This is a book where I was hoping for so much more than what I got
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I loved the idea of this story more than the execution. I needed more road trip and probably multiple POVs. At times the narrative felt rushed, for a two week road trip I couldn’t tell you any places they went to.

Noelle started off likeable but around 60% grated on my nerves. Also a very young 29.
The enemies to lovers was cute but lacked depth. Why did they hate each other so intently? It was also resolved far too quickly. I need more angst!

I did like the exploration of grief but the use of a psychic made me roll my eyes.

For a debut it’s ok but did TikTok need mentioning 39 times?! I don’t think so.

I am currently kicking myself for not having read this sooner - oh my god, this book is phenomenal! And you're going to tell me this is a debut novel?! Keep your eyes on Jessica Joyce, she's going to do big things in the publishing world.

I am well & truly obsessed with the tension, angst, banter & all the verbal sparring between the two mc's. We're talking academic rivals to lovers, forced proximity & only one bed (aka a cocktail of all of my favourite tropes). Spencer is absolutely everything & more; a grumpy business man whose closed off but has a soft spot for family & only one girl. The way that every time Spencer smirks, I'm kicking my legs & squealing like a little girl on their birthday. He's made it to my top 3 book boyfriends, no doubt about it.

The undertone of the plot is bittersweet & deals with a lot of grief. There's some scenes that put a lump in my throat & made me want to hug my grandparents a little bit tighter next time I see them. It really is just a masterpiece of a book - one page I'm getting all the butterflies & the next I'm reaching for a tissue. Truly just a beautiful read.

I will be keeping my eyes on any & all of Jessica Joyce's next moves & snatching up any new books she puts out immediately. If this is what she can do with a debut, I can't wait to see what she does in the future. 5/5 stars from me!

A quick, easy and cute read that I just could no put down. I was actually sad when it ended, I wanted it to last forever

You With a View by Jessica Joyce is a contemporary romantic drama that focuses on Noelle, who is 28 and like many other millennials, has found herself having to move back in with her parents after losing her job. She's also dealing with her grief after the loss of her beloved grandmother, who died six months ago.

At the start of this book, Noelle has just woken up to one of her videos on TikTok going viral - she has found a stash of old photographs featuring her Grandmother as a young woman and a man who she was clearly in love with. Noelle wants to find the man - and it looks like the internet has done its thing and found him. Well, his Grandson, at least.

Only, Noelle already knows said Grandson - it's Theo, her annoyingly hot former classmate-turned-successful businessman. The two had always been competitive growing up, but with Noelle feeling her life is going backwards and Theo being a well-known business founder, the two don't seem to have much in common anymore ("The man is in Forbes, and I'm in Spongebob sleep shorts")

When Noelle has the idea to complete a road trip her Grandmother never got to do, Theo's Grandfather is excited to come along and help Noelle learn more about who her Grandmother was before she got married. But there's one problem - Theo has to come too.

Ah, this was so lovely. It was a joy to read. I feel like it used the whole TikTok thing really well - I could absolutely imagine following along with something like this online (I've followed along with stranger, I can tell you) - I really liked every character and I loved Noelle and Theo's story. If you like the rivals-to-lovers or only-one-bed trope, definitely give this a go. There was no real power imbalance either, despite what you may think from the synopsis. Both Noelle and Theo were definitely at a point in their lives where they needed to work out where they wanted to go. There's a nice sprinkle of spice here too, which is always welcome.

The ending? Absolutely cringed myself inside out, but with a massive smile on my face. I'll be keeping an eye out for this author!

Thank you so much to Random House UK & Transworld Publishers for the ARC via Netgalley.

I will be coming back to this book when I am in the right head space: for now I was not able to finish it unfortunately.

I really loved this book. It started out with grief, moved on to finding yourself accompanied by a slow growing and compelling love story on personal and family levels. A real feelgood read, the characters are believable and you soo begin to root for them and their growing attachment to one another. If this is the calibre of her work I will definitely be reading more books from Jessica.

You all were right, this book is so breathtakingly good and I want to hide in a hole because of it

Jessica Joyce, you are an absolute GENIUS and I shall forever bow down before this stunning debut that touched my heart in all the tender places and no I’m not crying YOU ARE

Still in shock that this is a DEBUT because ummm what?!?! Never getting over this nor will I stop being jealous oops. But the writing just absolutely blew it out of the park and I’m in awe at how BEAUTIFUL it is. I would literally have to stop at some of the sentences at how beautiful it was OMG I SHANT EVER RECOVER. Been a while since I’ve seen a debut with this much talent and Jessica Joyce deserves a round of applause methinks

The premise of this book? Absolutely spectacular and thank god she did not disappoint. I started this book a few days ago and I just couldn’t put it down. I was absolutely transported onto this road trip with these characters and it was an absolute blast. I just love being so enveloped in a book that I feel like I’m there with them *insert heart eyes*

Anyways, the premise was so well thought out and I just had to find out what happened between the grandparents AND Noelle and Theo, and I applaud Ms Jessica for accomplishing them side by side. Love myself a realistic fantasy rom-com scenario hehe

And ahhh the characters!!! Wowowowow I love them all. They were so well fleshed out, three dimensional and oh so wonderful and we love to see it. Noelle and Theo had THE best chemistry and their banter was OFF THE FREAKING CHARTS INTO SPACE. Sarcasm as a love language is something I didn’t know I needed!!!!!! Not just that, Noelle’s vulnerability just resonated with me so much and I loved how raw her character was. And her connection with Theo was absolutely palpable. Basically, it was all amazing, you read this one *wink wink*

I do think I wanted a smidge more from the romance overall and a smidge more from the ending, but that was so minor and I loved this book nonetheless!

One last round of applause to this brilliant debut filled to the brim with gorgeous writing, heart-aching discussions on grief, familial connection and some rivals to lovers romance xoxo

28 year old Noelle is lost. She’s no job, no drive and she’s recently lost her dearest Grandmother who would usually help her through everything life has to offer. She misses her incredibly, and when she discovers photos of her Grandma as a 19 year old with a mysterious man, she does what any sane person would do nowadays and… posts them on TikTok. And the mysterious man’s grandson sees them.

What ensues is a wonderful story of love, loss, grief, acceptance and the road trip of a life time. Throw in loads of banter and some particularly well written spicy scenes and you’ve got a fabulous debut from Jessica Joyce.

To help convince you further we’ve got:

📸 Enemies to lovers
📸 Academic rivals
📸 Forced proximity
📸 Only one bed

This was a 4.75 star read for me - very nearly a 5. I was taken by complete surprise with this book because it had so much unexpected depth! I was hooked. I absolute adored the storyline - it warmed my heart! But please look up trigger warnings as I wasn’t expecting grief and loss to be such a large theme. Would highly recommend though!

This book!! This book is my FAVOURITE read of this year. I don’t care that we’re only 8 months in, I know it’s going to be my favourite. Half way through this book I thought “oh I wonder what other books Jessica writes” and then found out THIS IS A DEBUT!! WHAT??!!?! This is definitely the best debut I’ve read in a long time. I was laughing at their banter, sweating at how HOT this is!! Theo is just *chefs kiss* and Paul is so sweet.

Noelle and Theo are two characters that I managed to fall in love with. I love their connection and the way they taunt each other, but I also love how sweet and loving they are towards one another. Both characters are struggling throughout but you can really see how much the other helps carry the load. It’s really beautiful. I also loved learning about Paul and Noelle’s Grandmother. I found myself just as excited as Noelle at the letters. Also the epilogue!!!! Cutest thing ever. Maybe it’s because I finished this today that I can’t find any words and I’m still speechless, but at the same time I’m bursting with excitement to tell you how good this is. I’m trying to write the review but I don’t quite know how to articulate the way it made me feel. Just read it for yourself and you’ll see exactly what I mean. It was like the book was written to touch a part of me that I didn’t know existed. There’s like a bittersweet feeling of being happy that I’ve read the book but also sad that I’m not going to be able to read the characters in a new way again.

Thank you to the author, the publisher, and Netgalley for allowing me to read this!!

So. Much.Angst!
I know I’m really not the target market for this book but TikTok this, TikTok that. I hate Tiktok.

What the book did have in its favour was some really likeable characters and the hate to love trope was well played out, though some more background on why they didn’t initially like each other would’ve been good.

And the more intimate scenes - woah! Could feel the heat coming through my kindle!

Although this book wasn’t really my kind of read, it was enjoyable and I was invested enough to read through to the end.

Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for my review.

Thank you for the opportunity to review this new novel.

I'm sorry to say this was not for me.

I didn't understand why Noelle published the photo on TikTok from the beginning... what did she hope to uncover? The author never explained her actions and it annoyed me. Also, I've become allergic to all the lying in romances, all the miscommunication.

I just couldn't figure out why I should continue to read so I didn't.

Enemies to lovers, forced proximity and a road trip! This had all the makings of a great book. It was a nice story, didn't grab me and keep me hooked as much as some.

THEO AND NOELLE COME HOME 🗣🗣🗣 JESSICA I AM IN YOUR WALLS WHY YOU WOULD YOU RUIN ME LIKE THIS!!!! It has been two weeks since I read this and every day I have to fight the urge to reread it, this is truly one of my top 5 books of the year, idc it's too early to start claiming that! This is the most Timeless coded song and I am convinced miss swift did some form of time travel to make sure she wrote this song and then released it at the same time as this book.

Noelle is my girl like that's my best friend!! I love her so much!! As soon as the book opened with girly having an existential crisis in her mid-20s I was like 'yup! she's me!' She was just so real to me and I loved being in her head. The whole arc of her dealing with the grief of losing her grandma was extremely upsetting and I feel like Jessica wrote about grief in such a stunning way, I cried so many times! I loved seeing Noelle's development throughout the story and her realisation that it's okay to not have everything figured out! You're allowed to take time for yourself! I just love Noelle so much.

Theo my arrogant sad boy!! I'm always going to be weak for a man who is using arrogance to cover up his sadness idk it just hits and Theo really hit different! He was constantly upsetting me!!! I just wanted him to open up to Noelle and be happy!!! I loved how even though it was single POV, Theo still had his own complete arc, and with Jessica's writing, it was so easy to understand his character and what he was going through even though we weren't in his head. I love him so much!!

I adored the fact that they were rivals in high school, it added so much to the tension and it was so fun seeing all the little references they made to their past and realising how much Theo really admired Noelle, he was just an annoying teenage boy and didn't know how to handle his feelings for her! The chemistry between them was so good and I just need a 5000 page book that shows me the rest of their life pls and thanks

At one point, Theo tells Noelle that she's helping people deal with their grief and reach out to their loved ones and I feel like Jessica has done the exact same thing, this book put so much into perspective and I will never recover from it. Theo and Noelle are two of my all time favourite characters and they both had so much depth to them and felt so real to me, those are my best friends!! And special shoutout to Paul, he's the real star of this book and I love him so much!!!

First of as always thankyou to penguin random house early copy of this book .

This book had me devouring every page , I really do love a good enemies to lovers and I can say this did not Disappoint.

Little bit of an outline noelle grandmother passed away and she finds an old photo of a long lost love this is where noelle's journey begins and she embarks on a whirlwind of a road trip . I understood how the noelle was feeling after losing my own grandmother I was close to. Going on an adventure full of self discovery, love , bit if rage alone the way. I felt it really changed the outlook of the main characters.

I loved the plot to the story it was fast and no parts I thought was slow was just perfect.

The development of the characters was brilliant I really loved the chemistry between noelle and Theo the will they won't they vibe and at times swoon worthy cheer on top for me.

Jessica's writing had me captivated and flowed wonderfully. She will take you on a trip of a lifetime that you won't forget .

I definitely would of loved to have seen more back story to why the characters was so crappy towards eachother at the start .

Over all a wonderful read for anytime of the year .

I'm giving the book 4.5 stars 🌟

This delivers exactly what it says it does - a cute romance perfect for the summer! I loved the road trip aspect of the book and I was so happy that the road trip takes place for the majority of the book - it was really great to travel on this two-week-long adventure with Noelle and see the sights, The author has a fantastic writing style that really conveys itself well to the genre and to the vibes of the book, so it was a really enjoyable read, and I thought that Noelle and Theo had really great chemistry!

I do wish we could have seen maybe some flashbacks to when they were in high school, so that the whole enemies-to-lovers aspect could have felt more well-founded - we were basically just told that they were enemies, there wasn't any real showing of that. I also think that the constant use of TikTok as a pivotal plot point means that in a few years, the book might feel outdated - maybe not, but with those things you just never know, and honestly I just didn't really want to be reading about TikTok all the time, although it did make the book stand out with the added photography/video elements.

This book deals with grief heavily, particularly that around the loss of a grandparent, so please bear that in mind when reading this, but I thought it dealt with the topic of grief beautifully and very carefully.

I can’t believe this is a debut because it was so good!
There’s so much in this book – enemies to lovers, grief, secrets, death, an epic road trip, friendship, importance of familial relationships and so much more.
Noelle is such a relatable main character. I could totally relate to what it feels like moving back home and your bedroom not being your own personal space anymore and feeling lost with no sense of direction.
Her relationship with her grandmother was beautiful and really shone through, even though her grandmother wasn’t actually on page.

Noelle and Theo had amazing, and really believable, chemistry. I was rooting for them from the off. Everything happened really naturally between them and I love that they built a solid relationship of friendship before jumping into more.
I also thought the conflict between them was really well handled and felt very realistic given their personalities. The spicy scenes were very good.

And I without a doubt loved Paul – what a legend. Theo’s grandad and just such a sweetheart.
The road trip was amazing and the connection between Noelle and her grandmother grew with every letter and every stop along the way.
I laughed and I cried reading this.

I loved absolutely everything about You, with a View. The characters, romance, and road trip were all perfectly crafted and I’m excited for Jessica’s next book!

wow i loved this book! what a journey, what a story! this book tells 2 stories one tinged with sadness but i was so invested in it i couldn’t put the book down.
a story of love. lost love and families.
a fantastic fun summer read

I loved reading this one. I just love this kind of books.
4 stars read for me. I love this author snd her writing style.
Thanks to netgally for this arc.

I really enjoyed my read through of this book! I could have read it in o e sitting but I wanted to savour it! Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for my eArc of this book.