Reviews with content warning for Medical content - Crazy Stupid Bromance

I was dreading finishing this book because it was getting too long to my liking. For starters, I felt there were many plots going on, between Noah's family, Alexis' family, their love story AND, ON TOP OF THAT, the meeting thing with the zoning board. Like, give me a break. I was happy I was finally finishing the book until I remembered there was this other plot we still had to close and I just thought the end was never coming. Furthermore, I didn't quite connect with Noah and Alexis' relationship. They sold this as a "friends to lovers" story, but at the same time this is the third book of the Bromance Book Club series, so I would've preferred if the characters were presented as FRIENDS in the previous books. I mean, I would've liked for Alexis and Noah to be shown as a possible "thing" in the previous books, or at least that they had met in the previous books. Not in a time gap between the second in this third book in which they became wonderful friends. I WANT TO SEE THEM BECOME FRIENDS because I just don't buy the "they're really good friends now, although they met right after what happened in the second book and we didn't show you". Well, boomer, because I wanted to see that dammit. Another option would've been to show flashbacks or something about what happened in that time gap, I don't know.

Between that and the all the drama that I didn't really care about anymore towards the end, I'm giving this 2.25⭐, because at least I get to see the Bromance Book Club being chaotic once again.

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samisreading's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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bryelle's review against another edition

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lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Best friends to lovers. And reuniting with lost family.

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mandathebiblio's review

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4.5

While this wasn't necessarily my favorite read of the series, I really did enjoy this one. These books are so much fun for me and I just love how they seem to balance romance and fun with heavier and deeper topics.

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this series because it was all over the book community. I was dying to read this series. I loved the first two and was excited to read this one when it was focusing on Alexis. It was adorable and good banter, but at the same time, made me want to bawl my eyes out.

This book has two points of view. The first one is Alexis Carlisie. She owns a cat café called ToeBeans and she has shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef’s sexual harassment. Her café has become a place where people of sexual assault can come forward and try to heal. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they’re sisters. She is unsure what to do, so she turns to the only man she trusts – her best friend, Noah Logan. He is the second point of view and he is a computer genius who has left his rebellious teenager hacker years in the past to become a computer security expert. Now he only uses his old skills for the right cause. But Noah’s got a secret – he is madly in love with Alexis. When she asks for his help, he wonders if the timing will ever be right to confess his crush. Noah’s pals in The Bromance Book Club are more than willing to share their beloved manuals to help him go from buddy to boyfriend. But he must decide if telling the truth is worth risking the best friendship he’s ever had.

I love these characters and this friendship group. I haven’t read a lot of the trope being he falls first. I love Noah, I love the broken nerd with daddy issues. I just love broken characters who want to treat women better. I loved that Lyssa wrote a book where a victim of sexual assault gets her happy ending and learns to trust people again. The broken family conflict nearly killed me especially with how Alexis was just trying to run her café and do yoga classes and get ready for a wedding and instead she gets ambushed with a sister who wants her kidney. I love this friendship group and love how no matter these boys don’t give up on each other even when they all act like complete tools. I love the Russian and I hope to God he gets his own book because I want to know what the hell is going on with his wife.

The only thing that I didn’t like was the miscommunication and third act breakup. They personally drive me nuts in books and yet it keeps happening in this series.

Overall, I liked how fast-paced this book was and this was one of the few friends-to-lovers I liked, and I am looking forward to the next book in the series.

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shelbyl's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Loved it! Yes it’s a romance novel, yes there are some open door scenes, but this book had a lot of heart and some serious topics. I love how this author deals with both light and heavy topics and weaves in a cute story. Great series!

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whitneyonline's review

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emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A little heavy-handed on the forgiveness propaganda, but otherwise another solid entry from Adams. I love how she sets up her next book(s) so that we have at least a little foundational knowledge of and relationship with the characters and they don't feel like complete strangers to us and each other, thus undermining the believability of their own love stories.

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