4 stars ⭐️ The banter between Carly and Brooks and top tier! It was a quick and fun read! This is definitely for fans of Abby Jimenez!

What to expect:
- best friend’s brother
- forced proximity
- slow burn
- closed door romance

Thank you to NetGalley and Montlake for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for this ARC.

I didn’t love this one. All of this author’s romances involve medicine in some way and I like that. The 3rd person POV was not for me. The MMC is a doctor who begins a bachelor like journey to help his sisters’ online magazine. When he falls for his stylist/sisters best friend, he can’t get past his emotional unavailability.

Thank you, NetGalley and Montlake Publishing, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

I thought this was a sweet and cute read. I was invested almost immediately and hooked until the end. "If Tomorrow Never Comes" is the story of Carly, the bone marrow donor. Brooks has been convinced by his sisters to give dating another try, but his wardrobe is atrocious. Enter our girl, Carly. She is an accountant by day, a nightly stylist, and an all-around badass. Carly is assigned to help Brooks with his wardrobe, and sparks fly immediately. What I like about this book is that the chemistry between Carly and Brooks feels natural. It was a much lighter story than Ashley's previous book, so not so many heartstrings were pulled (in a good way). What I like about her books is that they have an Abby Jimenez/Emily Henry feel, like putting on a cozy oversized sweatshirt.

P.S. Who doesn't love a man in scrubs?



Read if you like:
-Forced proximity
-Best friend's brother
-Dual POV

I was able to get an ARC through Montlake Publishing on NetGalley in exchange for a review.
I loved this book! It had everything I love in a romance novel- pining, slow burn, dual POV, best friend’s brother, and the kind of love that gives me butterflies. It did such a good job of weaving an adorable love story with some real life topics. Both the MMC and FMC have gone through trauma in their past, as well as having to navigate tough challenges in adulthood.
From start to finish this book was an absolutely lovely read.

This book just made my heart so happy! I love transformation tv shows, cats, Oklahoma, and friends who become more so this book was perfect. MMC is in a rut and is working through a lot of emotions, FMC is figuring out her life, and (spoiler alert) they decide their journeys are better with each other. 🫶

Tropes:
3rd act break up 😬
Best friends brother 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨
Friends to lovers👏
Forbidden relationship 🤫
MMC healing through trauma ❤️‍🩹
MMC in health care🩺
Cat parents 🐈‍⬛
Fade to black, intimacy is implied. 🌶️ 🌶️

Trigger warnings:
Off page death of both MMC parents
Off page gambling addiction of FMC mom

How can you not fall in love with a man in scrubs, let alone one that is willing to help his sisters out in a bind. Brooks use to be an outgoing guy growing up, till some trauma happened and he went off to school to become a doctor. He became standoffish at work and never found time to date. So, in order to help his sister's magazine that their mother started, Brooks agrees to a Bachler style dating experience. To get him ready for his dates, he meets with Carly, his sister's best friend and stylist to dress him to impress all his dates.

Carly is going thru some of her own challenges, and it's actually perfect timing for her to be asked to help Brooks out. The more time they spend together, they begin to wonder if maybe they should just be together. However, neither wants to hurt his sister or cause issues with Carly's job.

Get ready for a nice slow burn book. Another hit by Allison Ashley!!!

Allison Ashley how do you do it every time?! Her books are quick to get me invested in the characters and feel all the feelings! Thank you so much to Allison Ashley and Netgalley for the ARC. I loved getting to read this early and it was so worth it. I loved the premise of this story and really related to Carly. Her and Brooks were just the sweetest. Just like all of Allison Ashley's books this one did also tackle the hard parts of life and made me cry, but she manages to do it in a hopeful way which I so appreciate. I highly recommend reading this book, but you may want to make sure you have tissues nearby when you do!

⭐️ARC provided by Montlake Publishing & NetGalley⭐️

I loved this book and read it in one sitting. The romance was super sweet and the banter between Carly & Brooks will keep a smile on your face.

When accountant-turned-stylist, Carly Porter, teams up with best friend, Sasha, to give one bachelor the chance to find a date & be featured in Sasha’s local magazine. The bachelor? None other than Sasha’s older brother, Brooks, and the former school girl crush of Carly. Carly is hopeful this is the perfect opportunity to prove herself to her boss and show how much she deserves a full-time spot with stylist company, Mode.
No longer the wild party boy he was in high school, Brooks Martin, tends to be more of an antisocial workaholic who prefers gardening & his cat, all while still coping with a devastating loss in his past.
As Carly and Brooks work together to transform Brooks into a charming catch, their undeniable chemistry threatens to put Carly’s career aspirations at risk.

Perfect for fans of witty banter, forced proximity, and my best-friend’s older brother love interest.

4.5 Set in the author's hometown of Oklahoma City, we get a Bachelor-type story that is friends to lovers. Along the way is endless banter (Allison's strong suit), character growth, and some beloved side characters. Allison is an auto-buy author, and there were elements of this one that felt a little different than her other books. Still, Brooks (MMC) working in the medical field fits given Allison's career in oncology, and the banter between Brooks and Carly is top notch.

This was such a sweet, funny, and emotional story! I absolutely loved Allison’s book If Tomorrow Never Comes, so I was so excited to see this sequel with Carly’s story. I loved the tie into the medical field with Brooks, as I’m a respiratory therapist who used to work in the ICU frequently. I loved that tie in. Overall it was a great read! The only thing that I wasn’t sure how I felt about the little blips at the beginning of each paragraph from Brooks or Carly’s past. Some I thought were fitting to the chapter and some I found confusing. That combined with the pace of the book at times is why I dropped the rating to a 4. Still a wonderful book though!

This was cute. I liked the slow burn and build up to Carly and Brooks getting together. I couldn’t get over that he took the first woman he went out with home. There’s never a full discussion of what happened, but it felt unnecessary. But if you exclude that, it was a quick and sometimes emotional read (and heavily touched on grief).

Okay I’m pretty sure this was my first book by this author BUT I can guarantee this won’t be my last!
I loved the approach towards love, the sincerity, the teasing!
Brooks was arguably the perfect mmc a loner who’s only social interactions are his job but a truly good person who doesn’t know much about anything when it comes to love or his own appeal.

I thought Falling Into Place was a cute story. I loved the best friend’s brother/forbidden romance of it all. I also thought the grief aspect was well done. Overall an enjoyable read.

FALLING INTO PLACE is a fun and sweet romance that has you invested in the characters from the very beginning. Imagine styling a hot, smart, and sweet guy who you're attracted to to help him find love but that love can't be you because that relationship would hurt your career. So you act like you're happy and excited for him to go on dates with people that aren't you all the while you find yourself catching feelings as you spend more time together and see more of his thoughtful and adorable side. This author always knows how to write dreamy guys!!!

Thank you to Montlake and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.

Falling into Place was an emotional story following Carly, a current CPA but aspiring stylist, and ICU doctor, Brooks. Brooks gets asked to do a bachelor style series to help save his family’s magazine, and Carly is brought in as his stylist. While both start out reluctant to date, they quickly click and the chemistry is present basically immediately. This is a little bit of a forbidden romance because there is a no fraternization policy.

I really liked how mature their story was, but did find the pace dragging a little bit towards the middle. I also really struggle with a third person narration, but once I got into it I enjoyed their story! I love a slow burn romance! I did not read If Tomorrow Never Comes, but now I know that I definitely need to!

Thank you to Montlake for the eARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

“Falling Into Place”, by Allison Ashley, is a lovely, moving story, about the workings of desire, attraction and love in characters marked by loss but still with a notable zest for life.
How a story where the male lead deals with life and death in a constant basis and has been himself affected by personal tragey can be so uplifiting, positive and enjoyable despite his subliminal somber moods is admirable.
I adored the hero, Brooks. What a study in male nerdiness: he’s an intensivist (wonderful depiction of such a demanding medical area) living basically for his job and his patients.
A loner who only socializes in the hospital and who has “been inside his own head for so long”, but a true gem of a person who admits he needs to “get back out into the world” and “have fun again”.
His obliviousness about things as fashion, dating, flirting or his own sex-appeal is downright funny and endearing.
Carly is a great heroine: kind, empathetic, and very talented at her job.
I loved the sincerity between the characters, the lively dialogue, the teasing.
How Brooks and Carly go from being smitten and attracted to something deeper while discovering new dimensions about themselves is an amazing journey.
The secondary characters, the siblings and family relationships and the felines are great, too.

Falling into Place is about Brooks an ICU physician with a traumatic past and Carly(who was Elliot's bone marrow donor in If Tomorrow Never Comes). Carly is trying to establish herself as a stylist so that she can do that full time and stop her full time accounting job. Brooks has been in doctor mode for the past decade focusing on his education and is now focusing on working. He has not made time to have a social life and has not dated essentially since high school. Brooks' sister Sasha is Carly's best friend and convinces him to do a bachelor-esque series in the magazine his sisters run that his mother founded. Carly is brought on to style him for the magazine cover shoot and dates.

Carly and Brooks start to confide in each other more with each styling session. This leads to feelings, but Carly's styling company has a non fraternization policy and Brooks has issues opening up. Will they be able to make this work?

I enjoyed this book from Allison and I always appreciate her characters and her accurate description of the medical field. I really appreciated the insight into Brooks' mental health and struggles. I just wish I could have had more time with Brooks and Carly. As someone who has lived in the OKC area it was fun to recognize some of the local spots that were mentioned! Highly recommend- especially if you want to see what happens to Carly from If Tomorrow Never Comes!

Thank you Montlake and NetGalley for the ARC!

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Carly and Brooks are cutttieeee – I loved so much the way their relationship grew as they got to know one another better (after sort of existing around one another in high school) and that while they were growing together, they were also independently changing. It felt like they were separate people in a relationship and not one mega-being, the way some characters become after they’re in a relationship. Also the character of Coach reminded me of Whitey from OTH 🥹

My one complaint is the third person POV, it’s just not my favorite style personally!

TW for off-screen parent death, car accident.

Solid 3.5-4 star read!

This story is about Carly and her best friend Sasha working together on an idea that they have to makeover a bachelor in their home town. This is going to be it, in a magazine, this could really be Carly's step up in her career. But there is a problem, this bachelor is going to be Brooks which is Sasha's brother and he is at an all time low right now, struggling with a number of things. Can Carly help turn his life around, and can they both help each other heal. It was a easy read that has humour in it but also emotional too. I loved reading about the connection with the characters involved. It was a good read and I loved the ending.

Read if you like: best friend’s older brother, forced proximity, strangers to friends to lovers, closed door

This book just did not hook me at all and I was struggling to get through it. I’ve been looking for another hit from this author and unfortunately I don’t think anything will be as good as Would You Rather 🥲

Carly is a stylist, she’s been hired to help Brooks (her best friend’s older brother) with his fashion. Brooks used to get around a lot but now he’s done a whole 180 and is super awkward and shy and needs a lot of dating help. I honesty didn’t believe this at all, you’re telling me you used to be a player and now you’ve gone so in the opposite direction you stumble when talking to girls? I don’t think so

Unfortunately I wasn’t able to connect to any of the characters, I felt like they didn’t have much personality to them.
Could be a cute story but it fell short.