For You and No One Else

Score: ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Steam Level: 🍆 🍆 🍆

Thank you to Sourcebooks Casa and Dreamscape Media for gifting me review copies of For You & no One Else by Roni Loren.

Oh Roni, you have 100% of my heart. Your books always speak to me on a deep level, while making me guffaw (startling other passengers on the plane, my husband asleep next to me, or well, you get the idea).

This is the third in the Say Everything series, and while they work perfectly well as stand-alone books, why wouldn't you go back and read the first two...they're magical.

Eliza Catalano has to appear perfect and put together at all times. She's a therapist, she's got to at least look like she has all the answers...doesn't she? The truth is, she still struggling with the grief of losing her parents. Determined to 'get back out there' and not spend another holiday crying under a blanket, she goes on a date with someone she met on a dating app, which turns out to be the worst date ever...and to make matters worse, he films her and posts it online.

Eliza turns to her techy neighbor at the coworking space where her office is located, to see if he knows how she can get the video down. Not only does he help her with the video, but he challenges her to get off the apps and try going analog for a while.

Eliza and her sexy work neighbor, Beck, start spending more time together, but is their budding relationship standing in the way of Eliza finding her true match?

Oh I loved both of these characters so, so much. They were flawed in the most beautiful and relatable ways, and watching them both grow over the course of the story was pure magic.

I switched between reading and listening to the audiobook, which was SO great. It's narrated by Desiree Ketchum, who also did the first two books. It's just over 10 hours long.

Do yourself a favor and pre-order a physical, digital or audio copy of this one....or all three. It comes out July 5, and gets all the stars from me!

Synopsis:

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.