I unfortunately had to DNF 65% of the way through only because the timeline jumping was a little too much for me. I enjoyed the writing and the plot overall other than that.

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever Publishing for this ARC.

#2 in this steamy F1 series and it was great. I adored the characters and loved traveling everywhere with them.yoi truly feel like you start to understand the main FMC and her back story. I feel like there was more talk of behind the scenes in racing and honestly, I understood every 3 words. Ha! But I do want to watch F1 now! Can't wait for Sage's story!!

I was so happy to have this from Netgalley to read immediately after Double Apex!! I was so excited for Natalia and Klaus' story. Nat is not as sassy as Phae. Instead we get a little more angst with this book. Spice is so good and of course Nat is a strong FMC who holds her own. I'll be counting the days until we get Sage's story!!!

Overall, I enjoyed this one but there were a few key things that lowered the rating for me. First, was the balance of the book. It felt very light and airy in the first half with no much happening but then the second half was full of drama and important moments that and it kind of felt overwhelming at times. Another part of my rating was due to the pacing. I love time jumps in books because it adds to the believability of the longing and falling in love, but this one felt choppy at times. I felt like we’d be in a moment that I was enjoying and then we were two weeks or a month Ont the future. It was a whirlwind. I thought the romance was fun and I was able to connect with the main characters by the end of the book. The f1 parts were a lot of fun too!

I found myself really struggling with this book. I honestly did not enjoy the way the female MC and her “best friend” interacted. It gave very mean girl energy the way they would jab at each other. I know their relationship was suppose to be like “old married couple” but it did not come off that way. I also struggled with the cancer plot line. As a cancer survivor I struggle when books use cancer as a conflict in the plot. I try not to judge as I don’t know the authors personal relationship with cancer. But as a survivor I read to avoid cancer and I find it triggering in the plot. I know a lot of other cancer survivors and current cancer patients feel the same way so if you add trigger warnings I would recommend adding cancer as one.
I did not really enjoy the female main character at all. I did not enjoy being within her head at all. I did enjoy the MMC. He gave Toto Wolff vibes without feeling like a copy of the actual Toto Wolff. Overall I struggled a lot with this book and that may mostly be I did not enjoy the dynamics between the fmc and her “best” friend nor the cancer plot line. I wish I had enjoyed it more because I have a love for F1 romance and love how they have been growing in popularity recently. Unfortunately I feel this book was not for me.

unfortunately this book was a total miss for me. i was totally drawn into this book by the cover and even though i am not an avid f1 watcher i do like to occasionally read f1 romances when i need a switch up in the sports romance department because i tend to find them fast paced and thrilling, i love watching them jump from country to country. however quite honestly getting through this felt about as thrilling as watching paint dry.

i couldnt connect with any of these characters, every time i felt like i may start to they go and do something that annoys me. for everyones grown age all of the characters felt extremely immature.

i think that this book had the potential to be really good but with all of the time jumps literally every single chapter it felt hard to get any sense of what in the world was going on. nothing is really being shown to me just told at various stages of the book?? the bones are there but unfortunately the writing is not. its hard to care about characters and their relationships if im not being shown any of the process of them falling in/out of love, if i cant understand why phaedra (who i will not even be getting into or this’ll turn into a rage rant lmao) and her are fighting this time, etc.

i finally just had to call it quits in the middle of chapter 21, the dramatics and secrets got old fast. these two started to feel very toxic and like we were running in circles. and tbh im convinced they’d divorce in less than 6 months were this book to end in marriage.

Unfortunately DNF around 60%. The premise is so great, but as other reviewers have mentioned, there is way too little development of the relationship and the side plots with Phaedra and Natalia's family take up a disproportionate amount of space. Felt like the romance "developed" off page and made no sense.

The cover drew me in but what was inside the cover was a disappointment. The time line of the story made it hard to enjoy. The timing really jumped around from two weeks to two months between chapters. I saw someone say it because is following the F1 Schedule since this is an F1 novel. While that is an incredible creative idea, it’s doesn’t translate to a linear book timeline.

✨F1 Driver x Journalist
✨ Age Gap
✨ Workplace romance

Thank you Forever publishing for an eARC of Coming in Hot by Josie Juniper, I am always extremely grateful.

I was really excited to drive into this one because I do enjoy an age gap, the cover is so pretty, and I’ve been looking to read an F1 romance and this felt like the perfect time! I will not be rating this book because I DNF’ed it.

I felt this book was doing a lot of telling not showing and I don’t feel like I can understand either motivations of our two main characters. I am not a fan of the insta lust/ insta love trope and that’s exactly what this book is and once we get over that part I didn’t feel a genuine connection (or even interest) between the two. Overall, this book has potential but unfortunately missed the mark for me.

After reading both books in this series I realized this is not the author for me. I personally feel these a romance books for people just getting into romance books. For someone like me who reads a lot of romance books these are lacking a lot. These books feel very rushed and leave the reader bored.

I enjoyed this book. It was an easy read but the pacing was off and it made it less enjoyable. But I did really like the banter.

There was so much potential for this book, given the genre, but I didn't find it appealing to me much. It felt like the book was constantly jumping from timeline to timeline, stating 2 weeks later, 2 months later. It was hard to find out when they actually were falling for each other because it wasn't described much at all. Like, girl, when did you actually fall for him?? I really enjoyed the side character, Phaedra, but found the main characters lacking depth. I appreciate the authors work and won't say much more than that.

Thank you Netgalley and Forever for this ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Thank you to Forever and NetGalley for the advance reader copy of Coming in Hot by Josie Juniper!

Natalia is a journalist who becomes the lead reporter of Auto Racing Journal but she has a history with one of the industry team Principal’s. Klaus, Principal of the Emerald Team, is who Natalia had a one night stand with at the beginning of the book. These two both recall that night as their careers keep them in proximity of the other.

I listened to the audiobook for Double Apex last year and was excited to see that this book would center around Natalia and Klaus. These two can’t resist coming back to each other throughout the story which is an element I enjoy in romance. Overall, this book wasn’t for me. Even though I didn’t feel this book was for me, Josie Juniper’s writing keeps me engaged until the end as to what will happen next.

If you enjoy a Formula 1, forbidden, age gap romance, that may be a book for you to check out.

If you like angst, this is the book for you!

While the writing was great, I had a hard time getting into the story. The chapters jump ahead weeks and sometimes month and I lost all concept of time. I found the FMC to be a bit surly and off-putting. I don't want to give any spoilers, but there was also a trope that came up about 80% of the way in and I kinda check out at that point.

It is a good book and I'm sure it will find it's readers, it just wasn't for me.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy. All opinions expressed are my own.

This was good, not great. I feel like all of these F1 romance books kind of mash up together and while the tropes in this were a bit more believable (journalist x billionaire) it just felt very surface level. I didn't connect to the characters unfortunately.

I was really excited for this because I do watch F1 & the tropes are some of my faves but it was such a let down. I didn’t find either MC all that interesting and their dialogue felt so cheesy to me. The friendship between the FMC & her best friend felt so toxic; I hated how they talked to and about each other. I didn’t read the first book in this series and I felt like I was missing so much. Maybe I would have enjoyed this more if I did read the first book, but I have 0 interest in going back and reading it.

Just because this book wasn’t for me doesn’t someone else won’t love it! Thank you NetGalley for the early copy ◡̈

Personal Compatibility 3.5 ⭐️
For its Written Purpose 3.75 ⭐️

I won't lie, the story itself had me hooked. A hot older man who is filthy rich & is the Team Principal of an F1 team is like a total dream. And I did love Natalia and her story as well. BUT the pacing always felt a bit like it was jumping around too much and moved right as the reader was getting settled into a certain scene or dynamic.

The plot/romance barriers were realistic and I thought were well done, but this book has accidental pregnancy which I absolutely hate. If we act like it ends at 80% I think my rating would be much higher, but the last 20% was a painful read for me personally.

Gotta love an AU Toto Wolff Age-Gap fanfic tho 😮‍💨 plenty of spice and plenty of book 1's characters as well. The timelines of the 2 books matched up really well and filled in a lot of the gaps!

I'll be reading book 3 for sure because I do like Sage and think she will have a great story to tell!

Absolutely loved this- devoured it in a day. I just wish the ending had been a tad bit longer. But maybe we will see more of the couple in Sages book!

4/5!

I enjoyed the second book in Josie’s F1 Team Emerald world! It was fun getting to know Klaus and Natalia more after meeting them in Double Apex. The book was SPICY & Natalia and Klaus had great chemistry. the characters were more complex than what originally meets the eye, and both demonstrated growth throughout the book. The F1 elements throughout were fun, and I’m happy I started this book right before the season started!

Would recommend this for readers who like:
-age-gap
-billionaire romance
-forbidden/workplace romance
- F1 romance

DNF 12%

I just couldn't handle the shallowness anymore. These characters have zero depth, their actions make zero sense, there is zero chemistry between the two mains. ZERO ZERO ZERO. I'm usually not one to DNF but this was giving me a literal headache to read. Apologies to Forever Publishing for this review but thank you for sending me eARCs, I love you so much!