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In Love With You
He's a surfer with a dangerous past. She's a writer fresh out of ideas. And they both know you're reading their story. The fourth wall is about to come down...
Ryder
Do you want to know a secret? I can feel you here, reading this blurb, the same way I can feel you turning the pages of this book.
And I like it, reader. I like it a little too much.
I’m not sure how or why you’ve appeared in my world but having you close is a comfort when my life has become all too un comfortable.
You’re right beside me as I care for my sick mother. You let me express my fears about the secrets my little sister is keeping. Most of all, you stick with me even when the tantalizing romance writer decides a plaid-wearing, cold-water-surfing, part-time-bartending guy like me would make the perfect research subject for her next novel.
But the lines between what is research and what is honest connection become blurred all too quickly. I find myself stuck between you and Luna, placing the three of us in the most mind-bending love triangle you've ever read about. Are you here for it the way I am?
Luna
Don’t you think it’s a little bit unfair, reader, that you expect me to write a short summary about my own personal story when you’ve already elbowed your way into it, seeing everything as it happens?
Well, fine. But you’re not getting a full summary. You’re getting a hook, so here it goes…
I don’t know if other writers talk to their readers strictly in their head, but I do. It helps me filter out what around me is book-worthy or not. And let me tell you, reader, the moment I slam into that tall, mystery of a man in the surf, I know he is book boyfriend material. He is the answer to every problem I have with my writing career at the moment.
But what I don’t expect is for him to be real-world boyfriend material.
Oh, reader, are you ready to finally watch your favorite romance author get caught up in a love story of her own?
Ryder
Do you want to know a secret? I can feel you here, reading this blurb, the same way I can feel you turning the pages of this book.
And I like it, reader. I like it a little too much.
I’m not sure how or why you’ve appeared in my world but having you close is a comfort when my life has become all too un comfortable.
You’re right beside me as I care for my sick mother. You let me express my fears about the secrets my little sister is keeping. Most of all, you stick with me even when the tantalizing romance writer decides a plaid-wearing, cold-water-surfing, part-time-bartending guy like me would make the perfect research subject for her next novel.
But the lines between what is research and what is honest connection become blurred all too quickly. I find myself stuck between you and Luna, placing the three of us in the most mind-bending love triangle you've ever read about. Are you here for it the way I am?
Luna
Don’t you think it’s a little bit unfair, reader, that you expect me to write a short summary about my own personal story when you’ve already elbowed your way into it, seeing everything as it happens?
Well, fine. But you’re not getting a full summary. You’re getting a hook, so here it goes…
I don’t know if other writers talk to their readers strictly in their head, but I do. It helps me filter out what around me is book-worthy or not. And let me tell you, reader, the moment I slam into that tall, mystery of a man in the surf, I know he is book boyfriend material. He is the answer to every problem I have with my writing career at the moment.
But what I don’t expect is for him to be real-world boyfriend material.
Oh, reader, are you ready to finally watch your favorite romance author get caught up in a love story of her own?
393 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 7, 2023
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July 30, 2023
what the fuck ???? how did i just get cheated on and dumped by a fictional guy i didnt even like. the audacity ryder has is outrageous. i hate men.
do. not. read.
do. not. read.
June 21, 2023
An ugly male character that I have no interest in is in love with me...unprovoked? But then he strings me along while he's falling in love with another girl? Yeah I really don't need to read a book where I get cheated on and dumped - like I would rather experience it firsthand than read this book ever again
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October 7, 2024
Okay lots and lots of feelings about this book.
I really did feel misled by the marketing. I feel like if youre going to market the book that way then at least give the reader who youre using as a focal point to sell the book, a much happier ending than the one we got. Yes the characters were happy but i definitely was not.
The writing was nice, yes and so was the romance between luna and ryder. The thing is, it wouldve been a thousand times better without the insertion of the reader into it when the reader was just going to be pushed aside in the end.
So yeah 2 stars.
I really did feel misled by the marketing. I feel like if youre going to market the book that way then at least give the reader who youre using as a focal point to sell the book, a much happier ending than the one we got. Yes the characters were happy but i definitely was not.
The writing was nice, yes and so was the romance between luna and ryder. The thing is, it wouldve been a thousand times better without the insertion of the reader into it when the reader was just going to be pushed aside in the end.
So yeah 2 stars.
December 25, 2023
Bruh this book made me so sad. I can’t even have a fake man’s cuz apparently he’ll leave me too. It would’ve been so much better if this was a romance book between Ryder and Luna.. like why did I have to be involved.
Ryder in the beginning had me giggling and kicking my feet only to then fall in love with the other character like I wasn’t right there..?
It’s being advertised as a book where the MMC falls in love with the reader but not advertising that the MMC is going to string you along and rip your heart out in the end when he dumps you for the other girl. Talking bout “I haven’t thought about you much” and “I loved you but I don’t just love this girl.. id do anything for her”
Heart breaking. Made me feel pathetic lol
Ryder in the beginning had me giggling and kicking my feet only to then fall in love with the other character like I wasn’t right there..?
It’s being advertised as a book where the MMC falls in love with the reader but not advertising that the MMC is going to string you along and rip your heart out in the end when he dumps you for the other girl. Talking bout “I haven’t thought about you much” and “I loved you but I don’t just love this girl.. id do anything for her”
Heart breaking. Made me feel pathetic lol
September 7, 2023
I just don't know. What the fuck made the author think that having a fictional character cheat on the reader would be an amazing wonderful thing? Like what kind of stupid do you have to be to do that?? All the negative reviews just wanted one thing- for the MMC to fall in love with THE READER and get a happy ending. Like that's what we thought it's going to be. You even marketed it that way. Did this author just really write about one of the most unique, most requested, thought about book plots and fucking ruin it in the end??? YES.
May 31, 2025
I cannot truly express what I read. I am not sure what I was expecting and yet here we are.
My heart at some point began to ache for a man who did not exist. More so than my normal book boyfriends. I rode the line if is this creepy or is it just someone who has a fantasy.
And then the author. She was there talking to me. Asking me about her life. I had never experienced anything like this.
Heads up there is a lot of parent death and mention of domestic abuse
I’m not sure if I should be upset that I was strung along, made to fall in love, have intimate moments and then be a cuck and dumped for the other woman in the end. I am not sure If I will recover anytime soon lol.
The only reason for 4 stars is I felt a little misled, I was made to feel like the mmc would fall in love with me. So I was expecting a HEA with me lol and also I felt like his moms death at the end was super rushed.
Book 2 looks cool though.
My heart at some point began to ache for a man who did not exist. More so than my normal book boyfriends. I rode the line if is this creepy or is it just someone who has a fantasy.
And then the author. She was there talking to me. Asking me about her life. I had never experienced anything like this.
Heads up there is a lot of parent death and mention of domestic abuse
I’m not sure if I should be upset that I was strung along, made to fall in love, have intimate moments and then be a cuck and dumped for the other woman in the end. I am not sure If I will recover anytime soon lol.
The only reason for 4 stars is I felt a little misled, I was made to feel like the mmc would fall in love with me. So I was expecting a HEA with me lol and also I felt like his moms death at the end was super rushed.
Book 2 looks cool though.
July 17, 2023
I was under the impression that the fictional man was supposed to fall in love with me. I didn’t expect to get fictionally cheated on and be casted to the side like yesterday's trash by the end of the book not even the end. The middle really.
It was deeply miss marketed and honestly, deserves to be thrown in a dumpster 🤷🏼♀️ thankfully it’s free with kindle unlimited so I didn’t pay a cent for this trash.
It was deeply miss marketed and honestly, deserves to be thrown in a dumpster 🤷🏼♀️ thankfully it’s free with kindle unlimited so I didn’t pay a cent for this trash.
July 30, 2023
WHAT THE FUCK!! DID I READ!! He cheated on me! The audacity of this man. Don’t read.
September 11, 2023
This is totally b*****t. I'm sorry, But this is bad advertising. Fall in love with reader my a**. Why adding the reader then? Started it because i thought it was an interesting writing experiment. It was the first book i heard doing something like that. But luna is annoying as hell and the ending too.
And the author should have really put some warning at the start because if you have a dear one with cancer or that is really ill, you will do a cold shower and not be ready for it. Saying that the mother is ill isn't enough.
And the author should have really put some warning at the start because if you have a dear one with cancer or that is really ill, you will do a cold shower and not be ready for it. Saying that the mother is ill isn't enough.
June 18, 2023
DNF @ 61%
October 2, 2023
I almost DNFed this many many times. I loved the idea of the book character to fall in love with the reader, but the way it was executed made me feel violated. Definitely not a book for me. Didn't want to judge before finishing it.
Did Not Finish
September 6, 2023DNF @ 54% Maybe if this hadn’t been marketed as a ‘MMC falls in love with the reader’ I would have liked it because the actual writing is nice. However it was marketed as a romance where the MMC falls in love with the reader so I expected that to be the story line not him falling in love with the reader then getting together with this other girl who is apparently the writer of the book being read. So basically I got cheated on by a fictional boyfriend and have to watch it all go down. No thanks.
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December 13, 2023
WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.
January 3, 2024
Si pudiera ponerle 0 estrellas, lo haría. Libro basura que te venden como una cosa pero resulta en otra totalmente distinta. No se que carajo estaba pensando la autora cuando escribió esto y pensó que era una buena idea. Literal este libro me hizo sentir patética. No, gracias. No leo para que también me humillen en la ficción.
September 28, 2023
If you see this and you know me… no you don’t.
Sounded like a fun little book. I guess it’s fun if you want to have a fictional character be in love with “you” and then have said fictional character cheat on you every chance he gets and have him say that he thinks you like it when he cheats because he can “feel you” and your emotions. Basically it feels like the MMC thinks the reader is into voyeurism.
I mean I guess it’s an interesting concept but it was marketed all over tik tok as the MMC falling in love with you - the reader - which in turn had me believing that there wasn’t particularly going to be a happily ever after because he couldn’t actually be with the reader. I guess I just wasn’t expecting the direction the author actually took it. Interesting concept… weird book…
Sounded like a fun little book. I guess it’s fun if you want to have a fictional character be in love with “you” and then have said fictional character cheat on you every chance he gets and have him say that he thinks you like it when he cheats because he can “feel you” and your emotions. Basically it feels like the MMC thinks the reader is into voyeurism.
I mean I guess it’s an interesting concept but it was marketed all over tik tok as the MMC falling in love with you - the reader - which in turn had me believing that there wasn’t particularly going to be a happily ever after because he couldn’t actually be with the reader. I guess I just wasn’t expecting the direction the author actually took it. Interesting concept… weird book…
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June 27, 2023
The first page had me really intrigued. Unfortunately, that was as good as it got for me.
I picked it up, I put it down. It just didn’t keep me engrossed and I read three other books in the middle of reading this one.
Being in love with me was a bit unnecessary- it probably would’ve been just as good to skip all that and just tell the story of Ryder and Luna.
3.5*. It was just ok 😕
I picked it up, I put it down. It just didn’t keep me engrossed and I read three other books in the middle of reading this one.
Being in love with me was a bit unnecessary- it probably would’ve been just as good to skip all that and just tell the story of Ryder and Luna.
3.5*. It was just ok 😕
September 8, 2023
the fuck was that
June 11, 2023
2.5 stars rounded up
Thank you to the author for the opportunity to read the ARC of this. I was really excited by the concept of this book but found it a bit disturbing in places. I enjoyed the moments between Ryder and the other characters more than the breaking of the 4th wall moments. I would LOVE to read Steph and Nick’s book as I don’t think there is any connection between the reader and characters. It was a really good idea but in the end the relationships between the characters was written better and more pleasant to read.
Thank you to the author for the opportunity to read the ARC of this. I was really excited by the concept of this book but found it a bit disturbing in places. I enjoyed the moments between Ryder and the other characters more than the breaking of the 4th wall moments. I would LOVE to read Steph and Nick’s book as I don’t think there is any connection between the reader and characters. It was a really good idea but in the end the relationships between the characters was written better and more pleasant to read.
June 27, 2023
DNF at 40%
June 20, 2023
I went into this knowing it’d be different but not like this.
The writing was good I just didn’t like parts and the other mc was annoying and I feel like the premise lied to me that the mmc falls for me? But halfway through he falls for the author? And the ending felt very rushed to me.
1/5⭐️
The writing was good I just didn’t like parts and the other mc was annoying and I feel like the premise lied to me that the mmc falls for me? But halfway through he falls for the author? And the ending felt very rushed to me.
1/5⭐️
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December 1, 2024
So I was love bombed, cheated on, and dumped in the matter of 371 pages 🫠
July 16, 2023
Okay, I have feelings about this.
This book is 100% misleading in the marketing. It is NOT a book where the MMC falls in love with you (the reader) and that’s the whole romance. This is about the MMC falling in the love with the reader in the very beginning of the book, but then falling in love with another woman in the end.
If this book was marketed differently, it very well could be 4 stars, but alas, the marketing was just so wildly different from what we got.
That being said - writing style is very good & the spice is top tier & had me blushing like Luna in some parts!
I will be reading the second book when it comes out, as it sounds like it’ll be marketed as a true romance with Steph & Nick without the inclusion of the reader!
This book is 100% misleading in the marketing. It is NOT a book where the MMC falls in love with you (the reader) and that’s the whole romance. This is about the MMC falling in the love with the reader in the very beginning of the book, but then falling in love with another woman in the end.
If this book was marketed differently, it very well could be 4 stars, but alas, the marketing was just so wildly different from what we got.
That being said - writing style is very good & the spice is top tier & had me blushing like Luna in some parts!
I will be reading the second book when it comes out, as it sounds like it’ll be marketed as a true romance with Steph & Nick without the inclusion of the reader!
January 3, 2024
I read all of this in one seating for one reason only.
Closure.
My emotions were all over the place, I fall in love easily… very easily and I obviously fell in love with Ryder.
To say the least i felt betrayed, used and humiliated.
I needed to hear his say goodbye.
Deleted this from my library exactly after the last page.
Closure.
My emotions were all over the place, I fall in love easily… very easily and I obviously fell in love with Ryder.
To say the least i felt betrayed, used and humiliated.
I needed to hear his say goodbye.
Deleted this from my library exactly after the last page.
November 2, 2023
no because it started SO GOOD. The idea of this book was GREAT and I loved it BUT AHH WHY WOULD YOU MAKE THIS MAN CHEAT ON ME MULTIPLE TIMES AND SHIT AND THEN EXPECT ME TO ROOT FOR HIM AND THIS GIRLY?!! Like I couldn’t enjoy this book at all anymore from the half AH
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July 13, 2023
Loved the premise of it, of him know you are there and falling for you, but ends up breaking your heart for the girl in the book....i hated being broken up with by my fictional men now....lol
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September 17, 2023
this whole book felt like a fever dream, absolutely wild
December 31, 2023
I can't believe I got cheated by a fictional guy.
June 9, 2023
"I want you to find a way to slip into the book you're reading. Step onto the page, then through it and into my world."
🌊 MMC Falls in Love w/ Reader
🌊 FMC is a Writer
🌊 Dual POV
🌊 Surfing/Camping
🌊 Protective MMC
🌊 Only One Tent
🌊 Small Beach Town (PNW)
This was such a different reading experience, and I absolutely loved every second of it!! You really feel like you are right there with Ryder and Luna, experiencing everything ~ the laughs, the tears, the excitement, the vulnerability, the love!
Ryder has such a complicated past; he puts on such a badass front but is such a loving/kind person at heart. Luna is strong woman, with all her walls up ~ she is bound and determined not to let anyone inside.
Luna has escaped to the coast of the PNW to try to find some encouragement to write her next book ~ one morning surfing she drops in on Ryder, literally! Ryder has a lot going on in his life and doesn't need Luna to add to list of things he has to worry about.
Luna likes to talk to her reader as she is preparing/writing her book, she is comforted by her reader, she asks for help/signs to ensure she is making the right decisions. Ryder is falling in love with the reader, he can feel the readers presence, the reader is his safety net, but can you truly love someone who is not there?!
The more they get to know each other, the more they realize just how much of their past and present they have in common. Luna stays by Ryder's side and comforts him through caring for his sick mother, even if it does bring up hard memories for her.
Really looking forward to Steph and Nick's story ~ it's going to be so good!!
🌊 MMC Falls in Love w/ Reader
🌊 FMC is a Writer
🌊 Dual POV
🌊 Surfing/Camping
🌊 Protective MMC
🌊 Only One Tent
🌊 Small Beach Town (PNW)
This was such a different reading experience, and I absolutely loved every second of it!! You really feel like you are right there with Ryder and Luna, experiencing everything ~ the laughs, the tears, the excitement, the vulnerability, the love!
Ryder has such a complicated past; he puts on such a badass front but is such a loving/kind person at heart. Luna is strong woman, with all her walls up ~ she is bound and determined not to let anyone inside.
Luna has escaped to the coast of the PNW to try to find some encouragement to write her next book ~ one morning surfing she drops in on Ryder, literally! Ryder has a lot going on in his life and doesn't need Luna to add to list of things he has to worry about.
Luna likes to talk to her reader as she is preparing/writing her book, she is comforted by her reader, she asks for help/signs to ensure she is making the right decisions. Ryder is falling in love with the reader, he can feel the readers presence, the reader is his safety net, but can you truly love someone who is not there?!
The more they get to know each other, the more they realize just how much of their past and present they have in common. Luna stays by Ryder's side and comforts him through caring for his sick mother, even if it does bring up hard memories for her.
Really looking forward to Steph and Nick's story ~ it's going to be so good!!
September 12, 2023
You ever read a book and think wth did I just read? That was this book. Will I read the next in the series? Yes. But was I confused as all heck? Also yes.
Okay so the premise of this book is that Ryder lives in this small town when author Luna comes to town. She wants to write a book about a surfer and picks Ryder. Ryder is all down to get paid of it. But what he didn't expect was falling for her...and you. Yes you. As in the reader. This is where this book threw me for a loop. Ryder and Luna both talk to the reader. Not kidding. So while Ryder kisses Luna he thinks of his love of a woman he hasn't ever seen or spoken to, you the reader. Was it odd AF? Understatement. I would have rated this higher easily if not for that aspect. The story was great but the whole speaking to the reader was so odd for me. But will I read the next book to find out about Ryder's sister? You bet!
And if you are curious what I mean, here are some quotes that are spoken to the reader, you:
"OOF, your touch right now as you turned the page gave me a little thrill. Heart plummeting. Goosebumps rising on my arms. Shivers crawling over my scalp. Do you realize what you're doing to me?"
"I was beginning to think you wanted nothing to do with me. That you closed the book on me and left me to stumble around on my own."
See, told ya. Take that as you must, just know the romance between Luna and Ryder (when they aren't talking to the reader) was great. All the spice with them.
Okay so the premise of this book is that Ryder lives in this small town when author Luna comes to town. She wants to write a book about a surfer and picks Ryder. Ryder is all down to get paid of it. But what he didn't expect was falling for her...and you. Yes you. As in the reader. This is where this book threw me for a loop. Ryder and Luna both talk to the reader. Not kidding. So while Ryder kisses Luna he thinks of his love of a woman he hasn't ever seen or spoken to, you the reader. Was it odd AF? Understatement. I would have rated this higher easily if not for that aspect. The story was great but the whole speaking to the reader was so odd for me. But will I read the next book to find out about Ryder's sister? You bet!
And if you are curious what I mean, here are some quotes that are spoken to the reader, you:
"OOF, your touch right now as you turned the page gave me a little thrill. Heart plummeting. Goosebumps rising on my arms. Shivers crawling over my scalp. Do you realize what you're doing to me?"
"I was beginning to think you wanted nothing to do with me. That you closed the book on me and left me to stumble around on my own."
See, told ya. Take that as you must, just know the romance between Luna and Ryder (when they aren't talking to the reader) was great. All the spice with them.
September 28, 2023
I gonna be totally honest…
I was initially hooked into this book for the premise of the main man falling in love with me. I was so interested in that concept and how it would work. And initially, I was sold. I was like this my fictional man for the time being and he’s totally into me. But who the fuck markets a book premise like that just to throw us away for another fictional character??? Like the fuck do you mean? How do I, the reader, pick up a book that’s marketed for a man to fall in love with me… but then take it away without a blink of an eye??? If wanted to be thrown away like last nights garbage I’d have just stayed in the real world.
Don’t get me wrong, Ryder and Lunas love story was cute as hell. If it was just a book in itself about them and didn’t involve me, I’d be into it: but that’s not the case.
This took me so long to read because I legit thought I was jumping back into a cheating relationship, even though I love them as soulmates. I don’t know… it’s just a whole vibe that the book gives off and I’m not here to be cheated on when I’m trying to escape into my book world. Leave the whole premise of being in love with the reader aside if you aren’t gonna have a good ending for the reader….
I was initially hooked into this book for the premise of the main man falling in love with me. I was so interested in that concept and how it would work. And initially, I was sold. I was like this my fictional man for the time being and he’s totally into me. But who the fuck markets a book premise like that just to throw us away for another fictional character??? Like the fuck do you mean? How do I, the reader, pick up a book that’s marketed for a man to fall in love with me… but then take it away without a blink of an eye??? If wanted to be thrown away like last nights garbage I’d have just stayed in the real world.
Don’t get me wrong, Ryder and Lunas love story was cute as hell. If it was just a book in itself about them and didn’t involve me, I’d be into it: but that’s not the case.
This took me so long to read because I legit thought I was jumping back into a cheating relationship, even though I love them as soulmates. I don’t know… it’s just a whole vibe that the book gives off and I’m not here to be cheated on when I’m trying to escape into my book world. Leave the whole premise of being in love with the reader aside if you aren’t gonna have a good ending for the reader….
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