Book Review - Book Boyfriend by Lucy Vine - #HolidayReading Tenerife

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Title: Book Boyfriend

Author: Lucy Vine

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Netgalley

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 19th June 2025

Rating: 5 Stars

Jemma has lived a thousand lives through books. The only life she isn’t living is her own.

That is, until the day she finds a note from a stranger in her favourite library book. When she replies, the pair begin a longhand conversation about their love of novels that sees Jemma finally coming out of her shell. Is she ready to fall in love for the first time – with someone she’s never met?

 

Clara has always run away from her problems, but this might finally be one she can’t escape.

Everyone wants to know what happened to Clara in America – but Clara isn’t talking. Instead she’s focusing all her energy obsessing over a hot new actor, starring in the TV adaptation of her twin Jemma's favourite book. Soon, Clara is reading every interview, trawling his social media, and following him to showbiz parties in the hopes he’ll notice she’s The One.

 

As the sisters fall hard for two men they’ve never met, it’s time to ask the question: Can either relationship survive the real world?

What an entertaining story this was, featuring fraternal twins Jemma and Clara. 

These are not overly close twins, and in fact seem to really dislike each other at times, or at any rate they are like chalk and cheese. 

Both though have more in common than perhaps they realise, thus causing their clashes. 

I loved Jemma and her flatmates, she is bookish, quiet and intriguingly seems to have a book boyfriend that she is exchanges notes with in a copy of a library book. 

Clara is rather flighty and after 5 years in the states has returned to the UK rather suddenly. She seems to have very few clues about adulting, and is also fixated on Milo an actor in a new TV adaption of Jemma's favourite book. 

And it's Clara's pursuit of Milo that leads to large parts of the humour in this book which was really amusing. 

This is light hearted, really entertaining and just a whole lot of fun to read. I had a great time reading this book and seemed to whiz through it fairly fast too. 

I'm starting to really love Lucy Vine's books and already curious what her next one will be. 

Thank you to  Simon & Schuster and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.