What an emotional roller coaster this was! But it was phenomenal. I loved it. The bad boy and good girl duo, who really saves who here. Ben is a rough one but Sadie is a saint.

Loving Ben Cooper was phenomenal. Truly a masterpiece in my eyes. Watching Ben transform from an angry and aggressive man who didn’t know how to express himself to the man he was at the end was perfect. He was very flawed but Sadie pulled all that was good up to the surface and forced him to confront all of those negative emotions and channel them better and I think that was the most beautiful thing. Seeing Ben come to the reality that he is not okay and work on himself and not expect Sadie to just deal with him as he was just acknowledging that was incredible but seeing him decide he needed to do better and not just better for Sadie but better for him as well? Chefs kiss. 5 stars

What happens when the "good girl" meets a bad boy...a very bad boy? Can someone change? Does anyone really have the ability to change someone? See what happens when a chance meeting changes the path that both the main characters are on.

a beautiful emotional rollercoaster, i enjoyed this one a lot and i am very grateful to have received an early copy. thank you to the publishers and author.

i will come back with a full review soon!!

I really enjoyed this spicy new romance novel! Thank you so, so much to the author, publisher, and Netgalley for allowing me to read this title!

Blurb:
Sadie

I’ve always been religious, and any man who comes into my life needs to understand that I have a strong moral compass. One day I hope to settle down with a man who shares my values and desire for a family and a wholesome life. There is no room for anything less, no room for speed bumps or roadblocks. Then one man threw a wrench in my spinning tire. That man made me question my beliefs and what true faith really is. Ben Cooper—my very own sinner.

Ben

Each blow to the face feels glorious. I crave the pain from my back alley opponent. The high I get from each fight that I provoke is the same one I get when I strum my guitar and hit the high notes on the mic. Violence is my decadence and music is my redemption. I love beautiful women, the taste of whiskey on my tongue, and the smell of tobacco on my breath. I’m a man with no morals and no plan. I’m a man with only the promise of the day I'm living. Until I find the most beautiful melody, fully dressed and with a cross around her neck. Sadie McCallister—my very own saint.

The premise of this book sounded really great but unfortunately I could not get into this book. This book was very insta love which I am not a fan of. For me it makes the characters not likeable and something I couldn't move past. Others may like this book but it was not for me.

I really didn't love the writing style of this book. I dnf'd after chapter 1.

The premise sounded promising, but the writing wasn't working for me.

Loving Ben Cooper by @authorccmonroe
Published by @wattpadbooks on 3/25/25
Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Loving Ben Cooper is a beautiful emotional rollercoaster of a novel. I just devoured it and I’m still swooning! This whirlwind romance has well developed characters that stole my heart.

Ben is a broody sinner while Saddie is a bright and cheerful saint. Saddie has a moral compass that Ben is lacking. His demons were lurking with addictions and trauma. Somehow this sweet as humble pie Christian woman sees the hidden layers of him and is consumed leaving her morals behind. Or did she? Their instant attraction blossoms into a loving friendship that draws you in as a reader. I will not be forgetting this redemptive love story of the most unlikely paired couple: good girl and the bad rockstar.

I’m so happy that CC Monroe was able to republish her title under Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group. Saw it on a Target shelf and instant fan-girled!

Thank you NetGalley, CC Monroe and Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group for an advanced digital copy of Loving Ben Cooper.

I absolutely loved this book! I couldn’t put it down and read it in one day.
I thought this book was fun, amazing and steamy. The characters had great chemistry and you really wanted to root for them.
Their chemistry was off the charts and the banter was just amazing.
A great read with fantastic writing.

Wow! I did not expect Loving Ben Cooper to wreck me like it did. I don’t often read celebrity/rockstar-based romances, and I can’t quite connect with them. However, Author C.C. Monroe wrote about themes that almost all readers could identify with and relate to.

Sadie, who wants to help people, takes on everyone’s hurt. I could see how her connection and “insta-love” happened so quickly with Ben. Ben’s dependence on Sadie to “silence his demons” seems only natural considering his issues, as he unintentionally uses her to fix what’s broken inside. They kept falling into a cycle of breaking, attempting to repair, not knowing how to repair, and failing to repair. C.C. Monroe built a solid story around all these things and did it well.

Loving Ben Cooper was a powerful story with well-written characters and an emotional plot that held strong to the end.

***3.5 Stars rated down to 3 Stars on websites not allowing half star reviews***

Addictive and emotional, Loving Ben Cooper is a fast-paced love story with all the signs and symptoms of toxicity. Ben is a rising rockstar on tour, and Sadie is an innocent nursing student bound by her faith. Ben and Sadie are a steamy pair with Sadie all but dropping her religious notions the moment she meets Ben. They progress at a “Romeo and Juliet” level fast. Their lack of commonalities is left by the wayside, but most importantly this sinner and saint have an intense love for each other in common. And that’s all that matters.

Loving Ben Cooper is one of those novels you can’t put down. Who knows what will happen next? Will Ben’s traumas get in the way? Does Sadie realize all she’s doing? Are her selfless acts enough? All questions I asked myself as I read over the past month.

Witnessing their love story was like watching two trains collide head-on. I didn’t know who or what would survive or what other elements would come into play that would save them. Everything was delicate and intricate and intimate. Often, I felt nosy for knowing their story.

Ben and Sadie are memorable characters. I don’t know I’ll ever forget them or their relationship. Loving Ben Cooper shed new light on how feelings can come first and everything else second. The love and passion C. C. Monroe has for this story is felt throughout, always pushing them to the brink of collapse but pulling back just enough to revive them.

I feel honored to have been able to experience Ben and Sadie and their universe. If you love a fast-paced, toxic story filled with forced proximity, angst, hardships, trauma, and most importantly love, then Loving Been Cooper should be on your read-now list. It’s the perfect rainy weekend, stuck-inside, passion read. After fans…you’ll love this!

Pro Tip: Listen to the soundtrack while reading. It’s chefs kisses.

Thank you to NetGalley, Frayed Pages x Wattpad, and C. C. Monroe for the ARC!

This was heart breaking and beautiful all at once. Sadie & Ben have that once in a lifetime kind of love. It’s intense, fast and all consuming. Ben has a rough past and a rock star lifestyle, Sadie is sweet and people pleasing to her core. Somehow they were drawn to one another and just fit, Was it perfect? No, it was even toxic at times. No matter what they always chose to love one another. Their story is raw and real and pulled at all of my heart strings. You get to feel
the good with the bad and everything in between. The emotions and fight, the love you feel it through every word CC writes in their story. This will be one that sticks with me, forever.

This is a perfect example of an insta-love, rock star story, and as a whole it was okay. I like insta-love and don’t mind reading a rock star story every once in a while. What I wasn’t a fan of was Sadie, the FMC. She gives up everything for him and he treats her like crap over and over again. Then when he finally decides to treat her right she forgives him so easily. It just didn’t really make me like her as a character, she just felt flat and doormat-ish. As for the book, I liked the first half more than the second half because of all of the drama, it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

Loving Ben Cooper is the best rockstar romance I’ve read in a hot minute. So so good. Is it insta lovey? Yes, a little, but I was okay with it. I loved the moment he saw her from the stage and just was ensnared. So swoony. The spice was so good and spread out through the book. Also, I like how even though Ben had a lot of trauma to work through, he put the work and didn’t depend on Sadie for that. Loved the emotional aspect. CC,.. amazing job.

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This is a whirlwind of a romance about huge all encompassing love. Ben and Sadie are twin flames. Ben is a rockstar with a lot of growing up to do. He has only truly been "famous" for about a year and yet he is full emersed in the lifestyle of drugs, women, and partying add in his mental health issues and he is on the edge of falling apart more often than not. Sadie is the total opposite - church loving virginal, honest, rule following and her dream is to be a nurse.

These two get swept up in the heat of their romance and things escalate quickly. There are very high highs and very low lows. The author explores both characters development where one sacrifices valued parts of themself the other takes and where one heals one helps. The author did a great job of writing a high energy story that keeps you hooked from page one. Do I love what the characters do all the time? No, but I respect their journey and love their story.

- opposites attract
- rockstar
- mental health rep
- therapy
- violence on page
- he falls first / harder
- insta lust
- curvy fmc
- drug use

This was a fast-paced love. The story was emotional. It wasn't all rainbows being with a rockstar. There were ups and downs, and i loved that from the beginning of their relationship, Sadie chose him and didn't give up. Throughout the story, we go through what it was like for her to love Ben Cooper. Ben the rockstar with intermittent explosive disorder, Ben the addict, Ben the husband, and the Ben that swept her off her feet.

*thank you to NetGalley for gifting this ARC to me*

This was such a quick, heart wrenching but also beautiful read. Bad-boy rockstar falls for the good girl and when I say fall, I mean tumbles and breaks his neck in love with her. I was rooting for them the whole time and teared up towards the end thinking the worst.
CC, this book was beautiful and I loved every second of it!

This was a great story. I love rockstar romance and all of the angst and turmoil that tends to go with that. Coupled with Sadie being so sweet and such an innocent girl (prior to meeting Ben, of course), this story had everything I love.

Ben and Sadie were a bit insta, but he just knew the moment he set eyes on her that she was it. I hated all of the moments that he ended up needing to apologize for, but those were to be expected with a character like Ben. He had a traumatic history and didn't deal with things the right way a lot of times.

Though the story itself was fantastic and kept me interested, the writing itself didn't really capture me. I felt like it didn't do justice to what could have been a much more emotional reading experience. Overall, an enjoyable book!

This was “instalove” on steroids. Not kidding, I blinked at 8% and MMC had the FMC on lockdown already. Unfortunately I needed a bit more time to invest in these two so that when the angst hit, I’d have an appropriate reaction. I love a good rock star trope, the sex, drugs and rock and roll were all a part of Ben Coopers life, but he also had a darkness to his past. Our FMC came off a bit too naive and her purity was thrown out the window just as quickly as the love at first sight.
Next book is Nick and I’m invested enough in the supporting cast to care where they end up, so it’s a definite read going forward.

NetGalley allowed me a copy in return for my thoughts.

CC Monroe masterfully weaves a story of love, lust, loss, and maybe a little bit of betrayal. Sadie and Ben are two of the most different people in the world, and one could never imagine that they would get together. But in this story, we see how each of these people evolve, sacrifice for the other, and eventually come out on the other end stronger for it. This book threw me for a loop, but I enjoyed every moment. The spice was amazing...keeping things steamy, while the story will keep you hooked and turning the page until you reach the end. This is one book that I will gladly read again and again.