Romance By The Book

Sarah Ready — 2021

Book-loving, librarian Jessie has loved Gavin Williams for practically her whole life. So when a psychic predicts that Gavin is Jessie's one fated soul mate, she's ecstatic. There's just one itty bitty little problem. Gavin's engaged to marry another woman. What's a book lover to do? Easy. Check out dozens of romance books, study the (totally realistic) way characters fall in love, and make a foolproof plan on how to win her soul mate (in one week). Meet cute? Check. Dance under the stars? Check. Kiss in the rain? Check. Romance books don't lie - it'll all go perfectly. Except, there's another problem. Gavin's twin brother: William Williams IV. Jessie has hated William for as long as she's loved his brother. William is grump to Jessie's sunshine, stand-offish to her extrovert, cold to her warm. And when William learns of Jessie's plan to derail his brother's engagement he swears that he'll do anything to stop her. But after William and Jessie (unwillingly) share a dance...a romantic dinner...a kiss...Jessie starts to wonder, is William actually her soul mate? Or is this just another one of his games? She's can't tell, because this romance definitely isn't going by the book. Romance by the Book is Book 3 in Sarah Ready's Soul Mates in Romeo Romance Series.

Reviews

Nicola Sarah Brooks@nikkisbooknook

Dec 8, 2021

Our third outing to Romeo and the inhabitants just get cookier...and cuter! Jessie loves Romeo. She loves the romance, the love that is steeped in the town and she also loves Gavin. Sure, she's never really got to know him, just worshipped from afar but when Ms. Erma drops veiled hints to her soul mate Jessie takes 2 + 2 and makes 93! Jessie, armed with a lifelong obsession with reading and romance, will use her arsenal to ensure that she and Gavin will have their meet-cute. Only 2 slight wrinkles in that plan. 1 - Gavin is apparently getting married to someone else. 2 - His twin brother is not about to let Jessie ruin his brothers HEA or their business deal! Take any meet-cute from any RomCom or romance book and Jessie is going to use! Poor Gavin is completely unaware of her simmering obsession. Meanwhile, William is trying to show her that her true soul mate is closer than she thinks. He's a closet romantic at heart - hidden well behind that barky, brusque, business facade. I really got "Sabrina" vibes from this story. A story I loved from the original movie and the remake. I did find Jessie's obsession a tad much 'cos she really was willing to ambush and throw-over Gavin and his fiancee o get "Her" HEA. I really enjoyed every moment in Romeo - even when some well-meaning busybodies got involved and ended up making things...complicated! Loved it, loved it, loved it!

Donna7@doni-6

Aug 14, 2022

Navya @readyourbooks

Jan 12, 2022