Love, Julie

Thank you @booksgosocialgroup and @netgalley for the eARC of Love, Julie by @jandersonwrites in exchange for an honest review!

📖📖 Book Review 📖📖 While rhis book jumps off from characters in an earlier novel, it is definitely a stand alone (I really want to go back and read Someone to Kiss now though). Trust me when I say, I had no problem jumping right in! Julie’s life has been a bit of a mess lately and she had a bender after seven months of sobriety. She is trying to get things back on track but definitely starts off the book a hot mess express. Jamie Anderson creates beautifully realistic characters that experience the whole spectrum of emotions from embarrassment to joy, all of it shared with a strong support system that brings a sense of comfort to the reader and a boat load of laughs. I truly appreciate that this book allows humor to shine through difficult and emotional situations because it is such an important part of life. Love, Julie is an unapologetically relatable and hilarious novel about going through the hard stuff to heal and learn to live with grace and humility.

Review is posted on Goodreads and will be on Instagram ahead of the publication date.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advance copy of this book.

Despite the heavy sounding plot following Julie's struggle with alcoholism, this was such a funny book with real characters. Luke is everything you want in a man. I loved the writing. I hadn't read the other book by this author (Kate's story) so this can definitely be read as a standalone. Having read this, I don't feel the need to go back and read about Kate and Ben, however I will absolutely read more by this author in future. This was a delight.

loved this book because it had my name lol but it was her story to sobriety and finding love with Luke while helping plan her friend and brother's wedding. loved her friend Quinn and that she stood up for herself.

I was pleasantly surprised by this moving, keenly observed romantic comedy. It features Julie, a middle aged recovering alcoholic on her journey of self-acceptance, redemption, and finding healthy love. I’m living an essentially sober life and I found the author’s descriptions of the challenges of being sober in today’s society totally relatable. Her love interest, Luke, is a genuine, emotionally intelligent, sunshine, single dad. I was completely invested in their grumpy-sunshine, enemies to lovers, forced proximity, slow burn romance. It didn’t hurt that the setting is Regina, Saskatchewan, an hour from the family farm where my father grew up. I’d recommend for readers looking for a complex, mature romance. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Thank you to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for an advanced copy. All opinions are my own.

What a fantastic read. This was such a down to brass tacks look at the reality of addiction. I think Julie was a great representative of how the female mind can make us have self doubt and therefore create self sabotage. I feel that Luke and several other people that were new to her life helped break the cycle. I liked that Luke had more of a dad bod and wasn’t an alpha male. He was the Labrador to her black cat . Letting people in , letting your guard down and learn to trust can lead to your best life! Thank you to NetGalley for the free advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.