I got the first book during one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days and I enjoyed the first book in the series and decided to carry on with the next book in the series. It was a quick and enjoyable read, but it was missing something that was in the first book.  

This book has two points of view. The first point of view is Ava, and her roommates say she’s a workaholic and that she needs to get out more. So, when her boss suspends her extra lab time, her best friend and roommate makes fixing her love life her summer project. Ava knows her love life is non-existent, but makeover schemes and blind dates with her weird library patrons are not the answer. When her roommate takes the drastic measures and calls in her brother, Joey – one of Austin’s hottest heartthrobs – to consult, it’s her worst nightmare. Ava fells for Joey when she was fourteen and no other guy has ever measured up. She will do anything to keep Joey from finding out including putting up with a bombshell transformation – if it hides her true feelings when he looks at her. He rejected her once, and it nearly broke her. She will never give him that chance again. The second point of view is Joey, and he has always seen Ava as his best friend’s sister, but he is spending more time at his sister’s house. So, once he overhears about a bet that includes getting Ava a boyfriend, he is intrigued and wants to see how it goes and to help her out. But soon, the helping turns to jealous. Ava is helping Joey with his business and Joey is helping Ava get a boyfriend or not get one depending on how the bet is going. But will Joey be able to convince Ava that he no longer sees her as the shy and grief-stricken fourteen-year-old? Will Ava take a chance on her best friend’s brother? 

This book was so cute, and I love the characters. I love Ava’s character development and how she was still standing her ground. She was willing to go on these dates and put herself out there, but she also wants someone to make her happy. I still love the friendship between the girls and how they are always there for each other and wanting them to be happy. I loved how Joey was so stupid and how he missed what was in front of him the whole time until he got jealous, that was funny, watching the trigger change. I love dual POV within romance books, it makes it so much better, and I preferred Joey’s point of view in this book compared to Ava’s.  

Even though I enjoyed Ruby’s matchmaking with Sami and Josh in the first book, she was kind of driving me nuts in this book. She was too involved, and it was because she wanted a room with a bathroom. Also sending her on multiple bad dates so she could see Joey was the one and hiring actors to play those bad dates so kind of petty. Again, this was for a bathroom. Yet Ruby and Niles relationship seems like it’s in the gutter, but no one says anything to Ruby. I understand if you think two people are a good match, but there are ways around it without putting your best friend through 6 or 7 bad dates. If my best friend did that, I would be livid. Also, I felt like Sami would have put a stop to Ruby and missed her throughout this book.  

This book had no smut, but it was very enjoyable without it and a change in pace to what I usually read, and hopefully the next door in the series doesn’t consist of Ruby being petty for no reason. I don’t mind her playing matchmaker, she just needs to do it the right way.