Absolutely loved this book!

The writing style was really good and I look forward to reading any other books from this author in the future :)

This book was perfect for what I wanted-a quick, cute summer read about friendship and love. Great characters and a solid plot-pick this one up for the beach!

Thank you Netgalley for this ARC for an exchange for an honest review.

I thought the book was great. Kept my interest.

I had a really hard time getting through this book. It has your typical friends to lovers trope but with more angst. This version of the book was hard to read because of the formatting, which will probably be fixed before the final release. I think with further editing it would be a better read than the ARC was. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advanced reader copy.

It took me quite a while to get round to reading this book but I’m glad I did! Once I started I couldn’t stop. I mean it has friends to lovers, one bed trope, he falls first and multiple POVs.

It’s a great summer read and the characters are enjoyable. I love how Charlie’s diabetes was present throughout the story but wasn’t made the entire plot. We love representation! I didn’t like the constant miscommunication between the two it just seemed repetitive and not even necessary but I still did enjoy their pining and their love story.

Thank you to NetGalley for my ebook copy

Lovely feel good book to read. It was a joy to read. Lovely characters. Great plot. The book was charming. Very well written. I’d definitely recommend this book

How can you be totally, absolutely, completely, brutally honest when you can’t even admit the truth to yourself?

It is much easier for Charlie Sands to hide behind the lie she’s told herself since the day she met Greyson: a guy like that could never love a smartass tomboy like her.

Greyson Steele knows, no matter how often his mind drifts towards lust for his best friend, she deserves a guy who can keep up with her lightning fast mind. And that guy would never be him.

When they both start blowing past the walls they’ve erected over the years, they may just upend everything they believe about the difference between friendship and love.

In an angsty, friend-to-lovers romance about a brilliant, surfing tomboy and her anxious, fireman best-friend, Erin Spineto, author of Islands and Insulin, spins another “Inspiring tale of being just the right balance of strong and vulnerable.”

You’ll love the hilarious, double-dating summer goal, breezy escape to the beaches of San Diego and Maui, and fantastic group of friends. California Promises is the first in the Warrior Women Series, a RomCom series full of female surfers who happen to have diabetes and other autoimmune issues and the men who are strong enough to be with a warrior woman.

It was difficult to get into California Promises by Erin Spineto for me. Perhaps it just wasn't for me!

First things first , the main attraction of this book would be how accepting each character is and that itself teaches us how inclusive we should be as a society. The protagonist Charlie is a tomboy with diabetes and is accepted as is by Greyson who is just as supportive. It is breezy story and character building is amazing. A good weekday read for refreshment.

Thank you to NetGalley for allowing me to read a copy of "California Promises" by Erin Spineto.

The novel follows Charlie, a character with type 1 diabetes and a firefighter named Greyson who is struggling with his anxiety. The two of them end up having a friends-to-lovers relationship. I love the way in which each of the main characters' personalities were depicted/written throughout the course of the book, and I liked that they were not absolutely picture perfect and happened to have flaws every once in awhile. I also enjoyed that I got to learn a lot more about type 1 diabetes, as I personally do not have any experience with it,

The only issue that I really had while reading this novel was the amount is miscommunication that happened between the two main characters - this made it frustrating at times.

Overall, I rated this novel a 4/5 stars!

🏄 Dual POV
🏄 Fiends to Lovers
🏄 Annoying Best Friend (Bex)
🏄 Great Supporting *Cast*
🏄 Diabetes Awareness

A friends to lovers book, taking you to the beaches of Cali and Hawaii with Charlie Sands and her friendship with her best friend, Greyson (who btw, is a 🔥 firefighter😉.)

At times, the back and forth was a little to much (like I was screaming at the book...🤣), and and I just wanted to see what happened. But otherwise, I loved the dual point of view between Charlie and Greyson.

One thing I truly liked was how the author brought awareness to Type 1 Diabetes and showing that a person can still enjoy life with an illness while maintaining their health.
At the end of the e-book, the author provided some general information on Diabetes, monitoring, blood sugar levels, insulin, etc., for those not familiar with the disease.

I’m sorry to say that I struggled to finish this book. I couldn't relate to the characters and was not drawn into the story in the first few chapters. I like to get hooked into the storyline quickly or I lose interest. I wasn’t sure where the story was going and nothing happened to hold my interest and make me feel I wanted to keep reading.

Thank you to NetGalley for the eARC.

This was a slow moving novel about friends to lovers. The premise itself drew me in, but the execution and overall storyline just didn't work for me. The miscommunication trope is never one I find myself enjoying, it just leads to frustration. I'd give this 2.5/3 starts overall.

I DNF’d this book at 11%; that’s how annoyed I was.

My biggest annoyance was Charlie’s job. Everyone is named Thad? Or is that supposed to be a joke that was never set up for us? And the atmosphere of her job was just so over the top it flew past cliche into caricature territory so fast my head spun. I couldn’t bear the thought of reading a whole book of that.

Charlie also comes across as very “I’m not like other girls” in a very bland sort of way?

It was just not worth any kind of friends to lovers payoff when the writing was this annoying. Also, the formatting was really terrible.

Friends to lovers
One bed trope
He falls first
Multiple POVs
But ANNOYING idiot bestf who says ‘can you take that thing off. It’s so ugly’ ABOUT AN INSULIN PUMP

Based off of those tropes one would assume that this would be an automatic 3.5 stars AT LEAST. But alas, it has become the first book I have ever DNF. I really really tried though. The cover and the description really sold a narrative to me that I just didn't receive. I didn't like any of the characters apart from Indigo and Grayson who deserves better and usually I love dual POV but this was just excruciating - having to endure their desire for each other repeatedly suppress it. I couldn't waste more time on a book that frustrated me. And the formatting on my Kindle was a little irritating too which also just made the entire experience all the more arduous. It just felt a little bit disjointed. Like we would just be introduced to the character and getting to know them and their relationships and they would start having a mental breakdown over character that had died but they had never been mentioned or alluded to before (20% through the book). Building the character profiles just felt so forced and plot was so extremely predictable

A rather slow moving rom-com of friends to lovers that takes almost to the end to pick up traction. Charlie’s Type 1 diabetes is in the story and seemed like an afterthought rather than anything that influenced her. In contrast, Grayson’s PTSD did have an effect on him and their friendship.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Who doesn’t love to find theirselves every summer? And it doesn’t hurt if you find love along the way! Friends to lovers rom com. Easy read with the point of view from both Grey &Charlie.

I loved this book so so much! I loved the will they or won't they aspect as well as the childhood best friends aspect. The characters were so relatable and very well developed. One of my favorite aspects of the book was how charlie had type 1 diabetes. My little sister is also a type 1 diabetic and the representation was so vital for her and such a good way to educate people who may not know too much. I also loved how Greyson always carried emergency supplies for when she went low or high.
Overall this was such an adorable and touching from com perfect for reading in the summer.

A lovely summer read with likeable characters and a wonderful story arc I had a lovely weekend reading this book. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an advanced copy of the novel.

A summer read about friendship, love, and self-discovery.

An adorable and frustrating romcom about friends who became lovers. I find this story a little complicated, but you might like it if you are a fan of a complex friends-lovers trope.

Thank you, NetGalley, Publisher, and Author, for the eARC in exchange for my honest review