I won’t be reviewing this one on my public platforms (Goodreads + TikTok) as I unfortunately DNFed at 13%
Here are my personal reasons:
- I definitely wouldn’t call this ‘enemies to lovers’. Their initial spat could’ve been dealt with and solved with the first page or two realistically. Both characters chose to act like absolute children and the way Jackson just closed to door on Margot when she had a VERY valid complaint that even he mentally thought about, gave me a massive ick.
- After being introduced to the 2 main characters and their best friends, Margot then meets some other girls in the dorm. This felt very odd as we’ve literally JUST been introduced to the setting and these characters, and now we’re already moving on to meeting new people? It was just very odd timing to me.
- At 13%, I DNFed because I just KNEW I wouldn’t be able to handle the constant bickering, jabs, and trying to annoy the other that the main characters were doing. It just felt so immature and childish. We’re arguing over the fact that he was playing his guitar LOUDLY at 2am and she asked him to stop… It’s a very weak beginning and not a very strong disagreement for BOTH main characters to be so mad and annoyed at the other.

The intrigue is definitely there. I do want to know how to characters resolve their disagreement with each other and also their own internal struggle with belonging and just overall life really. But I just truly don’t think I’d be able to appreciate their romance at this current stage.

4⭐️- rockstar romance, enemies to lovers and next door neighbours? So many amazing tropes in one book and Heather Garvin delivered them all perfectly, this was such a fun read! The story starts with the two main characters Jackson and Margot having instant drama after just moving into their college dorm, then their best friends start dating and they’re suddenly forced into spending a lot more time together.

I felt like Jackson and Margot were complete opposites when I first started reading, thinking it was no surprise they constantly clashed! But the more I read, it quickly became clear they were a lot more similair than either of them realised. They both came from a family who didn’t accept their passions in life and I loved how they were able to celebrate these things for each other over the book. The tension and banter in this was perfection and Heather developed the side characters so well too.

I’m so excited for book two! There’s a lot more to Jackson and Margot’s story and I can’t wait to find out more 🎸

I could not put this book down, it took me by surprise at how much I enjoyed it!
this enemies to lovers story was filled with witty banter and had me chuckling all through.
I will be keeping an eye out for this author and reading whatever else she writes as I enjoyed her writing style so much.
This college based romance was fun, sexy, witty and so charming!

I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley and provide my honest review

binge-worthy, witty, captivating. Loved loved loved this story and the characters. Even swoon worthy moments that made me jealous of the characters in the book. Can’t wait to read more from this author!

The story of Margot and Jackson. They meet when they live opposite each other in college and he does nothing but annoy her. A fun read, I liked how it was told from both points of view.

What a refreshing read! I really enjoyed reading this, and finished it pretty quickly which is awesome because I’ve been in a bit of a reading slump. Jackson and Margot reminded me of myself at that age, when the world is huge and the future stretches wide open and love (and lust) is EVERYTHING. I really enjoyed the friendships between Margot and Rae, and Jackson and Matt too. The author did a brilliant job of creating realistic characters and friendships. The spice was perfect, as was the banter. Nothing to complain about here. Thanks Netgalley and the publisher.

I love Heather Garvin so much. I believe this is my fifth book of hers and I liked all of them so much except Crossing the Line which was still fine to me. But honestly I really enjoy her writing style, the characters are always very lovable and fun and there is always drama and action in her books. This one might be my new favorite even though I am NOT usually a rockstar romance girl😊

I love music and reading and this book perfectly combines the two!
Heather Garvin absolutely hit it out of the park with this book!
Jackson and Margot have the perfect banter and I’m a sucker for an Enemies to Lovers troupe.
Can’t wait to read more by this author!
Thanks NetGalley for the ARC!

Devoured this in one day!
I wasn’t so sure how to feel about this book in the beginning but it quickly became such a fun and easy read. This book had me giggling and blushing and reminiscing on my college dorm days for real!! The banter was amazing, the music aspect was a little cheesy for me not gonna lie, but I thought it was cute because sharing music was definitely the main source of flirtation as a freshman in college. Overall, this is something I’d recommend to friends for a fun read!

Thanks to NetGallery and Heather Garvin for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review 😊

Margot Reid has everything ready to start freshman year at college with her best friend Rae. What she didn't expect was to have to put up with her hallway neighbor's music at all hours. Jackson Phillips dreams of being a musician someday, and not even the grumpy, pretty girl who complains about the noise can destroy that dream. Although neither of them can stand each other, when their best friends start dating, they are forced to "tolerate" each other. Their attraction to each other is obvious. But everything gets complicated when Jackson gets the opportunity to go on tour with a band and become famous.
What are we going to find in this book?
💘 College romance
😒 Dislike to lovers
👥 Forced proximity
🎸 He’s a musician
❤️ He falls first
👫 Dual POV
📖 Short chapters
This story is adorable. Margot decides to leave the pressure of her parents and break up with her boyfriend and start afresh in college studying what she is really passionate about, and Jackson is forced to go there by his parents, who don't approve of him going into music. Despite the fact that at the beginning they can't stand each other, they soon start to understand each other. Even Margot is interested in Jackson's music, and this means a lot to him.
It's very easy to empathize with these two characters, as they both have future plans made, but deep down neither has anything clear, and even less so after they begin to get intimate and fall in love.
The interactions between them have been a lot of fun, and you really get to see that moment when the transition from hate to love happens. I also loved Rae and Matt, they have a beautiful and very healthy relationship, and Matt's parents and grandmother are wonderful! 🥰
I would have liked more group moments with Izzy and Jess, as they are introduced as new friendships at the beginning (and all swifties, yay!), but then they go a bit unnoticed. It has also happened with Jackson's band, and I'm really excited to find out more about the members.
The ending has a little cliffhanger, so I need to read the second one to find out what's in store for these two. I'm really looking forward to it! 😍
All in all, it's a very cute and entertaining book, perfect for fangirling over having a musician boyfriend who loves Arctic Monkeys and listens to Taylor Swift because she reminds him of you 💜
3,75 ⭐

This was a cute and great story! I really enjoyed the characters dynamic and the dual POV. I can't wait to see how the story continues! Thank you for allowing me to read this ARC!

I'm not in love with Margot, but found Jackson to be quite swoon worthy. I don't remember people having their shit together like this as college freshman, but...anyway, fun read.

𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒏’𝒕 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 🎤💙

author: heather garvin
publication date: 3/15/24
rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
spice: 🌶️🌶️

tropes:

🎸 rockstar romance
💻 she writes a blog
🎵 he’s a musician
🎓 college dorms
🩵 he falls first
👥 forced proximity

my thoughts:

i absolutely loved this book so much!!! i was immediately hooked from the very first chapter & i found every opportunity i could to pick this up on my kindle and read it!! probably one of my top favorite reads of the year.

margot & jackson’s relationship was so special. they are both students at UCF and live across the hall from each other in the dorms. jackson is an arctic monkeys fan & margot loves taylor swift and fleetwood mac.

their endless banter was truly everything & it did not let up the entire book. i love how jackson nicknamed her “red” and how they shared their music genres with each other & how when jackson wanted to drop out of college to join his new band on tour that margot was so excited & supportive of him because jackson’s father did not want him to drop out of college at all.

the side characters were also great!! matt & rae who are the best friends of margot & jackson are truly the cutest!! i need to get a physical copy for my collection because i truly loved it that much! can’t wait for the next book!

favorite quote:

⁀➷ “𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙤𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙮𝙤𝙪.”

thank you @heathergarvinbooks & @netgalley for allowing me to receive an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. all opinions are my own. 🫶🏻

Review: *Just don't call me yours* - ARC - Heather Garvin
5+/5✨
2/5🌶️

OMG!! I cannot tell you how much I loved this book! It kept me hooked and I can tell you that Margot and Jackson are going to steal your hearts!! 💙 Thank you so much Netgalley & Heather Garvin for the change you've given me to read this AMAZING, ADDICTING story!!

The relationship between Margot and Jackson is not the best from the beginning🤣. Jackson is a young talented guitarist, who is disturbing the silence of his colleague who lives next door (Margot). From there everything just keeps pushing Margot buttons and she cannot stand that boy.

The banter between these two was THE BEST! I just loooved reading all their funny meetings and their teasing on each other🤭. It was a clear attraction between them and you could just feel the sparklers flying when they touch just an inch.

Even tho Margot seemed too scared of her feelings, it didn't made me hate her and I understood her side of the story. Jackson is such a sweetheart and always has his good mood and jokes with him, which made me fall for him instantly💙.

An important part to the story was played by their best friends, Rae and Matt. They were rooting from the beginning for their friends to be together too, but the hate between Margot and Jackson was pretty visible to everyone. Until everything changed. And they secretly started something together🤭.

I truly, truly recommend this book! It was perfect from my point of view and you should definitely read it if you love these tropes:
✨#EnemiesToLovers;
✨#OppositeAttract;
✨#SecretRomance;
✨#BoyFallsFirst;
✨#HeFallsHarder;
✨#BoyObsessed;
✨#CloseProximity;
✨#DualPov;
✨#Banter;

Margot and her best friend Rae had everything planned for their first year of college. They'd even maganged to be each others perfect roommates.
The one thing they didn't plan was the annoying guy who plays guitar across the hall.
Jackson is good looking, but he also loves to make Margot hate him. From the second she confronts him about his late night playing the only thing they can agree on is the hate for each other. They do all they can to avoid each other until one day when their roommates start to date.

- Enemies to Lovers
- He falls first
- Dual POV
- Spicy
- College romance
- Musician
- Slow Burn
- Nickname

I devoured this book in a whole day. I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did but I just couldn't put it down. I loved the chemistry of Margot & Jackson together, he even gave her a nickname which of course she hated. Something about he falls first books just make me feel all giddy inside. Their first kiss just left me sitting there with my jaw on the floor. By the end of the book I was crying happy tears and kicking my feet with happiness. It made my teenage self so jealous, This would've been a teenage dream come true. I will definitely be looking for more books by this author. I really enjoyed her writing,

4.5 Stars

This book was absolutely made for me to read! The music obsessed girlie in me loved every second of this book!

I loved that each of the characters had their own music taste (Swiftie & Arctic Monkeys fan) and how they shared it with each other. It was so wholesome to see each of them slowly starting to like each other’s music taste. Margot and Jackson’s banter were the best! I was eating it up so bad.

I really liked Margot! She was so relatable. I loved how she reacted when Jackson riled her up. It was hilarious! Jackson was such charming and snarky mmc. I liked how he was so carefree and how opposite it was to Margot’s attitude. These two really were like opposite magnets that were attracted to each other. I love them so much. Their love story was sweet and hot at the same time. I loved seeing them slowly develop feelings for each other!

This book was so entertaining! I’m so glad I bought it on my kindle as well. This book deserves all the hype. 🫶

I’d definitely recommend it to all my music lovers and readers who live for the banter between characters! 🎸❤️‍🔥

This is my honest review for a gifted copy of Just don’t call me yours. Thank you so much to the author and Netgalley for a gifted copy of this book! I loved every second of it!

A fun, spicy, enemies to lovers college rockstar romance perfect for fans of authors like Elle Kennedy! The banter was great, the chemistry was on fire. This was an easy and very entertaining read by a new to me author. Looking forward to more from Heather Garvin! Many thanks to NetGalley and the author for an early digital copy in exchange for my honest review!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing the ARC.

I will start off by saying that I thought this book was well written and I think the plot progressed in a way that made sense, but Margot and Jackson as characters annoyed me so much.

I get that they're 18, and just starting college. That alone lends itself to a certain amount of immaturity. But Jackson came across as almost a caricature of the elitist musician with his "superior" music tastes and Margot was just as uptight as Jackson liked to paint her. It felt hard for me to connect with these two characters. Maybe it's because I am so far removed from 18 that it's hard for me to think back to what it was like then. Or maybe because I remember college being not as dramatic as all of this. But I have read other books with younger characters that I have perfectly resonated with and this just wasn't it for me.

If you want a fun book with the hot guitarist and the girl next door that leans into their age and maturity heavily, then you'll probably enjoy this book. Like I said, I thought the writing and the plot were good. But this was not the book for me.

Well, color me shocked. I didn’t think I liked the rockstar romance trope, but apparently, I was very, VERY wrong.

Jackson Phillips may come off as a sarcastic, uncaring, rockstar playboy, but deep down, he’s a loyal, loving, tender-hearted teddy bear. And he loves to play the guitar—like, a lot. All Jackson wants is to be in a band and go on tour. However, Jackson’s dad thinks he’d be throwing his life away and vehemently disapproves of Jackson’s musical dreams. Jackson is begrudgingly attending his first semester at the University of South Florida with his best friend, Matt. But Jackson doesn’t have time for college distractions. American Thieves, one of his favorite indie bands, is looking for a new guitarist. All he’s got to do is smash the audition, become American Thieves’ new guitarist, drop out of school, and go on tour. Dad’s approval be damned.

Margot Reid loves to write (have you read her blog?). Despite her parents' disappointment, she has decided to major in journalism and attend college hundreds of miles from home. Margot desperately wants to be a reporter and has everything planned out. Tackling college in South Florida with her best friend, Rae, is only step one. Step two is acing all her classes and proving to her parents that journalism isn’t a joke. It should be easy, right? It would be if the guy across the hall would stop playing the guitar and let her sleep!

Margot and Jackson meet under the worst circumstances. The night before their first day of college classes, Jackson is practicing nonstop for his audition, and unlike Margot, he is utterly unconcerned that classes start at 8 a.m. Sleep-deprived and angry, Margot knocks on Jackson's door—at 2 a.m.— to get him to stop playing, and Jackson refuses. Who does this guy think he is? But Jackson can’t stop. All his hopes and dreams, his whole life, depend on this audition.

First impressions are hard to overcome; Margot thinks Jackson is the most entitled and inconsiderate person she's ever met. Jackson thinks Margot hates him, and he gets a kick out of irritating her. Two people have never disliked each other more. He calls her Red; she hates it. She thinks his “alternative music” is noise; he thinks she’s “predictable”. But Jackson and Margot are more alike than they could ever imagine. When their best friends start dating, they are forced to spend time together despite their mutual loathing. Their back-and-forth bickering becomes second nature (and kinda fun), and it turns out that there is a very thin line between love and hate. Margot and Jackson walk that razor’s edge until they can’t deny their attraction anymore. And once they’ve let go of their inhibitions, it’s not long before strong feelings creep in and take over.

This book ticked all the boxes for me. A+ music references (except for briefly hating on Fleetwood Mac; I mean, come on, who can hate on Stevie), a sexy MMC in a band (I will swoon for a guitar player any day), a strong FMC with a type A personality (someone I can personally identify with), and flirty banter for days. Yes, yes, yes, and yes! The only thing I found slightly unbelievable is how confident Jackson is (in all areas). My first year of college would have been a wholly different experience if the boys in my class had 1/57th as much confidence as Jackson. But that aside, Holy hell, Margot and Jackson are made for each other. Their quips are sublime; you can cut the tension with a knife, and when they finally get together...It’s. So. Good.

The songs that Margot & Jackson talk about and share throughout the book are just—Chef’s Kiss. I don’t know if it was intentional (or if I’m just an elder millennial who finds it easier to speak through song lyrics), but the story is enhanced 10-fold by the lyrics of the songs mentioned. If you aren’t familiar with any of the music in the book (and even if you are), I highly recommend listening to the songs while you are reading. You can thank me later.

Secrets I have held in my heart
Are harder to hide than I thought
Maybe I just wanna be yours
I wanna be yours, I wanna be yours

Song: I Wanna Be Yours - Band: Arctic Monkeys - Album: AM

** I received this book for free from Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review. **

𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.𝟓
𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐞: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

This was such a great read! The first chapter alone had me hooked! I loved the dual POVs and banter between the MCs. Their chemistry plus the spice was absolutely electric! Even the Spotify playlist was amazing! Taylor Swift, Arctic Monkeys, and Fleetwood Mac 🙌🏼 Heather knew what she was doing!! I also loved the relationship between the MCs and their best friends. The whole friends turned into family reminded me of best friends and that tugged at my heartstrings a little bit. The ending was perfect for me even with the cliffhanger!

Overall- I was super excited to find out the next book comes out later this year because I need more of Margot & Jackson!! If you enjoy a good slow burn enemies to lovers college romance, #JustDontCallMeYours is available now on KU 💙 Thank you NetGalley and Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.