HOLY FREAKING COW! ALEC ASTER HAS DONE IT AGAIN! I will be the first to admit, I was a little nervous about this book, but I am so glad that I requested this ARC. Summer in the City is a cute rom-com that is a quick read with a grumpy FMC and a “Sunshine” MMC for most of the book until the roles reverse and then revert back. The characters are easy to fall in love with. I will say I wish we learned a little more about the MMC through his thoughts and feelings. I want to know more about what drives his choices and feelings.

Tropes:
-Forced Proximity
-enemies to lovers
-NYC setting
-Time limit

Give this sweet quick read a shot, chuckles all around.

Thank you NetGalley and Alex Aster for the eARC of this book, I really appreciate it and I’m excited to see how the stories continue from here.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🗽A very funny rom com with a great meet cute, excellent banter, and all my favorite tropes. A little too much spice for me, but that’s a personal preference. I find New York City to be incredibly romantic, it’s the perfect backdrop to Elle and Parker’s story.

Elle meets a cute guy at a club, they share a moment and immediately have a miscommunication. She uses that resentment to fuel her writing career, and keeping her identity a secret she becomes one of the world’s most successful screenwriters. Two years later and she is on a deadline, the studio sends her to the city for inspiration. Who just so happens to be her neighbor? You know it, a gorgeous billionaire who soon is smitten with her.

This is a wonderful fantasy; there is great dialogue in this book. They have excellent banter and good back stories. Some of the things that Parker does for Elle are so incredibly romantic it made me swoon. There’s also a well fleshed out family of origin story with an absent father and a strong independent mother.

I have to say, this is a gorgeous cover and I love the spayed edges, this is well done! Add it to your TBR now!
Thanks to @netgalley and @williammorrowbooks for the ARC. Book to be published March 25, 2025.

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WOW! That’s it.

I absolutely adored this book, and I cannot wait to find my own Parker Warren. The banter, the tropes, the setting (NYC, I may be a little biased), the plot! This book was everything I could want in a romcom set in NYC visiting places I love and adore, and places I want to go to (I’m looking at you Cloisters) I felt like I was reading a Meg Ryan film. The characters were original and the extremely relatable, I saw maybe a little too much of myself in Elle! Summer in the City was a fantastic contemporary romance debut and it will be my personality for the next 6-9 months. I cannot wait to see what else Alex Aster writes!

This Billionaire romance was fun to read but was frustrated with the main character.

Elle and Parker meet in a nightclub where there's a stairwell hook up, but afterwards a not-so-nice exchange. Two years later Elle is back in New York for the summer and her next-door neighbor is Parker. Parker convinces Elle to be his fake date for the summer but as time moves on feelings start to happen on both sides, but Elle can't get over the exchange from two years ago.

Summer in the City by Alex Aster was an okay read for me. I had never read any of Alex Aster's previous works because they never really called my attention but I was very curious to see how an adult romance novel from her would pan out. I'm glad I read it. It was fun, it was a romance. I wouldn't say it was memorable, the writing was okay for me, nothing too special or memorable. Overall, a basic romance novel.