Unfortunately this book was not for me.

The writing style was lacking by a lot, in my opinion.
Not even just some parts, it started on page 1.

The love scenes were awkward and not what you'd expect to find in a romance book

I did skip around a lot.. there just was many things that made me dislike this one.

Shelby’s runs the family-owned vineyard with her Father. Flora Valley Wines has been their passion since Shelby was young. When her Father suddenly passes away, Shelby is left to pick up the pieces. She soon finds out that her Father was not the best at managing the finances. Her Mother and sibling have given a timeline until they will sell the vineyard.
Shelby knows that she needs help, so she turns to her father’s old friend. He hires Nate, a Columbia graduate with a business degree to run Flora Valley Wines.

For me this book scraped by to get two and a half stars. It had that rom-com feel in the beginning and started off cute, then just fell off for me. This book has Dual POV’s changing from Nate to Shelby. The MMC was a big problem for me. He is basically just a walking, talking jerk who decides, out of nowhere, that he's in love with Shelby. It was such a whiplash that it didn't make sense at all. They have a couple of conversations, in which he keeps thinking how terrible she is. At one point during one of their conversations (this is when I was over this book) he wishes he could hit her so hard she passed out and stopped talking. WHAT?!? The ending was cute, but they were portraid so YA that the spicy scenes felt ick.

Thank you to NetGalley and One More Chapter, UK for the advanced reader copy in exchange for my honest review. This title releases July 5th.

This book was cute. It had me intrigued from the beginning. I will be picking more up from this author.

Such a fun premise....Nate is hired by an investor to help save Shelby's family's winery. In true enemies to lovers fashion, Shelby, of course is not on board with this. Instant attraction aside, the two don't really get off on the right foot.

Like others have said, I anticipated someone similar to Tessa Bailey's Unfortunately Yours, and this fell pretty far from what I was expecting.

A seemingly light hearted plot, close proximity workplace romance quickly was actually a very surface level, insta love, heavy subplots, informal writing and so many side characters with their own things going on that it was hard to keep track. Not to mention, there were things that felt glossed over when there should have been more time spent on certain subjects (background especially was missing for the scenario with the winery, and each of the characters) and the fact that this took place over the course of a couple week???

This was a quick read, perfect for summer, and while I am diving straight into Cam's story from here (and can't wait), there were too many things about this story that were lacking and it just wasn't for me.



Thank you Netgalley and HarperCollins UK, One More Chapter for the ARC in exchange for my review!

Every single trope in this book was one that I love, however, the writing style left me disappointed and unable to really get invested in the story. The characters were just okay in my opinion, and I found it a bit annoying that Shelby refused to swear, and instead would use random words in place of said swears. It made the book feel a bit too juvenile. For that reason, I wouldn't recommend this book to my friends / followers.

I loved the idea of this book and love food/beverage related rom coms. This one was not a fit for me and I DNF'd just under 40%. The insta-love was a lot, but "boink-bonk" was far too much.

Happy PUB day! This book was cute! I loved the small town winery setting, that it was in dual POV, and the touches on grief. I normally love enemies to lovers but this “lovers” part just happened so fast. I did like a lot about this book though. Shelby and Nathan’s chemistry was def there. I also thought the spice was pretty good! Although I’m not sure if I will be eating key lime pie for a while 🤣 Overall this was a good summer read!


Thank you One More Chapter, HarperCollins UK, and NetGalley for the ARC of this book!

Unfortunately I didn't finish this book past the 37% mark. The writing was 95% internal dialogue with nothing seemingly happening. The extra 5% was between the 2 main characters but there were maybe only 4 or 5 instances where they actually interacted, yet he fell in love with her? Literally nothing happened for that to make sense, they'd barely spoken.

Also, I didn't like how the MMC described her friends as beautiful etc yet he didn't do that with the FMC, in fact he said she looked about 12 which was pretty creepy.

📚ARC Review 📚

Corkscrew You⭐️⭐️⭐️🌟

Trying to save her family’s winery after her father passed, Shelby is forced to bring in Nate, a savvy businessman, to help her out. The problem is Nate is all business, Type A and doesn’t want to fail at anything. Whereas, Shelby is quriky, bubbly and the small town’s sweetheart. Their personalities couldn’t be more different, but opposites do attract right?

This was a cute romcom! I like the dual point of view and both of the characters. I loved Shelby’s personality and how independent she is. Having to deal with grief of her father and a failing business, she stands strong. Her and Nate’s banter was funny and they balanced out each other well. My dislike would be how fast Nate fell for Shelby. Within the first few chapters, he was already “in love” with her. I wished that would have been slower. Overall, it was still a good!

This book just published, so be sure to check it out! Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins UK One Day for my advanced readers copy. This is my honest and voluntary opinion.

DNF at 100 pages, I just couldn't get into the writing style or connect with the characters.

Did not share on social since it was under 3 stars.

Shelby is struggling to keep her father's vineyard in business after his death and then her mother, who inherited the complete outfit, tired of the amount of work required to run the vineyard decides to sell. Shelby is forced to find financial backing and after a long struggle does find it - however it comes with a stipulation that she will have to work with a new business manager, Nate. With a clash of personalities things don't go well.......
I must admit that I struggled with this book, both main characters aren't particularly likeable, although I did warm to them as the story developed. There are also some very spicy scenes that I'm not always a fan of. I did persevere with reading and it did all start coming together, in particular the reason for Nate blowing hot and cold in his relationship with Shelby coming clear and the combination of cold business logic against an emotional attachment behind to find a balance. Worth a read, especially if you enjoy the spicy scenes, I would give this 3.5* rounded up to 4* after finishing the book.
I received an advance copy of this book from the publisher through Netgalley, however this did not influence my review of the book and I subsequently purchased it on release.

wine and enemies to lover is one hundred percent up my ally. it felt a bit rushed at times but overall i did enjoy this book and would recommend to people who want a quick summer romance read

If you love to read books that are:
Grumpy/Sunshine
Small town romance
He Falls First
Workplace Romance
This is for book is for you. This story follows Shelby who desperately wants to save her late father's winery. Her father's acquaintance offers to be an investor however decides to shake things up by enlisting Nate who has experience in the business to turn things around. Shelby reluctantly agrees even though Nate and Shelby buttheads when it comes to what is best for the winery.


This book was cute- I would say a nice small town romance that had me giddy throughout. In terms of the tension/enemies to lovers- yes there was tension and enemies to lovers when it came to the business but Nate fell for Shelby very quickly (even though he mentioned being jaded by his ex). I do love that each character in some ways had family issues that they were still working/adjusting to.

Definitely can't wait to read the other books in this series!!!! Excited to read more of Catherine Robertson books!

Thank you to One More Chapter, Netgalley and author Catherine Robertson for this eARC.

I thoroughly enjoyed Corkscrew You.
Were our MCs, Shelby and Nate annoying and irrational at times? Yes. Did I still love and root for them? Also yes!
I especially loved the banter and the secondary characters.
If you like fun, quick and cute summer romance reads with small town vibes and a grumpy x sunshine romance this is the book for you!

This book realllly tried to be funny and quirky and came out super awkward and embarrasing. I really wanted to like this becuase I loved the concept a winery owner is struggling and a hot rich business man swoops in to save the day.

BUT the main characters obsession with fake swearing made me think of her as a 14 year old.. her favorite phrase is FIG .. because she cant curse.. and she calls sex the boink bonk.. and I just couldnt accept she was in her late 20s...

Unfortunately I didn't connect with or love this one. I liked the small town winery setting but I found Shelby quite immature and didn't like the weird non-swearing. The insta love was also a bit much for me as I didn't feel the relationship development before they started sleeping together all of a sudden.

Thank you to NetGalley and the author for the review copy. This definitely doesn't mean this one won't be for you, it just wasn't the right pick for me.

This has a very good plot but the delivery and execution was not. This started out as enemies to lovers and barely three chapters in we are on the insta love trope.

It started well and somewhere along the way something was lost and well you can guess the rest.

Throughout the book, it felt like something was missing there was hardly any connection between the main characters. The scenes merged together faster than the speed of light. I had to reread several times as it felt like I had missed vital information.

But, one thing I enjoyed was the sibling connection and relationship between the Durants and I will subject myself to more ‘torture’ to read their stories. Also I will love to read Jordan’s story.

Corkscrew You is book one in her brand new Flora Valley series by Catherine Robertson.
A phenomenal little rom-com!
Shelby and Nate are very likable characters who I instantly fell in love with!
The writing is amazing. From the beginning to end I was pulled deeper and deeper in.
A charming and witty story!
I’m so excited for book two!

Thank You NetGalley and One More Chapter for your generosity and gifting me a copy of this amazing eARC!

I really wanted this book to be better. I love a good grumpy sunshine and forced proximity trope but the characters just didn’t do it for me. Shelby was written in a way that was just trying way too hard to be quirky. And Nathan just fell flat for me. The pacing of this book was really weird. There was no build up and then all of a sudden they were hooking up. And then within a week they were in love with each other.

⭐️

Loved this! Definitely going to look out for more from this author, I am fully in my romance era and this truly hit the spot for me.