The novel, The Love Fix by Jill Sharvis, is book about relationships.. Lexis has not been able to trust people after being abandoned by her mom and her father.. She hasn't been able to make connections to family, love relations, or allowing anyone get close to her. Will the scheming plan by her mother to get the sisters connected work? Read this book to find out the results. Thank you to Net Galley for allowing me to read this novel prior to its publication.

The Love Fix, by Jill Shalvis, was a quick easy read. This wasn’t Jill’s best story, but it was definitely worth reading.
What detracted from the book for me was one of the main characters. Lexi was unappealing. Did she have a troubled upbringing and does she harbor justified resentment, yes, but she always was a downer and not so nice to people that treated her well. Otherwise, I would recommend reading it. Thank you NetGalley for the opportunity to preview Love Fix!

Jill Shalvis is my auto read author for a hallmark-ish story with slight closed door spice. Jill Shalvis always provides a wonderful plot with lovable characters and a positive message. The love fix is no different. Lexi travels home after her career is over to meet with her step sister and fulfill her estranged mother’s last wishes. Lexi, her step sister and her school enemy, Heath undertake the adventure of making amends with her mother’s loved ones. This book contains found family, second chances and repaired relationships, all in sunrise cove. I laughed, I cried and fell in love with yet another Sunrise Cove family. HIGHLY recommend!

I enjoyed reading The Love Fix so much! I enjoyed the storyline and the characters. This book had me so engaged that I finished it in a few hours. The romance made me smile as I enjoyed their journey. Such an enjoyable book.

I freaking love Jill Shalvis. Talk about a mega Author and brilliant writer. These characters burned the pages, and I stayed up way too late reading.
I absolutely love this series, and I’m so grateful to be in a time where Jill is an author. We are blessed with her words.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an early copy!

The Love Fix was another great addition to Sunrise Cove. The story focuses on a complicated stepsister relationship, even more complicated mother (who was passed) daughter relationship, and some love mixed in. The way the subplots come together are woven as Jill Shalvis always does in a delightful heartfelt way.

Quality, uplifting read from Jill Shalvis in the Sunrise Cove series. Lexi’s life is complicated. Even more so, when she returns home to help her sister fulfill their mother’s last wishes and reconnect with her childhood frenemy, who is now a grown smokeshow. The story speaks truth about the complexity of relationships and does justice to the power of resilience and vulnerability. Recommended read.

The Love Fix by Jill Shalvis is the 8th book in her Sunrise Cove series. Each book is written as a stand-alone. A year after Daisy dies she wants her daughters Lexi and Ashley to hand deliver 6 envelopes to people to make things right and say goodbye. She was a terrible mom to Lexi and gambled but finally made her life right. Lexi Clark’s life is in shambles so she reluctantly returns to Sunrise Cove. Waiting for her is her step sister Ashley and her nemesis Heath Bowman. Lexi has a lot to overcome, feeling forgotten, abandoned and no one ever having her back. This book is full of Forgiveness, Family, second chances, and learning to cope with what we can’t change. So curl up with this great book and lose yourself in this story. Thank you to the author, # NetGalley, and # Avon & Harper Voyager for the arc book. This is my honest review.

The Love Fix follows Lexi who has been called home by her step sister Ashley to fulfill their mother’s last wish. The two have to work together to deliver 6 envelopes to people whom their mother had wronged in the past.

I really wanted to like this one so I’ll start with the things I liked. I really appreciated the healing journey that Lexi and Ashley and thought that it was well done. I could understand why Lexi was jealous of the relationship that Ashley and their mother had. Lexi only knew walls and broken promises, something I could relate to.

However, for as much as I could relate to that part of Lexi, that’s pretty much where it ends. I thought Lexi was stuck in a perpetual cycle of self-pity which was hard to relate to. I also thought there would be more of a road trip aspect to this book, but it is a very minor portion of the story. I also felt 0 tension between Lexi and Heath. They were barely enemies and their initial problems could have easily been fixed with a little communication.

I think I would have appreciated this book if I had read the other books in the “series”, though definitely not required to read this one. People who like the other books in this series will probably enjoy this one.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you to the publisher for allowing me the opportunity to read this book prior to publishing! There is something about enemies to lovers and slow burn romances that gets me excited to read a romance with funny moments and great character growth. Jill Shalvis is becoming an author I am looking forward to reading more and more!

The Love Fix is a cozy, heartfelt romance with all the feels. Lexi Clark returns to Sunrise Cove to honor her estranged mother's dying wish: delivering six apology letters alongside her stepsister, Ashley. Enter Heath Bowman, Lexi's childhood nemesis-turned-crush, who volunteers to help, sparking all kinds of tension and growth.
Tropes I loved:
- Enemies-to-Friends-to-Lovers
- Small Town Drama
- Family Healing
- Second Chances
Shalvis nails the humor and emotional depth, with Lexi's growth and her dynamic with Heath as the highlights. The pacing faltered a bit, with some slow spots and an ending that wrapped up too quickly (where's my epilogue?). But overall, it's a heartfelt story about forgiveness and finding love where you least expect it.
Rating: 4/5 stars
Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC!

⭐️ 1/5 | 🌶️ 1/5
Third Person Narrative | MF Closed Door Romance
Lexi is FMC, Heath is MMC
Triggers: Challenging family dynamic, death of parents, childhood cancer, abandonment, job loss, gambling addiction.

This is my first book of Jill Shalvis that I’ve read and I was really excited as she has so many with decent reviews. With this being “Sunrise Cove #8” I wanted to make sure whether I had to read the other 7 in the series first. I found out that you can read Jill Shalvis's books in any order because they are written as stand-alones. However, if you like reading series you can read them in order and enjoy cameos from characters in other books.

I really was looking forward to this book. I love a good cozy romance with huge character growth and challenging family dynamics. However, I hate to say it but I just barely finished this book (even though I started the New Year vowing that I wouldn’t force myself to power through and finish a book that I felt was a lost cause just because I felt guilty). It was alarming to myself given how promising the author’s star ratings are for other books.
There were too many confusing, inconsistent, irrelevant details for my liking.

For starters: the relationships between some characters wasn’t clear right away. I’m actually still not entirely sure even after going back and re-reading for clarity. Personally, I didn’t think this was a book where I would have to highlight details and reference back complex information in order to keep up with the storyline (like when I dive into world-building books I am 100% prepared to have to do that. Cozy romance? Not so much).

The timeline/history is also unclear for several reasons. I am also surprised at finding out what some of the main reasoning are for why Lexi is the way she is. It all seems a bit melodramatic.

This is also apparently a nemesis-turned-crush but other than some teasing in elementary school, I’m not really sure where their tension comes from? Why did they despise each other in school other than they were both competitive and that’s what boys and girls do sometimes when they like each other? And then there’s the additional, frustrating miscommunication trope.

Next, with the inconsistency of details. There were a handful of times where details in the same scene contradicted each other. For example; a character is wearing a specific outfit and the next minute it’s detailed that her outfit she’s changing out of is completely different.

Lastly, the spice and sex scenes were absolutely lacking and weak. There was so much potential there too.

I know I read an unedited version but I felt this was a tad all over the place, amateur, and poorly written.

Thank you NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for an electronic ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I didn’t feel connected to any of the characters in the book, and I thought the story was a bit confusing to follow at points. I also wasn’t the biggest fan of the author’s writing style.

A sweet story about finding love in many forms.

At first I really related to Lexi, but it seemed like her entire character shifted part way through the book to help wrap the story up how it ended. I don't think the Lexi from the beginning and the Lexi at the end are the same person, even after going through delivering the letters. By the end, I knew what the conclusion would be and was reading to finish.

Really enjoyed this book! The Love Fix, by Jill Shavis is a moving story of healing from past trauma and family reconciliation. Lexi, an estate appraiser had her heart broken and had been wrongfully fired from her job. Just as she was running out of funds, she was summoned back to Sunrise Cove on the one year anniversary of her mom’s death to join her step sister Ashley to hand deliver a series of letters as their mom’s last wish. Embarking on this journey forced Lexi to face some very real childhood traumas and to forge new relationships with Ashley and Heath, the executor of her mom’s estate and former childhood friend. I loved to see the healing journey these characters undertook to learn to build family and friendship- and to risk opening their hearts to each other. Highly recommend!

Not my favorite book by this author, I had a hard time getting into it but it was a nice, cozy quick read. The romance was good and I enjoyed the combination of romance along with Lexi working through some trauma.

This book was okay! The premise of the book revolves around two characters, Heath and Lexi. Lexi has come home to distribute letters to people her mother had chosen before she died. She struggles with wanting to be there for her sister, Ashley, and her disdain for her mother who was never really there for her when she was younger. Attraction grows between her and Heath, who has ghosts of his own, and they start to pick things up where they left off (since they have known each other for a long time).

I think the hook at the beginning of the story is great. It reels you and you get a great introduction to Lexi. But after that, for me, things just kind of stay stagnant. It felt like the story should have been told in first person rather than third, and I have never thought that about a book until this one. I love both the third and first person, but in my opinion, the first person would have enhanced this book so much more.

I hate to say it but the story just kind of fell flat in the middle and I found it a struggle to continue reading. But other than that, I do like Heath's character and I think he was well-written.

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!

I've read a few previous books from Jill Shalvis, and I find that her style is consistent, and the stories revolve around friendship and family. Was this my favorite book of hers? No, but it kept to her tried and true formula and it generally worked for me. I think the book hit its stride best when Heath's family was more involved and we got more backstory on what Lexi and Heath went through as children. It's a good book to read on a weekend, and when you want to read something that will give you the ending where everyone is happy in the end. 3.5 stars for me.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the arc.

Jill never ceases to amaze me with her ability to create characters that you immediately fall in love with and are rooting for. Thank you netgalley for the arc.

A year after her mother’s passing Lexi returns home when stepsister Ashley pleas with her to come home to fulfill their late mother’s final wish of hand delivering 6 envelopes to make amends with people she wronged.
I really felt for Lexi, being jealous of her stepsister Ashleys relationship with her mom, while Lexi lived with her father. All Lexi had known from her mother was broken promises and built walls around her heart.
Between Ashley and childhood crush Heath her walls around her heart start to crumble.
A heartwarming story of forgiveness amd letting go.