For most of Alys life she's been fixing people's problems from work colleagues to family to her boyfriends. With help from two work colleagues Tola and Eric they decide to put Alys fixing to good use starting 'The Fixer Upper'. Allowing women to ask for help in fixing problems they have with their partners. Enter Nikki who needs help with fixing her partner as she wants him to propose by the end of the month and is offering a lot of money.
What could go wrong?
Until Aly realises that she's trying to fix her first love and her perfect man Dylan. Will she tell him how she really feels before it's too late?

This story keeps you gripped between the friendships and the romance. It was very fast paced and the writing was very good. Every character was written well and given enough time so you could get to know them and feel like you're a part of the friendship group.

I felt bad for Aly in this she spent all her time trying to help everyone else instead of taking time to think about what she wanted and needed. I'm glad by the end of this things get better for her. I highly recommend this and will definitely read more by this author.

Overall I think this is a good book, but I did struggled to get into it. There were moments that I did consider not finishing it.

I think the overall issue I had with it was I just didn’t like the character of Nicki from the get go, and struggled to understand how or why Dylan fell for her in the first place, and there wasn’t really a moment of awakening for him to her behaviour.
I also didn’t immediately like Dylan too, I could understand being closed off and guarded after when happened between him and Aly, but he was just out right cold and rude and it seemed like a grudge that had been held onto for too long in my opinion.
I did however love Aly’s character and definitely related to her wholeheartedly, you can tell how hard she is trying and see her character arc develop beautifully.

I would have preferred some more moments of tenderness between Dylan and Aly, a bit more evidence of pining.

Overall I did enjoy this book but not as much as I hoped I would.

Thank you to the publisher and author for providing me with this eARC via NetGallery

A Five-star read that will fix you up as you read. This was a funny yet emotionally honest read, it really had my emotions running, as someone who has a similar relationship with her mother, maybe that was why I found Aly so easy to understand. When you are the thing holding life together its so easy to fall into the fix everything mindset, and its so difficult to get out of. I loved how this was a super cute read, and has some great characters, but there is also a deeper story to it, but its not so deep that it drags you down, it would be perfect to curl up with on a beach, or just to pick up when you need a pick me up.

This was such a cute book. The whole time I was reading it I could literally see it all playing out like a movie.

A fun romance that packs a surprisingly emotional punch.
For as long as she can remember Aly has been a fixer. Things go wrong; she tries to sort them out. People aren’t quite doing what they could be; she inspires change. This is great for everyone around her, but it leaves Aly in her early thirties and feeling like life is passing her by.
Things come to a head after a chance encounter with an old boyfriend who is now married and very much meeting his potential. Aly’s colleagues are convinced she is, without realising, a fixer-upper. And so begins a bizarre quest to put her skills to the test.
This is odd but quite entertaining, until we get the proverbial spanner in the works. Aly’s first love, the one she thinks rejected her, is her next subject. He doesn’t know it…
What follows is bittersweet. We can see what could happen, but it’s about Aly coming to that realisation.
Thanks to NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this before publication.

This was a warm and fuzzy read. It did exactly what I needed it to do. A lovely bank holiday read.. would recommend if that’s what you’re looking for

I don't think I've ever before read a book where I hated so many of the characters. Aly is awful, her parents are awful, her customer is awful, the love interest is awful ... Part of me only finished this story to see if any of them became less awful.

However, the story is well written and the romance is solid. Despite being full of terrible characters, it really is a good book!

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review

A quick read, with a modern, feminist twist!
Once I started reading, I couldn't stop thinking about this book and I devoured it in a few days.
Aly works in tech marketing but has a hidden talent for fixing up her boyfriends. When she and her friends - Tola and Eric, more about them later - realise her unique set of skills, they begin a new business, helping women to improve their boyfriends. Women begin hiring Aly and her friends to motivate their partners, send then down the right career path or simply commit to the relationship and propose. It's all going well but then Nicki, a famous Kitty Litter Heiress and social media influencer reaches out, offering lots of money in exchange for fixing her beau. To complicate matters, her man in need of mending is Aly's first (and only) love. She thinks he's pretty close to perfect but in an effort to earn some much needed cash to save her mother's home, she takes on the task.

This was a great romance read, definitely unique in its somewhat bleak outlook on relationships. Showing that all too often, men need buoying up by the women they are with in order to be successful. Aly's character was well developed, having been through her parents love/hate divorce and struggling with having the weight of the world (and her entire office) on her shoulders. The depiction of the higher-ups in her office made me want to rip my hair out as they were so oblivious to Aly's potential, leaving her to mentor and handhold other, less capable, employees.
Aly starts off as lonely, taking herself out to fancy meals and spending most of her time working. But as she begins to take on more fixing up work, her friendship with Eric and Tola begins to evolve. One of my favourite aspects of the book was the way their relationship developed and how Tola was depicted as THE modern woman.
Ultimately this book is a romance, but there's more to it than that. It shows the power of female friendship, the toxic impact of social media, the ingrained sexism in so many workspaces and the way that our parent's relationships can mess us up.
I would recommend this book to anyone who's a fan of modern romance and second chance lovers but also to anyone who feels unappreciated in their workplace or by their partner.

The Fixer Upper was a cute, easy-read British romcom that delivered on some of its premise and struggled to explore other parts of its tropes.

Initially, the plot already felt horrifically unrealistic and unethical (even for a beach read novel) but the writing was easy to read and I felt I was able to read this book in almost one fell swoop, so continued. As it continued I felt quite uncomfortable and didn't enjoy two characters flirting when one of them is clearly in a relationship.

Additionally, the moments between Dylan and Alyssa were sweet and I loved the angst and bittersweet dialogue, which felt authentic and I could hear the distinct characters (although Dylan seemed to yell a lot for such a laidback man). However I was hoping for some more romance, more sweet moments together, with the grand getting back together gesture happening at 98% of the book - it felt like I had been dragged along for the ride and felt anticlimactic.

Overall, this book was sweet and I enjoyed Forsythe's writing style and will definitely look out for her work in the future (hopefully with less manipulative plots!).

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Whilst waiting for a table for one in a restaurant for her third Thursday of the month alone time, Alyssa bumps into an ex who has turned his life around in the five years since they split up. When she mentions this to her colleagues at work they point out that she has a habit of fixing people. From boyfriends, work colleagues to friends and they encourage her to put their theory to the test with the Fixer Upper scheme. Going well she takes on a range of clients including a big-name influencer who wants help with her boyfriend... Who turns out to be her ex-best friend from high school.

With ongoing issues between her parents and no amount of fixing in the past appears to help the situation Aly needs to raise money to buy her father's share of the family home. This leads to her asking Nicki for £100k to help her on the quest to turn Dylan James into the perfect Instagram boyfriend and a proposal. He pretends not to know Aly which infuriates her but as they didn't end their friendship in good times it's hardly surprising.

Assisting him to fulfil his potential on an app he is developing for a big investment meeting at the end of the month leads to them spending time together. Aly realised that the love she held for him 15 years ago, never really went away. But the toll of always fixing things for Aly comes to a head when she is passed over for a work promotion and she realises that she has been manipulated time and time again by people. Time for her to walk a new path, but how will Dylan take the news of her fix-up?

Loved this tale of childhood pals reconnecting in a most unusual way!

This book had great characters and I raced through it in a day - a few tears were shed at the end - but good tears, I promise.

Thank you NetGalley for an ARC of this book.

I requested this book because of the amount of great reviews it has and I'm so glad I did. This book completely surpassed my expectations in so many ways and I wish I already had the physical copy of it to put on my shelf!

Aly(ssa) has always been a fixer, whether it's cheering her mother up after her father left her for another woman, or helping everyone in the office to get their projects done on time, she's always there, everyone's friend, making things right. Until a chance encounter in a swanky restaurant brings her to the realisation that she's also been fixing her boyfriends, taking the workshy, soap-shy, commitment-phobes, and other broken manchilds (menchild?) and encouraging them to become their better selves. The kicker is, other women benefit from Aly's hard work but she never does.

With her two best friends from work, Eric and Tola, Aly sets up what was initially a social experiment to help women get what they wanted from the men in their lives: whether it is a wedding after a decade of being together; or taking responsibility for childminding; or just going for that job they've been wittering on about for years. Using psychology and the male desire for peer approval, Aly gets it done.

Then her biggest job to date, an assignment from Nicki, AKA The KItty-Litter Princess, a social media influencer who wants her tech-entrepreneur boyfriend to be more supportive, expand his business, and pop the question (so that she can star in a celebrity wedding TV show). Only trouble is, her boyfriend is Aly's old-school BFF and love Dylan who she hasn't spoken to for fifteen years.

With her professional reputation and a whole load of money on the line, can Aly persuade Dylan to propose to Nicki?

I really liked this, Aly and her friends were funny and astute. Although the plot was predictable (was I alone in hoping Hunter would actually turn out to be a good guy and meant for Aly?) it was well-paced and a fun read.

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

The Fixer Upper was a sweet, funny and heart warming book about friendship, love and second chances.

I loved the premise behind this book and that's what immediately caught my eye.
Aly was a life fixer, and I laughed and smiled alot when, along with her two friends, she helped woman to shape their men into doing better.
I think every woman out there in a relationship at some point has wished she had a fixer upper to sort her man out! 😂 So this gave the book a very fresh feel.

The miscommunication between them was alittle frustrating at times, but that's part of a friends-enemies-lovers storyline i suppose so i can understand why it was there. I just really wanted to bang their heads together!

I'm also used to the Hero having to grovel at the end of a romance book, but in this case it was the heroine who had done wrong and I was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it!

Aly and Dylan certainly have alot of challenges to overcome to get their HEA, but I thought The Fixer Upper was a witty and fun romcom that I really enjoyed!