A wonderful feel-good romance infused with humor and realistic characters. If you liked Bridget Jones' Diary, you'll love Accidentally in Love.

Thanks to HQ Digital for access to a digital ARC via NetGalley.

This was a laugh out loud, sugary sweet romance with a feminist undertone which I greatly appreciated. I loved Christopher and Katharine’s dynamic, and all the side characters were absolutely charming. But most importantly the BANTER WAS AMAZING (so amazing I think it warrants the all caps). I found myself often smiling like a fool while reading this book. What stopped this book from being a 5 star read for me was the last 25% of the book. I think some things could have been better handled or given more explanation. There were fall-outs and make-ups but I wanted to see the characters address the issues that caused the fight more.

I rated this one 3.5 stars but rounded up to 4 stars!
It was a bit of a slow beginning and ended up being less of a romance novel and more about Katherine’s journey to opening an art gallery. If you’re looking for a quick, smutty read, this one isn’t for you. If you’re looking for more of an in depth, meaningful romance, I think you’d really enjoy this book! There’s a large amount of enemies to lovers as in the romance doesn’t even come in to play until about 65% into the book however, I loved the characters. I think there was a good amount of character development and the ending was so sweet and heartwarming. Overall, it wasn’t what I was expecting, but I still ended up enjoying it!
Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher, and the author for providing me with a free copy in exchange for an honest review. You can pick up a copy of your own on September 11th!

✨REVIEW✨ Publication Date: 9/11/2020
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5 stars

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This book was so adorable and fun. I love a good romcom with enemies-to-lovers and this one used that trope to perfection. I read it in a day and loved every second of this read.

Accidentally in Love tells the story of Katharine Patterson, who quits her job as an art curator after being consistently overlooked for promotions in favor of her less qualified male co-workers. She impulsively decides to move back to her hometown and open her own gallery. Her dad introduces her to a talented local artist, Kit, and (of course) they immediately do not get along.

This book was so joyful and easy to read. The banter was excellent and Katharine was a hilarious character. You immediately begin to root for her and her family and friends. Kit was perfect. I mean, the man made her bread. That is another level of perfect. Their romance was swoon-worthy and sweet.

Overall, Accidentally in Love is a refreshing, hilarious, and charming read perfect for fans of Lia Louis’ Dear Emmie Blue and books by Abby Jimenez!

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Full review to be posted closer to release date

Thanks NetGalley and the publisher for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

Rating: 3.5/5

After Katherine not getting the promotion she rightly deserved, she quits her jobs. She also decides to stop seeing a guy who doesn't want anything serious and decides to move back home and open her own gallery.

She meets Christopher, an artist who runs an art school, and eventually start working in a gallery project together.

There's an enemies to lovers vibe at first and it's definitely fun to see their banter. They have very different views from art and argue a lot about it, so of course there's plenty of art references.

I also liked her relationship with her best friend, Lainey and the dialogues between them were awedome.

I just wish there were more chemistry between the two main characters. Even though, they were cute together, I felt like there was something missing.

Overall, it's a fun and nice read.

Unfortunately I couldn't finish this book, it was just so dull. In the first 7 chapters all that happened was the main character jacked her job in and then at chapter 6 she finally meet the Kit mentioned on the blurb; 5 chapters filled with nothing really relevant to the story line until you finally meet the other main character. It was so slow going and not really entertaining that I eventually gave up so I wouldn't recommend this book

This book, for me, was decidedly okay. The plot and characters had a lot of potential which for me, went un-fulfilled. The overall voice of the novel read like a blog - occasionally deeper and more meaningful, but in general, a rather typical voice that didn't stand out much from other characters or authors. The plot remained unfulfilled for me because the conflict was pretty mellow until about 3/4 of the way through, when it ramped up to an extent that seemed unrealistic given the slow burn of the conflict so far. The protagonist is pretty likable, which is funny because a lot of the conflict eventually hinges on her being a "difficult" person to love and care for, which you don't really see. The romance itself was an incredibly slow-burn, and the banter almost read as though it was from a modernization of a Jane Austen novel, but that didn't really fit with the overall tone of the book. The end, which could have redeemed these smaller issues, was utterly forgettable and unrealistic. It didn't fit with the characters or the tone I got from the story. That said, I appreciate the take on romance in the art world, and think anyone invested in artists and their lives may enjoy this read.

Thank you to publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for a review

Wow! What an endearing story! I loved the premise and while it is most definitely a romance, it’s more a story about a woman finding herself and paving her own way! Cue all the emotions. Katharine is easy to love and the ending had my heart leaping for joy!

This was a quick, easy, fun read for me. I enjoyed Katharine's journey, and the various family relationship dynamics that were explored, as well as the friendships. It took me a longer time to warm up to Kit, but ended up enjoying his character and how he and Katharine work together. The book was a good surprise. Many times with romance novels, I don't find that there's much depth to the characters. However, I enjoyed the growth for both Katharine & Kit. As with most romance books, I thought the end wrapped up a bit too quickly, but overall enjoyed it!

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for a complimentary ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was just what I needed to read at the moment! When Katherine is passed over for a promotion at work that she knows she deserves she throws in the towel and moves back up North to start her own art gallery. What I loved about this book is that the romance is almost secondary to a plot about a woman really finding herself and building a life with some wonderfully supportive family relationships.

A couple of things that brought this book down for me where it would have rated higher. When she has sex there is no mention of condoms, and honestly in an adult relationship I like to know the characters are promoting safe sex! Also she is treated really poorly by certain characters and this seems to be completely overlooked and everything is wrapped up nicely ... and Katherine takes the blame for a lot of it!

Anyway, I would rate this 3.5 Stars and I am looking to read more from the author. I read this book in 2 days so you know its good!

For a romantic comedy, this book sure enjoyed making me teary. It was both a good thing and not.

First what’s this about?

Katharine is a hotshot junior curator for a big London Art Gallery who has been passed up for yet another promotion. Tired of the boy’s club of her work, she quits. Her relationship-phobe boyfriend, as well, is just not working out. So she quits that too and departs for her hometown, where she decides to open up a gallery. Easier said than done, especially when you have a broody artist hanging around with an interest in Katharine.

I’m not even sure I’d call this romantic comedy. Instead I would call it an uber realistic and inspiring look at one woman who builds herself up from the ground up. The romantic interest and Katharine aren’t even on speaking terms until 60% of the book, so the romance is certainly not the focus of the novel. What is at the focus is Katharine’s drive an heart and willingness to put in the work to make something more of herself, even when her personal life has gone up in flames. I really respect her.

I really liked that the novel was deeper than a base rom-com, but it also made it feel very long. The writing, however, was stupendous and Katharine’s narration flowed somewhat-realistically.

Where I truly, truly had a problem was the way her friends and Love Interest treated her at the end of the novel. They were both so out of line and the fact that Katharine took the blame onto herself and neither ever apologized really rubbed me the wrong way and left a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. There is accepting flaws and there is being a pushover. There is being angry at someone, and there is being intentionally cruel. These lines are fine, but they just didn’t come up to the right side.

This book makes you root deeply for Katharine, as well as her quirky family members, but I can’t say that I was won over by the romance as it stood.

Katharine on the surface is content with her life. She is working in a London art gallery, hoping for promotion, her best friend is getting married and her love life is, well, complicated. However, things suddenly change when she is passed over for promotion again, her best friend only wants to talk about her problems and her love life revolves around a man who she only sees on his terms.

Changing her life, she heads home to Sheffield to open her own gallery and meets a local artist Kit (Christopher) who infuriates her on their first meeting - but there is a fine line between love and hate. Attempting to get her life back on track, her past comes back to complicate things.

An easy read which makes you think about how much bending and flexing you do for the people in your life and whether they would do they same for you in return.

Katherine is starting over - after being passed over for promotion one too many times she quits her job.
When she spots a perfect space for a gallery in Sheffield, and meets local artist Kit who she wants for the gallery.

She left John behind in London after realising he was never going to get serious about their relationship, and isn't looking to meet anyone so soon, but as she clashes with Kit again and again could there be more to it than she thinks?

I hope that Adam gets his own book next!

Katharine Patterson loves her life in London as an art curator, she has a friends with benefits arrangement with a hot lawyer and a regular Friday night drinks evening with her BFF Lainey, heck she's even got a great flat. Then she gets overlooked (for the third time) for a promotion and (yet again) her firm promotes an under-qualified guy. Thoroughly incensed she quits her job. Then when her FWB guy is less than available she dumps him and decides to move back home to Sheffield and open an art gallery.

But when she visits her father for lunch she's been set up with a supercilious, know-it-all local artist who criticises Katharine's teenage photography and makes sarcastic comments about snobby London galleries. Katharine can't think of anyone she likes less. Until she sees his work and realises he would be the perfect artist for her first exhibit.

I'm a sucker for enemies to lovers, throw in a life-changing decision and family angst and I'm all yours. I've read a couple of Belinda Missen's other novels and her heroines (at least in the ones I've read) do seem to throw over their old lives and start again. But that's not a bad thing.

This was warm, with a charming hero, full of friends and family, art and love (OMG also a man who makes you bread!) and I didn't want it to end.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

** Thank you to publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for a complementary review **

I LOVED this book !! I cried happy tears !!! This is so much more than just a romance - it’s a truly lovely story !! Katharine is not reliant on The Man to make her happy (sure it helps) but fundamentally it is her determination and ambition which see her through.

It’s nice to see Katharine’s confidence grow throughout the novel - it’s a reoccurring theme that she downplays her abilities and talents much to the bewilderment of those around her. The plot truly demonstrates it’s never too late in life to change direction and chase your dreams ! I also very much enjoyed Katharine’s realisation of her self worth both professionally and personally !

Kit (and actually almost all the men in Katharine’s life) sees in Katharine what she can’t see in herself, he encourages her to believe in herself and her abilities. This is something I found so refreshing because although I do enjoy a cliche romance, it’s nice that it is actually the male characters who are cheering the female protagonist on.

I also really enjoyed how this novel deals with the evolution of friendships as we get older.

This was such a cute YA contemporary!! If you’re a fan of the movie Ballet Shoes, then this is for you ! I love reading about characters who pursue their dreams and this was so heartwarming.

Cute, mouth watering, deliciously sweet and heartwarming book gives you enough positive energy to get through your hell of a week! And I enjoyed every second of it!
Genuineness,naturalness of the characters and realistic, honest approach and storytelling skills of the author make you like more this up-lift, feel good journey.

There are not so much romcom cliches, illogical coincidences and exaggerated funny and inappropriate situations at this book. Everything seems like the reflections of your daily lives. The characters’ challenges, dreams and struggles are honestly told which help you to empathize with them.

Kate works her ass off in the art world of London as a curator but she gets sick of seeing the promotions she highly earns strictly go to the unqualified male candidates! And her relationship goes to nowhere. She feels trapped, suffocated and hopeless so she decides to take control of her life by quitting her job and dumping her boyfriend, moving back to Sheffield-her hometown- to open her own art gallery.

Of course her father is delighted to have her back and he pushes too hard to match with good looking local artist Kit.

Well, as you may imagine, both of them are too stubborn to deny the attraction between them and their quick daily banters, attempts to push away each other end up with more growing and sizzling chemistry.

I loved both of the characters and their passion for art, dreams, their fight against the things hold them back.

Overall: it’s easy, fast, enjoyable and highly recommendable reading!

Special thanks to NetGalley and HQ Digital for sharing this entertaining ARC with me in exchange my honest review.

Accidentally in Love is a fun and lighthearted read. It's really easy to be swept away by it and read in one sitting.

Accidentally in Love is such a fun and interesting romantic comedy. I love Katherine. She’s so determined and driven once she makes a decision. As Katherine starts over, both in her professional and personal life, she learns so much about herself. She realizes what is important to her, what she is worth, and who is really important to her.

One of my favorite aspects of the story is the wonderful cast of characters. Katherine’s family and Kit are wonderfully developed and interesting. I love Katherine’s relationship with her brother and their unwavering support of each other. Katherine’s relationship with her dad and step-mom is also lovely. They are good people and a loving and fun family, and I enjoyed reading about all of their shenanigans!

I also liked the enemies-to-lovers romance between Katherine and Kit. From the start, you can tell they have a lot of chemistry. They remind me a bit of Darcy and Elizabeth when they first meet in Pride and Prejudice. They are both so prideful and have preconceived ideas about each other, which results in some interesting and fiery conversations. I loved watching Katherine and Kit grow closer and bond over their shared love of art.

The story also delves into some deeper issues like inequities in the workplace, growing and changing relationships, and break-ups, all of which are handled with honesty and realism. Who hasn’t dealt with a bridezilla friend or a break-up? The messages and characters throughout the story are very relatable.

Accidentally in Love is a great romantic comedy that will appeal to readers who like contemporary romances with well-developed characters, witty banter, and HEAs.

**Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for ARC of this book in exchange for honest review.**
Accidentally in love by Belinda Missen is my first book by this author, and what a find !
Accidentally in love is such a sweet, lovely rom -com. But it is more than romance.
It is a book about friendship, art, woman rights at work place, family and of course love.
Not that sexual lust, but sweet know first one another love. It is very sweet read.
What is about? Spoiler alert!
Katharine Patterson has quit her job because she was overlook by one another meil coligue. And she decids to move back home and open her own Art gallery.
She ends up, breaking up with her off/on boyfriend, because she wants much more that he is capable to give her.

Then she meets Kit, a handsome and talented local artist. He might be the most stubborn person Katharine has ever met. He might also make her feel like no one ever has before.

Kit is handsome and very gifted artist. And Kat wants his pictures for her gallery. She doesn't accept no as an answer.
We find out that Kit is a widower, and scared of love and falling in love, again.
But that he sees Kat, and all is history.

Kat's family is so loving and supporting, about everything she does. Just lovely.

This was enjoyable read. Over 4 stars.