The DM Diaries is a movie star/plus sized influencer, romantic comedy. It's a mismash of drama, humor, emotions and found family. It's a quick paced read that kept me hooked from the first page. I loved the witty banter between these characters. Jude and Olive were perfect together. It's a must read that will make you laugh and swoon. I can't wait for more from Teagan.

Laurie West and Alastair Haynesbridge did a great job bringing these characters to life.

The DM Diaries by Teagan Hunter is a fun and light- hearted romcom contemporary romance.
This is a story between Olivia, a plus-sized influencer who has many insecurities about herself and uses an actor's instagram DMs as her own personal diary/therapy. Although she never gets a response, its a space where she can vent and air her thoughts without prejudice.
Jude is an actor who has grown up in the spotlight thanks to his famous parents. He's trying to pave his own path and gain his own recognition as he's tired of being known as the son or brother.
An incident has Jude's publicist trying to clear his name and using his famous brother's instagram is one idea. That is until Jude gets the password and stumbles upon all the DM's his brother has been sent by fans. One of these DM's stands out from the others and after reading them he becomes intrigued. Pretending to be his brother, Jude starts messaging back and before you know it, a connection is formed. What happens when Olivia finds out that the person who she has been talking to is infact the brother?
Overall, this was a fun, feel-good romcom read with wit, great banter, connection and amazing secondary characters. This book will definitely leave a smile on your face after reading.

I'm a big fan of Teagan Hunter. Her hockey romances are great, but I had forgotten how much I've enjoyed her non hockey romances.

This one is about Olive O'Brien. She's a plus-size influencer (and model!). She's got a half million followers and really tries to influence things she believes in. Olive also has a secret diary that's in the DMs of famous actor Jasper Rafferty. Which was pretty neat. I'd never heard of that before.

The problem? She wrote them and never thought anyone else would ever read them. Someone does, though, Jasper's brother Jude. And he replies.

Jude and Olive chat back and forth. There's some mistaken identity here, and you wanna get mad at Jude, but he's a really great guy. Teagan writes some very funny passages. Jude isn't a stuck-up Hollywood guy. The relationship he has with Jasper and his sister (and honestly, his whole family) is really great.

Olive is awesome, too. She stands by her convictions and is a great friend. This book doesn't fall into the trap of how some mistaken identity books go.

I really enjoyed it. I laughed a lot, and I loved the MCs relationship.

DNF: As much as I typically like Hunter's light and sexy romances, there was something off about this one from the start (beyond that awful cover). I love the idea of an original meet cute and have fond memories of Hunter's first texting series, but I'll admit that using DMs as a diary is pretty weird. Mostly though, I wasn't that sold on either character individually and they spent so little time on the page together that I got bored before things really got going. I listened to the audio, and I don't think that helped - Laurie West and Alastair Haynesbridge are both narrators I recognize by name but can't ever remember listening to. Neither of their voices wowed me, though they weren't bad either. With a stronger storyline, I probably wouldn't have minded the narration. Ultimately, this was simply a miss for me, but I continue to be a fan of Hunter's work.

Teagan can literally write anything and I’ll binge it. Her books are so easy to follow and I always end up falling in love. Even though this wasn’t a sport romance (so far i had only read her sports romances) I truly loved this one and I cannot wait to read more books of her like this

A great read, the story of Jude and Olive. They meet in real life, not knowing who each other are and how they are already connected. I liked how it is told from both points of view.

I’ll read anything Teagan Hunter writes but her hockey books will forever be my fave of hers. This was a cute, fun book. Lots of moments to smile about. I really enjoyed the plus size rep and that she was a model and proud of her size (around a 16) and what she looked like 👏 👏 I also appreciated all the family (and found family) talks. I’m a sucker for siblings in a book. I did not appreciate the third act break up! It was stupid; Olive was stupid; it was unnecessary. Then to just wrap it all up in like 4 pages felt wrong. We, Olive and Juneteenth deserved better. Still enjoyed the book and hoping we get a Jasper and Dylan book!

THE DM DIARIES is a celebrity romance about Olive, an influencer and model who's been using actor Jasper Rafferty's DMs as her diary, spilling all her secrets and darkest secrets in his Instagram inbox. What she's not expecting, however, is for Jasper to actually answer her... Except it turns out that it's not Jasper but his younger brother Jude, using his brother's Instagram account to help his public image.

I love a secret identity trope and this was a fun interpretation of it, even if there was a lot of suspension of disbelief required to really enjoy the story. Like the idea of a publicist telling her client to use his brother's Instagram to rehab his image, for starters, or the idea that Jude would essentially fall in love via DMs with Olive, yet he didn't recognize her all the times they met for coffee.

That being said, I still had a good time and I would recommend it for anyone who likes celebrity romances, the secret identity trope, and some good banter.

This was a fun read and reminded me of the texting series and why I fell in love with Teagan's writing. Jude and Olive just complete the other. They're both celebrities in their own right but really just fun loving down to earth people who fell in love.

I loved everything about this book from the sibling banter to the swoon-worthy grand gesture. There are laughs galore with sweet romance and sexiness mixed in.

I fell in love with Jude and Olive from the first page and hope there's more for these characters. Jasper definitely needs a story.

🗨️online meet cute
🗨️mistaken identity
🗨️celebrity/actor MMC
🗨️influencer/model FMC
🗨️plus size/curvy heroine
🗨️he falls first & hard
🗨️third act breakup
🗨️dual pov/ 1st pov

💕 Olive + Jasper 💕

This book was so fun! It is definitely one to make you smile. Jude is a super sweet MMC and definitely a cinnamon roll. Their banter, the coffee shop meets, the messaging. The relationship had so many hoops and hills to climb but they work through it. We get to see how being famous can also lead to lots of drama and issues caused by that fame.

Thank you @netgalley and Mondale Publishing for this ALC/ARC.

I loved Teagan’s Carolina Comets series, but this one I didn’t get past chapter 2. I was so excited to try something that wasn’t sports romance by her and it just didn’t hit for me.

What a fun, mistaken identity trope storyline!

I haven’t read too many of Teagan Hunter’s books before, but I’m definitely becoming a big fan - I think there was something in the author’s notes that this was her earliest book but wasn’t published, or has been rewritten and re-released? It definitely has a different feeling from the others of hers I’ve read (not the same type as the others), but was such a fantastic experience. Highly recommend it!!

I enjoyed the mistaken identity trope, even though it can usually be a tricky and problematic one - she did it very carefully and I liked how it came about. Olive was a perfect female lead, being a plus size model/influencer and great role model, meeting Jude by chance and having the real life banter and the online banter thinking he was someone else (turned out to think it was his brother, a movie star)….

Olive was using movie star Jasper’s DMs like a journal (her therapist said she needed to get into journaling and stars never read their DMs!). When one day he replies and they start chatting, she’s in for the surprise of her life, not just that it isn’t Jasper or a PA replying, but it’s his brother Jude, who happens to be the rude guy she met at the coffee cart and has struck up a friendship with… she has no idea she’s being catfished by a different movie star and might have been making a real connection afterall.

Very well done and if you haven’t read Hunter’s books before or not many, like myself, this is a good one to get you hooked! Great characters, great banter, great chemistry, really good storyline, very strong role model in Olive, and great way to wrap all up. Solid 4-star read!

I received an advance copy from NetGalley and Montlake, and this is my honest feedback.

Teagan does it again. Witty banter, fabulous messages back and forth. I love the dialogue in this book. Loved how heartfelt Olive was. Loved the connection between Olive and Jude. I laughed, smiled, swooned. Al the things I love about a Teagan book. It was fun to get a celebrity, mistaken identity book. Something unique.

I really liked this book. The characters were cute and adorable together, I loved their growth in this story. It was an easy read and I felt like I was flying through. I liked the story and continued wanting more. It's definitely something else from all other books by this author, but it's still a very enjoyable read!

Teagan Hunter is the queen of romcoms, so I was not surprised when she, once again, blew me away with DM Diaries. This was a heartfelt, spicy, fun and quick flowing story. While at times, I felt Olive was a little over the top with her reactions to Jude, I still enjoyed her character and both of them together as a couple. This was definitely a great addition to my library.

I love the premise of this book, all the little storylines adding to make a wonderful romance book, filled with love, drama, funny moments and more. Olive using a celebrity’s DMs as a diary was a wonderful way to begin this story, especially when Jasper’s brother Jude decides to respond as him. Mixing this with mistaken identity was a perfect choice to build the story, as these two fall for her each other over DMs but yet Olive hates Jude in real life, they just don’t know it yet.

This book was wonderfully built, a lot going on, but none of it too much, or unnecessary to the story. I love how everything circles back and we get to see how it fits into the story at a later date! Jude and Olive had some chemistry as well, with this wonderful slowburn as they get to know each other and putting off going all the way until a special moment between them!

I also loved the drama and conflict of this book, it was so good, filled with emotional tension, forgiveness, and just had me flying through the last half of this book! I hope we get more with Jude’s siblings in the future!

Rating: 4⭐
Spice: 2🌶️

This is my first read from Teagan and did she bring it home! Full of light hearted fun, romance, banter, swoons and more, I absolutely indulged in it!

Olive is missing her late father, and between the modelling gig and navigating life in NYC, she journals her thoughts (as encouraged by her therapist). Instead of the normal pen to paper, her journal entries consists of DMs to one the world's famous actor - Jasper Rafferty, knowing he would never read her messages amidst a million others. However, Jasper's younger bro, Jude is managing Jasper's social media account and comes across Olive's journal entries. Torn between reading her DMs and respecting Olive's privacy, curiosity gets the better of him. Jude feels an unexpected connection to Olive, and takes the first step in replying back to her messages 💬

I loved how Olive was unapologetically her, in that despite being an influencer/model - a plus size one in body conscious NYC, she never saw that as a drawback in achieving her dreams. She had her own mission within modelling and I loved her overall resilience. Jude was such a cute cinnamon roll who is desperately seeking normalcy in a life away in the spotlight. He too, is trying to make a name for himself, without being tied to his successful family. Being such a hopeless romantic at heart, you just can't help but adore him! I absolutely lived for the banter and chemistry between Olive and Jude. All the things he did for Olive to make her see he truly cared for her... My heart! 💕 Together, they were just everything... and let's not get started on the nicknames!! 😍🫠🫠

Definitely recommend this read if you're a fan of DMs and fluffy romances, guaranteed to give you all the feel good vibes and more 💓

Thank you to Teagan and Netgalley for providing me with an eARC, in exchange for an honest review 🫶🏻

Olive and Jude! Jude and Olive! I loved the both of them so much and their banter was off the charts!

This was a quick read and I liked the writing style a lot. I want more books with a plus-size heroine like Olive! She was relatable and could have been one of my friends.

Great story, great characters, great read overall!

The DM Diaries by Teagan Hunter was a lot of fun. It was engaging and sweet. It was exactly what I was looking for.
I loved this book from beginning to end. There were so many lol moments for me while reading this book.

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

Hey, Jude....

This was a contemporary Cyrano...Olive, she's an influencer (ugh!), large, plus-sized, decides to slide into Jasper's DM's. He's a pretty celebrity. But, its his sweet younger brother, Jude, who begins responding to Olive's DM's. They flirt and banter and tell secrets...but Jude is not Jasper....Hey, Jude!
Recommend.