Cute and fun with a side of steam, Shut Up and Kiss Me is a solid second book in the Happy Endings series. It’s light and sweet and is the perfect book for when you’re looking for something that will simply make you smile.
Nolan and Emerson have been friends for ages and have a
thriving YouTube food review show. Both want more for their foodie careers and
even get the chance to further themselves by winning a YouTube collaborator
contest and then having a streaming service pick them up for a show. However,
there’s an undercurrent of desire between the two of them that they’ve once
acted upon years before and then find themselves revisiting when they’re in
Vegas working with their collaboration partners, the very fun Dot and Bette.
This story traces two best friends and co-stars as they go from merely that to something
else altogether all the while trying to make it big in the food-show business.
I loved how Nolan and Emerson played off one another. I’m a big
fan of friends-to-lovers romances, and the way these two characters were
written made this book so lovable. They’re both adorable in their own rights,
but together? It was like cuteness and chemistry overload. They’re two parts of
a whole, even though neither realize it exactly for what it could be, and their
banter both when they’re doing their show and in private was so fun. I found
myself grinning throughout this book in the best way.
Something else I really enjoyed about this book was that it
wasn’t just a one-note romance. There’s the deeper sense of both Nolan and
Emerson needing to find themselves and figuring out how to navigate through
life and what’s been thrown at them on separate levels. Their individual
journeys added another level of interest to this otherwise sweet story of two
besties finally figuring out what was pretty clear to others.
With characters this cute and a plotline that will keep you entertained,
this is definitely a fantastic addition to this series. I loved the sassy
teasing and the underlying tension, and I’m looking forward to the next book in
the series.
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