Thankyou so much for giving me the opportunity to read an advanced copy of this book.
This book was such an amazing read.
I loved the concept of the plot. It really grabbed my attention when Fiona started travelling to another reality in her dreams. Not only that, but Aaron was a real person. It blew my mind how at the end of the book they found each other. I really thought throughout the book Fi and Max would have ended up together, this was before I found out that the island was real. The plot twist at the end before Fi and Aaron met had me on the edge of my seat.
I haven’t read a book with magical realism like this book. Now I want to read more books like this. I’ll definitely be recommending this book to others.
Rating: 5 stars

This book in simple words is magical and breathtaking. This is my first Sarah Ready novel and my very first book that has magical realism as one of its main settting, and it is a masterpiece in this genre. The story is a unique combination of dream and real life that's left me with feelings like warmth, happiness and nostalgia.

Sarah Ready is an incredible writer, with her unique story-telling and incisive and profound narrative, she weaved a story of a woman learning to dream and then falling in love with the man of her dreams in her dream life. It's incredibly complex yet intriguing with every passing chapter, you will find yourself reading it without stopping because the story has a quiet hypnotic rhythm to it, with its tropical paradise setting in dreams, and cozy and comforting vibes of Geneva, Switzerland, you will get sucked right into the pages of this book. The side characters that are as nuanced and lovely as main characters and I especially loved Amy, Daniel and Max.

The plot twists in this book are perfectly executed with no plot hole galores, the anticipation of finding the truth behind those dreams Fiona is dreaming and to know what led her to dream about that tropical island and Aaron left me with thrilling excitement. The story stirred a spectrum of emotions inside me from nostalgia and adoration to agonising emotions. There is also drama and comedy involve brought in by nuanced side-characters, but also has all the summery and cozy atmospheric vibes that are brought to life by Sarah's vivid details in her books.

Fiona, heiress of a Swiss watchmaker. Fiona is an intelligent and confident woman, an incredible single mother. But she forgot what it truly felt like to dream, to trust and to fall in love. This is where a mysterious and magical watch enters, a classic and family heirloom that lets her live her greatest desires of real life in her dreams. But what happens when said dreams feels like reality, when Fiona starts irrevocably falling for the man of her dreams in her dreams, a man who is just a figment of her desires and need but feels real. Fiona has everything she wants in her dream life, kids and a husband, Aaron McCormick who loves her beyond everything, but will she ever stop dreaming about the people she came to love in her dreams?

Aaron McCormick is the man one can so easily fall in love with. He's got the gentleness, a charming persona, an easy-going nature, an incredible man, father and a husband. Aaron loves deeply and wholeheartedly. If he's in you cannot change his mind ever. I am enamored by his character and how he shows his vulnerability to Fiona, his thoughts on life, how he loves his people and how many hardships he had been through yet still he is most compassionate and down to earth man. To simply say, I am in love and you will be too if you just read this book once.

The romance was breathtaking. I fell in love with this beautiful and whimsical love story. Fiona and Aaron are soulmates in truest meaning, finding each other even in dreams because they are fated to be together. The way Fiona fell in love in her dreams, and how she started imagining her dream people in real life, how she cared for the people she met only at night in her own magical world, everything was perfect. The found family arc that is the heart of this story was constructed perfectly and with so much elegance and comfort. It was simply so beautiful, uplifting and endearing. I love Fiona and Aaron so freaking much.

The ending was perfect and you guys are in a roller coaster ride with how the last chapters were written. I tried my best to write this review without spoiling it for you because it's better if you experience the beauty of this novel by reading it and living it with these lovely characters.

BOOK REVIEW
Book tilte-> Fated(#3 in Ghosted series)
Author-> Sarah ready
If i have to describe this book in one word, i would say it is magical.
Magical, not just because the book has elements like dreams, timetravelling and fighting against destiny for love but the book is magical because of the way it is written and how the emotions are portrayed in a perfect balance.
The story starts with Fiona Abry(FMC) who along with her brother runs her family's swiss watch company. Fiona is a single mother who is afraid of getting in to a relationship or fall in love even though love is what she craves for.
When she gets a chance to live in her dreams, she grabs it and try to live it to the fullest even though she knows it is a dream. She falls in love with a man in her dreams and she can't help it.
When it comes to a point where she feels like everything is gonna shatter again, she's got one more chance to change everything. Will she save her love or will she get heart broken. You should read the book to know what happens.
The story switches between Fiona's day life and her dreams in the night but the transition is shown in a very neat way. I am literally clueless about what I'm getting in to when i started reading the book but I loved the book so much and i finished reading the complete book in a day.
If you're looking for a love story with interesting elements, then you should give this book a try.
Dear author,
This book is amazing. The way you switched the story between her daily day life and dreams in the night is so magical. Thanks for the beautiful ending🧡
Many thanks to NetGalley for the copy
#fated #NetGalley

Fated by Sarah Ready is book 3 in the Ghosted series and it is AMAZING. The premise of this story is so unique just as Ghosted and Switched.

Fated follows Fiona who is Daniels sister from Ghosted, they are the heirs to a Swiss watchmakers company. Fiona is given a an heirloom watch that shows you what your heart desires when you are dreaming, now Fiona is stuck between 2 worlds. Her real world she is a successful business woman, single mom to her daughter Mila, and her boyfriend Max who I would say they are not in love but have love for each other. Then, there is her dream world, when she is asleep she is married to Aaron McCormick and a mom to Amy and Sean in a small ocean town. Here is the catch Fiona comes in the form of Becca Aaron’s AWFUL wife.

Shakira Shute does an amazing job with her narration!!! Aaron broke my heart and healed my heart all in this book. I went through all of the emotions that Fiona went through. This story is so amazing I wish I could give it more than five stars. I went on an emotional roller coaster ride that had twists and turns, and brought tears to my eyes. As mentioned before the premise of this story was so unique having a watch that can bring to life what your heart desires when you are dreaming. Sarah did such a great job of making you feel like you were living both worlds with Fiona and making you feel like you had a connection with all of the characters. I could go on and but I won’t. What I will say is you should either read or listen to this book as soon as you can because you will not want to put it down. A VERY BIG thank you to NetGalley, Swift & Lewis Publishing, LLC, and Sarah ready for letting me listen to the ARC in exchange for my honest thoughts and opinions!!!

Fiona loves running her family watch business. After a bad time with romance she has decided to focus on her career. But sometimes magic has a different plan!

I am going to be very careful with this review because the author did a great job leaving the reader guessing. Fiona has a bet with her brother about finding romance. She decides to give her best friend, Daniel, a chance to romance her. But at night, she dreams of a man who feels so real that she has trouble believing he isn’t real. I love how the author switches from Fiona’s day to day and her dreams at night. I kept thinking I figured out what was happening but then I changed my mind. Even near the end I wasn’t sure how the author would bring it together! I love the way this story unfolds. There is a bad guy who does a bad thing but it is so essential for the story that I agree with what was done. Jeez, it’s hard to not give away details.

I had no idea where this story was going! This is a contemporary romance that takes place in Switzerland and on a tropical island. Fiona is a busy single mom. There are excellent side characters that help push the story forward. You do not have to read the prior books in this series. I will definitely read more from this author in the future.

Rating: 4.75 🩵💙🩵

I absolutely loved this book. This book was definitely something different compared to other books I've read. I wasn't able to predict the ending so easily, which is a good thing. You will cry and laugh at the same time when reading this. This was my first book by her and now I find myself going on Amazon to buy her physical copy of the book ( I read this as an ebook). I definitely recommend adding this book to your TBR. Thank you Sarah for writing such a beautiful book, it definitely won't be the last book I read from you.

Parts of this are lyrical and beautiful and parts seemed chaotic. Reading this, I can understand why some people gave it a much loved five stars as well as those giving it two stars. I'm somewhere in the middle. The dream reality versus the awake reality were too confusing for me. I understand the Fiona in Geneva better and thought that it her story was more engat. I'm rounding up from 3 and a half ⭐.

Thank you to NetGalley and Swift & Lewis Publishing LLC for providing the ARC.

I think it's no secret that I absolutely love Sarah Ready and her books. With this installment in her Ghosted series, we get a deeper dive into Daniel's older sister, Fiona, and we see the bet placed that Daniel discussed in the first book that landed him a giant shirtless ad on a billboard in Times Square.

Fiona is the epitome of someone who loves so fiercely they have to put up a barrier or be consumed by how much they love. Told in story that involves some magic and some timey wimey stuff, Fiona meets the love of her life in Aaron on a beach in the middle of nowhere. Except that he's not real. He's just a dream. But dreams don't feel as real as they do when she's with him. And slowly, you see her facade crumble as she becomes open and receptive to love through Aaron.

As with all of Ready's books, you will laugh and you will cry before the end. Her books are like a cocoon of warmth, tenderness, sadness, and hope all wrapped up into one small 300-something page package. This book is not any different, and I can't wait until the next one.

3.5⭐️⭐️⭐️



✨ Single Mother
✨ sci-Fi-ish feeling
✨full of emotions



✨ story was mainly focus on the single mother fiona or in this story. Aaron and Fiona has a strong connection in this involving the family, the book can be read standalone but I think it’s best to read the first book to enjoy and understand better.

✨ the ending is my favourite, unpredictable or I would say more real instead of direct hea’s. However, I got to be honest that I’m not vibing the story of the dreams.

✨ fionas family gave her a gift- family heirloom. She started to have this vivid dreams which is very different from what she have now. Don’t get me wrong I now that the plot was involve magic and all that but the first few chapters are more real rather than just plain magic.💁‍♀️

✨ at the end, I lost the spark. But it was a good summer read.

✨ Thankyou for the opportunity to read this book for a honest review.



✨shaye.reads

Such an intricate story, but I expect nothing less from Sarah Ready. I have loved every story in this series, but this one might be my favorite. It absolutely destroyed my heart and then pieced it back together. Aaron and Fi are so lovable- I could not stop reading this book. I had to know their fate!

Another very different lovestory from Sarah ready! This was a fun read with an extraordinary storyline! This is my least favourite of the series so far which doesn't mean the book wasn't good it just didn't catch me as much as the other ones and I will continue this series! If you like an extraordinary story and some amazing heartwarming characters im sure this book will be perfect for you!

(thank you netgalley for this arc-copy!)

Book #2 in the Ghosted series. Angsty romance, Low spice on my scale-2. Unrealistic for me, I prefer audiobooks, but the AB version archived before I was able to read it, so that impacted my experience. If there was an option to give 0.5 star my rating would be 2.5, but I'm feeling generous due to my AB bias so I rounded up.

5 ⭐️/5
2 🌶️/5

I do not have to words to describe how beautiful this story is. 🥹🥹🥹 I’m emotional 😭 did start crying for chapters at a time? Yes. Did I love every moment of this book? Yes. I wasn’t sure if I could make it through Fated or if it would be too sad for me, but I’m so happy I saw it through until the end. I need a clear cut HEA in my romance so if I didn’t get a HEA I was going to riot. I was kept guessing the entire time. This is for you if you enjoy romance with magical realism. Some spice but not too descriptive.

I love the relationship between Fiona and Aaron, and I loved the families of these two. Fated touched my heart; this is the kind of book that stays with you and begs to be re-read.

Thank you to publisher and NetGalley for the arc. All thoughts/opinions are my own and my reviews is voluntary.

Fiona Abry is a hardworking single-mother, living in Geneva and co-running the Abry watch company with her brother Daniel (MMC of book one, Ghosted). She has little time for love and even less time for a vacation, despite her brother's prodding and meddling.

But when Fiona's free-spirited mother gifts her an old family heirloom—a supposedly magical timepiece that lets the owner dream their greatest desires—Fiona begins having vivid dreams when she goes to sleep each night, of a very different life to her own, filled with the kind of love she never thought she’d find and sparking joy and purpose in her life anew.

Not much more can be said about this story without spoiling things, but much like the first two stories in the series, the magical realism at play in this romance is weighted in destiny and meant-to-be enchantment. It all takes a bit of suspension of disbelief, but that’s the fun and charm of this series, making the reader believe in the impossible and the wonder of fate.

This story was set before the events of book one and two, so, I guess, it can be easily read as a stand-alone, even though release order would be my preferred recommendation. I loved seeing Daniel pre-Jillian, all charming playboy with a lonely heart, and I enjoyed meeting Max, Fiona’s best friend and fellow socialite, who will be the MMC of the fourth series instalment, Wished.

The love interest was a hunky piece of man and I could see why Fiona fell so quickly, as he was quite literally the man of her dreams. The twists and turns of the plot make it hard to even talk about Fi’s dream-life or her dream-man without ruining the story, but I liked the setting and the characters she interacted with in those scenes, feeling the loss she felt every time she had to wake in the mornings, back to her usual workaholic routine.

This story was probably on par with book two, for me, in terms of enjoyment and readability. I still feel the stories in this series are overly long, and I didn’t feel the same obsession or chemistry here as I felt in book one, but I think that had a lot to do with the circumstances of the story and what was actually happening in Fiona’s dreams—which I can’t even explain properly because, again, spoilers!

Overall, though, this was a sweet, magical, and romantic addition to the series and I look forward to reading what comes next in the Ghosted universe!

Another AMAZING, heartbreaking time twist/sliding doors esque story that easily became my favorite in the Ghosted series!! I loved this unique premise that has a Sweedish woman inheriting a magical stopwatch that allows her dreams to become real and her going back and forth between two 'dream' worlds where she has to choose which man she truly loves. Excellent on audio narrated by Shakira Shute and highly recommended for fans of authors like Rebecca Serle. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early digital and audio copy in exchange for my honest review!!

Unfortunately I did not enjoy this book. It was not engaging and I felt that the storyline was all over the place. I lost interest a few chapters in and did not finish the book. While I loved the story idea, this one ultimately was not for me.

OH MY, this completely swept me off my feet. When I say this book had me in a choke hold…I mean it. I couldn’t put this down - the outside world did not exist during this read. I was NOT READY for the rollercoaster of emotions that was ahead of. This story put me through all the feels. I laughed, I cried, I held my breath, I felt love, I felt pain, I felt heartbreak and everything else in between. I LOVED THIS!

The bouncing between time lines had me griped. Each night Fiona rushed to get back to her dream life, and I was right there behind wanting to go too. It had so many amazing layers, so many amazing characters, and with each turn of the page the story got better and better. This one is going to linger for a while. Thank you to @netgalley for this arc in exchange for my honest review.

Fated
By: Sarah Ready
Review Score: 4 Stars

Boogie’s Bulletpoints
•Fiona is such an interesting character, I loved following her character arc.

•Ready does an amazing job of describing both Zurich and the island Fiona visits in her dreams!

•No spoilers, but wow. This book was a rollercoaster of emotions.

•I love how the story was resolved.

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Fated was kindly provided as an ARC by Netgalley and Swift and Lewis Publishing, LLC. Thank you for allowing me to enjoy this wonderful book!

Release Date: 7/16/24

Not too long ago, I read Sarah Ready’s “Switched”, and I absolutely loved it, so I jumped at the chance to read Fated.

I can tell you that, these two stories are not the same, lol. That’s not an insult, nor is it a reflection on how I felt about this book versus the other. It’s merely an observation that if you read one, don’t expect it to be like the other.

With that being said, this book was really good. A little slow at times for me, but it was honestly a good puzzle. I kept trying to figure out what was going to happen, and I loved that I was kept guessing.

This book tugged at my emotions. No spoilers, but there were definitely some plot twists that I did not see coming. I think I felt a full range of emotions as I listened to this audiobook, lol.

Fated was such a good book though. Interesting, engaging, emotional. It was definitely an enjoyable read, and worth checking out.

Fiona Abry is the sister of Daniel from book one in the series, this story takes place before Ghosted, but it can still be read as a stand-alone.

A bad relationship and being afraid to fall in love again, then a traumatic incident at the Christmas Eve Gala and her mum’s sudden appearance with the gift of the mythical watch that leads to events that will change Fiona’s life.

This was my third story of Sarah’s and I am thoroughly enjoying the way Sarah’s magnificent brain works.
I was instantly immersed in this beautifully well written dual-reality story - wishing I had a magic watch of my own.

Would I recommend? Yes - Definitely!!!
To say I am glad when I saw that there is another story to come is an understatement- I literally can’t wait to read Max’s story.

Living in Geneva, Fiona Abry comes from a watchmaking family and works all the time. Happening upon an old family watch, she is told the relic has special properties, allowing the user to see what their greatest desire. The night she uses it, she dreams of a faraway island, a gorgeous man, and a life she has never allowed herself.

The third in a series, Ready has created a magically realistic novel about a woman obsessed with her job and a small circle of family and a close friend who wakes up to her sedate life when she dreams of another possible existence. The storyline is multi-layered, bending genres of science fiction, magical realism, time slip, and romance. The twists and turns keep the reader on their toes and Fiona’s reality vs. her dreams are a wonderful juxtaposition to each other. The romance is sweet, not very spicy but full of chemistry, and the element of paranormal adds so much fun to their relationship. I really enjoyed this book and her writing style - I will have to go back and read the first two installments of the Ghosted series.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC.