For You & No One Else by Roni Loren
Series : Say Everything #3
Genre : Contemporary Romance
Publisher : Sourcebooks Casablanca
She has the perfect life…and it’s a perfect lie.
Behind the careful façade, she’s struggling:
To feel like she fits in. To find her true voice.
Now, finally, she’s ready to start living her own story.
Eliza Catalano has the perfect life. So what if it actually
looks nothing like the story she tells online? As a therapist,
it’s part of her job to look like she has all the answers,
right? But when Eliza ends up as a viral “Worst Date Ever” meme,
everything in her Instagram-filtered world begins to crumble.
Enter the most obnoxiously attractive man she's ever met, and a
bet she can't resist: if she swears off social media for six
months, Beck Carter’ll teach her the wonders of surviving the
"real world." No technology, no dating apps, no pretty filters,
no BS.
It seems like the perfect deal—she can lay low until her sudden
infamy passes, meet some interesting new people, and maybe even
curate this experience into a how I quit the online dating
racket book along the way. But something about Beck’s raw
honesty speaks to Eliza in ways she never expected. She knows
he’s supposed to be completely hands-off…but as complex feelings
grow and walls come tumbling down, rough-around-the-edges Beck
may be exactly what Eliza needs to finally, truly face
herself—and decide who she really wants to be.
For You & No One Else was one book that I'd been waiting to read since last year as I'd loved the previous two books in the series!❣️✨ My favorite thing about these books is probably the honest communication that the characters have with their love interests!
For You & No One Else features Eliza, a therapist with a strong social media following and Beck, her work neighbor and cybersecurity specialist who doesn't like having an online presence. A lonely Christmas day brings these two together which ends up with Beck adopting a feisty cat even though it was Eliza who wanted to adopt a pup😂 And then a disastrous date that goes viral(hated that btw😤) ends up almost destroying Eliza's career. Beck ends up helping her out again and suggests a digital detox so that she can meet men organically.
They start off as friends but they can't deny the chemistry between them which makes it evolve into an friends with benefits scenario. But Beck's past has him convinced that he doesn't want marriage and other things, while Eliza idealizes her parents' marriage and wants something similar. Or does she? It's up to them to figure it out!
Both Eliza and Beck have quite a few issues to work through but I loved how they slowly opened up to each other. Eliza was a bit unbelievable as a therapist at first😂 but I do understand that even therapists have issues(and they probably need therapy themselves). It was nice to see the contrast between Eliza in a professional setting and a private one.
Gotta add that this one is an age gap romance but I never really felt it, as Beck was very mature and didn't match Eliza's preconceived notions. I totally loved those NoPho parties(I wanna go to one too!).
I adored the banter between these two😆 And I also need to appreciate the friendship between Eliza, Andi and Hollyn! I loved seeing them together! We also get a really cute epilogue featuring all the couples in a unique format(no more books though?☹️).
Please read these books if you haven't already! They're some of my favorites from last year!❣️
Do check the CWs though as they deal with some heavy topics!
You can also find my review on bookstagram here
You can also find my reviews of other books in the series here
Roni wrote her first romance novel at age fifteen when she
discovered writing about boys was way easier than actually talking
to them. Since then, her flirting skills haven’t improved, but she
likes to think her storytelling ability has. She holds a master’s
degree in social work and spent years as a mental health
counselor, but now she writes full time from her cozy office in
Dallas, Texas where she puts her characters on the therapy couch
instead. She is a two-time RITA Award winner and a New York Times
and USA Today bestselling author.
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