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The Knights #2
Only With You
Senior year should be easy. Unfortunately, it's going to be anything but that for Julianna Sparks.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Julianna moves in with two of her friends, who also happen to be best friends with the guy she hates. But that's not the only issue… she’s three weeks into school, and struggling to understand calculus II. Her need to make her parents proud has her willing to do anything, even if it means putting her pride aside to seek tutoring from Landon.
Landon Taylor’s goal of cruising to the end of his senior year falls apart when his best friends take in the girl he hates. Now he's doing everything in his power to avoid her, and immediately turns her down when she asks him to tutor her. His plan would've worked out until an unfortunate circumstance forces him to agree.
Now they're spending more time together than either one of them would've liked. But as time goes on, they realize that maybe being in each other's company isn't so bad after all. And that there might be more.
But will they acknowledge what it is before the semester is over, or will they let their mutual hatred stand in their way?
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Julianna moves in with two of her friends, who also happen to be best friends with the guy she hates. But that's not the only issue… she’s three weeks into school, and struggling to understand calculus II. Her need to make her parents proud has her willing to do anything, even if it means putting her pride aside to seek tutoring from Landon.
Landon Taylor’s goal of cruising to the end of his senior year falls apart when his best friends take in the girl he hates. Now he's doing everything in his power to avoid her, and immediately turns her down when she asks him to tutor her. His plan would've worked out until an unfortunate circumstance forces him to agree.
Now they're spending more time together than either one of them would've liked. But as time goes on, they realize that maybe being in each other's company isn't so bad after all. And that there might be more.
But will they acknowledge what it is before the semester is over, or will they let their mutual hatred stand in their way?
588 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 22, 2024
About the author
E. Salvador
8 books2,429 followersE. is a Mexican-American romance author who loves a good happily ever after and iced coffee with light ice.
When E. is not overthinking or creating multiple Pinterest boards for the hundred book ideas she has, she's writing or reading. And when she's not doing any of those things, she's spending time with her two sons and husband.
When E. is not overthinking or creating multiple Pinterest boards for the hundred book ideas she has, she's writing or reading. And when she's not doing any of those things, she's spending time with her two sons and husband.
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October 23, 2026
the mmc in this book is 6’9”. chiiiile, i had to chop him down by a few inches because a height like THAT makes me think of stretched-out bubblegum. he done longer than a standard residential doorway!!! my 5’10” ass can’t even reach up that far (believe me, i tried to simulate and my talons couldn’t even touch the frame). authors, there IS a limit to the tomfoolery. i promise, we don’t need to be doing all this. we absolutely don’t.
this is a tale of two halves.
i was enjoying parts of the first half, at around the 3/3.5 star level. nothing i’d write home about, but a fun time for what the book was selling here was being had. the mmc was a hot, dimpled basketball player with a mouth on him, so once i mentally shortened him to 6’5”, i was vibing. it’s a hate-to-love dynamic and i’ve been known to love those too, so i was having a mildly good time with the tension between the mcs (although, i didn’t care for him calling the fmc a bitch in one of their hateful exchanges — and i have a high tolerance for mcs being mean to one another as long as it’s mutual, but this name-calling was a tad much). still…i was willing to look past this and the oftentimes cringey parts of the writing in this first half, because the chemistry was doing a decent job and there were a few interesting topics swirling in the air. i was intrigued enough to see where we were going with this pair.
then the second half happened.
i was limping through to the end. painfully so. blood gushing out of my leg and everything.
this book was way too long for what the pace of the romance was serving. things became very repetitive. the writing became cringier. the topics i had an interest in were not explored in depth or with nuance. this dragged. terribly so. i felt so apathetic towards the mcs and the side characters in the second half and by the end overall, which is why i find myself at a 2 star rating.
i liked landon at first (despite some of those things i mentioned already that gave me pause). he was giving brat tamer energy and i do love that 🤭🌚. he didn’t necessarily have long-lasting aura or anything, but for the moment, he was aight. i appreciated that he was a man who could balance being rough and degrading in the sheets but was all about consent and communication. he was always keeping it a buck and straight-forward. my real issues with him as time went on came down to two things: one, his character seemed to be a spoof of the landon from a walk to remember (with some tweaks here and there — but the name, tutoring, popularity and daddy issues were feeling a leeeeetle similar and i couldn’t unsee it once that thought set in). secondly, the author did waaaaay too much with his characterization. giving him two rare conditions??? he had chromesthesia AND hyperthymesia. he was SIX NINE. he was super smart, a math genius, a musical prodigy who could sing and play different instruments, a star basketball player, a youtuber with a lucrative channel, good at everything, liked by everyone (but the fmc)…it felt like the author was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. dial it down. some of these aspects became more told than shown too, because it was A LOT and things were touched on in a surface-level way. less is more. he also had complicated family issues and was diagnosed with a bunch of trauma disorders when he started going to therapy, but everything was rushed and not thoroughly explored. it became difficult for me to form an attachment to him in the second half when the things i was waiting to see be fleshed out more didn’t really feel consequential in their treatment.
julianna was present. she passed roll call. i didn’t dislike her by any means but i didn’t really care for her character. she was just…there. sometimes, she came across childish and petulant. again, she had some interesting things in her character arc that would have had an impact on me if they were explored with more nuance and care, but they fell flat because they weren’t. it felt like her only character traits that the book kept blaring about were her big breasts and her love of quirky mugs. i wanted to know more about her eventual career passions that were touched on briefly and sporadically. i wanted to see her past sexual assault handled in more depth (it almost felt like the book forgot about this after introducing this theme at the near-beginning, but it remembered to circle back after the 80% mark). instead, we focused on parental and clique issues that gave high school energy and didn’t make her character come across mature enough.
on the romance: their banter was a bit too simple and one-note for what now-me would be screaming about. if it was wittier and funnier, i would have been giggling and kicking my feet even more. the spice in here??? yeah…i was about it but UP TO A POINT. when they first started up, they were hot and the tension exploding was mildly buzzy enough. then…it felt like the relationship development stalled and their dynamic became so repetitive, so the embers burned out and i didn’t care about any of the sex scenes in the second half of the book. some of the degrading dirty talk became really corny too. and is every fmc of hers fated to squirt while going to poundtown with the mmc? i’m sensing a pattern akin to recycling here. there was absolutely no reason for this book to be almost 600 pages, what with the uneven and accelerated pace at which things moved between them. if it was a slower burn, sure. however, it was insta lusty and they started being physical in the 200s page-count wise. i wouldn’t have cared (much) about the length or the insta lust if we spent more time exploring the deeper topics thoroughly, if the compatibility argument was more compelling, or if i was simply riding a high (or a combination of all three) — but we didn’t, and it and i wasn’t, so here we are.
i don’t know if it’s that i’m becoming more cynical or what, but i didn’t find the emotional connection between these two convincing in the slightest. the physical chemistry was there, no doubt about it. they had some moments of sharing about themselves that moved the needle a little bit. overall though, i didn’t really believe in the love declarations. the bumpy pace of their relationship development didn’t help either since they went from hate to lust to attachment at break-neck speeds, with few breaths inbetween and a whole lotta (what would have been natural, given their starting point) indecision and internal conflict missing on the page.
i think why i love (marketed as) romcoms (and well-executed ones at that) is that they don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are — chemistry, spice, nothing too deep, and whole lot of laughs…witty and genuinely funny ones at that. i wouldn’t classify this book as a romcom though. just a regular degular contemporary romance that also attempts to explore serious topics. while it tries to be light and at the same time doses reader with some angst and deeper themes, those latter attempts pancaked because they were explored superficially and didn’t deliver the necessary emotional impact for me, personally. hence…just give me a buzzy romcom instead and imma rate it higher for what it IS and what it claims to be 😅.
it’s hard not to compare to please don’t go but i did while reading this, because it’s my only other reference point in this author’s catalogue (outside of my fleeting dalliance with book 1 of this the knights series). i felt more for those characters and that story, which made it easier to excuse some of the writing faux pas this author tends to make. i didn’t have that same forgiving spirit while reading this book though (given my weak connection to much of what was going on), so some of the issues with e salvador’s writing really stood out here. the cringe, the micro-repetition of the same words close together, saying the same thing twice or three times on the same page or within the same couple of pages (just phrased differently), some spelling and grammatical errors, and making use of words that don’t feel fitting and natural in a sentence…it all became glaring.
”he has a very dry sense of humor that tends to be more on the drier side.” it’s already parched, so how much more arid are we talking?
“…but they’re nothing but a jumbled mess of excitement, confusion, questions, and excitement.” why are we citing “excitement” twice? 😭
what the hell is ”confliction” and why was it used multiple times in this book?! such an unnatural word, when “conflict” would have sufficed.
these are simple examples of the micro-repetition and odd wording, but this was a pervasive issue. there are pages upon pages of instances i could dump here, but i’m not going to do that.
i also didn’t really care deeply about the found family in this the way that i did for the one in please don’t go, which is why i’m unsure about reading more books in this series. i already dnfed the first book inside the first 15% months ago because it was almost unreadable in the beginning there (given how corny and insta it was coming off). i was planning to circle back to it when i was in a more patient mood and after i’d got a feel for whether this was a universe i wanted to keep exploring after trying another book in it…but yeah, ion know now 😐.
one big positive i have for this book (but again, this could be a con for others) is that for a sports romance, there was hardly any basketball in this. #mytype. there were some mentions and about 1-2 games shown on-page in brief detail across almost 600 pages, so EYE was good. if you’re looking for more though? this isn’t the book for that.
last thing…
⚠️ (and this will be mildly spoiler-y about the epilogue): ⚠️
e!!! 😭🤣😩 this epilogue was waaaaay too heavy-handed. they were in college two days ago and suddenly it’s six years later, we have 1.5 kids in the picture and everything is conveniently tied up in ways that should have been shown in the main body of the book, but instead it was all told in the epilogue??? i just couldn’t believe in this happy ending. at all. dpmo.
the sweet, crushing relief i felt when i finished this is something serious. bottle it and inject it into anti-depressants right now. i’m almost afraid that this book is going to trigger a reading slump. pray for me, y’all.
this is a tale of two halves.
i was enjoying parts of the first half, at around the 3/3.5 star level. nothing i’d write home about, but a fun time for what the book was selling here was being had. the mmc was a hot, dimpled basketball player with a mouth on him, so once i mentally shortened him to 6’5”, i was vibing. it’s a hate-to-love dynamic and i’ve been known to love those too, so i was having a mildly good time with the tension between the mcs (although, i didn’t care for him calling the fmc a bitch in one of their hateful exchanges — and i have a high tolerance for mcs being mean to one another as long as it’s mutual, but this name-calling was a tad much). still…i was willing to look past this and the oftentimes cringey parts of the writing in this first half, because the chemistry was doing a decent job and there were a few interesting topics swirling in the air. i was intrigued enough to see where we were going with this pair.
then the second half happened.
i was limping through to the end. painfully so. blood gushing out of my leg and everything.
this book was way too long for what the pace of the romance was serving. things became very repetitive. the writing became cringier. the topics i had an interest in were not explored in depth or with nuance. this dragged. terribly so. i felt so apathetic towards the mcs and the side characters in the second half and by the end overall, which is why i find myself at a 2 star rating.
i liked landon at first (despite some of those things i mentioned already that gave me pause). he was giving brat tamer energy and i do love that 🤭🌚. he didn’t necessarily have long-lasting aura or anything, but for the moment, he was aight. i appreciated that he was a man who could balance being rough and degrading in the sheets but was all about consent and communication. he was always keeping it a buck and straight-forward. my real issues with him as time went on came down to two things: one, his character seemed to be a spoof of the landon from a walk to remember (with some tweaks here and there — but the name, tutoring, popularity and daddy issues were feeling a leeeeetle similar and i couldn’t unsee it once that thought set in). secondly, the author did waaaaay too much with his characterization. giving him two rare conditions??? he had chromesthesia AND hyperthymesia. he was SIX NINE. he was super smart, a math genius, a musical prodigy who could sing and play different instruments, a star basketball player, a youtuber with a lucrative channel, good at everything, liked by everyone (but the fmc)…it felt like the author was throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. dial it down. some of these aspects became more told than shown too, because it was A LOT and things were touched on in a surface-level way. less is more. he also had complicated family issues and was diagnosed with a bunch of trauma disorders when he started going to therapy, but everything was rushed and not thoroughly explored. it became difficult for me to form an attachment to him in the second half when the things i was waiting to see be fleshed out more didn’t really feel consequential in their treatment.
julianna was present. she passed roll call. i didn’t dislike her by any means but i didn’t really care for her character. she was just…there. sometimes, she came across childish and petulant. again, she had some interesting things in her character arc that would have had an impact on me if they were explored with more nuance and care, but they fell flat because they weren’t. it felt like her only character traits that the book kept blaring about were her big breasts and her love of quirky mugs. i wanted to know more about her eventual career passions that were touched on briefly and sporadically. i wanted to see her past sexual assault handled in more depth (it almost felt like the book forgot about this after introducing this theme at the near-beginning, but it remembered to circle back after the 80% mark). instead, we focused on parental and clique issues that gave high school energy and didn’t make her character come across mature enough.
on the romance: their banter was a bit too simple and one-note for what now-me would be screaming about. if it was wittier and funnier, i would have been giggling and kicking my feet even more. the spice in here??? yeah…i was about it but UP TO A POINT. when they first started up, they were hot and the tension exploding was mildly buzzy enough. then…it felt like the relationship development stalled and their dynamic became so repetitive, so the embers burned out and i didn’t care about any of the sex scenes in the second half of the book. some of the degrading dirty talk became really corny too. and is every fmc of hers fated to squirt while going to poundtown with the mmc? i’m sensing a pattern akin to recycling here. there was absolutely no reason for this book to be almost 600 pages, what with the uneven and accelerated pace at which things moved between them. if it was a slower burn, sure. however, it was insta lusty and they started being physical in the 200s page-count wise. i wouldn’t have cared (much) about the length or the insta lust if we spent more time exploring the deeper topics thoroughly, if the compatibility argument was more compelling, or if i was simply riding a high (or a combination of all three) — but we didn’t, and it and i wasn’t, so here we are.
i don’t know if it’s that i’m becoming more cynical or what, but i didn’t find the emotional connection between these two convincing in the slightest. the physical chemistry was there, no doubt about it. they had some moments of sharing about themselves that moved the needle a little bit. overall though, i didn’t really believe in the love declarations. the bumpy pace of their relationship development didn’t help either since they went from hate to lust to attachment at break-neck speeds, with few breaths inbetween and a whole lotta (what would have been natural, given their starting point) indecision and internal conflict missing on the page.
i think why i love (marketed as) romcoms (and well-executed ones at that) is that they don’t pretend to be anything other than what they are — chemistry, spice, nothing too deep, and whole lot of laughs…witty and genuinely funny ones at that. i wouldn’t classify this book as a romcom though. just a regular degular contemporary romance that also attempts to explore serious topics. while it tries to be light and at the same time doses reader with some angst and deeper themes, those latter attempts pancaked because they were explored superficially and didn’t deliver the necessary emotional impact for me, personally. hence…just give me a buzzy romcom instead and imma rate it higher for what it IS and what it claims to be 😅.
it’s hard not to compare to please don’t go but i did while reading this, because it’s my only other reference point in this author’s catalogue (outside of my fleeting dalliance with book 1 of this the knights series). i felt more for those characters and that story, which made it easier to excuse some of the writing faux pas this author tends to make. i didn’t have that same forgiving spirit while reading this book though (given my weak connection to much of what was going on), so some of the issues with e salvador’s writing really stood out here. the cringe, the micro-repetition of the same words close together, saying the same thing twice or three times on the same page or within the same couple of pages (just phrased differently), some spelling and grammatical errors, and making use of words that don’t feel fitting and natural in a sentence…it all became glaring.
”he has a very dry sense of humor that tends to be more on the drier side.” it’s already parched, so how much more arid are we talking?
“…but they’re nothing but a jumbled mess of excitement, confusion, questions, and excitement.” why are we citing “excitement” twice? 😭
what the hell is ”confliction” and why was it used multiple times in this book?! such an unnatural word, when “conflict” would have sufficed.
these are simple examples of the micro-repetition and odd wording, but this was a pervasive issue. there are pages upon pages of instances i could dump here, but i’m not going to do that.
i also didn’t really care deeply about the found family in this the way that i did for the one in please don’t go, which is why i’m unsure about reading more books in this series. i already dnfed the first book inside the first 15% months ago because it was almost unreadable in the beginning there (given how corny and insta it was coming off). i was planning to circle back to it when i was in a more patient mood and after i’d got a feel for whether this was a universe i wanted to keep exploring after trying another book in it…but yeah, ion know now 😐.
one big positive i have for this book (but again, this could be a con for others) is that for a sports romance, there was hardly any basketball in this. #mytype. there were some mentions and about 1-2 games shown on-page in brief detail across almost 600 pages, so EYE was good. if you’re looking for more though? this isn’t the book for that.
last thing…
⚠️ (and this will be mildly spoiler-y about the epilogue): ⚠️
e!!! 😭🤣😩 this epilogue was waaaaay too heavy-handed. they were in college two days ago and suddenly it’s six years later, we have 1.5 kids in the picture and everything is conveniently tied up in ways that should have been shown in the main body of the book, but instead it was all told in the epilogue??? i just couldn’t believe in this happy ending. at all. dpmo.
the sweet, crushing relief i felt when i finished this is something serious. bottle it and inject it into anti-depressants right now. i’m almost afraid that this book is going to trigger a reading slump. pray for me, y’all.
October 11, 2025
I don’t know what E. Salvador puts in her books, but they’re laced with something because every time I start one I cannot put it down until I finish it (I’m not exaggerating) 🤣
I’ve now read all 3 books by this author, every single one almost 600 pages, and I finished them all in less than 24 hours.
I truly don’t know what it is or why I just never feel like there are any lulls in her stories that make me want to put them down, but I just can never stop reading 😂
Again, I loved the storyline, the main characters, the side characters.. I just eat up her writing like it’s my job!!!
Yes, I did cringe a few times in the beginning of this one and it was definitely far from perfect, but I still really liked it. Just like I’ve really enjoyed every one of her other books.
Of course I have to mention it, but yall…. The spice in this…. 😮💨😮💨 There is no one that can write spice like E. Salvador. Girl has me literally sweatinngggggggg🫦😫😩 I was giggling to myself at 4 am last night hahahahahahahahha. You can tell she got more comfortable with writing it from her first novel, All I Need, because Only With You and Please Don’t Go….. 🤭
E. Salvador has officially become an auto-buy author for me now. If she writes it, I’m reading it. Perioddddd.
OH and the Saint & Daisy crumbs in this book and book 1 have me in agony. I NEEEEEEED THEIR BOOK 😭😭😭😭 I cannot believe they aren’t next. UGH. I’m going to suffer until I get it
I’ve now read all 3 books by this author, every single one almost 600 pages, and I finished them all in less than 24 hours.
I truly don’t know what it is or why I just never feel like there are any lulls in her stories that make me want to put them down, but I just can never stop reading 😂
Again, I loved the storyline, the main characters, the side characters.. I just eat up her writing like it’s my job!!!
Yes, I did cringe a few times in the beginning of this one and it was definitely far from perfect, but I still really liked it. Just like I’ve really enjoyed every one of her other books.
Of course I have to mention it, but yall…. The spice in this…. 😮💨😮💨 There is no one that can write spice like E. Salvador. Girl has me literally sweatinngggggggg🫦😫😩 I was giggling to myself at 4 am last night hahahahahahahahha. You can tell she got more comfortable with writing it from her first novel, All I Need, because Only With You and Please Don’t Go….. 🤭
E. Salvador has officially become an auto-buy author for me now. If she writes it, I’m reading it. Perioddddd.
OH and the Saint & Daisy crumbs in this book and book 1 have me in agony. I NEEEEEEED THEIR BOOK 😭😭😭😭 I cannot believe they aren’t next. UGH. I’m going to suffer until I get it
May 9, 2025
4.75 ✮
I dont even love enemies (dislike) to lovers but this was everything and more 🥹🥹
🩵 Julianna flicked on a light, and suddenly my life doesn’t seem dark anymore. She illuminated the darkest part of my soul, and the strange thing is that with her, it doesn’t feel like it was ever off. 🩵
🩵 ”The space between us feels oddly magnetic, like there’s an invisible string pulling us toward each other.” 🩵
THEYRE LITERALLY SO SO CUTE <3 landon taylor actually deserves the world, and he’s now become one of my fave mmcs ever 🤭🤍 e. salvador is actually eating up this series and I can’t wait to see what she does next. consider me a huge fan !! 💌💐
I dont even love enemies (dislike) to lovers but this was everything and more 🥹🥹
🩵 Julianna flicked on a light, and suddenly my life doesn’t seem dark anymore. She illuminated the darkest part of my soul, and the strange thing is that with her, it doesn’t feel like it was ever off. 🩵
🩵 ”The space between us feels oddly magnetic, like there’s an invisible string pulling us toward each other.” 🩵
THEYRE LITERALLY SO SO CUTE <3 landon taylor actually deserves the world, and he’s now become one of my fave mmcs ever 🤭🤍 e. salvador is actually eating up this series and I can’t wait to see what she does next. consider me a huge fan !! 💌💐
February 18, 2026
4.25/5
now i've rushed through the books and shot myself in the foot so i have to wait on bated breath until miss e blesses us with a new announcement..
last week, i think, i read one book by this author and it was so good that i've hyperfixated on everything she's ever published. there is one more book but it's kinda christmasy and i'm just not in the mood. its been awhile since i've found a new sports romance author to trust. all the stories have just been boring me or they've been too cringy but right when i was losing hope, e. salvador came along to save the day.
we see the enemies to lovers seeds from the very first interaction between landon and julianna in the first book and while i was scared that they were next, i need saint and daisy like i need air, i absolutely loved this book! seeing these two be forced to get along so that julianna can pass and so landon can avoid his father, so good. they had such good tension and even though they fought/argued landon was so protective of her. seeing him calm her down and be a safe place for her was so lovely but i also loved how julianna was this safe place for landon. these two are just both dealing with family stuff that can be heavy and isolating, so to see them find solace in each other... i was in love!! this book really showed were e. salvador shines and that is found family and great chemistry. like holy shit landon and julianna are so hot. the shared passion of music also warmed me, like seeing them grow away from parental obligations and find peace in music, so, so good!
now to speak on the found family... we're gonna need five more books at least. and thats just in this series, don't get me started on the baseball boys and my swimmer girls from please don't go. i mentioned saint and daisy earlier and i need them bad, i can't wait to unpack all the tension between them. onto the others, gabby and jagger are gonna need to serve childhood friends to lovers with a little bit of manwhore and good girl... I'M READY. cara and jayden were pretty absent from this book but what's going on there. is polly gonna get a book, malik??? OH, how could i forget the second chance romance brewing between el and micah, hand it over.
there were some issues in the book, just issues with writing that i know won't be an issue going forward because please don't go was my favorite book by her and its the most recent one. i wish we saw more communication between lola and julianna too, like just because lola is gone doesn't mean they can't be friends. my final note is a slight worry, i'm just worried about how the stories will progress because they seem to follow the same script. it feels odd to say this because i feel like i can tell everyone apart, and i know they're all different, but they're also all the same... idk.
now i've rushed through the books and shot myself in the foot so i have to wait on bated breath until miss e blesses us with a new announcement..
last week, i think, i read one book by this author and it was so good that i've hyperfixated on everything she's ever published. there is one more book but it's kinda christmasy and i'm just not in the mood. its been awhile since i've found a new sports romance author to trust. all the stories have just been boring me or they've been too cringy but right when i was losing hope, e. salvador came along to save the day.
we see the enemies to lovers seeds from the very first interaction between landon and julianna in the first book and while i was scared that they were next, i need saint and daisy like i need air, i absolutely loved this book! seeing these two be forced to get along so that julianna can pass and so landon can avoid his father, so good. they had such good tension and even though they fought/argued landon was so protective of her. seeing him calm her down and be a safe place for her was so lovely but i also loved how julianna was this safe place for landon. these two are just both dealing with family stuff that can be heavy and isolating, so to see them find solace in each other... i was in love!! this book really showed were e. salvador shines and that is found family and great chemistry. like holy shit landon and julianna are so hot. the shared passion of music also warmed me, like seeing them grow away from parental obligations and find peace in music, so, so good!
now to speak on the found family... we're gonna need five more books at least. and thats just in this series, don't get me started on the baseball boys and my swimmer girls from please don't go. i mentioned saint and daisy earlier and i need them bad, i can't wait to unpack all the tension between them. onto the others, gabby and jagger are gonna need to serve childhood friends to lovers with a little bit of manwhore and good girl... I'M READY. cara and jayden were pretty absent from this book but what's going on there. is polly gonna get a book, malik??? OH, how could i forget the second chance romance brewing between el and micah, hand it over.
there were some issues in the book, just issues with writing that i know won't be an issue going forward because please don't go was my favorite book by her and its the most recent one. i wish we saw more communication between lola and julianna too, like just because lola is gone doesn't mean they can't be friends. my final note is a slight worry, i'm just worried about how the stories will progress because they seem to follow the same script. it feels odd to say this because i feel like i can tell everyone apart, and i know they're all different, but they're also all the same... idk.
June 28, 2026
“She’s the reason why I’m not constantly thinking of just living, but actually feeling alive.”
Guys, it’s official. E. Salvador is officially my new favourite romance author 🙂↕️
Oh, I ATE THIS BOOK UP. Landon and Julianna’s dynamic had me so invested from book one, and their hatred for each other was honestly so funny at times. Their banter, their tension, their back and forth? Oh, it was absolutely perfection. I’m OBSESSED.
What I loved so much about these two was the way their relationship grew from actual hatred and the “I genuinely cannot stand you” to “I cannot be away from you”. It was so well-written, and it didn’t feel rushed whatsoever, nor did it feel like it was dragged out - the balance was perfect. I also love how they didn’t lose that banter and their back-and-forth throughout the book either.
I loved the way they were both so in denial about their feelings for one another and were genuinely baffled when they started feeling more than just hatred - their inner monologues had me dying. Oh, I cannot be normal about these two. I already want to reread 😭
I love these two so much, and how they both felt so safe with one another, enough to actually open up and be extremely raw and vulnerable about their struggles. I didn’t expect to cry, but Landon’s backstory actually destroyed me. I was an absolute MESS. Julianna is also struggling with something really traumatic that happened to her, and my heart broke for her. The fact that she placed the blame on herself for something that absolutely was not her fault really hurt - I just wanted to reach into this book and give her the biggest hug ever (check trigger warnings!). These two brought each other to life, and were the light in the darkness that consumed the both of them. Oh, I’m so protective over them.
ALSO, the fact that Landon has chromesthesia and then tells her what colours he sees when she speaks? Oh, I was so done for:
“Snowy white and electric sapphire.”
“What?”
“When you talk, those are the colours I see in the shape of an aurora borealis. I wish you could see it, because it’s breathtaking.” I AM DONE 😩
This series has me feeling the way I felt about ‘Boys of Tommen’ and the ‘Addicted/Calloway Sisters’ series. I cannot wait for the next book (GABBY AND JAGGER? AHHHH!) and am sat for the rest 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
Guys, it’s official. E. Salvador is officially my new favourite romance author 🙂↕️
Oh, I ATE THIS BOOK UP. Landon and Julianna’s dynamic had me so invested from book one, and their hatred for each other was honestly so funny at times. Their banter, their tension, their back and forth? Oh, it was absolutely perfection. I’m OBSESSED.
What I loved so much about these two was the way their relationship grew from actual hatred and the “I genuinely cannot stand you” to “I cannot be away from you”. It was so well-written, and it didn’t feel rushed whatsoever, nor did it feel like it was dragged out - the balance was perfect. I also love how they didn’t lose that banter and their back-and-forth throughout the book either.
I loved the way they were both so in denial about their feelings for one another and were genuinely baffled when they started feeling more than just hatred - their inner monologues had me dying. Oh, I cannot be normal about these two. I already want to reread 😭
I love these two so much, and how they both felt so safe with one another, enough to actually open up and be extremely raw and vulnerable about their struggles. I didn’t expect to cry, but Landon’s backstory actually destroyed me. I was an absolute MESS. Julianna is also struggling with something really traumatic that happened to her, and my heart broke for her. The fact that she placed the blame on herself for something that absolutely was not her fault really hurt - I just wanted to reach into this book and give her the biggest hug ever (check trigger warnings!). These two brought each other to life, and were the light in the darkness that consumed the both of them. Oh, I’m so protective over them.
ALSO, the fact that Landon has chromesthesia and then tells her what colours he sees when she speaks? Oh, I was so done for:
“Snowy white and electric sapphire.”
“What?”
“When you talk, those are the colours I see in the shape of an aurora borealis. I wish you could see it, because it’s breathtaking.” I AM DONE 😩
This series has me feeling the way I felt about ‘Boys of Tommen’ and the ‘Addicted/Calloway Sisters’ series. I cannot wait for the next book (GABBY AND JAGGER? AHHHH!) and am sat for the rest 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
October 6, 2024
A 2024 top read for me!
One fender bender was all it took for Landon and Julianna to hate each other for most of the time they've known each other in college. Things begin to shift when Julianna has to room with Landon's best friends and also needs a tutor for a calculus class that Landon excelled at. Despite the animosity between these two, we all know that the one thing love and hate have in common is the intensity of the passion that exists. And BOY do Landon and Julianna have it in SPADES.
I wanted to wrap Landon and Julianna up in a hug and never let them go. They've both had a rough go of it in their pasts, which led to why they both are the way they are. The thing about characters like these two is that they end up having so much in common that once those "enemy" walls start crumbling, they don't go back up. Julianna is the only person Landon's ever been vulnerable with, and it even made me tear up a bit at how much he'd been holding in. Likewise, Julianna has not been able to approach her anxiety from a healthy place until she had Landon (and her friends) help her see that it was ok to seek help. They were each other's safe space, and that's one of my favorite things to see in a couple.
The intimacy was 10/10. With the amount of hate they had for each other, it was no surprise that their chemistry and bedroom activities were explosive. I ate it UP.
Romance aside, Landon himself was such a unique hero/character (no spoilers, you'll see what I mean) and I like that his "unique-ness" was something I'd never read before. And don't get me started on the found family! The author has created the best group of friends who are supportive of each other and seen each other through some dark times.
Definitely check out Landon and Julianna's emotional, but very rewarding, journey to their HEA!
TROPES: enemies to lovers, college basketball, forced proximity, slow burn, no 3rd act break up, mental health rep; degradation kink; each other's safe place, found family
TRIGGER WARNINGS (listed at beginning of book): mentions of suicide attempt (flashback narration), PTSD resulting from sexual assault, anxiety, depression, mentions of alcohol abuse, parental death (happened prior to start of book), parental abandonment/neglect
One fender bender was all it took for Landon and Julianna to hate each other for most of the time they've known each other in college. Things begin to shift when Julianna has to room with Landon's best friends and also needs a tutor for a calculus class that Landon excelled at. Despite the animosity between these two, we all know that the one thing love and hate have in common is the intensity of the passion that exists. And BOY do Landon and Julianna have it in SPADES.
I wanted to wrap Landon and Julianna up in a hug and never let them go. They've both had a rough go of it in their pasts, which led to why they both are the way they are. The thing about characters like these two is that they end up having so much in common that once those "enemy" walls start crumbling, they don't go back up. Julianna is the only person Landon's ever been vulnerable with, and it even made me tear up a bit at how much he'd been holding in. Likewise, Julianna has not been able to approach her anxiety from a healthy place until she had Landon (and her friends) help her see that it was ok to seek help. They were each other's safe space, and that's one of my favorite things to see in a couple.
The intimacy was 10/10. With the amount of hate they had for each other, it was no surprise that their chemistry and bedroom activities were explosive. I ate it UP.
Romance aside, Landon himself was such a unique hero/character (no spoilers, you'll see what I mean) and I like that his "unique-ness" was something I'd never read before. And don't get me started on the found family! The author has created the best group of friends who are supportive of each other and seen each other through some dark times.
Definitely check out Landon and Julianna's emotional, but very rewarding, journey to their HEA!
TROPES: enemies to lovers, college basketball, forced proximity, slow burn, no 3rd act break up, mental health rep; degradation kink; each other's safe place, found family
TRIGGER WARNINGS (listed at beginning of book): mentions of suicide attempt (flashback narration), PTSD resulting from sexual assault, anxiety, depression, mentions of alcohol abuse, parental death (happened prior to start of book), parental abandonment/neglect
October 26, 2025
3.5 stars
Only With You was one of those books I really enjoyed, but dang it was long. I don’t mind longer books, as long as they’re fast paced and don’t feel long. Unfortunately the first half of this was so slow for me. I enjoyed the last half much more. Landon and Juliana were fantastic together and as a whole this was a good one.
Only With You was one of those books I really enjoyed, but dang it was long. I don’t mind longer books, as long as they’re fast paced and don’t feel long. Unfortunately the first half of this was so slow for me. I enjoyed the last half much more. Landon and Juliana were fantastic together and as a whole this was a good one.
Audio book source: Audible
Story Rating: 3.5 stars
Narrators: Ramona Master & Curtis Michael Holland
Narration Rating: 4 stars
Genre: Romance
Length:17h 54m
October 22, 2024
I wanted to love this book so bad…I really did considering how much I LOVED the original version on Wattpad but I was honestly so disappointed after finishing this version of the book. Someone who’s only read this new version will probably have a different perspective because they have nothing to compare it too, but the original Wattpad version was a MASTERPIECE!!! I can’t tell you how excited I used to be when a new chapter was posted because the connection you had to Julianna and Landon in that version felt so much more special, real and raw compared to this new version. This version felt like the characters had gone through a food processor that took out all of the best parts and came out as something that kind of resembled the original but not at all the same. This Juliana and Landon seemed not as connected and they lacked the chemistry and spark they had in the original. That Landon and Juls were honestly my favourite couple of ALL TIME! It was a true enemies to lovers and grumpy/sunshine book that made you fall in love with the characters and their journey together. And the spice was SPICYYY 🔥 (chef’s kiss)! The original version made you feel what they were feeling, but I honestly didn’t feel much of anything after reading this version other than underwhelmed.
This is just my opinion and I know this book’s author is allowed to do whatever she wants with it since it’s hers but I’ve always believed that “if its not broken, don’t fix it” and the Wattpad version was so loved with millions of reads, so guess I didn’t think there would be so many changes and it took me by surprise because if that made this version of the book unrecognizable…and I’m typically very open to change, especially if it means something is better or improved from before but I don’t think that was the case with this new version and I guess I was just really disappointed.
I’ve read MANY books on Wattpad that were published and became successful, but I’ve never seen a Wattpad book that was published with so many significant changes that if it wasn’t for the name of the author, I would think this is a completely different story that was written by someone else… and I can’t see myself reading this version again. This is obviously wishful thinking…but I hope she decides to one day publish the original story of Landon and Julianna someday, Just With You, because out of all the of books I’ve ever read, that was easily one of my top 5 that I re-read more than almost any book and I absolutely fell in love with the characters and I know if I still read the original version now, I would still feel the same…it was perfection 💔
This is just my opinion and I know this book’s author is allowed to do whatever she wants with it since it’s hers but I’ve always believed that “if its not broken, don’t fix it” and the Wattpad version was so loved with millions of reads, so guess I didn’t think there would be so many changes and it took me by surprise because if that made this version of the book unrecognizable…and I’m typically very open to change, especially if it means something is better or improved from before but I don’t think that was the case with this new version and I guess I was just really disappointed.
I’ve read MANY books on Wattpad that were published and became successful, but I’ve never seen a Wattpad book that was published with so many significant changes that if it wasn’t for the name of the author, I would think this is a completely different story that was written by someone else… and I can’t see myself reading this version again. This is obviously wishful thinking…but I hope she decides to one day publish the original story of Landon and Julianna someday, Just With You, because out of all the of books I’ve ever read, that was easily one of my top 5 that I re-read more than almost any book and I absolutely fell in love with the characters and I know if I still read the original version now, I would still feel the same…it was perfection 💔
October 30, 2024
hi. this might be my favorite college romance of all time.
Banter ✅
enemies to lovers ✅
Secret, but no so secret hookups ✅
a man who falls hard ✅
great spice ✅
HEA ✅
the fucking end.
Banter ✅
enemies to lovers ✅
Secret, but no so secret hookups ✅
a man who falls hard ✅
great spice ✅
HEA ✅
the fucking end.
October 11, 2026
I’ve hated living for so long. I’ve felt so empty and numb. Most of the time, I dread existing because I’ve not known what else to feel. But now I don’t. Now, I feel overwhelmed, but all in a good way. And it’s all because of the girl standing next to me.
5⭐️ 4 🌶️
This was absolutely perfect for me. 😭 listen are there parts that made me cringe, yes but I chose to ignore them. I can’t see I’m blind.
I love Landon and Julianna with my whole heart. They are so ridiculously perfect for each other. Watching them go from mutual dislike, to friends with benefits, to lovers felt so natural and was executed perfectly, in my opinion. The banter, the chemistry, the tension… it had me hooked from beginning to end. 😮💨
Now, some people will probably say this book is very lust-driven, and honestly… they’d be right. 😂 But it completely worked for me because it fit their relationship and the way they connected. Beneath all the physical chemistry was this beautiful, slow emotional intimacy as they gradually let each other in.
Landon’s character development was everything. Watching this emotionally guarded man slowly become so completely devoted to Julianna was PEAK romance. His love for her felt so tangible, especially because he insisted he wasn’t capable of those kinds of feelings. That trope will get me every single time.
She’s not the embodiment of the sun. She is the sun and all I want to do is keep rotating around it—around her.
And the music motif? Absolutely stunning, he writes music for her and in color. 🥺 I’ll genuinely never get over the fact that he has chromesthesia and sees the sound of Julianna’s voice as colours in his mind. The way he gave her electric blue and white flowers because that’s the colour he sees when he hears her… are you kidding me? 😭 That’s one of the most romantic things I’ve ever read.
I also loved Julianna’s journey. Watching her become more confident, learn to let herself be loved, and finally stand up for herself made me so proud of her.
Even the epilogue won me over. Normally, this kind of epilogue isn’t really my thing, but I loved these two so much that I was smiling through the whole thing. I honestly didn’t want their story to end.
I’ve been sitting in the dark for so long, I’ve just always accepted it, but then she came out of nowhere, like a strike of lightning to my blasé life, and brought it all back.
5⭐️ 4 🌶️
This was absolutely perfect for me. 😭 listen are there parts that made me cringe, yes but I chose to ignore them. I can’t see I’m blind.
I love Landon and Julianna with my whole heart. They are so ridiculously perfect for each other. Watching them go from mutual dislike, to friends with benefits, to lovers felt so natural and was executed perfectly, in my opinion. The banter, the chemistry, the tension… it had me hooked from beginning to end. 😮💨
Now, some people will probably say this book is very lust-driven, and honestly… they’d be right. 😂 But it completely worked for me because it fit their relationship and the way they connected. Beneath all the physical chemistry was this beautiful, slow emotional intimacy as they gradually let each other in.
Landon’s character development was everything. Watching this emotionally guarded man slowly become so completely devoted to Julianna was PEAK romance. His love for her felt so tangible, especially because he insisted he wasn’t capable of those kinds of feelings. That trope will get me every single time.
She’s not the embodiment of the sun. She is the sun and all I want to do is keep rotating around it—around her.
And the music motif? Absolutely stunning, he writes music for her and in color. 🥺 I’ll genuinely never get over the fact that he has chromesthesia and sees the sound of Julianna’s voice as colours in his mind. The way he gave her electric blue and white flowers because that’s the colour he sees when he hears her… are you kidding me? 😭 That’s one of the most romantic things I’ve ever read.
I also loved Julianna’s journey. Watching her become more confident, learn to let herself be loved, and finally stand up for herself made me so proud of her.
Even the epilogue won me over. Normally, this kind of epilogue isn’t really my thing, but I loved these two so much that I was smiling through the whole thing. I honestly didn’t want their story to end.
I’ve been sitting in the dark for so long, I’ve just always accepted it, but then she came out of nowhere, like a strike of lightning to my blasé life, and brought it all back.
November 3, 2026
GENRE:
🏒 Sports Romance
🎓 New Adult
💘 Contemporary Romance
TROPES & THEMES:
• Enemies to Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Tutor x Student
• Academic Struggles
• Mutual Pining
• Friend Group Dynamics
• Living with Friends
• Slow Burn Romance
• Senior Year & Future Plans
• Learning to Let Go of Pride
CLIFFHANGER:
No
CONTENT WARNING:
• Family pressure and expectations
• Academic stress
• Mild relationship conflict and arguments
• Sexual assult and drugging
RECOMMENDED TO:
✅ Readers who love enemy-to-lover romances with lots of banter
✅ Fans of college sports romance with low drama and high chemistry
✅ Readers who enjoy tutoring/study-session romance
✅ Those who liked The Deal by Elle Kennedy or friend-group romance series
✅ Anyone looking for a sweet, character-driven slow burn
SONGS THAT MATCH THE VIBE: 🎶
• I Hate U, I Love U - gnash ft. Olivia O'Brien
• Gorgeous - Taylor Swift
• Bad at Love - Halsey
• Fallingforyou - The 1975
• Glue Song - beabadoobee
• Lucky - Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
• Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
• Daylight - Taylor Swift
While Only With You didn't quite reach the highs of book one for me, I still had a great time with it. Julianna and Landon's enemies-to-lovers journey was sweet, fun, and packed with the kind of tension that makes forced proximity work so well. The tutoring sessions and constant bickering slowly gave way to genuine understanding and chemistry.
What really keeps me invested in this series is the friend group. Even when the romance isn't quite as strong as the previous book, these characters feel like people I genuinely want to spend more time with. A solid college sports romance, and I'm already excited to see whose story comes next in The Knights series.
🏒 Sports Romance
🎓 New Adult
💘 Contemporary Romance
TROPES & THEMES:
• Enemies to Lovers
• Forced Proximity
• Tutor x Student
• Academic Struggles
• Mutual Pining
• Friend Group Dynamics
• Living with Friends
• Slow Burn Romance
• Senior Year & Future Plans
• Learning to Let Go of Pride
CLIFFHANGER:
No
CONTENT WARNING:
• Family pressure and expectations
• Academic stress
• Mild relationship conflict and arguments
• Sexual assult and drugging
RECOMMENDED TO:
✅ Readers who love enemy-to-lover romances with lots of banter
✅ Fans of college sports romance with low drama and high chemistry
✅ Readers who enjoy tutoring/study-session romance
✅ Those who liked The Deal by Elle Kennedy or friend-group romance series
✅ Anyone looking for a sweet, character-driven slow burn
SONGS THAT MATCH THE VIBE: 🎶
• I Hate U, I Love U - gnash ft. Olivia O'Brien
• Gorgeous - Taylor Swift
• Bad at Love - Halsey
• Fallingforyou - The 1975
• Glue Song - beabadoobee
• Lucky - Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
• Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer
• Daylight - Taylor Swift
While Only With You didn't quite reach the highs of book one for me, I still had a great time with it. Julianna and Landon's enemies-to-lovers journey was sweet, fun, and packed with the kind of tension that makes forced proximity work so well. The tutoring sessions and constant bickering slowly gave way to genuine understanding and chemistry.
What really keeps me invested in this series is the friend group. Even when the romance isn't quite as strong as the previous book, these characters feel like people I genuinely want to spend more time with. A solid college sports romance, and I'm already excited to see whose story comes next in The Knights series.
February 4, 2025
4.25⭐️ The second book in the Knights Series was much deeper and had more depth to it than the first one did!
Landon, our mmc, had a pretty rough childhood that left him with many emotional scars and Julliana had to deal with some past traumas as well.
I loved how they went from bitter enemies to reluctant friends to lovers, it was so beautiful to witness!
The reason why this wasn’t a perfect 5 star for me, despite absolutely loving their romantic connection, is because of the spice. I am not a fan of the degradation kink or anal sex in general, especially in a setting where it doesn’t make sense, for example a college setting.
* Enemies to friends to lovers
* Amazing banter
* A good amount of angst
* Great found family
* Super cute Epilogue
Note to self for when the next books in the series come out: Remember, you are most interested in Daisy & Saint’s story, because you NEED to know what happened to them. ❤️🔥
Landon, our mmc, had a pretty rough childhood that left him with many emotional scars and Julliana had to deal with some past traumas as well.
I loved how they went from bitter enemies to reluctant friends to lovers, it was so beautiful to witness!
The reason why this wasn’t a perfect 5 star for me, despite absolutely loving their romantic connection, is because of the spice. I am not a fan of the degradation kink or anal sex in general, especially in a setting where it doesn’t make sense, for example a college setting.
* Enemies to friends to lovers
* Amazing banter
* A good amount of angst
* Great found family
* Super cute Epilogue
Note to self for when the next books in the series come out: Remember, you are most interested in Daisy & Saint’s story, because you NEED to know what happened to them. ❤️🔥
October 18, 2026
This book felt all over the place and was way too long. Unpopular opinion but I like the first book in the series way more! Landon & Juliannas romance felt so flat to me with barely any chemistry outside of the spice. The only time I felt an actual connection between them was at 70% but by then I read over 400pages and nothing felt progressed
These two were both so immature for so long in the beginning of this book with repetitive back & forth. The beginning was so SLOW and the MMCs character progressed eventually but the FMC just stayed one dimensional for so long.
They went from hating eachother which in itself was a silly reason to the MMC calling her love and exploring her kink outta nowhere…it didn’t really make sense to me. The amount of times I had to be told about this FMCs huge boobs…by her, by him, by everyone around them I GET IT
The plot felt inorganic as multiple things were just thrown in. She needs tutoring, he has chromesthesia, he has a photographic memory, he is a musician, he is a mathematical genius, he went to college twice, he has trauma, she has trauma, like where is the direction with this book? this is also supposed to be a basketball romance yet the MMC doesn’t even like or care for basketball. Couldn’t even tell you when basketball was even played
The second half was a lot better & I did like how the MMCs trauma was written but besides that I only liked the spice & the side characters it felt 200pages too long & the events in the epilogue I couldn’t…I would still recommend the series though this book just didn’t work for me
These two were both so immature for so long in the beginning of this book with repetitive back & forth. The beginning was so SLOW and the MMCs character progressed eventually but the FMC just stayed one dimensional for so long.
They went from hating eachother which in itself was a silly reason to the MMC calling her love and exploring her kink outta nowhere…it didn’t really make sense to me. The amount of times I had to be told about this FMCs huge boobs…by her, by him, by everyone around them I GET IT
The plot felt inorganic as multiple things were just thrown in. She needs tutoring, he has chromesthesia, he has a photographic memory, he is a musician, he is a mathematical genius, he went to college twice, he has trauma, she has trauma, like where is the direction with this book? this is also supposed to be a basketball romance yet the MMC doesn’t even like or care for basketball. Couldn’t even tell you when basketball was even played
The second half was a lot better & I did like how the MMCs trauma was written but besides that I only liked the spice & the side characters it felt 200pages too long & the events in the epilogue I couldn’t…I would still recommend the series though this book just didn’t work for me
October 10, 2025
Only With You
" I love you and I love all of your parts. The messy, the broken, the unfiltered, I love them all. Nothing about you is going to stop or deter that intense and immense feeling from going away."
star rating: 4.75/5 stars.
spice rating: 3.5/5 chillies.
Julianna crashed into Landon's life (and car) almost four years ago and they've hated one another since. But since her apartment complex has burned down and she needed a place to stay for senior year she has move in with 2/3 of his best friends
" I love you and I love all of your parts. The messy, the broken, the unfiltered, I love them all. Nothing about you is going to stop or deter that intense and immense feeling from going away."
star rating: 4.75/5 stars.
spice rating: 3.5/5 chillies.
Julianna crashed into Landon's life (and car) almost four years ago and they've hated one another since. But since her apartment complex has burned down and she needed a place to stay for senior year she has move in with 2/3 of his best friends
November 12, 2024
No entiendo cuál es la obsesión de las autoras de romance con hacer que sus libros sean tan INTERMINABLES. No hay necesidad.
May 11, 2026
4.5 ⭐️ the perfect mix of hot & emotional - it’ll turn you on & tear you to pieces!
November 1, 2026
My expectations weren’t super high for this because of the reviews but wow I actually really liked this one! I love the emotional depth in these books. Landon’s past and trauma was so sad, and it really added to his character and character growth in this book. Landon was also such a unique character and I enjoyed that. I also appreciate how communicative he was, he always wanted to be honest and made sure he fully understood Julianna.
I thought Landon and Julianna’s hatefulness in the beginning was great. They said some funny stuff to each other haha. I also don’t think the switch from hate to love was that abrupt. It seemed like a normal transition. I just loved how much they supported each other and were able to make one another better versions of themselves. They instilled confidence and love into each other. These books also are quite spicy but the spice is done well! My only issue is these books are long. 500 plus pages is quite a lot, I haven’t minded too much but I can also see that they don’t need to be this long. Again, after book 2 I’m dying even more for daisy and saints book!!
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“She’s not the embodiment of the sun. She is the sun and all I want to do is keep rotating around it—around her.”
I thought Landon and Julianna’s hatefulness in the beginning was great. They said some funny stuff to each other haha. I also don’t think the switch from hate to love was that abrupt. It seemed like a normal transition. I just loved how much they supported each other and were able to make one another better versions of themselves. They instilled confidence and love into each other. These books also are quite spicy but the spice is done well! My only issue is these books are long. 500 plus pages is quite a lot, I haven’t minded too much but I can also see that they don’t need to be this long. Again, after book 2 I’m dying even more for daisy and saints book!!
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“She’s not the embodiment of the sun. She is the sun and all I want to do is keep rotating around it—around her.”
January 7, 2026
This was cute. I loved how safe it felt between these two. And they communicated. It was refreshing to see this kind of relationship dynamic in a college romance. Although I did enjoy them as a couple and all the other characters, they didn’t hook me enough to enjoy reading about them for over 500 pages. Like I said, it was cute, loved both characters, the romance was sweet and spicy, but there were a lot of times I got bored reading which dimmed my enjoyment. I adored the epilogue though.
November 7, 2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 4.5 Stars
Only With You by E. Salvador is everything I love in an enemies to lovers romance, but with even more depth than I expected. If you want two characters who have been through so much individually and somehow still find their way to each other, this book delivers in every possible way.
Landon’s story completely pulled at my heart. He carries so much from his past, especially the pain tied to his parents, and he has built walls so high that almost no one gets in. Julianna is dealing with her own battles, pressure at school, impossible expectations from her family, and the weight of never feeling like she is enough. These two do not just clash at the beginning, they collide. But watching them go from hating each other to becoming exactly who the other needs was so satisfying.
Their connection is beautiful, their emotional growth is incredible, and the way they finally open up to each other when they will not let anyone else in absolutely got me. And the chemistry is smoking. If you enjoy kink woven into romance, E. Salvador writes it flawlessly.
I also adored the found family in this world. Their circle feels real, supportive, and full of characters I am already attached to. Honestly, I would read a book about every single one of them.
Yes, it is a chunky book, but it needs to be. Salvador’s stories are big, but every page earns its place. I never once felt like it dragged.
I loved this book from start to finish, and I am already crossing my fingers that we get stories for the entire group because that would be a dream come true.
Only With You by E. Salvador is everything I love in an enemies to lovers romance, but with even more depth than I expected. If you want two characters who have been through so much individually and somehow still find their way to each other, this book delivers in every possible way.
Landon’s story completely pulled at my heart. He carries so much from his past, especially the pain tied to his parents, and he has built walls so high that almost no one gets in. Julianna is dealing with her own battles, pressure at school, impossible expectations from her family, and the weight of never feeling like she is enough. These two do not just clash at the beginning, they collide. But watching them go from hating each other to becoming exactly who the other needs was so satisfying.
Their connection is beautiful, their emotional growth is incredible, and the way they finally open up to each other when they will not let anyone else in absolutely got me. And the chemistry is smoking. If you enjoy kink woven into romance, E. Salvador writes it flawlessly.
I also adored the found family in this world. Their circle feels real, supportive, and full of characters I am already attached to. Honestly, I would read a book about every single one of them.
Yes, it is a chunky book, but it needs to be. Salvador’s stories are big, but every page earns its place. I never once felt like it dragged.
I loved this book from start to finish, and I am already crossing my fingers that we get stories for the entire group because that would be a dream come true.
December 28, 2024
Where was the yearning? The stolen glances? TikTok really played me with this one. I couldn’t bring myself to care about the characters, and that epilogue? Completely ruined it. At least the smut did its job—someone had to.
July 22, 2024
I just KNOW this book is going to be amazing. I loved Lola, TJ, and Phoenix in the first and can’t wait to read this one!
October 25, 2024
I really liked the idea of this book but the editing 😖. There were so many simple mistakes that it was hard to read.
October 14, 2024
i finished this book close to 2am, knowing i had to wake up in less than five hours, but i just couldn’t bring myself to finish landon and julianna’s story. i’d been waiting to read it since 2022, and now it’s over? this is the cruel part of investing yourself in a story you’ve been so excited for, only for the book to meet your expectations—and then some. you realise you’ll never be able to read it for the first time again 🥲
julianna and landon are archnemeses who go to the same college. due to unexpected events, julianna ends up moving in with two friends, who just so happen to be best friends with the guy she can’t stand. as if that wasn’t enough, she’s three weeks into the school year and already struggling to get the grades she needs in calculus. swallowing her pride, she reaches out to landon for tutoring, but he’s determined to avoid her and shuts her down when she asks for help… until he changes his mind and agrees, though for his own reasons.
these two absolutely DESPISE each other!! i can’t emphasise this enough 💀 they find one another completely unlikeable and can’t stand being in the same room for more than a few minutes before getting into a spat. it was hilarious watching them in the same friendship group, with their friends trying to stop them from tearing each other’s throats out, but being unable to do anything about it. but despite their hatred, they kept orbiting around each other, like they couldn’t help but be drawn in. and let me tell you, this is slow burn. at one point, i was seriously questioning, “how will they ever become lovers when they can’t see eye to eye?” but this hatred built into some serious, explosive tension between them, and it was SO good to read. i mean the angst and tension (and the spice 🥵) was HOT.
my favourite thing about slow burn is seeing the progression of how a couple is at the beginning compared to the end. i loved watching the small shifts in how they saw each other, how they began to realise that there was more connecting them beneath the surface than they’d initially thought, and that something was tying them to each other. it’s so precious to read about, and that slow progression just made me even more attached to them. we get to see their individual struggles, what they’re going through, and with each new interaction, they unknowingly become each other’s safe haven. they understood each other in a way no one else could. i mean, the fact that landon (who is a MASSIVE grump) didn’t like smiling (he notoriously never, ever smiles) but at one point realises that julianna makes him smile, and he actually likes it… let me just cry.
not to mention the found family scenes in this book. it literally had me choked up at times. these characters care about each other so much and it’s so evident in everything they do for each other. every scene they were together, they were so funny and chaotic and yet, so heartwarming. i’m so excited to read more of these characters in future books and see how they grow together🥹
thank you so much to E for providing me with this ARC 🩵
julianna and landon are archnemeses who go to the same college. due to unexpected events, julianna ends up moving in with two friends, who just so happen to be best friends with the guy she can’t stand. as if that wasn’t enough, she’s three weeks into the school year and already struggling to get the grades she needs in calculus. swallowing her pride, she reaches out to landon for tutoring, but he’s determined to avoid her and shuts her down when she asks for help… until he changes his mind and agrees, though for his own reasons.
these two absolutely DESPISE each other!! i can’t emphasise this enough 💀 they find one another completely unlikeable and can’t stand being in the same room for more than a few minutes before getting into a spat. it was hilarious watching them in the same friendship group, with their friends trying to stop them from tearing each other’s throats out, but being unable to do anything about it. but despite their hatred, they kept orbiting around each other, like they couldn’t help but be drawn in. and let me tell you, this is slow burn. at one point, i was seriously questioning, “how will they ever become lovers when they can’t see eye to eye?” but this hatred built into some serious, explosive tension between them, and it was SO good to read. i mean the angst and tension (and the spice 🥵) was HOT.
my favourite thing about slow burn is seeing the progression of how a couple is at the beginning compared to the end. i loved watching the small shifts in how they saw each other, how they began to realise that there was more connecting them beneath the surface than they’d initially thought, and that something was tying them to each other. it’s so precious to read about, and that slow progression just made me even more attached to them. we get to see their individual struggles, what they’re going through, and with each new interaction, they unknowingly become each other’s safe haven. they understood each other in a way no one else could. i mean, the fact that landon (who is a MASSIVE grump) didn’t like smiling (he notoriously never, ever smiles) but at one point realises that julianna makes him smile, and he actually likes it… let me just cry.
not to mention the found family scenes in this book. it literally had me choked up at times. these characters care about each other so much and it’s so evident in everything they do for each other. every scene they were together, they were so funny and chaotic and yet, so heartwarming. i’m so excited to read more of these characters in future books and see how they grow together🥹
thank you so much to E for providing me with this ARC 🩵
March 28, 2026
4,5⭐️!!
I really enjoyed this. It definitely had an emotional depth to it and my eyes were stinging on more than one occasion 🥹 I also really liked that they HATED each other, and I’m not saying dislike, I’m saying hate. It was good that their hate didn’t just vanish but it took time. Felt more real that way. I must say I like the writing style and how feelings are portrayed, I really connect with it 🫶🏼
Now, Landon… Oh. My. God. Can I have one please? He is just wow. Yes, he can be an asshole. But, you know, in a tremendously good way 🤭 he is so good. I really really liked his character. He knows what’s up 😉
It was also fun to see the other characters again, unfortunately Lola and TJ were only mentioned but it’s okay. I’m very curious about Gabby… and what I going on with Daisy and Saint?? Only time will tell I guess ✨
* and when you get the cover?? 🥹🥹🥹
I really enjoyed this. It definitely had an emotional depth to it and my eyes were stinging on more than one occasion 🥹 I also really liked that they HATED each other, and I’m not saying dislike, I’m saying hate. It was good that their hate didn’t just vanish but it took time. Felt more real that way. I must say I like the writing style and how feelings are portrayed, I really connect with it 🫶🏼
Now, Landon… Oh. My. God. Can I have one please? He is just wow. Yes, he can be an asshole. But, you know, in a tremendously good way 🤭 he is so good. I really really liked his character. He knows what’s up 😉
It was also fun to see the other characters again, unfortunately Lola and TJ were only mentioned but it’s okay. I’m very curious about Gabby… and what I going on with Daisy and Saint?? Only time will tell I guess ✨
* and when you get the cover?? 🥹🥹🥹
May 8, 2026
still sobbing over him telling her what sound means what when they play the piano together omfg
March 4, 2025
— 5 stars ✰
: ̗̀➛ I am absolutely obsessed with Landon and Julianna! They are the epitome of the enemies-to-lovers trope, and their journey from pure animosity to deep connection was everything I wanted and more. When I read the previous book and saw them at each other’s throats, I couldn’t help but wonder—what happened between them to make them hate each other this much? This book finally gave me the answers, and I’m beyond thankful for that. The slowburn romance played a crucial role in building their chemistry. It wasn’t rushed which made their transition from dislike to love feel incredibly authentic and rewarding. Seeing them slowly open up to each other, breaking down walls, and letting their guards down was heartwarming.
Landon’s story broke me. It destroyed me. It left a hole in my chest. His past was heartbreaking, and watching him grow as a character, especially after letting Julianna into his life, was one of the most satisfying character developments I’ve ever read. He finally allowed himself to be vulnerable, and that transformation was beautiful. On the other hand, Julianna appeared to be the perfect girl—or at least, that’s what her family expected her to be. But beneath the surface, she was deeply lonely, stuck in a toxic family dynamic where she was constantly undermined. I felt for her so much.
“Talking to her made me feel my best.”
“Does this her have a name?”
“Julianna Sparks.”
And can we talk about the tension between them? Absolutely sizzling!! The push-and-pull dynamic, the moments of undeniable attraction, and the buildup made it impossible to put this book down. And the spice? Let’s just say it was perfection. I’m deeply in love with this book, and I know I’ll be rereading it over and over again.
: ̗̀➛ I am absolutely obsessed with Landon and Julianna! They are the epitome of the enemies-to-lovers trope, and their journey from pure animosity to deep connection was everything I wanted and more. When I read the previous book and saw them at each other’s throats, I couldn’t help but wonder—what happened between them to make them hate each other this much? This book finally gave me the answers, and I’m beyond thankful for that. The slowburn romance played a crucial role in building their chemistry. It wasn’t rushed which made their transition from dislike to love feel incredibly authentic and rewarding. Seeing them slowly open up to each other, breaking down walls, and letting their guards down was heartwarming.
Landon’s story broke me. It destroyed me. It left a hole in my chest. His past was heartbreaking, and watching him grow as a character, especially after letting Julianna into his life, was one of the most satisfying character developments I’ve ever read. He finally allowed himself to be vulnerable, and that transformation was beautiful. On the other hand, Julianna appeared to be the perfect girl—or at least, that’s what her family expected her to be. But beneath the surface, she was deeply lonely, stuck in a toxic family dynamic where she was constantly undermined. I felt for her so much.
“Talking to her made me feel my best.”
“Does this her have a name?”
“Julianna Sparks.”
And can we talk about the tension between them? Absolutely sizzling!! The push-and-pull dynamic, the moments of undeniable attraction, and the buildup made it impossible to put this book down. And the spice? Let’s just say it was perfection. I’m deeply in love with this book, and I know I’ll be rereading it over and over again.
June 1, 2026
4.5 ⭐️ this was so fucking beautiful, wow. i loved these two and their story. this is an actual dislike/hate-to-love romance and i ate up every second of it. watching them slowly go from hatred, to lust, to love was everything. it was also really emotional, their individual stories hit hard and i definitely teared up a few times. they were a little messy too, which i absolutely loved oops.
landon was such a unique mmc and i really liked that about him. he felt different from most romance men and he was hot as hell too. and julianna, my girl… i connected with her in some ways and i’m just so happy she finally found her light. they needed each other so bad, actual soulmates.
i’m really loving this series. i love getting little crumbs about the other characters and seeing the found family dynamic grow. e just has a way of making characters feel so real, and it makes it so easy to connect with them.
landon was such a unique mmc and i really liked that about him. he felt different from most romance men and he was hot as hell too. and julianna, my girl… i connected with her in some ways and i’m just so happy she finally found her light. they needed each other so bad, actual soulmates.
i’m really loving this series. i love getting little crumbs about the other characters and seeing the found family dynamic grow. e just has a way of making characters feel so real, and it makes it so easy to connect with them.
April 13, 2025
It was an average book. Nothing stood out to me from it, and overall I think it is pretty forgettable.
January 30, 2026
I’m so in my sports romance era! Yes, sports are just secondary in these books, but that’s why it’s called sports romance. We get to meet these hot, sexy basketball players (in this particular series, it’s basketball) who are yearning, crawling, and just falling in love.
Juliane and Landon were something else. Ohhh, how I love enemies to lovers! They despised each other, and this attraction caught them both off guard. And the yearning… it was goooooood. And let’s just say, the man who is very grumpy, very self-absorbed, and doesn’t do relationships opening up to her? That does things to me.
Their love story had ups and downs, and maybe there were some cringe moments, but I still very much enjoyed it.
Juliane and Landon were something else. Ohhh, how I love enemies to lovers! They despised each other, and this attraction caught them both off guard. And the yearning… it was goooooood. And let’s just say, the man who is very grumpy, very self-absorbed, and doesn’t do relationships opening up to her? That does things to me.
Their love story had ups and downs, and maybe there were some cringe moments, but I still very much enjoyed it.
November 28, 2025
Sienna was so annoying what a trash also i'm so happy he beat the shit out of Cole. Thank you E for writing this part in the book!! and for Julianna and Landon parents 🖕🏼.
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