3.81 AVERAGE


This took me very close to a year to read so I'm going to be brief.
The pacing was off and I was bored for most of this - hence the protracted reading timeframe. I also didn't connect with Kayla and found the romance to be lacking in chemistry. This simply didn't work for me.

Rate: 4.5/5
Genre: Clean Romance/ Sweet Romance

Read it if you like

Not for me. Maybe for someone else. I don't mind a closed door romance but something about the Kayla being embarrassed of sorts for being a nerd just rubbed me the wrong way along with her (to me) strange obsession with coaching people to be dateable. 

yeah. no. 

I didn't realize this was a clean romance until the audiobook started and it was marked as "sweet" so this is closed door/no spice. I found the whole book to be one long miscommunication trope, Kayla decides to take on Josh as her first dating coaching victim and assumes he's into a coworker and he just doesn't correct her that he's actually into her even though it's so obvious. Over the course of the book they go on fake dates and kiss and she just doesn't get it? It was actually frustrating to see someone trying to coach others who was so obtuse to her surroundings.

Spice rating: 1/5
Overall rating: 2/5

Not a big fan of the audio narrator of the first three books.

I think Kayla's character really frustrated me, and I'm not sure how I feel about her
automatically forgiving her father because she was mislead all along
. Also the love interest was pushy. And the Star Wars stuff got old.

Clean romance

Entertaining and cute. Not high on spice rating. I liked this better than the first book in the series but I won't by the rest of the series. I liked the first 60% better than the rest.

Desiring His Dating Coach is just as much fun as the first book. I recommend reading the books in order as each one of them follows a group of friends. They are fine to be read as standalone, but why would you?!

Kayla and Josh have known each other for years. She is a lawyer and he is the coffee barista. Everything changes quickly and Kayla is floundering and trying to figure out her life. While the story is pretty light and fluffy, it deals with some harder topics too. I could relate to Kayla and her relationship with her parents, and her trust issues.

Josh is the perfect match for Kayla. He is so sweet and sees her for who she is, not the mask she wears. Their chemistry is perfection and their first kiss is swoon-worthy.

So. Stinking. Cute. This was not what I was expecting! I could tell from the first book that Josh has a little crush on Kayla, but I definitely didn't expect it to turn into more. What a cute twist on dating coaches and clients! I was wondering what the conflict would be, and I thought for sure josh would ask Hannah out. But when Kayla breaks things off with him after seeing her dad, I was a bit surprised. But I loved that she was able to start to patch things up and then get Josh back too. The fact that Josh is a nerd makes it better. I love that he got the girl. It was a cute story, and I am obsessed with Kristen Canary now ❤️
hopeful lighthearted medium-paced