Friends to Lovers

De: Sally Blakely

Narrado por: Patti Murin

Always each other’s plus-ones, but never each other’s real dates, two childhood best friends have one last summer wedding to fall in love in this dual-narrative debut.

“Left me feeling desperately romantic. Prepare for a book hangover—I loved it.” —Annabel Monaghan, bestselling author of Summer Romance

Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in touch: they’ll be each other’s plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives.

It’s a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined.

Now Joni is back at their families’ shared summer home for her sister’s wedding, and she’s determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Ren—and avoiding the truth of why they have to fake it in the first place. How hard can it be to pretend to be friends with the person who once knew you best?

But as sunny beach days together turn into starry nights, Joni begins to question what her life is without Ren in it. And when the wedding arrives, bringing past heartaches to the surface, she’ll be forced to decide if loving Ren means letting him go, or if theirs is a love story worth fighting for.

After reading, follow the link to the Friends to Lovers Playlist on Spotify [bit.ly/FriendstoLoversPlaylist]!

“Your heart will explode when you read this book. I defy you not to fall in love with Joni and Ren.” —Tessa Bickers, USA Today bestselling author of The Book Swap

Perfect for fans of:

• The Summer I Turned Pretty and People We Meet on Vacation
• Reunion romances
• Forced Proximity
• Dual narratives & Single POV

©2025 Sally Blakely (P)2025 Harlequin Enterprises, Limited

Simple Beautiful Love Story

Such a realistic and comforting story of best friends, lovers, and family dynamics. Some steamy moments that are accompanied by natural feelings of the big decisions in life.

So much heart and characters I fell in love with

Such an emotional book. Beautiful characters. The side characters are part of the world she builds, instead of a distraction, which is so rare for a romance book! I love this love so much and I can’t wait to read Sally’s next book! Thank you for the playlist.

So much potential

This book had so much potential, I mean who doesn’t love a friends to lovers trope? I’m thinking part of what made this so painful to get into was the awkward pauses and the lines repeating from the narrator. Because there was a lot of that. However, once you make it through a slow kind of painful story to chapter 19 things FINALLY start to pick up and all of the sudden you can’t get enough.
Would I recommend this book to someone else probably not, but at least it ended on a high.

Huge Disappointment

This would have been a DNF if it was not the book my bookclub was reading this month. There was far too much inner dialogue. The first twenty chapters were excruciatingly boring. The characters were not likable from the bridezilla to the horrible family. The female and male leads could not get out of their way and horrible communicators. The book is insufferable and the final resolution is in the last hour. I wish I could get these last 10 hours back.