Book Description 

Daisy Emmett has been enemies with famous romance author Caleb Miller since they were in college together, and time hasn’t lessened their mutual loathing. So when she agrees to manoeuvre him through a PR disaster of his own making, she knows it’s not going to be easy. She just doesn’t realise how not easy until they somehow end up trapped in the same truck, on an endless road trip from one book tour stop to another, bantering and butting heads along the way.

Then, even more horrifying: people appear to be mistaking her for the woman he dedicates all his books to. The love of his life, his adored beloved—the one who doesn’t actually exist. Now they’re trapped into pretending she does and that Daisy is her, each fake kiss and phoney embrace ratcheting up the tension to the point where enemies suddenly seems a lot closer to lovers than either of them would like.

Or so they’re telling themselves.

But sometimes it’s hard to be sure, when seething turns into something so much more…

My Review 

I was very excited about the opportunity to read this book because I absolutely adored the first two books in this series, which were modeled after Ted Lasso characters. This book didn’t seem to have the same connection as its predecessors, which was a bit of a letdown. 

The book’s saving grace is the bananas chemistry between the two protagonists  and the fully stocked list of tropes. We’ve got enemies to lovers, forced proximity, coworkers (of a sort), traveling buddies, grumpy/sunshine, and fake dating.  

I will never say no to the fake dating trope and “Oh, whoops we got so good at faking it that we took it too far and now we’re in too deep.” No pun intended. 

I would recommend While You Were Seething. I’ve listed my reasons, but I want to add that the denouement was delightful. Simply delightful. I’m not always a fan of [redacted] but Stein turned something that is often pithy or even downright cringy into something that had this cynic smiling from ear to ear.  

I received a digital ARC of this book from St. Martin’s/NetGalley.