this is the story of Eric who is in love with his best friend Zoe but she doesn't know. why he is in love with her I do not know.. she is a spoilt brat. i just couldnt like her at all. this book is a quick read and a change from my usual genres. thanks to netgalley and Aria for a copy of this book to read and review

The premise of this book is very cute: Eric has been secretly in love with Zoe for 10 years while they were best friends. Looked like the kind of book I needed after a sequence of non-fiction and memoirs, light and fast to read.
It was light, it was fast. It wasn’t good, though. Here’s a few reasons why I didn’t like it:
- The characters aren’t very well built. When you think you’re getting a feeling of them, they do something that doesn’t go with the personality the author designed for them until that point.
- It’s a story happening in New York, written by someone who clearly doesn’t know New York. The vocabulary, the dynamics of the city, the fact that all these people work in a gift shop and manage to live in Manhattan without roommates, the fact that Zoe’s family lives in a house in Soho but she had to work as a waitress in Boston to make a living. It’s all very weird.
- How in the world does a brainy MIT grad end up working at a gift shop?
I mean, it was a distraction from my daily life, it was fun at times, but as far as chick lit goes, you can find much better options with ease. I don’t recommend this one.

>> Since I only gave it 1 star, I didn't post my review on Amazon, just Goodreads

To say I am torn on this one is an understatement. This is part of Cassie Rocca’s Blame It On New York series. I haven’t read the first book. Perhaps if I had, I would’ve liked it more. I’m not sure. I really liked the story idea. I am a sucker for a good friends to lovers romance, but this one just didn’t quite do it for me.

Let’s start with what I liked. Two friends, Eric and Zoe, have known each other since their college years. He falls in love with her right away, but she never really sees him as anything other than her best friend. I liked that they were so close and had known each other so long. I also really liked their mutual friends. Clover is sweet and funny while Liberty was mysterious and level headed. They added a lot to the story. I actually I may like Clover’s story, A New York Love Story better than I liked this one. (Jury is still out on whether or not I will go back and read it.) I also liked how loyal and devoted Eric was for the most part.

What bothered me most was the pacing. This seemed to drag a bit for me. I felt like there were parts where the internal dialogue was unnecessary or things were expanded more than they really needed to be. I also hated that Eric, by his own description, allowed himself to be a doormat for Zoe for so long. I loved that they were friends, but he really did let her walk all over him. If he was going to knowingly allow her to do it, don’t complain about it! I also found Zoe to be really self-absorbed at times. They kept referring to this being a mask for her insecurities, but there were times she really was just so stuck on herself that she hurt the people around her. It made it harder for me to really root for her. I also really hated the way Eric behaved at the end. I think he really thought he was trying to show her he could be what she had looked for in other guys, but it also seemed like he really was just being mean and punishing her. I get that he was upset, but I don’t really think his behavior was okay either.

All in all, I was really excited to read this book and it just ended up being okay for me. I didn’t really love it or hate it. Perhaps you will have a different opinion. If you are going to read it, you may want to start with the beginning of the series because at times it felt like things needed more introduction than we got. (For example, they are all the sudden working together in the shop and I had no idea what they did there, what type of shop it was, or who all worked there.) Perhaps Eric and Zoe are also introduced in the first book in a way that makes this book even better. I wouldn’t know since I didn’t read it, but I am tempted to go back.

Thanks NetGalley, Aria Publishers, and Cassie Rocca for providing this book in exchange for this honest review.

A very fun romantic read that I highly enjoyed reading

I really liked the premise of this book. Eric Morgan has been in love with Zoe Mathison for over 10 years. But that is where it ended for me. The more I read the story, the less I liked Zoe. She was either really oblivious or just really uncaring when it comes to Eric's feelings. I struggled to finish this one, and ended up skimming the end to see how it ends.

Crazy Stupid Love was a really fun, really cute book. The title is what drew me in, but the book itself reeled me in. It was well written, and the characters were very well done!