This story follows Molly and Seth through years of “wrong place, wrong time”. There was some great banter throughout and I was definitely rooting for them to be together the whole time.
This is not a clean romance, but I don’t remember there being any explicit scenes.

The two audiobooks narrators that were used were great. At first, the male character didn’t do it for me, but he grew on me as the book went on.

My only negatives for this one are:
1.) I think the book went on a little too long. There were just too many rounds of the two starting to work out and then something would happen. It’s a long audiobook, and probably could’ve cut a couple/few hours off.

2.) I think the timeframe was just too long. They were mushing 40 by the end. I know I’m coming from a different point of view, because I married my husband a few months after we met and have been going strong for 16 years (and I’m the same age as the characters are in the end, when they finally stay together).

Overall, this debut author had a promising career ahead of her and I think you’ll really enjoy this rom com novel!

Thank you to the author, NetGalley, and MacMillan Audio for this ARC in exchange for an honest review. I appreciate it!

Read this if you like:
•second chance romance
•finding yourself
•high school sweethearts
•debut novel

This was a great debut! The chemistry between the characters had me hooked! There’s a lot of back and forth in this book and makeup/breakup as the characters find themselves, grow up, and decide what they want!

Thank you Macmillan audio for the ALC!

In a sea of fairytale-perfect romance plots, this story steeped in reality is a refreshing reminder that happily ever afters are possible in real life with time and a little faith.
The characters are relatable and authentic. Molly is disillusioned about marriage because of childhood divorce trauma, and cynical about love from paternal abandonment. Seth is a hopeless romantic who tries too hard to make every relationship fit into his soulmate narrative. It’s a unique, opposites-attract theme based on real-world personalities and not exaggerated stereotypes.
The plot moves at a good pace, which is surprising due to how much time passes during the book. The humor is contemporary and witty. The scene descriptions are impressively articulate but not verbose.
It was amusing to see a romcom acknowledge the romance tropes and discount them as fiction only to prove itself wrong with a happily ever after that felt truly genuine.

This book was such a cute rom-com to just unwind and a perfect beach read ❤️
I adored Molly and Seth❤️ from the beginning I couldn’t put this audiobook away and the side characters are just great ❤️I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a quick rom- com to listen to or read 😍
Can’t wait for release day to have my friends read it😊.

A huge thank you to NetGalley , the publishers and Katelyn Doyle for the opportunity to listen to this ARC of just some stupid love story ❤️❤️

I’m not one to typically use audiobooks, but listening to Just Some Stupid Love Story was such a delight. Slightly spicy rom-com involving high school sweethearts that reconnect at their 15th reunion. Molly and Seth have a grumpy/sunshine vibe that I love to watch unfold over the five year time span in the book.

Katelyn Doyle does a great job of making her novel contemporary with believable dialogue and actions/reactions from main and supporting characters which I really liked. I also love reading a love story about people who aren’t basically teenagers! Real adults with complicated families and relationships, yet not too real that it’s not entertaining.

I’m very impressed with Doyle’s debut novel. I think it will make a great book club pick and summer novel for many readers!

Seth and Molly! How untypical your story is. And I loved it. Seth is not your typical male lead - emotionally intelligent, golden retriever-type who has patience beyond my ability to comprehend. Molly is tough to understand and frustrating to read. She’s been wrecked by the examples in her life and every challenge she encounters seems to elicit an explosive response. They spend much of the book orbiting each other, being drawn together periodically like magnets. Moments in the book made me tear up and the author really made the reader work for that ending !! Highly recommend.

wow. I am absolutely blown away by how beautiful this story was. In the single day, I devoured this audiobook, I have a brand new second chance romance favorite, opposites attract favorite, and all around favorite book. this story is filled with so much authentic, real life moments, but is compounded so incredibly with hysterical humor, unconditional friendship, and deep soulmate level love. the dual pov and narration made this story come to life and let me fall hopelessly in love with both Molly and Seth.

Seth and Molly have, in my opinion, the most perfect second chance romance/opposites attract romance. The time jumps throughout the story make their love story so authentic and refreshingly beautiful as they continue to choose each other over and over again for the better part of five year. Seth is one of the best heroes I’ve ever read— he is so overwhelmingly kind and patient and understanding in everything he does, while still being adorably sexy and hotly hilarious in everything.

The way Molly is able to find her self-worth and acceptance in her relationships with others, and with herself had me in tears. she deserved so much better from her father throughout her entire life, and by the end she’s able to accept the love she so beautifully deserves from Seth, her friends, her mom, and herself. so incredibly beautiful.

I feel like I can’t possibly review this story in a way that it properly deserves. just know that it touched me so deeply, has become one of my all-time favorite stories, and I am so incredibly thankful to have read it and be able to share it with as many people as I can. thank you so much for the alc :)

Thank you to NetGalley for the advanced audiobook copy Narration was great. The story was super cute I look forward to reading more from Kaitlyn Doyle

This one was quite sweet and the beginning was cute! I loved the setup of the bet they make about couples from their high school reunion. It also gets deep with parent issues and unhealthy relationship patterns. It was good! The narrators were great!

this book is very tell-y, not show-y. we’re told the main characters have history, told they have chemistry, told what they feel, but I didn’t really feel it.

I also didn’t really enjoy the cavalier way it talked about medication. I’m all for normalizing using medication (I am on anxiety meds myself), but the way it was talked about felt more like self-medicating than normalizing medication.

additionally, I didn’t really enjoy the male narrator. I don’t know what the opposite of monotone is, but it felt a bit like that- just extremely cheery all the time regardless of what he was reading.

Just Some Stupid Love Story
By: Katelyn Doyle
Publisher- MacMillian Audio
Pub Date: June 4, 2024
4🩷🩷🩷🩷

A fabulous debut!
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Molly and Seth dating in high school.
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Many years later at a high school reunion sparks are ignited. Their journey has not been easy, but they are drawn to each other. Living in different places, and Mollys anxiety makes her panic. Their chemistry is off the charts…
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This one is fun, spicy and filled with all kinds of emotions. Their timing always seems to be off. Will they get the happily ever after or realize they just can’t make it work. Sometimes love does not solve everything.
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Thank you Macmillan Audio for this advanced copy.

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Nothing about this book stood out to me. It's a quick read, and I'm sure the story will hit home with a niche audience, but it was not my favorite rom-com, and I am unlikely to recommend it to others. There are better books out there. The characters fell flat with me, and at many times, were just annoying. Very stereotypical writing that lacked creativity, in my opinion. I did manage to get through the entire book, which is the reason for 2 stars instead of 1. However, it ends exactly the way you think it's going to end from the first chapter of the book. It wasn't deep enough to invoke any real emotion.

I should have done my research on this before reading. I knew there was a probability of sexual content and I was prepared to skip it if/when it appeared. This book did not waste any time getting to sexual content and honestly, that was more than I can tolerate. The first 6 chapters were building up to it but I didn't think it would happen so fast. Unfortunately, I decides to end my reading at Chapter 8. From what I did read, I did enjoy the short chapters as well as both narrators. Sadly, thus just wasn't for me. Thank you NetGalley and MacMillan Audio for the opportunity to listen and review this advanced copy.

Book: Just Some Stupid Love Story
NetGalley Audio ARC: Pub Date June 4th 2024

How do you get some stupid love story?
Add:
1 part RomCom writer who hates romance
1 part divorce lawyer who is a hopeless romantic
(the above need to be high school sweethearts)
1 group of shared friends
1 high school reunion
1 long term bet

This audiobook was adorable. It will be a great summer listen. I listened to it in one day because I didn’t want to pause it. I loved how Molly could write and think about cute rom-com situations, but she run as fast as she could when she got into one in real life. I usually would find her annoying, but we learn about her family background and can understand why she’s locked away her heart.

Seth could be described as a golden retriever. He wants to love with all his heart and wants to be loved. One may find this outlook off when he is a family law lawyer.

The emails going back and forth between these two are cute and balance out some spicy parts.

Christine Lakin and Tim Paige are great narrators of this book.

Thank you, NetGalley and Macmillan Audio, for an advanced audio copy.

I think I knew pretty much from the start of Just Some Stupid Love Story that I would love it. This story centers around Molly and Seth, high school sweethearts who haven't seen each other since they broke up and are reunited at their fifteen-year reunion. Molly is a cynic who writes romantic comedy scripts, while Seth is a hopeless romantic who is a divorce attorney; what could possibly happen when they find out they still have chemistry?

Having both main character POVs was essential here, and I loved how different Molly and Seth's personalities and outlooks on life were from each other. They had excellent and genuinely funny banter and palpable chemistry, and I love how this story took place over many years.

This romcom worked so well as an audiobook, and that had a lot to do with how well both narrators brought to life Molly and Seth and captured their individual tones. I listened to this one quickly and was sad when I had to take a break to actually get work done. I highly recommend this book and think audio is the way to go with this romance!

It was very cliche and overdone doesn't mean it wasn't good or cheesy...just like everything else on the market of romcom right now.

The narrators were good though, they really got the characters and vibe.

“But just because the results won’t be fairy-tale perfect doesn’t mean you can’t try your best to be vulnerable. When you hurt someone, you do what you can to fix it. When you’re scared, you do what you can to be brave.”

A second chance, friends to lovers, “it’s always been you” story that spans two decades… sign me up! Friends to lovers is a top tier trope for me and Katelyn Doyle magicked a story that was honest, relatable, sometimes bittersweet, but oh so beautiful and redemptive while also brimming over with longing, forgiveness, and hope. This story had such a hold on heart and I could not put it down. I was rooting for Seth and Molly and their messy love story from the start and found myself tearing up and clutching the book to my heart several times.

I loved the premise of a cynical rom-com writer and a divorce lawyer eagerly looking for the love of his life, who are former high school sweethearts, reconnecting and unable to resist the spark that’s been burning between them for fifteen years. On the surface Seth and Molly might seem like an opposites attracting situation, but at their very core, they both just want to love and be loved. This story was achingly vulnerable and layered as Seth and Molly worked through their own pasts of unresolved hurt, but I loved how incredibly brave they both were to bare their hearts and desires, even when it was uncomfortable and scary.

I’m a sucker for a grand gesture (love them, can’t get enough) and Molly’s grand gesture was not only perfect for her and Seth’s story, but it was so vulnerable and an act of growth and bravery. This story has the heart and humor of a romcom, but I what I adored most was how Doyle focused on the “after”… the messy, imperfect moments that take place after the highlight reel or when the camera turns off altogether. Doyle did a wonderful job of demonstrating growth and healing for both Seth and Molly as individuals and as a couple, and I appreciated how even in the end, they were still perfectly imperfect but full of hope.

The audiobook was such a delightful experience and I thoroughly enjoyed the dual narration.

Highly recommend if you’re looking for a love story about two imperfect people who don’t always get it right, but who make the decision to be brave and love wholeheartedly, to be vulnerable with their person even when it’s scary, to fight for a happily ever after with the person you adore.

Just Some Stupid Love Story was the perfect audiobook! I savored and sped through it all at the same time! I can’t wait for more from Katelyn Doyle!

This book is a perfect recommendation for fans of Abby Jiminez, Emily Henry, and Katherine Center. The narrators for the audiobook were wonderful. This book is a second-chance romance that is sweet, sexy, tender, and very funny. I have to admit that I identified more with the main female character Molly Marks (who is cynical about love) and rolled my eyes more than once at the main male character Seth Rubinstein and his waxing poetic about true love. While most of the book was fast-paced, it dragged on a bit too long towards the end. I enjoyed this and look forward to Doyle's next book.

I was very excited to see a contemporary romance by Katelyn Doyle /Scarlett Peckham. Unfortunately, the more I read, the more annoyed I got at the mmcs Seth and Molly. The constant problems, the break ups, the miscommunications. The incompatible personalities. Molly would be better off not being a a relationship and Seth could find someone better suited to him. And Seth's toxic positivity just grated on my nerves.
I feel so BAD leaving a negative review because I absolutely love Scarlett Peckham's historicals.
Thank you to netgalley for the ARC. Opinions are my own.