I really love the enemies to lovers troupe but I felt this fell a little flat for me.

The characters reminded us of second chances and the power of forgiveness but I like more tension and build up then this story had.

Lexi returns to Sunrise Cove after her estranged mother passes away and she promises to help her sister, Ashley . Daisy , their mom let Lexi down over and over and yet she helped Ashley thrive . The Love fix is a perfect example of how one person has completely different roles in different peoples lives. Part of Daisy’s last wishes is that the girls deliver six envelopes to people before they get on with their lives. Heath tries to help the girls as much as he can as he feels like Daisy was there for him and his brother when they were young.
This book is everything that Jill Shalvis fans look forward to, from the quirky humor to the family struggle , second chances and healing . This is why she is a must read author.
Thank you NetGalley and publisher for a copy for my honest opinion.

The Love Fix is full of all the things readers have come to expect in a Jill Shalvis book—a quirky, sometimes awkward heroine, a dishy love interest, and well-meaning but meddlesome (and often loveable) secondary characters, set in Sunrise Cove in the beautiful area of Lake Tahoe. At the heart of the story are two characters—Lexi and Heath—who have emotional wounds from their childhoods that make them feel unworthy of love.

Lexi’s fractured relationship with her mother is her biggest obstacle to happiness, and when her mother dies she comes back to Sunrise Cove to help her stepsister go through their mother’s belongings. As part of her last wishes, Daisy asks that Lexi and Ashley deliver a series of envelopes to important people from her life. This plot device makes Lexi stay in Sunrise Cove (when her instinct is to flee) and work on her relationship with Ashley. Neighbor and childhood crush, Heath, is a steady presence (an attorney turned handyman) and he and Lexi help one another heal over the course of the book.

I liked the buddy story part of the book with the road trips for the sisters, often accompanied by Heath. I found his emotional scenes with Lexi fairly repetitive and I often skimmed these sections. I have loved other books in the Sunrise Cove series, but this one wasn’t one of my favorites.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for an advanced reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

wow wow wow. a truly harrowingly honest story of life & lives imperfectly messiness. this story is full of messy, but also the recognition that someone can hurt us, leave us and still be better for others around them. I loved my time in this read, felt heartbroken many times? yes. smiling through the tears at the final outcomes? also yes. this is for the romance readers who are okay (& secretly love) to have their emotions on high alert and heart absolutely shattered to get the HEA.

Jill Shalvis has done another great job with "The Love Fix" - Book 8 in The Sunrise Cove Series.  In this story we follow the lives of Ashley, her sister Lexi and Heath.  Having been summoned back home to Sunrise Cove by Ashley, to take care of their late mothers wishes, Lexi comes face-to-face with even more complications then she thought she would.  She must come to terms with the relationship she had with her mother, the relationship she can continue to have and nurture with Ashley, and what relationship can blossom and come full circle with Heath.

Shalvis does a wonderful job bringing each of the characters to life.  If you are a fan of Jill Shalvis, and have read any of her other books, especially the the early ones in this series (although you do not need to read the previous 7 books to read this one.  It works well as a stand alone.), you will not be disappointed.  I highly recommend this book.

Thank you NetGalley & the publisher for the ARC.

I’ve enjoyed all the books in this series. In the Love Fix, we’re faced with the questions: Does history tend to repeat itself? Is there a fear of being like a parent? Can you go home again? We have the central character who’s at a crossroad. The “hero” is a family friend that has disappointed in the past but is the caretaker. I enjoyed the relationship between the sisters and the growth between the two main characters. It’s a smooth ride to the conclusion.

Thank you Netgalley for the opportunity to read the ARC .
I wanted to love this book but for me it was just a like.
Lexi’s complex relationships with her step sister and past mother were strange as well as her relationship with Heath. I could get past why her mother Daisy would pick Heath as the except her estate when she had two daughters. In the beginning of the book there was not a good explanation of Heath and Lexi’s past relationship. For me the connection between the two was not sizzling.

This was a cute story. It was a bit hard for me to get into, but overall the writing was comfortable and easy to follow. As always, I enjoyed the enemies to lovers storyline, and I related to some of Lexi’s sass which made the story a bit easier to connect with. I look forward to checking out more of Jill’s work after this!

Thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager | Avon, Jill Shalvis, and NetGalley for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars ⭐️ I love Jill Shalvis' books but this one took me a little longer to connect with. It was still a good book though!

Thank you so much to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review!

This was a good book! Good enemies to lovers. It reminds us all that we all make mistakes and we should show each other and ourselves grace in those moments.

This book was okay. Totally on me that it is part of a series that probably would have made the story more enjoyable had I read the others. But I wasn't aware of that prior to reading the book, so it is what it is. This story follows Lexi Clark who returns home to help her stepsister deal with their late mother's dying wish. Once there, she's reunited with her childhood-nemesis to current crush, Heath Bowman. Not only does she have to deal with giving money to those her mother owed money to, she also has to deal with the complicated emotions she encounters, including those about her mom, her stepsister, and Heath.

I'm gonna be honest... I'm writing this review a week or so after I finished this book, and I can't remember anything about how I felt about it. It wasn't a bad story, and it wasn't offensive in any way, but it just wasn't super engaging to me. Once again, I take full responsibility for it being part of a series that I hadn't previously read. However, I definitely can see why other people would like this because it definitely has more of a general fiction vibe than a romance vibe.

I received this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Tnis was a nice beach read that made me wa t to read the other books set in Sunrise Cove! Check it out!

The Love Fix had all the elements for a heartwarming story—road trip antics, found family, and emotional healing—but it just didn’t land for me.

Lexi was a tough character to connect with. She spent so much of the book stuck in a cycle of self-pity over a wrongful firing that took forever to get resolved. While her guardedness made her healing journey realistic, it also made the first part of the book feel slow. Heath, on the other hand, felt overly self-aware, constantly naming and analyzing his emotions in a way that didn’t feel natural. Their romance lacked chemistry, and the supposed “crackling tension” between them wasn’t there.

On the plus side, the family dynamics, especially Lexi’s reconciliation with her sister, were touching. The themes of forgiveness and healing gave the story some emotional weight, but overall, it felt cluttered with too many characters and lacked the depth I was hoping for.

Thank you to NetGalley & Avon and Harper Voyager for the ARC.

I really did want to love this book, but had a hard time connecting with the main characters. While the back story was entertaining and I love the friends to enemies trope the miscommunication was hard to get past. I understand that both characters were both hurt by people they love and that’s why the miscommunication stemmed from I just couldn’t connect. I do intend to read other books by this author and see how I like them!

Everyone Needs Connections
My personal theory is that every family has some level of dysfunction. With that said, Jill Shalvis is a genius who captures this dysfunction and using it to propel the plots of her books in ways that always make me cry and laugh, nearly at the same time.
In “The Love Fix,” the newest title in her Sunrise Cove series, we meet the trio of Ashley, Lexi and Heath. Lexi and Ashley are stepsisters. Heath is the neighbor boy who was always around — at least until Lexi moved across the country when she was in elementary school.
Heath and Lexi have a history of competition and antagonism. The relationship between Ashley and Lexi is more complicated. After losing custody of Lexi, mom Daisy stuck around to raise her younger stepchild Ashley.
It’s complicated.
Now Lexi and Ashley have a mutual project to complete with Heath’s help. Along the way they all learn that everything they thought they knew about the past is definitely not the full story.
Much of the elementary-school competition between Heath and Lexi came more from stresses in their private home lives instead of from each other. Both have injuries that continue to inform their current choices.
I enjoyed Heath, Lexi and Ashley’s story so much that I wish I could have spent more time with them and their extended family members who add additional depth to their characters.
If you’ve never read a Jill Shalvis title, this is a great one with which to take the plunge. Shalvis’ character development, dialogue and plot pacing are spot on. (And the spider encounter is taken from real life.)
Although “The Love Fix” is labelled as part of the Sunrise Cove series, each title stands alone. There are no character crossovers from earlier titles.
My thanks to Harper Collins for an advance reading copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you for this ARC, NetGalley!

This story took me a minute to get into. At the beginning Lexie is a bristly, distrusting, and cynical women who as erected walls to close herself off from everyone, even the people she loves. While her reasoning for this may be a result of a long history of disappointments and broken promises, it makes the first 30% of the book challenging to root for her. In the end, I felt this made her healing journey and character development more compelling and realistic. Each character was flawed and dynamic in ways that were easy to relate to. Several characters have heavier themes they work through as they heal and grow throughout the story.
Also, they say don't judge a book by its cover (whoever they are is right) but l'd be lying if I said it wasn't what initially drew me in to this book. I mean who doesn't want to be this girl?

In The Love Fix (Sunrise Cove #8) by Jill Shalvis we meet Lexi as her world is falling apart, accused of something she did not do and out of money she is called home by her stepsister, Ashley. Little did she know there was an alternative motive for her being home and a complication from her past named Heath.

As her and Ashley work to complete a task put upon them, they realize that family is worth more than any money in the world.

I received an advanced readers copy of this book, and this is my honest voluntary review.

This book was just another brilliant read from Jill Shalvis. It's the eighth book of the Sunrise Cove series but can be read as a stand alone. The only thing any of these books seem to have in common is the small town it takes place in, none of the characters throughout the series intermingle.

The book is a very clean romance. Two old friends or competitive high schoolers grow up and turned to lovers. All the while on a mission to fulfill a dying wish of a mother, they seem to find each other.

It's a great, quick, lovely read. The characters make you fall in love with them immediately. They have so much depth. The storyline isn't one I found to by typical or predictable. Overall the book was really just perfect for me.

I really enjoy reading any book written by Jill Shalvis and The Love Fix was no exception. It was full of heart and made me feel all the feelings. The family dynamics, the friendships, the community, the messiness - I loved it all.

A huge thank you to Avon and Harper Voyager and NetGalley for the advanced copy. All opinions expressed above are my own.

While this book is part of the Sunrise Cove series it is a complete stand-alone book. Once again Jill Shalvis has written a book about a less than perfect heroine, which to me just makes the characters that much more likable. Lexi is currently unemployed and only back in town at the request of her stepsister to deal with her mother's final wishes. She has always had a complicated relationship with her mother. While Ashley on the other hand had a much different relationship with Lexi's mom. In the process of following through with her last wishes, Lexi finds that all of the relationships in her life stem from the issues with her mother but just maybe by following through with her request maybe she can find some resolution. And just maybe a new relationship too. Filled with quirky characters and a touch of humor, this book pulled me in immediately and not wanting to put it down.