the very beginning. I could not stand her husband and I was happy that she stood up for herself

I would 100% recommend this book. Thank you NetGalley and the author for the audible ARC.

This was such a sweet emotion invoking story about finding yourself and figuring out what is best for you with a second chance romance. Rachel is such a badass who has a thriving career, can take care of herself, and who considered herself in a happy marriage. Because of her current husbands actions, she’s starts to rethink what she wants and deserves. I loved this story and really connects to our FMC, Rachel. Plus, there is some celebrity drama in the mix. I think this would be a perfect beach read this summer!

The narrator was fantastic and was engaging the whole time.

The you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for this audio-arc! I loved it. This book and audiobook is out now.

Rachel Stone Miller is a high achieving lawyer with husband Dan and two kids. Yet underneath the façade, the cracks keep getting bigger. Her refusal to address it is blown away after her private photos and love letters from Jack Bellow, her movie star high school boyfriend are published in a tabloid, and Rachel is given a much needed wake-up call.

'Love, Me' is a raw, realistic look at one women's crumbling marriage and the man she never got over. Do you forgive and work through the fissues in your marriage, or should you follow your heart and make a break for it? How does that work when you have two children to think about too?

I absolutely devoured this book as the story switched between present day and flashbacks of her relationship with both Dan and Jack. What made this book so visceral was Jessica Saunders' masterful characterisation. Rachel felt so real - a woman in her early 40s who is unhappy but refusing to deal with the problems which are partly the result of both her indecision and poor decision-making over the years. I certainly got invested! I felt the gammet of emotions from the heartbreak and anger for Rachel when Jack unceremoniously dumped her, but also angry at her parents and, especially Alex for their role in some of it.

After you think hope is lost, we're treated to a pitch-perfect ending. While I do wish that Rachel finally made decisions long before Jack turned up (hell before she got married in the first place), I can understand that sometimes you need a much louder wake-up call to find the courage to change. This book reminded me a lot of Annabel Monaghan's 'Nora Goes Off Script' and 'Summer Romance' with the nuanced portrayal of an awesome, flawed, but compelling female character.

I also listened to the audiobook, narrated by Emily Ellet. Emily was perfectly cast and did a brilliant job at capturing the right tone of the book and Rachel's voice.

Thanks to Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the ALC.

Love, Me by Jessica Saunders is a sold book about wondering if the mistakes we made in the past could have made a difference in our future. With a celebrity romance and a past and present timeline the story is cute and a quick read.

Rachel Miller like all of us had a childhood and teen years with friends and boyfriends. Fast forward to years later and she is a top lawyer with 2 kids and married to her college sweetheart. When letters and photos from her past from her high school and early college days with her 1st love Jack is posted online in a article and she has no idea how they got her personal belongings . Jack is now a famous actor so of course this is big news.

She is hurt someone would take her letters and share them now she has to play damage control to protect her kids job and husband from this. The only problem her husband hates the idea of her past boyfriend and is her marriage strong enough to handle all the whispers and spotlight.

This has a mix of present day and her past chapters so you get a full picture of everyone lives.
I'm team Racheal!

Thank you to NetGalley, and Dreamscape Media for sending me the audio-arc in exchange for my honest review.

Love, Me: This was my first book by Jessica Saunders but it will definitely not be my last. I was glued to the story from the first page to the last. The three main characters were realistically imperfect, which I appreciated. Rachel Miller is a lawyer, married to another lawyer and mother to two young children. Her husband, Dan, is bored with his work, and there’s tension in their marriage. One day, out of the blue, their world turns upside down when somehow a tabloid gets hold of old love letters and photographs of Rachel with her high school boyfriend Jack, who is now a famous actor. How did the tabloid get all that? And what impact will that have on Rachel and Dan’s marriage? The book explores all of that and more.

Over the course of the book, we learn Rachel and Jack’s - and Dan’s - backstory, along with Rachel’s best friends, Alex (Alexandra) and Becca. This group of friends grew up in the 1990s and I appreciated all the pop culture references (I’m not that age but remember the period very well; my oldest son is about their ages).

I loved the matter-of-fact Jewish representation (references to getting the kids to Hebrew School, etc.).

I bounced between the audiobook and the ebook for this title, which was very convenient because it enabled me to keep going with the story whether I was able to sit down and read or not. The audiobook was narrated by Emily Ellet, who did a fabulous job with all the voices, both male and female.

Thank you to Union Square and Co. and NetGalley for the opportunity to read an advance reader copy of this book and to Dreamscape Media and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to an advance copy of this audiobook. All opinions are my own.

Rachel’s life seems pretty great. She’s a prominent lawyer, married to her college love, and they have 2 kids. Jack Bellow is the hot movie star in Hollywood, and also happens to be Rachel’s high school love. When photos of the two are released in the media, a lot of things come into question about Rachel’s seemingly great life.

I liked the idea behind the story, of the first love becoming a famous actor. But I didn’t really like some of the plot choices made in the story. Rachel’s husband was really unlikable, regardless of the situation they find themselves. I also didn’t really like the twist with her best friend Alex. I think overall the character development just didn’t take a path I enjoyed.

Thank you to NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for an advanced copy of this audiobook.

📖: Love, Me
✍️: Jessica Saunders
⭐️: 1 of 5

Troupes/Themes:
- Dual Timeline
- Celebrity Romance

Content Warnings:
- LGBTQ+ themes
- Cheating
- Language
- Sexual Content

My Thoughts:

This was not for me, and I ultimately ended up DNF'ing. It was all over the place and overall very immature. The dual timeline reverting back to high school made it feel like I was reading teen fiction, and then we get thrown back to adulthood with a spice. It was too much and I did not like it. Why are grown people obsessing over events that happened in high school, 20+ years later anyway? I was also not a fan of the cheating aspect. All of these things combined just didn't sit well with me, and I just did not enjoy this at all. The narration was fine for what I experienced.
Thank you, NetGalley, and Dreamscape Media for the opportunity to listen and review this advanced copy.

From the beginning, I was kept guessing about who she'd end up with. With Dan, she'd built a life and had two beautiful children. Yes they had issues, but they could work it out right? Right?!

Well, Jack certainly wasn't making it any easier. Glimpses of the past had me rooting for these two to reconnect but at the same time being doubtful since they'd grown up and were living in two different worlds.

Towards the end, I was worried about the outcome and almost gave up. The epilogue was absolutely worth all the nail-biting 😂 This was an exciting debut.

Thank you to Netgalley and Publisher for an ALC in exchange for an honest review. Definitely enjoyed the narration on this one.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Love, Me by Jessica Saunders, an audiobook narrated by Emily Ellet was a super fun, fast, and easy-to-read/listen domestic drama. The main story wasn't too sweet and sugary so it was enjoyable. It was nice to follow two timelines - past and present- to learn about the main characters' connection.
I loved how realistic it felt, I believe a lot of couples could take some lessons from this book!

Rachel Miller, a successful lawyer and mother of two can't admit that her marriage is a struggle so she pretends everything is good. Her husband Dan who is a lawyer as well is unhappy with his career and looking for satisfaction somewhere else and pretends that everything is fine.
Their pretend good life comes to an end when Rachel's high school pictures and love letters are published all around the gossip magazines putting her in the spotlight next to her famous ex-boyfriend. Nothing will be how it was so Rachel must face the reality and make the right decisions.

Emily Ellet did great narration and it was easy to follow each character, there was a good intonation where needed so it felt real.

I am so grateful to #NetGalley and #DreamscapeMedia for a copy of #LoveMe

-betrayal
-what’ ifs
-second change
-self discovery

Loved the voice narrator.
I loved the aspects of this book it’s so realistic and well written. I like how we had the past/present chapters
The relantionship between jack & Rachael in high school was sweet.
This book wasn’t really for me do to the cheating but overall it was a good book.

Really enjoyed this blend between Romance and Women’s Fiction and the multiple timelines, and the way the novel presented a woman finding herself at two very different times in her life. It felt real and raw despite the fantasy aspect of the Rachel/Jack present story. But there was one error that really bugged me: In the chapter set in Fall 1997, Rachel and her friend are discussing Dawson’s Creek, but the show didn’t premiere until January 1998.

I really loved this book! I listened to the audiobook and the narrator did a phenomenal job. From the first chapter, I was hooked. It flew by! The premise was novel: Rachel, an attorney and mom of two, used to date a now-famous actor in high school. His high school love letters are published in the Daily Mail, and her life is thrown into disarray. The event makes Rachel reevaluate her life and her relationships.

I liked Rachel and her growth through the story. I'm ready for a sequel!

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange

The characters were well penned down and each was given enough scope to contribute to the plotline. I absolutely loved it and had a great time reading this.

I absolutely loved this audiobook. I finished it in one sitting. The narration was fantastic. The story was so good. Helloooo strong independent woman! Without giving too many spoilers, I really thought she was going to cave for a minute, not going to lie. Definitely deserving of 5 stars because I didn’t want to put it down and I had to stay up and finish.

🩷Love, Me🩷
I thoroughly enjoyed Love, Me. It’s a delightful second chance romance. I can definitely see this being an absolute hit in book clubs everywhere this year.
If you’re into:
✨Women’s Fiction
✨Suburban/PTA Drama
✨Alternating Timelines
✨Love Triangles
✨Second Chance Romance
✨1/2🌶️
✨Friends/Previous Lovers Now Celebrities
✨Tabloids spilling the ☕️ along with the fallout
✨Type A, Brilliant, Lawyer, FMC navigating the life of a working mom. Who’s thrown into a situation that has her questioning every thing.
Then you’ll enjoy Love, Me!


✨SPOILERS✨
Con’s: I really would have liked to see the FMC work on herself more, especially the perfectionism/inability to receive help.
Her reaction to Jack messing up a second time was like oh whatever it’s ok vs how she blew up on her husband for the first that was nowhere near as bad as Jack’s mess up.

⭐️Disclaimer: I received this book as an arc. All opinions are my own. Thank You so much NetGalley and Jessica Saunders for a chance to read this book.⭐️

Wow. This book was more than I expected in all the best ways. I am blown away! It was my first “I can’t stop listening until it’s finished” book of the year.

I am a huge fan of MCs like Rachel! She was relatable and familiar. She felt like someone you’ve met in life and her story was refreshing. The internal conflict with Rachel kept me wondering what she was going to do next. The flashbacks adding additional backstory to the Jack situation really had me on an emotional roller coaster. It felt like a story of hope and ended better than I expected.

The narrator was great! Emily had me feeling like she WAS Rachel. Huge bonus.

Thanks so much NetGalley and Dreamscape Media for the arc audiobook.