ARC Review: It Has To Be You
Whew. Friends, how am I so lucky to have found all these legitimately INCREDIBLE romance authors this year? And yes of course I do mean Dani McLean. I was lucky enough to read Beau and April’s romance earlier this year in A Missing Connection, and fell SO deeply in love with the way Dani writes. So when an advance copy of It Has To Be You popped up in my inbox you best believe I did a little happy squeak and dance and IMMEDIATELY ran to download it right onto my kindle.
I’d like to thank Dani for the advance copy, thoughts below are my own, enjoy.
The premise here immediately hooked me. Indy comes from a long and illustrious line of fated soulmates. But she’s been nothing but unlucky in love. Having felt that her high-school boyfriend, Nick was supposed to be it for her, she turns to a carnival psychic (which hello, I absolutely need to rewatch Big again because YES to all these vibes). The reading though, in her mind confirms all the things she’s known: Nick IS her fated destiny. She just needs to find him, and get him to get with the universes program.
From the moment Indy and Ethan meet in Nick’s office, I was pretty much done for (and let’s be real so was Indy). We get a pitch perfect meet-suspicious (which results in an ADORABLE nickname) and reader when I tell you I was down bad for this man from the MOMENT I met him. Ethan is also on Nick-Watch™ and these two quickly decide to team up to find the missing man of the hour.
And pals, like you will immediately be like NICK-WHO because our big boy Ethan is THE elite-tier book boyfriend of our collective dreams. There is capital C Chemistry, banter for days, and soft vulnerability in how these two see each other, and how much Ethan will do just about anything for Indy.
I caught myself grinning like an adorable lunatic at my kindle from page 1 all the way to the very last line of the epilogue and I know folks are going to lose their marbles on how stinking perfect this romance is. Oh and did we say smut? BECAUSE holy good goddamn Dani! This has one of (if not the) HOTTEST scenes I’ve read in a minute. There’s some internal dialog where Indy is like “I don’t even think porn can beat this,” and girl, yes agreed. When I picked my fully melted form off the ground, I finished this book and was ready to start it all over from the beginning once again.
Pick it up for:
Excellent banter
Wildly sweet (and hot) chemistry
I’ve been right in front of you this whole time
Giving your person space to be themselves
Stegosaurus praise stickers
I’ll help you EVEN if it breaks my heart
That bedroom scene (my lord)
Okay favourites, you get it right? I loved it.
It’s sweet, fun, swoony, smutty and it made big parts of me feel very seen. And like also, what sorcery does Dani possess that all of this perfectness is packed into a NOVELLA. A. FREAKING. NOVELLA. Exceptional.
You know the drill, grab this on pre-order, add to your TBRs, and be ready for this to knock your socks off when it drops May 16th 2023.
xo Kels