Cute story but didn't draw me in for the most part. Didn't connect with the characters or the story particularly.

This is a good book. The two main characters are Martha and Logan. Martha is a nurse and a part time band member. Logan works for a security firm. Logan comes with a friend to a bar and Martha’s band is playing there. This is where they meet. It is an instant attraction. They start pretend dating. Then they start dating. They each have trust issues but together they work it out and fall in love.

This was a delightful story and I loved the wit throughout. The characters were such fun and they were relatable.
Many thanks to the author and to Netgalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

This is a cute story but needs… something. I found myself skipping large chunks of dialogue because I was invested in the plot but not the writing. (This is probably a personal preference thing).

For someone who rarely to read romance book this one isn't cringe, In fact, this book is very entertaining and very funny. In this book we meet our mc Martha Cooper who is a nurse by day and lead singer of The Cover Stealers by night.. She had a heartbreak trauma and it makes her to keep her relationship casual before she meets Logan Ashford world turns her world upside down. There where everything begin.


This book is perfect for you who look for romance with comady because it indeed made me laugh.

Don't Wanna Fall In Love
by Lusetta Nelson
This was a fairly good book. T was funny at times but felt it was more trying hard for humor than a novel that kept me interested. Sorry, not my favorite.

Get ready for a laugh-out-loud romantic comedy that will warm your heart and leave you grinning from ear to ear. In this delightful tale, we meet Martha Cooper, a nurse by day and the lead singer of The Cover Stealers by night. With a childhood marked by heartbreak, Martha has kept her romantic relationships casual and devoid of complications. But when Logan Ashford enters her life, he turns her world upside down with his charm and his clear desire for something more than just casual fun.

This book is a perfect blend of romance and comedy, delivering hilarious moments and scenes that will have you giggling and swooning in equal measure.

After a slow start, I got into this and couldn't put it down.
Martha's childhood was interrupted by her father's death and the burden of being there for her sister, infant brother, and grieving mother at 8. She took this on and made it her mission and excuse.
Casual hookups and go-nowhere relationships keep her happy. She has her besties, the folks at the nursing home where she works, and her band. She's seen the darker side to love and is running shy.
This is where the title fits the plot of the book. Martha does not want to fall in love.
Enter Logan.
After a rocky start, she forms a friendship with him while trying to emotionally keep him at arm's length.
Logan is what Eddie, one of her patients and her grandfather's best friend, calls a good man. Working in security, Logan is attractive, calm, and a little funny. He quickly forms friendships with the people in Martha's life. He wants Martha and he's prepared to wait.
Martha has trouble keeping their friendship, friendly. Especially when there's a band and nursing home invested in her love life.

Sometimes I had to remind myself Martha is in her mid twenty's because she acts so much older. But trauma does that to a person.
Logan does a good job of injecting humor into the book, as do the characters at the nursing home.
I found the style of writing a little passive for me and I didn't get a good idea of who each character was because we didn't really learn what they look like, or any quirks of their personalities.
This was full of funny, sweet and melancholy moments and I love a book that takes me on an emotional rollercoaster.
I recommend this for anyone who likes a sweet romance with a few surprises and a happy ending.
I received a copy via NetGalley and all opinions are my own.

In this heartfelt and humorous tale, we are introduced to Martha Cooper, a nurse by day and lead singer of The Cover Stealers by night. Martha's carefully crafted world of casual relationships and self-protection is upended when Logan Ashford enters her life. With a not-so-happy childhood and a belief that love only brings pain, Martha finds herself torn between the safety of her walls and the possibility of true love.

This book is a delightful combination of wit, warmth, and relatable characters. Martha's journey is a rollercoaster of emotions as she navigates the complications of her feelings for Logan while trying to keep her heart shielded. The author skillfully balances humor and heart, creating a story that will make you laugh, tug at your heartstrings, and leave you rooting for Martha to find the courage to let love in.

"Time slowed down for Marty when her eyes met Logan's. It was an odd, and terrifying, sensation."

I really tried to love this book, but it ended up taking everything in me to not DNF this one.

The premise was pretty promising; a girl who's sworn off of love and a quirky guy who wants to change her mind. I liked Martha and Logan for the most part too; usually I find romance protagonists to have certain... traits that are sort of unbearable. But Martha and Logan were fun, not too cringe, and interesting. It's really unfortunate that for some reason, the further I read into the book, the more distant I felt from them. It was like we were introduced to two awesome characters, and then that just disappeared as the story progressed. They lost their personalities as the chapters passed by.

This wasn't just an issue with Martha and Logan too, I felt like everyone just sort of melted into the same bland personality. I was the most upset about this happening to Bianca, because she was my favorite character. The beginning, when the story was focusing on a flashback to Martha and Bianca's college days, promised me two hilarious best friends and instead Bianca disappeared after the first half of the book, and Martha became a bland, watered down version of herself. I started forgetting characters' names because of how flat and two-dimensional they became.

Also, irrelevant at the moment, but what was up with Dr. Chad and the rest of his ridiculous name? I know that was supposed to be a funny caricature of male soap opera characters or something, but it just wasn't that funny.

There was also next to no description in this book. It felt like it was ninety-nine percent dialogue. Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate some good dialogue. Especially since that's something I struggle with when I write; I appreciate it when it's well done even more because of that. But there was just so much, and it started feeling like a play script more than a book. Maybe other people don't mind this amount of dialogue, but I really couldn't follow along with the story when it was just back and forth talking and zero transitions outside of speaking.

Maybe it was because of the dialogue issue mentioned in the previous paragraph, but I also felt like this story went almost... nowhere. Again, I have no issue with books that don't cover some action filled adventure. I love more slice of life stories. But this felt so boring. Sure, she met Logan, but why are they doing so much yet so little at the same time? I felt no chemistry because all we had to go off of was their back and forth "flirting" and almost no look into their heads or anything to see what was really happening. A good example of a slice of life adult fiction is The Bookish Life of Nina Hill; I read that one a few years back and this feels like a different version of that.

My last bit of criticism has to do with the ending and epilogue. I know that this isn't supposed to be right away, but talking about them getting married and their friends having kids just made everything feel so forced and rushed. It was like a half-assed attempt to wrap up a story and give the readers some extra fuzzy closure, but I didn't want that. It made Martha and Logan's relationship seem cheap and forced because of this, instead.

That being said, the little parts that weren't dialogue were really helpful and I actually enjoyed the story much more when it was present. I also liked the characters before their weird bland transformation as well, and I think the love story had a lot of potential. It just missed the mark for me.

Please note that this is just my opinion, and there were plenty of other readers who enjoyed this book. What doesn't work for me might work really well for other readers.

Thank you to Netgalley and Lusetta Nelson for the ARC!

On the day Martha's little brother was born, her father was killed in a freak car accident. Then her mother killed herself because she couldn't deal with the pain (or the post partum depression). So Martha never wanted to fall in love or deal with the heart riot losing that person. In comes Logan who good guy that he is steadily tears down the walls around Martha's heart. The rest you will have to read for yourself.