Exes and O's by ⁠Amy Lea, is by the same author as Set On You.

This book is technically a stand-alone, but I didn't release it would have the characters from Set on You in it!! Which, I have not read and the next book will be about their friend Mel from the looks of things. You do not need to read Set on You, I assume it would just add a deeper more enjoyable element to reading Exes and O's.

I really enjoyed it, it was light, funny and very sweet.

Tara is a nurse, bookstagrammer and romance-novel coonisseur, but has had her heart broken so many times.
But Tara is still hoping to find the "One", so with the inspiration of her favourite romance book trope - second Chance Romance - Tara starts the hunt to reconnect with her exes... oh boy.

Tara and all her books have recently moved in with her sisters' (Crystal ) fiancé (Scottie) ex roomate and best friend (wooh thats a mouthfull!). Who you might have met frm the first book, Traveor Metcalfe.

Trevor is a Boston firefighter, he definitelysuffers with OCD but he definitely doesnt do relationships, nor he does not beileve in love. So, Tara enlists Trevor as her unofficial wingman to help her find and attempt to date her exes.

and I think we can all guess which way this book is going to go...

If you like:
•forced proximity
•opposites attract
•roommates
•grumpy x sunshine
•friends to lovers
•slow burns
•wholesome-ness
then you will love this romcom

bonus points for the book including;
•a bookstagrammer
•a sexy firefighter
•Crocs
• and reality TV.

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Exes and O's is out in January !!

This story take a really interesting look at how we talk about 'crazy' ex's and the ways in which false promises that are said by partners can be interpreted, leading to someone perhaps reading more into the relationship, leading to a power imbalance in the relationship. Tara comes across as intense when really she just loves fully and believed her boyfriends when they told her things. Given that this book has a romance obsessed FMC - books, tropes, and romance and almost like a third main character in the book which I adored. If you enjoyed Set on You, you're going to enjoy this. Crystal and Scott do feature in the book and it's written with the same funny light style which I really enjoyed in Amy's first book. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Holy shit, Trevor. I swear this man has my heart.

This was an incredibly slow burn but it was fantastically done. I loved the way the tension between the two kept building and building, it just made everything more satisfying when they finally got together. The chemistry and dynamic between Tara and Trevor is really wonderful and so believable and I would happily read many more books about these two! Tara is just such a fun and relatable character to read from and I really enjoyed her POV throughout.

I really loved the premise of her trying to create her own second-chance romance, it was so much fun to watch her try and rekindle her old romances, whilst fighting the feelings for the boy across the hall. I love forced-proximity romances and this one delivered. This book feels full of cliches but I think it works in such a wonderful way, and the contrast of the two leads just make them perfect together (once they sort through some of their emotional issues!)

Is it silly? Yes. Is it cheesy? Yes. But I absolutely adored this book, I read nearly the entire thing in one sitting, it was just addictive. Sure there were a few moments where it got a little bit too cringy (mostly all the stuff about her bookstagram and booktok accounts - it felt a bit too much), but if you ignore those bits then it is wonderful.

There are also some really tender and sweet moments in this one, so it’s not all just about the romance, if that’s something that you’re looking for! I would highly recommend picking this one up when it comes out. I will definitely be picking up all of Amy Lea’s books in the future! She just has a way of writing men that I adore!!

From the author of “Set on you” comes Exes & Os and I am SO EXCITED to read this!
I’m one chapter in and I feel like it’s my life… OK, I’m not a nurse. Nor live in NYC. Or moving into my sisters fiancés apartment where I walked in and caught some guy bending a girl over the kitchen island….
OK so maybe not word for word my life… but 30 year old Tara had an epic break up with her fiancé eight months ago, and since then has been living with her sister.
Thankfully…or a rub salt in the wound with a squeeze of lemon for extra measure… her sister, Crystal, is now engaged and her new fiancé is moving in. So that means his apartment is vacant and Tara can plonk right on in there.
But, question. Who IS that in the kitchen? The ones that are bent over the kitchen island getting very intimate. Is she living with the fucker, or fuckee…?

Firefighter Trevor sounds all too good to be true. Well, he would be for a romance reader if he was actually romantic. But one month in and he’s on girl number three… wham bam thank you ma’m.
But our Tara is a hopeless romantic with all the romance books to go along with it. And a Grandma Flo who married her second-chance cutie after the death of her husband.
Which got Tara thinking… maybe she should look at her ex boyfriends and see if she could get a second chance romance trope too!
10 exes. Two already scrubbed off due to the whole marriage thing. And the third (number 20 on the list) is ex-fiancé Seth for obvious reasons…
But really, how bad could it be?

After a couple of failed dates with exes, Tara is about to give it up when… Trevor. Wants. To. Kiss. Her!
How the hell did we end up there!? Guess you better read it to find out. Hey, I’m not giving it all away!

I absolutely LOVED this book because it is me! I’m forever reading romance books and hating myself that there are no guys like that in real life. I know I probably talk to the ear off of whoever will listen to me retelling my fave stories… and this is probably why I am single.
But I couldn’t do a second chance romance… OK, maybe one guy I could. John. He’d definitely be my one-that-got-away. If only I could find him on social media…

Anyway, I don’t like talking about the style of writing from an author as everyone is into different things, different styles. I’ve picked up books people have loved and hated the way it was written. And I’ve read books that I just cannot stop recommending, but then I’ve read comments that say the style of writing is awful!
So I will say this: for me, this is the right amount of descriptive writing and conversation. It’s a lot of in Tara’s head, her thoughts and feelings of course. So we do read a lot of that sort of thing. But it doesn’t become too much thankfully.
I highly recommend this! And I will be needing to buy “Set On You” next day I’m in work…

This is such a cute book! I loved this author’s previous book, Set On You and couldn’t wait to read this one! I was so thrilled to be approved for an ARC and dove straight in! This is a slow burn, roommates to lovers romance and it is soooo worth the wait 🥵
Tara is the girl we all are, romance book obsessed with a Bookstagram account! I loved seeing characters from the last book, especially her Granny who now has her own Instagram account for knitting 😍 Trevor is the fireman playboy new roommate and as Tara is hunting for her Mr Right in her Ex List, Trevor gets to know her and sparks begin to fly. Cue both not thinking the other is interested and we have our slow burn!

Yet another author to add to my autobuy list! I love love love her books! 😍💜

This book was everything!!! It was cute, witty, fun and highly entertaining. I loved Tara so much and her chemistry with the MMC was swoon worthy. I can’t wait enough for it be out and about in the world so I can recommend everyone to snag a copy of it.

Suuuuuuper cute slow burn, friends to lovers, close proximity, room-ance! ❤️

This book is so cute, there’s really no other way to describe it

This was genuinely a really great romance. Such a good trope and all of the good tension to back it up, I really believed these two. The only downside is that Tara is a little too sickly sweet for me but that's just personal preference. Otherwise this was a solid story that I'd recommend to any romance readers.

Tara is my ideal woman! God damn why she gotta be straight!!!

I didn't realise there was a book 1 when I started reading this.. but it turns out that didn't matter Amy Lea gave us enough bsckstory that this can totally be read as a standalone. Needless to say I'm off to purchase Set On You.

I have so much love for this book and its characters. Tara is awesome. Like she is who us book bloggers aim to be right! All the way through I was like... she can go live and I'm so scared to show my face on the gram but I feel I need to take some inspiration from her. Her room mate is a dream... and their relationship is seriously hilarious!!!

This is the BEST romance I've read in a long time, it was chaotic, beautiful, emotional and a realistic journey of healing and self-discovery.

You absolutely must read it!!!!!

This book was okay, it was cute, the romance was sweet and I enjoyed that the FMC was a book blogger (who doesn't love feeling like the main character of a romance book). But it didn't blow me away, it was just good. The slowburn was a bit too slow at times and she was a little too peppy at times too

Another TikTok wirthy romance sensation that I'm sure my Sixth Formers will love. All the classic tropes centered around a surprisingly lijeable main character.

I loved this book so much!!
Dare I say it, even more than Set On you!

I was intrigued by Tara, who is Crystal's sister from Amys debut novel, Set On You and was looking forward to getting to know her better.
Let me tell you, this woman is a blast!! I 100% adored her!!

This book had everything I needed.

✅ Roomates to lovers
✅ Slow burn
✅ Romcon
✅ MC commitment fobe vs Sunshine lover of love
✅ Diverse characters
✅ Fmc BOOKBLOGGER - YES THIS GIRL LOVESSS TO READ AND BLOGS ABOUT IT 😭😭

Filled to the brim of witty banter, sizzling slow burn tension and a FMC I just wanted to wrap in a big hug, Ex's and O's was 🤌😘.

I laughed ALOT reading this book.
I swooned when they started to fall.
I very nearly cried at then end.
I couldn't get enough.



loved this book so much!!
Get ready to fall in love HARD!
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I was intrigued by Tara, who is Crystal's sister from Amys debut novel, Set On You and was looking forward to getting to know her better.
Let me tell you, this woman is a blast!! I 100% adored her!!

This book had everything I needed.

✅ Roomates to lovers
✅ Slow burn
✅ Romcon
✅ MC commitment fobe vs Sunshine lover of love
✅ Diverse characters
✅ Fmc BOOKBLOGGER - YES THIS GIRL LOVESSS TO READ AND BLOGS ABOUT IT 😭😭

Filled to the brim with witty banter, sizzling slow burn tension and a FMC I just wanted to wrap in a big hug, Exe's and O's was 🤌😘.

I laughed ALOT reading this book.
I swooned when they started to fall.
I very nearly cried at then end.
I couldn't get enough.

It is a rareness for me to become invested in the main protagonist so early in the story, it usually takes several chapters for me to warm up to the character, but Tara was an exception. The opening is superbly written (it’s hilarious) and permits the reader to become fully immersed into Tara’s disastrous day/current life predicament. I was instantly hooked even before the love interest was introduced.

I adored the concepts of Tara being a book blogger and her plan of redating ex-boyfriends in the hopes of replicating a successful second chance romance and find her soulmate. This was such a unique concept with the reader experiencing many entertaining dates and amusing men throughout.

The pace of this book is excellently crafted to replicate the slow burn feel without disengaging the reader, which I find many slow burns tend to do. I was hanging off every word on every page.

If you are on the hunt for sunshine/grumpy, slow burn, close proximity, friend to lovers with a firefighting male, then this romantic comedy is for you.

What an amazing book. Set in the same universe as set on you, exes and o’s follows Crystal’s sister Tara, a bookstagrammer and nurse who is trying to find love by navigating back through her exes. As always, this was was so well written, funny, but also emotionally jarring and covered such a wide range of themes. 10/10, a must read. Also, by including a bookstagrammer as the protagonist was such a unique perspective which I adored.

I’m a psychological thriller kind of girl but every now and then I like to mix it up with a romance! So was very excited when I was excepted to read Exes and O’s by Amy Lea. The storyline sounded fab and I couldn’t wait to get stuck in.

Admittedly at first I struggled as I found Tara to be quite a lively character, which showed in the writing style and I wasn’t sure if I’d click with her or enjoy the ‘bouncy’ writing.

However, I was completely wrong, after a few chapters I was hooked and managed to finish it in one evening! Completely adored Tara!

Tara and Trevor’s relationship and chemistry was amazing and I loved their development. It reminds me so much of Lucy Chen and Tim Bradford’s relationship in the tv series ‘The Rookie’ and I’m very much rooting for them to. In fact their characters are quite similar to!

Overall a lovely, easy read that really makes you fall in love. Would highly recommend 😊

Thank you NetGalley and Penguin UK For allowing me this opportunity to read and review this book.

5⭐️
This was perfect and everything I ever needed in one book! It was romantic it was hilarious and first and foremost it was so realistic it hurt

Tara was such a likeable character because I could relate to her more than any other character. with her love for books and the overly chatty self being clingy and just wanting love - I saw myself in her

Trevor omg I love you. The broody but softy type! I’m a sucker for you

This book smashed my expectations out of the park - Thank you to Penguin UK and Amy Lea for letting me read this book early from netgalley i love you

will be posting over on instagram later this week @hansreadings_

I read Amy Lea's debut, Set on You, a few months ago and I enjoyed it a lot. I liked the fun style and the banter between the main characters, and I especially loved the positive body image message it focused on. So, when I saw the author's second book was the story from one of the secondary characters in Set on You, I jumped at the chance of reading it.

And what a great decision, as I enjoyed Exes and O's even more! It tells the story of Romance novel obsessive Tara Chen and her new roommate, firefighter Trevor. This unexpected duo was hitting it off from their very first interaction and the chemistry between them just grew every chapter. They were both very interesting characters with intriguing backgrounds. The pace of the story was fast but not rushed and I got pretty hooked, even missing losing a few hours of sleep for a couple of days.

I was also happy to have the catch up with the characters in the first book, but in my opinion, Tara and Trevor totally stole the show. And! This story is specially fun if you are a bit addicted to romance novels yourself, as it talks about tropes and certain literary trends and the opinion Tara had about them, which was very similar to mine!

And extra points for one of the final scenes, it was the perfect cherry on top to such a touching and fun story.

An entertaining story keeping you laughing whilst Tara looks for her Mr Right from a whole bunch of rubbish exes.

I absolutely loved this book. Tara is so relatable and her character growth throughout the book without changing her personality made her all the more loveable. If you like grumpy MMC’s with a soft spot for the heroine along with some pining and Taylor Swift references then you should definitely read this!

It's been a while since I have read anything with much of a steam factor, and sometimes, I need to remember what I am reading and where!
Okay, so that sounds like this is a bonk-fest of a book when it's not! However, some scenes are in there to leave you hot under the collar!
So, back to the book itself, Tara Chen is a nurse and a book influencer with a penchant for romance, but she can't find her prince.
After agreeing to move into her brother-in-law to be's old apartment to allow him to move in with her sister, she embarks upon a search of her exes to find someone to have that second chance romance with...
Thing is, life isn't a bunch of romance tropes, though if you look hard enough, you can probably find one to match what you are going through.
And sometimes, what you need might be under your nose the whole time.
Tara is a ditsy character who you can't help but like, and her tendency to go all out is interpreted by many so wrongly when all she wants is happily ever after.
Her roommate (sorry, being British, I find this hard... I'd say flat-mate as they don't share a room), Trevor, is a moody, surly firefighter with no romantic bone in his body. She knows his rakish type, with a different woman whenever he goes out. But he ends up giving the best advice, and they open up to each other in such a cute way!
Back to the steam... When the chemistry is there, OMG, you feel the heat turn up a notch!
Overall a fun book and I will definitely be putting Lea's other book on my TBR as a result!
Many thanks to NetGalley and Penguin for an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.