Life is Better with You by Shannon Paige

Life is Better with You
Series: YOU, Book 1
by Shannon Paige
Cover Credit: Paige Moreland @lpm_draws
Standalone | Contemporary Romance
Release: October 17, 2023

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A fake date for a family wedding at Christmas…that’s all the favor was supposed to be. But their hearts didn’t get the memo.

Aspen

Luke Simmons is my best friend at the office. A cinnamon roll in human form.
He’s the ultimate good guy, always looking out for me (and everyone else around him). He’s sexy, in a nerdy way.
Not my type at all.
My abandonment issues would never let me pick a guy like Luke. So, when he needs a fake girlfriend to bring home for a holiday wedding, I agree. It’s not like I’m going to fall in love with him..
Or so I keep telling myself…

Luke

I’ve been pining for Aspen Shaw for years. Her beauty, that adorable birthmark, her intelligence…she’s perfect.
Too bad the feeling is totally unrequited and she’s got me chilling in the friend-zone.
Moving out of state for a job promotion is my remedy for getting over her and moving on.
Now we’re back in my childhood home and stuck sharing one bed.
So, I’m not about to let a little forced proximity make me do something stupid –- like act on my feelings.

Can I survive being so close to her without professing my undying love?
Especially since she has no idea I’m moving away after New Years…

Life is Better with You is book one in the YOU Series, and can be read as a standalone, contemporary romance with it’s very own happily ever after.

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Life is Better with You by Shannon Paige
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Where can one find herself a Luke>? That man was such a great man. He was thoughtful, funny, and sexy in a subtle way. He’s had feelings for our girl Aspen for 2 years now and never told her. Since he thinks she’ll never give him a chance, he takes a promotion that involves leaving. He knows if he’s to get over her he really needs to leave. But life has other things planned for him and with a bit of luck, she agrees to spend Christmas with him and his family. He’s finally given a chance to show her just how much she means to him as well as how good they can be together.

Aspen has not had a great role model whose relationships work. She picks men who are not right for her. She never saw Luke as anything more than a great friend. But spending time with him outside of work shows her another side of him that she never saw before. And suddenly there are feelings she never thought she’ll have. But her past has a grip on her and if she wants HEA with Luke, she needs to learn to get over it before she can give herself away completely to Luke.

From start to finish you can’t help but to root for Luke and his shot at love. At the beginning I wasn’t so sure if Aspen is a good choice for him, but the more I read about them the more they made sense. I highly recommend this book to anyone who’s looking for a funny, with a dash of drama kinda book.

***Review copy requested and reviewed on behalf of OMGReads Blog***

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MEET THE AUTHOR: Shannon Paige has been a storyteller all her life. When her three adult children flew the nest, she finally took the time to start completing some of the half-finished story ideas she’d been fussing with for years.

With the support of her husband, the literal boy-next-door she married decades ago, she is enjoying writing swoon-worthy storylines about perfectly imperfect people, and including a dash of heat, humor, and heart into their happily ever afters. She is the author of the “You” upcoming book series of four contemporary romance novels.

Shannon resides in the Rocky Mountains, and you can usually find her in one of two extremes; traveling the globe with her hubby or snuggled up with a book, reluctant to leave her cozy home.