Review: To Sir, with Love

To Sir, with Love by Lauren Layne
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book was an excellent update of the movies"You've Got Mail (1998)", "The Shop Around the Corner(1940) ", and the original Hungarian play "Parfumerie/Illatszertár; 1937".

I can't say enough how much I enjoyed this read. An author who can write a book like this that makes me feel like I'm the star of the novel is impressive. I couldn't put it down. Everything about this story, including the secondary characters, kept me engaged.

I thought the update from AOL email with the classic sounds to this version of texts would be annoying. Gladly I was wrong. I also loved the idea of them meeting on a dating app that doesn't have pictures of who you are chatting with quite cute. The sparks when Gracie and Sebastian first meet on neutral ground...ah, what can I say!

This book is definitely the perfect beach read book for those who love a clean romance and characters who learn about themselves and grow.

My thanks to the publisher Gallery Books, the author Lauren Layne, and ATTL/Edelweiss for this ARC.

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SYNOPSIS: "Love Is Blind meets You’ve Got Mail in this laugh-out-loud romantic comedy following two thirty-somethings who meet on a blind dating app—only to realize that their online chemistry is nothing compared to their offline rivalry.

Perpetually cheerful and eager to please, Gracie Cooper strives to make the best out of every situation. So when her father dies just months after a lung cancer diagnosis, she sets aside her dreams of pursuing her passion for art to take over his Midtown Manhattan champagne shop. She soon finds out that the store’s profit margins are being squeezed perilously tight, and complicating matters further, a giant corporation headed by the impossibly handsome, but irritatingly arrogant Sebastian Andrews is proposing a buyout. But Gracie can’t bear the thought of throwing away her father’s dream like she did her own.

Overwhelmed and not wanting to admit to her friends or family that she’s having second thoughts about the shop, Gracie seeks advice and solace from someone she’s never met—the faceless “Sir”, with whom she connected on a blind dating app where matches get to know each other through messages and common interests before exchanging real names or photos.

But although Gracie finds herself slowly falling for Sir online, she has no idea she’s already met him in real life…and they can’t stand each other."