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Book Blog Tour: "A Very Friendly Valentine's Day" by Kayley Loring

 


A Very Friendly Valentine's Day by Kayley Loring

Release Date: January 14, 2021

#FriendsToLovers #MovieStarRomance #ARC



Audiobook releases February 14th, narrated by Connor Crais and Mackenzie Cartwright, featuring Dane Anderson!


BLURB


EDDIE: Cancel your dinky little roomette on the train. I’m booking us two of the big bedroom suites. 


BIRDIE: I’ll cancel it AFTER you’ve booked the other sleeper rooms. And reimburse you.


EDDIE: Don’t worry about it. Just cancel your tickets. I got this. Round trip. I’m on the Amtrak website right now.


BIRDIE: You don’t have to leave NYC when I do! You’ll hardly be able to spend any time with your Instagram girlfriend that you've never met!


EDDIE: It’s fine. She’ll be fine with it. Cancel your tickets.


BIRDIE: You aren’t going to stop texting me until I’ve canceled them, are you?


EDDIE: Damn right I’m not. Just do it. You can thank me later.


***

EDDIE: Um. Did you cancel your tickets?


BIRDIE: Yes, Edward. I canceled them.


EDDIE: Okay, because it turns out they only had one Family Bedroom from LA to Chicago. But the good news is I booked it for us. It’s the biggest room they had. The bad news is I booked it for us. And it’s the only sleeper room they have left now.


EDDIE: In related news, there was also only one room left from Chicago to New York. 


EDDIE: Hands up if you’re excited! *man raising hand emoji*


BIRDIE: I am so mad at you right now.


***

BIRDIE: I’ve compiled a list of ground rules re shared train bedroom. Check your email, please read carefully, and refer to it again on the ninth of February. Thank you.


EDDIE: *nerd face emoji* Received. I have some notes. 



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My Review:

4.5 STARS

Eddie is an up-and-coming TV actor and Birdie is an art history museum archivist.  They have been best friends for six years, since they met in class at UCLA.  Their story is written in first person from dual POV and contains several chapters of communication via text and transcribed voicemails.  Eddie is the brother of Declan from a Very Bossy Christmas, and there are several cameos and an epilogue written by Pipier, Maddie’s niece.  This book can be read as a standalone, but readers might like to read Declan’s book first, especially to get a feel for Eddie’s extended family.

The chemistry between Eddie and Birdie is fierce and undeniable.  Eddie puts Birdie and her needs first a lot, without even realizing he is doing it.  Only after they spend time together in a cross-country train does clarity really come to him as he realizes that he loves Birdie.  I love how charming Eddie is and how fun and flirtatious his character is.  Birdie is a joy, and she never hesitates to take the handsome actor down a peg when he needs it.  I love their friends-to-lovers story.  There is heat and many laugh out loud moments.  I especially love Eddie’s interactions with his mom and his big brother Declan.  I love the texts and voicemails that communicate so much.  Eddie really gives Birdie a swoon-y Valentine’s Day and they end up with a charming HEA.



Before writing steamy romantic comedy novels, Kayley Loring got a BFA in creative writing from a Canadian university and had a fifteen-year career as a screenwriter in Los Angeles (under a different name). She mostly wrote PG-13 family comedies that studios would pay her lots of money for and then never make into movies. In 2017 she decided to move to the Pacific Northwest and write about all the fun stuff that she wasn't allowed to write about in those PG-13 scripts. Now she’s breathing cleaner air and writing dirtier words. It’s an adjustment she’s happily getting used to.


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