Caitlin Klassen’s You Used to Love Me is a heartwarming and witty romance that beautifully blends humor, emotional growth, and second-chance love. At the center of the story is Audrey, who, after a painful breakup, embarks on a journey of self-discovery—with the support of her brother and his best friend, a man with whom she shares a complicated past.

Klassen crafts her characters with impressive depth and authenticity. Audrey’s evolution feels genuine and relatable, while the chemistry between her and her brother’s best friend adds an irresistible tension that keeps the reader invested. The rich backstories not only flesh out the characters but also enhance the emotional stakes, making the ultimate payoff all the more satisfying.

With its perfect balance of sweet moments and sharp humor, You Used to Love Me is an engaging, feel-good romance that will leave readers smiling and believing in second chances.

if you're looking for a low-drama, feel good book, look no further. This book is it. Idk what Caitlin was writing with that day, but I'm going to need her to go back, do the same thing, and hand me book number 2 because I loved everything about Noah and Audrey.

To preface, the beginning was a bit hard to read. Audrey didn't deserve any of the treatment she was getting and, honestly, screw Paul. I wanted to scream for Audrey because she lost out on so many years over a guy that truly didn't deserve any time wasted on him. And, realizing that she's dealt with a horrible bf for so long, you couldn't deny the chemistry that was still there when Noah and Audrey finally reconnected.

So, Noah. Oh man, oh man, oh MAN. While I do love me a morally grey man, I will always be down on my knees for a golden retriever boy who is obsessed with the girl for so long and that is probably the best way to describe Noah. He was perfect in all the right ways, patient, and just wanted to be there for Audrey in any capacity he could have her.

And, Audrey?? I love how her whole demeanor changes around Noah. From the constant doubts and worries in her prior relationship, I love how carefree you get to witness Audrey be and finally feel comfortable with being herself again. With that, her confidence also shined as she got to be with Noah.

What I think really makes this book though was the relationship all three, Audrey, Connor, and Noah, had. I think it's not often you see a "happy" or at first a "supportive" relationship from the brother towards his sister dating his best friend or even giving his best friend the blessing of being with his sister. But, the way Connor was so supportive of their relationship just adds to how much of a feel good book this was to read.

I read this book so quickly because it was just so hard to put down, and I can't wait to read book two when it comes out.

Thank you to the author and publisher for this eARC! I love sharing my thoughts with others and if you read this book, I hope to read your thoughts as well!

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This is the first sports romance by Caitlin Klassen, and it's super cute! Audrey and Noah grew up together, and we got the opportunity to read about how they come back into each other's lives and navigate their feelings as adults. The regrets they have of the words left unsaid.
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Noah is her brother's best friend and a professional baseball player, and I just appreciated how kind and genuine of a person he was in this book. And Audrey is going through big life chances, which I feel many will relate to. I also liked the split timeline that brought us back to their childhood and how their relationship grew, as well as the dual POV.
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Potential reasons you might love this book:
✨️ Dual POV (forever my fav)
✨️ Sports Romance
✨️ Split Timeline
✨️ Each Chapter had a song you can que up
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Page & Pour Rating: 3✨️
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Thank you to Victory Editing @netgalley co-op for this arc. Available on April 27, 2025!
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Who doesn't love a "it's always been you" second chance romance? You Used To Love Me was a quick read featuring Audrey and Noah, best friends, along with her brother, since they were five. She's always been in love with him and unknown to her, he's been in love with her. When he moves states for college, she tries to forget him. After being in an unfulfilling relationship for the past 7 years, she moves on. Noah is there waiting for when she's ready. Their chemistry was great and their romantic relationship moves quickly.
There were some parts I wished were explored more, especially the Paul and Kristen storylines.

You Used to Love Me

Caitlin Klassen

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A gorgeous, cozy baseball romance from the POVs of Audrey and Noah.

Audrey is in an unhappy relationship with someone else when she reconnects with her brother and his childhood best friend Noah. Sparks fly between the two when they both remember how they felt about each other growing up. Following along the story of how these two decide if they want to be together is just the type of romance I love. It has multiple POVs, friends to lovers, sports themes and fantastic banter and chemistry between all of the characters.
Thank you to Netgalley and Caitlin Klassen for the ARC read!

The author writes a beautiful story about young love, broken hearts, and supportive friends and family.

The FMC enjoys spending time with her older brother and his best friend, both baseball players. She has a crush on the brothers best friend, but never tells him how she feels (although those around them know).

Years pass, her brother and his best friend go off to college, and she ends up in a relationship with a young man that is a narcissist who is focused on his career and interests and doesn't care about her interests. The depiction of the narcissist character and the way he gaslit the FMS was so accurate that I felt like I was the one in the relationship. I felt the hurt and heartache she experienced and wanted to scream at her to just leave! Those who have dealt with a narcissist know how difficult it is to end the relationship, and it was no different for our FMC.

This was the first book I've read by Caitlin Klassen and I can say I'll definitely read more of her work. I'm looking forward to the second book in this series.

I'd like to thank NetGalley and Victory Editing for the opportunity to read an ARC of this book.

this was such a cute little book!

my favourite trope is childhood friends to lovers and i love a good sports romance so this was right place right time for me!

i thought that noah and audreys love story was so cute. i loved the nicknames they still had for each other in present day that they had when they were younger too. i loved the flashback scenes which gave us more depth to their dynamic and showed us how they got to where they are today.

i thought the side characters were so fun! im really looking forward to connor’s book as he was so funny in this one.

my literal only criticism is that it was too short. i wish we had more pages of noah and audrey and also had more of how audrey dealt with her previous relationship.

there are a couple trigger warnings so i’d recommend to check those before reading.

available april 27th! thank you netgalley to providing me with the arc!

4.75 stars

ok if there is more from this author as a series type then they needed to be here now. because lets just say i need to know more. i need to read more and there are certain characters who neeeeed their own story. like now!
this was a super duper has all the feels and squeels type of book. it touched in real issues. and showed them true content but without making this book about "that" or that is was too heavy it would erase what we needed to focus on for the book to be the book it was... i appreciate these type of topics should never ever be brushed aside and we MUST know about them and witness it, never shy from it. but i also think it takes talent to give them their space but also allowing the reader to know this book wont be a domestic violence weighted book.
because this book is about Audrey and Noah and my my my they were exelente. what a pair. what a sweet coming together. what wit, banter and romance. this had all the emotions of a swoon romance but also the added depth us cynics need so we dont feel to sick with ourselves for falling in love with such romances,ha!
Caitlin has done a masterclass in what a good storytelling should look like. the balances are all there. and being a sport based book had me originally questioning, but only for a second. it clearly wasnt an issue. and wasnt a sport based book and if anything it all added to the plot and the journey of our characters.
every character had the importance not just the main ones. this was a fabulous read. spot on.

LOVED this book!! Auddie and No were just perfect! I loved that it wasn’t your standard “best friends sibling” trope! The pace of the book was great and the banter between the trio was great!! Noah showing how a man should treat the woman he loves 😍 Sign me up for Connor’s book now !! Thank you so much for writing such genuine and relatable characters!

This was addicting to read and not put down! 4.5 stars!
It was cozy, heartwarming and set the expectation bar super high!
Noah and Audrey are sickenly cute, this couldv'e easily been 300 pages longer and I wouldv'e eaten it up!
I can't wait to see what else Caitlin Klassen comes up with!

Thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley and Caitlin Klassen for providing me this ARC

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC.

This was a really sweet story, and I did like the two main characters. This book definitely needs someone to edit with a fine-tooth comb, especially with the dialogue. A lot of parts felt too wordy, and over-explained.

There was a lot of "millennial" driven writing which, as a millennial, made me cringe. I don't need Taylor Swift song titles to tell me the vibe of a chapter, or tell me the way it should make me feel. (& I say this as a fan). But, really? A "Guilty as Sin" chapter when FMC is longing for her ex? It is just so, heavy handed? It just wasn't clever, in my opinion.

Be ready for all the feels on this one. I was very surprised at how emotionally deep this one got for me. I have not read anything by this author before so I wasn't sure what to expect going in. It was very well written and I think the character arc for Audrey was so well done that I would probably read anything this author puts out.

I absolutely loved this book. Beautiful writing style, amazing themes, modern outlook. Stunning. Would recommend and re read anytime.

I loved this book! This was my first read by Caitlin Klassen, and while I don’t usually gravitate toward sports stories, this one completely won me over. I fell in love with the characters—Audrey and Noah especially—but honestly, all of them stole a piece of my heart. Well, except for douchey Paul… he can get bent.

I devoured this book in one sitting because I just couldn’t put it down. It was the perfect feel-good read, with writing that pulled me in, a story that had me hooked, and characters I didn’t want to say goodbye to. Everything about it just worked.

A huge thank you to NetGalley, Caitlin Klassen, and the publisher Victory Editing for this ARC in exchange for my honest review. 5 stars for a job well done!

You Used to Love Me by Caitlin Klassen is a second chance, friends to lovers, oh so sweet baseball romance.

Audrey is stuck in an unhealthy relationship, just going through the motions of life. Noah is a successful professional baseball player who has always regretted not telling Audrey how much he loved her before leaving for college years ago. After ending her relationship and reconnecting with Noah and her brother, Audrey joins them for the baseball season. They quickly fall back in love. This was a quick read with not much depth. The story is definitely sad to start with some pretty heavy content (trigger warning for spousal gaslighting, cheating, and abuse), but quickly turns into a second chance romance. I did enjoy the read, but it just did not go very deep, I wanted to get to know the characters more and have them work through their emotions, history, and feelings together. Overall, it just felt too much like a fairy tale and make believe.

Thank you to Netgalley, Victory Editing, and the author for this e-ARC.

I could not put this book down.
I am not one to typically jump to read a sports romance, but once I started this - I couldn’t put it down until I was down. Caitlin Klassen hit me with an unexpected 1-sitting read.

I loved watching the life of Audrey & Noah unfold. Learning their backstory, touching on the bad and everything that brings them to where they are.

I appreciated that this touched on some really tough, real-life scenarios without making it the grand focus, and still having it feel like such a sweet, feel-good romance.

I will 100% be running to read the rest of this series as it releases. I am impressed, and this may have convinced me to give more contemporary sports romances a try.

Review posted on GoodReads March 22nd, 2025
& will be posted on Instagram on @hailshundredhobbies sometime on March 23rd 2025.

Thanks to NetGalley and Victory Editing for providing me with a free ARC of this book.
This was a delightful and short read. The story started with a sad and angry heartbreak, but that was soon compensated by a cute and sweet new beginning of a second chance love story. I particularly loved how the brother supported the relationship of his sister and his best friend. The MMC was really patient and thoughtful. Towards the end, I hoped for some climax scenes but there was only sweetness which level exceeded my tolerance limit, guessed I was so familiar with grumpy MMC or angst 😅
If you are searching for an XXL dose of sugar sweet romance, this one might be it.

This isn't just a story of girl falls for older brother's best friend. This book actually has a great deal of depth! Audrey is the slightly younger sister of Conner, and she has a long time childhood crush on his best fiend (who also happens to be her close friend), Noah. They have quite a few twists and turns in each of their lives, some definitely not for good, but the broken road is what leads the ones meant to be in love, back to each other.
The author does a magnificent job on character development, giving great insight to each of their pasts, and fun referrals to the best love stories by Nicholas Sparks.
This isn't a very long book, but she uses that "small" space so wisely to tell a great story- so much that I read it in one night (never mind that I had a bad case of insomnia, so it kept me happy to have something that kept my interest of reading!).
I definitely will be on the lookout for more of her works!

Thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley and Caitlin Klassen for providing me this ARC.
You Used to Love Me is a short and fast paced romance novel that follows Audrey and Noah, two childhood friends with feelings who reconnect after some time apart. Without revealing too much of the plot, I want to mention that the first part of the book depicts domestic abuse (the abuser is not the MMC).
To start with the negative, I always have a hard time with multiple timelines, and personally don’t care much about baseball, so those parts weren't the most engaging to me, but that's just a personal preference.
What I did love about this book was how the second part of the story doesn’t revolve solely around the romance, but is also about Audrey getting her life together and learning to put herself first. There’s no third-act breakup or miscommunication, it's dual POV and there’s a huge playlist with a song dedicated to each chapter. The best part for me, though, was the friendship between Noah and Connor. It’s refreshing to see healthy masculinity and characters who aren't afraid to talk about their feelings and express love (big Pedro Pascal and Oscar Isaac energy right there).
The pettiest part of me wish we had an update on Paul living a miserable life alone, but overall, this was a pleasant read, and I'll definitely keep an eye out for the next book in the series.