Book Review - It's Complicated by Camilla Isley

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Title: It's Complicated

Author: Camilla Isley

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Boldwood Books

Publication Date: 23rd February 2024

Rating: 5 Stars

Lori has been in love with her best friend Aiden since college. Now Aiden (handsome, fair, All-American dream doctor) is getting married, and Lori desperately needs a date to the wedding.

So she asks the best man, Jace (tall, dark, and brooding), to pretend their platonic friendship is something more not to have to face the worst day of her life alone.

Fake dating one best friend to forget the other should be easy… Plot twist—it’s not. When Jace starts acting like the sweetest, most attentive boyfriend, Lori begins to wonder if she’s been seeing him wrong all this time?

They've been an inseparable trio since freshman year, but now everything is changing — and that's not even bringing Jace's feelings into the mix.

Basically? It’s complicated.

Within the first few chapters, I was sure of two things - 

1) That Camilla Isley had come up with yet another fabulous premise and that I was going to thoroughly enjoy this book - which I did. 

2) That the title was incredibly apt - to say the situation between Lori, Aiden and Jace is complicated may be an understatement.

There is fake dating, there is fifteen year long unrequited love for two of the characters, and there is a stag do and a wedding to get through. 

It's just so so good, I loved Lori (and her unconventional hobbies), and Jace (wow, I was falling for him), and Aiden the other friend and key to it all, I liked but although he is a focus, we don't get to know him as much, since this really is the story of Lori and Jace. 

I just loved everything about this, and the sexual chemistry is so hot, it jumps off the page. 

I had a lot of fun devouring this book, and found it really quick to read.  I always love this author and this for me is another hit from her.  Just so so entertaining. 

Thank you to Boldwood Books and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.