E-galley Review: Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter

Posted January 20, 2025 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 12 Comments

I received this book for free from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

E-galley Review:  Accidentally Amy by Lynn PainterAccidentally Amy by Lynn Painter
Published by Berkley on January 14, 2025
Genres: Adult Contemporary Romance
Pages: 352
Source: the publisher
Format: E-galley
My Rating: five-stars
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Blurb:

A stolen latte results in a meet-cute for the ages in this brand-new edition, with bonus content, of New York Times bestselling author Lynn Painter’s rom-com Accidentally Amy.

Isabella Shay is usually a very honest person. But when she’s running late for her first day at her dream job and the barista yells for “Amy” three times with no answer, she does the unthinkable.

Izzy takes that PSL.

It’s the exact drink she ordered and paid for, only way further ahead in the queue—and she’ll take whatever bad karma is coming for her; she’s desperate and very late. But when she turns around and runs directly into the most attractive man she’s ever seen, spilling the drink all over his made-for-GQ shirt and tie, she ends up having the ultimate meet-cute. Karma who? Sparks fly and things feel beyond promising, until he says to her: “See you tomorrow, Amy.”

Izzy reasons she can just straighten things out the next day, no biggie. Only when she gets to her new office and meets the VP of her department, it is none other than Blake Phillips—the hottie from Starbucks. And the man might’ve been charming to “Amy,” but he is an arrogant grump to Izzy, an arrogant grump who does not find her explanation funny at all. But day by day, an attraction simmers between them and they’ll have to find a way to work together without ripping each other’s heads—or clothes—off.

Technically I already owned this book on audio, and I actually started listening last year on my way to meet the author one day. But at her event, she mentioned that she was rewriting it to have both POVs and republish it with Berkley, and so I put it aside and when I saw the e-galley pop up on Edelweiss, I grabbed it! THEN! I saw a fellow blogger post about reading it on Goodreads, and I started wondering when I needed to read my e-galley. This was January 17th, when I realized that it came out on the 14th, and also after the publisher denied my request for another book by this author for this year, and oops, figured I better read it now! So I started reading it on my phone on my lunch break at work Friday, and of course was hooked, even as I read through the first 25% of the book that I’d kind of already listened to.

So I loved it. The banter, the hilarious situations, the wonderful friends and family that made up the cast of characters in the book. This book had me laughing out loud, smiling at all the little KC Chiefs references in the book that the author threw in. I always love characters like Izzy, because her scatter-brainedness and run off at the mouth when nervous personality totally remind me of myself. I liked how Blake had to put the brakes on so quickly because of his background of people lying. Now, the whole PSL lie was a little bit extreme for him to be so judgy about, but he did get over that quick enough to be friends. The whole work issue for them not being able to date was realistic though and handled in a way that I also felt was realistic. The two came so close with their friendship to letting it go farther like they both obviously wanted, but I feel neither really got upset at the other or made drama when the other would pull back, again, very realistically and not just drama for drama’s sake.

The way the big break up in the third act went was perfect. It wasn’t unreasonable, it wasn’t unexpected either, it made total sense. Again I loved the way the author did the big win back moment, from both characters, so maybe more than one moment! I mentioned the banter being great. I’m still giggling over the “I spoiled meat you.” All the times that Izzy would make up words or try to use words and Blake would call her on the non-word or silliness. But in a fun way again, love that banter and sarcasm!

Once again I loved an adult rom-com from this author, she does so good whether it’s YA or Adult, I’ll read them all!

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12 responses to “E-galley Review: Accidentally Amy by Lynn Painter

  1. This one sounds really good and I love the sound of how everything felt so realistic and without drama. And it’s great when an author can write the third act breakup in a way that makes sense. Izzy sounds like a fun character to read about and I can totally relate to the talking a lot when nervous as well. Great review!

    • Lisa Mandina

      I guess originally the author wrote it as a serial in her newsletter and then self published. But now that a traditional publisher wanted to rerelease it she was able to go in and fix a few things up!

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