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Bean There, Found You
Messy rich girl + coffee shop snark + slow-burn sapphic tension = the perfect pour
Mean girl Lina James never expected to be working a minimum wage job at Bean There, Done That after her family's financial collapse. Even worse, her supervisor is Clara Brown—the girl she and her friends relentlessly mocked throughout high school. As Lina reluctantly learns the ropes from her newfound boss, their mutual contempt slowly transforms into something neither expected. But when Lina discovers that the coffee shop is in danger of closing and her parent’s plans to leave town, she must decide what—and who—she's willing to risk everything for.
Can two girls from opposite sides of the social divide find common ground over steamed milk and second chances?
Bean There, Found You is a sweet sapphic enemies-to-lovers, rich girl/poor girl, workplace romance with lots of heart.
Mean girl Lina James never expected to be working a minimum wage job at Bean There, Done That after her family's financial collapse. Even worse, her supervisor is Clara Brown—the girl she and her friends relentlessly mocked throughout high school. As Lina reluctantly learns the ropes from her newfound boss, their mutual contempt slowly transforms into something neither expected. But when Lina discovers that the coffee shop is in danger of closing and her parent’s plans to leave town, she must decide what—and who—she's willing to risk everything for.
Can two girls from opposite sides of the social divide find common ground over steamed milk and second chances?
Bean There, Found You is a sweet sapphic enemies-to-lovers, rich girl/poor girl, workplace romance with lots of heart.
238 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 26, 2025
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April 27, 2025
The perfect blend. I thought it was entertaining with just the right amount of tension. The banter was like watching a tennis match and they both knew which buttons to push. Honestly, the character growth in Lina made me proud. I was slightly annoyed with Clara because she made assumptions about what Lina wanted and would cut her off mid-conversation. I just wanted to shake her, but I reminded myself that they were young and afraid to get hurt. Naomi was my favorite side character because she was funny and almost spilled the tea at a coffee shop. Overall, I thought it was a good enemies-to-lovers book and recommend it.
October 9, 2025
cute book. pay off was wayyyy too late in the book.
April 27, 2025
(rounded down from 4.25)
This was a short and sweet little book about a spoiled rich girl fresh out of high school whose family is in dire financial straits. She gets a job at the local coffee shop and has to work with the girl she used to bully in high school. The dynamic between the two leads is cute and fun to watch. The change from rude and spoiled to a thoughtful young woman is believable, and the little found family story in the background with this coffee shop is delightful. I had a great time!
This was a short and sweet little book about a spoiled rich girl fresh out of high school whose family is in dire financial straits. She gets a job at the local coffee shop and has to work with the girl she used to bully in high school. The dynamic between the two leads is cute and fun to watch. The change from rude and spoiled to a thoughtful young woman is believable, and the little found family story in the background with this coffee shop is delightful. I had a great time!
August 20, 2025
4/5 - sapphic, contemporary, enemies-to-lovers, YA. Good read! This was a cozy and sweet YA romance, set around a coffee shop. It was very slow burn, so I do wish we got to see more relationship progress sooner or more interactions post-getting together. Pretty straightforward for a coffee shop romance, but well executed, so can’t complain!
December 8, 2025
I expected sparks as it was tagged "enemies to lovers" but this is actually bully-to-lovers. The bi-awakening character was the high school bully (think Mean Girls) of the other character. And immediately out of high school they end up working together at a local indie coffee shop. There's circumstances... and for the most part the transition from bully to "I'm attracted to you" to "I'm in love with you" is well-supported. There's not as much transformation of the other FMC. But it's got too many new adult angsty moments to, in my opinion, to get the "women's fiction" tag. And the "to save the coffee shop, I just happen to have all the right skills to put on a perfect event" wrap up is just a little too pat. But it's a relatively easy read, and did hold my attention to read through pretty steadily.
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December 20, 2025
Not bad but not great.
It's was fine. I don't regret reading it. But I found I just wasn't all that engaged. I have ADHD, so when a book really grabs me, I hyper focus and can't put it down, but when it just doesn't I keep getting distracted and putting it down to do other stuff. This book fell into the latter category.
The main characters had some development, but not quite enough to make me deeply care about them. The side characters brought potential for deepening the story, but those subplots were unresolved. The plot was good, but i felt it didn't quite meet the bar for complexity of the genre. That bar isn't that high for the romance genre either, so that's saying something. The duo went through the motions of developing attraction, but there was no power behind it leaving them with Zero chemistry. Like really, none at all. It felt a little like reading AI generated stories, where it's technically sound, but doesn't quite hit the emotional depth or emotional engagement I want in a book. This author has written better for sure. I wouldn't quite say it's a dud, but it was maybe a half step above "meh".
What worked really well:
The pacing and the premise were both fantastic. I love a good redemption arc, and the fact that one who had been bullied didn't just forgive and forget.
What I'd have suggested if I were the editor:
Maybe the mean girls needed a bit more depth to them. They came off as pretty canned. I think the lack of emotional connection in their friend group made them seem unrealistic and cartoonist. Girls and women don't spend that much of their lives together without connecting. Their world may have been "fake" but their friendships should have had some qualities of humanity to them.
This story takes place immediately after graduation. A few notes on that, the parents' impact on the girls should be more relevant to the story and been used for character development, these kids are living at home, and are presumably only children. That could have been used for empathy building, or conflict creation - intternal or external, or as a good peek into the main characters' psyche. Also they have no real mentors, no adults or older siblings or people they look up to. The potential was there in the Clara/Jordan dynamic, but was never realized.
I found it hard to buy that Clara would learn trust Lina given the way things played out so soon after highschool. Most bully romances are either while the characters at still in school, or else years later when they're thrown together again. Clara *just* got away from Lina, if she was going to fall for her, there needed to either be history where they had a connection, (maybe in elementary school, or maybe one was always struggling with the crush they had on the other) or else way more chemistry. Hard to build chemistry when most of their time together is at work.
I think moving this to first semester at college, and getting stuck as roommates/dorm-mates in addition to work might have been better.. if it has to be summer, then just roommates would still work. Have Clara need to move out because of some emotionally engaging home situation, and have a Lina's widowed single dad be newly in prison for white collar crime. They wind up at the same job, and subletting rooms in the same house/Apt. Now you can build chemistry. Which was needed because these characters did not have the chemistry necessary to move from learning to tentatively tolerate each other into being in love after one kiss.
Also, people don't change, they become better or worse versions of themselves. So Lina needed a core quality that has always been there in order to believably "change". She wasn't given one at all. She starts out being one character and ends up being an entirely different character with no connection between the two versions of her. That's not how people work.
All the focus was on how Lina changed, with no room for how she was still herself at the core.
Anyway, I'd recommend reading other books by this author before trying out this one. They absolutely have better on offer.
It's was fine. I don't regret reading it. But I found I just wasn't all that engaged. I have ADHD, so when a book really grabs me, I hyper focus and can't put it down, but when it just doesn't I keep getting distracted and putting it down to do other stuff. This book fell into the latter category.
The main characters had some development, but not quite enough to make me deeply care about them. The side characters brought potential for deepening the story, but those subplots were unresolved. The plot was good, but i felt it didn't quite meet the bar for complexity of the genre. That bar isn't that high for the romance genre either, so that's saying something. The duo went through the motions of developing attraction, but there was no power behind it leaving them with Zero chemistry. Like really, none at all. It felt a little like reading AI generated stories, where it's technically sound, but doesn't quite hit the emotional depth or emotional engagement I want in a book. This author has written better for sure. I wouldn't quite say it's a dud, but it was maybe a half step above "meh".
What worked really well:
The pacing and the premise were both fantastic. I love a good redemption arc, and the fact that one who had been bullied didn't just forgive and forget.
What I'd have suggested if I were the editor:
Maybe the mean girls needed a bit more depth to them. They came off as pretty canned. I think the lack of emotional connection in their friend group made them seem unrealistic and cartoonist. Girls and women don't spend that much of their lives together without connecting. Their world may have been "fake" but their friendships should have had some qualities of humanity to them.
This story takes place immediately after graduation. A few notes on that, the parents' impact on the girls should be more relevant to the story and been used for character development, these kids are living at home, and are presumably only children. That could have been used for empathy building, or conflict creation - intternal or external, or as a good peek into the main characters' psyche. Also they have no real mentors, no adults or older siblings or people they look up to. The potential was there in the Clara/Jordan dynamic, but was never realized.
I found it hard to buy that Clara would learn trust Lina given the way things played out so soon after highschool. Most bully romances are either while the characters at still in school, or else years later when they're thrown together again. Clara *just* got away from Lina, if she was going to fall for her, there needed to either be history where they had a connection, (maybe in elementary school, or maybe one was always struggling with the crush they had on the other) or else way more chemistry. Hard to build chemistry when most of their time together is at work.
I think moving this to first semester at college, and getting stuck as roommates/dorm-mates in addition to work might have been better.. if it has to be summer, then just roommates would still work. Have Clara need to move out because of some emotionally engaging home situation, and have a Lina's widowed single dad be newly in prison for white collar crime. They wind up at the same job, and subletting rooms in the same house/Apt. Now you can build chemistry. Which was needed because these characters did not have the chemistry necessary to move from learning to tentatively tolerate each other into being in love after one kiss.
Also, people don't change, they become better or worse versions of themselves. So Lina needed a core quality that has always been there in order to believably "change". She wasn't given one at all. She starts out being one character and ends up being an entirely different character with no connection between the two versions of her. That's not how people work.
All the focus was on how Lina changed, with no room for how she was still herself at the core.
Anyway, I'd recommend reading other books by this author before trying out this one. They absolutely have better on offer.
August 12, 2025
I picked up Bean There, Found You by Cameron Tate on a whim, and as someone who has never read a sapphic romance before, I can confidently say it won't be my last. This book was such a fun, quick read with all the right vibes. I couldn't put it down!
The story centers around Lina James, the quintessential "mean girl" in her high school, surrounded by her equally ruthless group of friends. With her wealth, beauty, and seemingly perfect life, Lina appears to have it all. In stark contrast is Clara Brown, a dorky, goody-two-shoes type who endures relentless teasing from Lina and her friends, making her school life miserable. However, everything changes when Lina's father loses their fortune, forcing Lina to find a job. Ironically, she ends up at the coffeehouse where Clara has been working for years. And now Clara has the upper hand. Can these two learn to work together, or will one of them have to quit to survive?
The tension and banter between Lina and Clara were electric, making the story incredibly enjoyable. I really enjoyed it being dual pov to really see how they were both feeling, especially during their "fights". Lina's character growth throughout the story was refreshing and genuine, making it impossible not to root for her.
4.5 stars
No spice, aside from a few kisses.
The story centers around Lina James, the quintessential "mean girl" in her high school, surrounded by her equally ruthless group of friends. With her wealth, beauty, and seemingly perfect life, Lina appears to have it all. In stark contrast is Clara Brown, a dorky, goody-two-shoes type who endures relentless teasing from Lina and her friends, making her school life miserable. However, everything changes when Lina's father loses their fortune, forcing Lina to find a job. Ironically, she ends up at the coffeehouse where Clara has been working for years. And now Clara has the upper hand. Can these two learn to work together, or will one of them have to quit to survive?
The tension and banter between Lina and Clara were electric, making the story incredibly enjoyable. I really enjoyed it being dual pov to really see how they were both feeling, especially during their "fights". Lina's character growth throughout the story was refreshing and genuine, making it impossible not to root for her.
4.5 stars
No spice, aside from a few kisses.
November 18, 2025
After her father loses the family fortune, Lina James finds herself stuck working at the local coffee shop, from a favor from a friend of her parents.
Clara Brown never expected to be training her bully, Lina. It doesn't help that she finds her attractive, and that Clara is out at the shop but wasn't at school. Lina is as arrogant as ever, too.
(Unsurprisingly, Lina's whole mean girl crew deserts her. I know it's a trope, but it would be nice if one went "look, I've known you since we were kids, I won't abandon you now." )
Making things worse, the posse keeps coming in taunting everybody and reminding Clara how much a shit Lina was. But gradually Lina shows she's sincerely trying to change.
Then they find out they're store is in trouble..
The texting pages are oversized and take up page count. And at least one is formatted wrong.
3 stars. Pretty decent.. no spicy scenes, kina YA feeling, not sure if it's classified as that.
Clara Brown never expected to be training her bully, Lina. It doesn't help that she finds her attractive, and that Clara is out at the shop but wasn't at school. Lina is as arrogant as ever, too.
(Unsurprisingly, Lina's whole mean girl crew deserts her. I know it's a trope, but it would be nice if one went "look, I've known you since we were kids, I won't abandon you now." )
Making things worse, the posse keeps coming in taunting everybody and reminding Clara how much a shit Lina was. But gradually Lina shows she's sincerely trying to change.
Then they find out they're store is in trouble..
The texting pages are oversized and take up page count. And at least one is formatted wrong.
3 stars. Pretty decent.. no spicy scenes, kina YA feeling, not sure if it's classified as that.
June 30, 2025
There are no huge surprises in this enemies to lovers YA romance but it’s nicely done nevertheless. Lina is the blonde and beautiful cheerleader (and rich girl) who tormented ordinary girl Clara back in High School. Not for being gay (as that wasn’t known back then) but simply because, as a classic Mean Girl, she could. When her father loses all the family money, Lina is brought down to earth with a bump and has to take, and keep, a barista job. And the girl who has to train is none other than her nemesis, Clara.
It takes a while for Lina to realise that the people she thought were her friends really aren’t, and it takes longer too for her feelings for Clara to turn romantic. But eventually this gets where you want it to. No sex and just a couple of kisses means this could easily be read by a younger audience.
It takes a while for Lina to realise that the people she thought were her friends really aren’t, and it takes longer too for her feelings for Clara to turn romantic. But eventually this gets where you want it to. No sex and just a couple of kisses means this could easily be read by a younger audience.
July 18, 2025
A really lovely romantic read. It had just the right amount of will they / won’t they and oh my goodness I have to say hats off to the author for the character development. I have read A LOT and that tends to be a bugbear of mine but this stood out in the best way. Will definitely be adding Ms Tate’s other books to the TBR pile. I will now go and finish the work I may have neglected to finish this book
August 9, 2025
Cozy and Charming
Bean There, Found You was a wonderful, light read. The plot was straightforward and simple. The setting was almost entirely in a coffee shop and yet I found myself invested in the characters. They felt 3 dimensional instead of limited to one space. It was witty, charming, and a cozy read that I tore through in a day. Definitely a good choice if you just want to feel nice inside.
Bean There, Found You was a wonderful, light read. The plot was straightforward and simple. The setting was almost entirely in a coffee shop and yet I found myself invested in the characters. They felt 3 dimensional instead of limited to one space. It was witty, charming, and a cozy read that I tore through in a day. Definitely a good choice if you just want to feel nice inside.
July 20, 2025
I read this book on a whim and was surprisingly hooked! I didn’t want to put it down! The banter and tension between Clara and Lina really set the foundation for their relationship to become something more. Lina changed from this spoiled rich girl to someone who actually thinks of others instead of herself. I squealed when they finally kissed! And for them to see them figuring out their feelings for one another. Overall will read again
July 30, 2025
Cute novella with fantastic character growth! I wasn't sure about Lina at the start but as she grew and changed I really liked her. I also loved the growing romance between her and Clara. It was well done!
August 16, 2025
Cute
Very nice, quick read. I would recommend. I especially like how this author developed the story, because while there is a focus on the past, there is more focus on the present and future.
Very nice, quick read. I would recommend. I especially like how this author developed the story, because while there is a focus on the past, there is more focus on the present and future.
August 31, 2025
A lovely novel abt learning what it feels like to become competent and self-sufficient on your own, and to build yr own identity not based arnd what's assumed of you. Sapphic mc's, which I love to see!
April 25, 2025
I absolutely adore this book. Sapphic and it involves a coffee shop? Yes, please! Also, this is the best enemies to lovers that I’ve ever read! Great storyline, the pace was good. Would recommend!
June 24, 2025
This was a cute, coming of age, sapphic story. I loved the found family aspect and the growth of both Clara and Lina.
July 11, 2025
Lina’s character growth is interesting but Clara and her don’t really have chemistry. The parents becoming super supportive randomly didn’t make much sense either.
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August 1, 2025
been there found you. wonderful
What a great story with a lot of insight into finding yourself. Definitely a good read. Can’t wait to read other books by Cameron.
What a great story with a lot of insight into finding yourself. Definitely a good read. Can’t wait to read other books by Cameron.
August 6, 2025
Enjoyable and heartfelt read. Loved the chemistry of the two main characters.
Artful and hopeful.
Artful and hopeful.
September 15, 2025
LOVED.
This book as perfect.
I'm not normally big on Enemies to Lovers, but this was amazing. The banter was great and I couldn't put it down.
This book as perfect.
I'm not normally big on Enemies to Lovers, but this was amazing. The banter was great and I couldn't put it down.
September 18, 2025
I’m in a bad slump
September 20, 2025
Cute.
November 5, 2025
An enjoyable read, typical enemies to lovers, but really cute.
November 6, 2025
Nice
Cute soft story, nothing less nothing more, but worked perfectly. Characters are lovely, their growing is visible and it's very cozy reading
Cute soft story, nothing less nothing more, but worked perfectly. Characters are lovely, their growing is visible and it's very cozy reading
November 30, 2025
3.75
avrei voluto molto di più! è stato abbastanza cozy ma avrei voluto leggere più sul loro futuro insieme!
avrei voluto molto di più! è stato abbastanza cozy ma avrei voluto leggere più sul loro futuro insieme!
December 14, 2025
DNF - it was too unbearably childish and antagonistic. Like 13 year olds constantly sniping at each other and also written by 13 year olds.
August 2, 2025
This one had its sweet moments, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t annoy me at times. Lina’s stubbornness and constant pushback made it hard to root for her in the beginning - like, girl, just own your mistakes already. And Clara? I wanted to shake her. She’s clearly grown and isn’t the meek girl from high school anymore, so why doesn’t she just say how she feels? Especially when her old mean-girl crew walks in - that was the moment I needed her to snap back, and she stayed silent. That said, I did enjoy the redemption arc and loved the cozy “let’s save the coffee shop together” vibe toward the end. It wasn’t perfect, but it had its heartwarming moments.
October 22, 2025
I loved this book!! It kept me entertained and I couldn’t put it down!! Lina’s growth made me so happy I love her sooo much!
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