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A Guide to Being Just Friends - by Sophie Sullivan (Paperback)
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- Most Anticipated Romance by Goodreads, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, and more!
- About the Author: SOPHIE SULLIVAN (she/her) is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure.
- 336 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Romance
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"Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind. Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a bad ex in her rearview, her one and only focus is living life the way she wants to. No distractions. Wes Jansen never did understand the fuss about relationships. With a string of lackluster first dates and the pain from his parents' angry divorce following him around, he'd much rather find someone who he likes, but won't love. Companionship, not passion, is the name of the game. When Hailey and Wes find each other in a disastrous meet cute that wasn't even intended for them, they embarrassingly go their separate ways. But when Wes finds Hailey to apologize for his behavior, they strike a friendship. Because that's all this can be. Hailey doesn't want any distractions. Wes doesn't want to fall in love. What could possibly go wrong?"--Book Synopsis
Most Anticipated Romance by Goodreads, Buzzfeed, PopSugar, and more!
When Harry Met Sally meets 500 Days of Summer in A Guide to Being Just Friends, a playful and emotional romantic comedy from the author of Ten Rules for Faking It. "Sophie Sullivan's writing feels like a warm hug." --Rachel Lynn Solomon, bestselling author of The Ex Talk Hailey Sharp has a one-track mind. Get By the Cup salad shop off the ground. Do literally everything possible to make it a success. Repeat. With a head full of entrepreneurial ideas and a bad ex in her rearview, her one and only focus is living life the way she wants to. No distractions. Wes Jansen never did understand the fuss about relationships. With a string of lackluster first dates and the pain from his parents' angry divorce following him around, he'd much rather find someone who he likes, but won't love. Companionship, not passion, is the name of the game. When Hailey and Wes find each other in a disastrous meet cute that wasn't even intended for them, they embarrassingly go their separate ways. But when Wes finds Hailey to apologize for his behavior, they strike up a friendship. Because that's all this can be. Hailey doesn't want any distractions. Wes doesn't want to fall in love. What could possibly go wrong? "A joyful, swoony romance full of heart and humor!" --Sarah Adams, author of The Cheat SheetReview Quotes
Praise for A Guide to Being Just Friends:
"Sophie Sullivan crafts a warm, sweet-as-brownies love story in A Guide to Being Just Friends: with found family, a hopeful, determined heroine, a starchy hero, and the risky question 'What if adding romance to our already-great relationship makes it even better? What if it makes us fall apart?' this is a slow-burn friends-to-lovers with lots of heart and kindness." - Sarah Hogle, author of You Deserve Each Other "Sophie Sullivan has written a love letter to friends, to entrepreneurs, and to found families! A Guide to Being Just Friends is a joyful, swoony romance full of heart and humor! An absolute delight to read!" - Sarah Adams, author of When in Rome and The Cheat Sheet "Sullivan writes love stories of characters who feel like friends--this wonderfully sweet romance is no exception. This is the perfect friends-to-lovers story, instantly relatable and completely charming." - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of The Roughest Draft"Sullivan charms...a fun, breezy romp." - Publishers Weekly "Sullivan creates warm and likable leads...A fun, enjoyably light read for fans of the friends-to-lovers trope." - Kirkus
"A cute AF rom-com...playful and surprisingly emotional." - E! News "A grumpy/sunshine, friends to lovers romance with all the warm and fuzzies of a journey of two friends bringing out the best in each other--this book was simply delightful." - Natasha is a Book Junkie Praise for Sophie Sullivan: "A lovely, endearing romance that made me yearn for a little beach house to fix up. Sophie Sullivan's writing feels like a warm hug." --Rachel Lynn Solomon, bestselling author of The Ex Talk
"[An] enemies-to-lovers trajectory with just the right amount of novelty and sweetness." - Kirkus "Will definitely enchant you." -Buzzfeed
"The remodeling descriptions are vivid and lovely, and the romance offers terrific dialogue and chemistry. This thoroughly enjoyable read will please fans of Sara Desai's novels." --Booklist "A wholesome, slow-burn romance that will warm your heart and offer a glimpse into social anxiety disorder. This is a Hallmark movie in book form." - Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient and The Bride Test "Impossible to read without smiling--escapist romantic comedy at its heartwarming best." - New York Times Bestselling author Lauren Layne "A funny, sweet rom com from a fresh, sparkling new voice. Everly's social anxiety was instantly relatable, and I was rooting for her every inch of the way to her happily-ever-after." - Andie J. Christopher, USA Today Bestselling author of Not The Girl You Marry "Readers will be charmed." -Publishers Weekly "Intricate details about home renovations jostle for space with matters of the heart in this lighthearted romance." -Kirkus Reviews
About the Author
SOPHIE SULLIVAN (she/her) is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. She has written Ten Rules for Faking it and How to Love Your Neighbor, and has had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Romance
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
Author: Sophie Sullivan
Language: English
Street Date: January 17, 2023
TCIN: 86443524
UPC: 9781250624208
Item Number (DPCI): 247-36-2682
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Hailey Sharp is ready to take a fresh new spin on life. She has left her low-life ex, moved to a new city, and started her very own business. By the cup, her cute and unique salad shop is the main thing on her main. She wants to see it succeed, and prove to others she can do it herself with no helping hands. Wes Jansen is tired of dating apps, he doesn’t understand the appeal of dates and love. He may not like the guy, but his father taught him to be a businessman first and that love isn’t worth the time and effort. Life is a game that has to be planned out methodically and work comes before passion. When Hayden… I mean Hailey crosses paths with Wes in the local coffee shop, plans may need to be rewritten. I have very mixed feelings about this book. Overall, it was an enjoyable read with a nice plot and storyline but the execution fell flat in my opinion. At first, I was ready to give this book a four-star rating or above, but as I mulled it over I realized there were lots of holes in the details. Certain moments did not flow very well and conversations seemed choppy. This book did not feel rushed or jam-packed, it felt unfinished and left me with so many questions. **Potential Spoilers Incoming** There are so many names to remember in this book, even if you have read the first two in the series, there are lots of new names that you have to remember the whole time. On that note, some characters never show up again or they're missing for a large chunk of the book and then randomly come back. The community center either needed to be discussed more and added to or it should not have been talked about so much. We were expected to be invested in the relationship, in the brother's businesses, in By the Cup, and in everyone's personal lives but then all of those points never really felt completed other than the romance between Wes and Hailey. The detail that made me realize how incomplete this book felt to me was after the speed dating. It would have been so cute if we saw Wes interact with Haley and try to lightly flirt with her “as friends”, and also him joking around with Fiona when he got to her table. Sophie Sullivan made a point to write that the women sit down and the men/partners go around but we only got to see a few matches that did not add a ton to the storyline. The dinner after speed dating could have been where they discussed how awkward things were and how they are all tired of dating. Also, I really wish we got to the conflicts earlier so we could have seen how Wes evolved and changed his mind over time. I know there is more that I currently cannot think of, I remember quite a few times realizing all the little gaps along the way. Overall, certain aspects of this novel did not feel planned out well. Too many details in some places, and missing information in others.