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Fly With Me by Andie Burke

21 reviews

trussell12's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Alcohol

lesburrata's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content

bg_oseman_fan's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. Olive and Stella were such compelling characters. i like that the romance engaged with the other real life concerns in a way that enhanced the story. parts of the story felt i bit like checking of a list rather than being essential to the story, but the strong ending really tied everything together in a very satisfying way. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexism

Minor: Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Cursing, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Medical trauma, Stalking, and Terminal illness

danileah07's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, and Grief

Minor: Toxic relationship

jgarrin93's review

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Death, Alcohol, Homophobia, Mental illness, Grief, Car accident, Biphobia, Medical content, Cursing, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Lesbophobia

booksdogsandcoffee's review

emotional medium-paced

3.0

Overall I think the premise of Fly With Me is wonderful, but the execution and the romance wasn’t there for me. 

Olive, an ER nurse who hates flying, is tasked with saving a life mid flight on her way to a Run Disney Marathon. As the plane gets re directed one of the flight attendants, Stella, offers to drive her the rest of the way to Orlando to make it to the Marathon in time. Insert and adorable date at Disney World! Once Stella’s airline gets wind of Olive’s heroics, Stella sees this as her chance to make her way up in the company. So they devise a plan to fake date and help each other out. 
 
The book does a wonderful job discussing grief and loosing a family member to both dementia and fatal accidents. As well as anxiety, and toxic family relationships. 

Where I think the book actually fell short for me was the romance. Olive and Stella, to me didn’t feel like they actually had chemistry or even a likable relationship. It seemed more like the book was trying to hit the tropes and (fake dating and miscommunication) some really good spice. Which the spice was quiet well done. 

Cw
Gaslighting 
Toxic family
Toil relationship 
Grief
Death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, Gaslighting, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Misogyny, and Lesbophobia

caseythereader's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Thanks to St. Martins Press for the free copy of this book.

 - FLY WITH ME has such a silly premise, and yet it's fairly serious for a romance novel. This book deals with everything from workplace sexism to end of life care for relative in a coma.
- As much as I loved the opposites-attract dynamic between Olive and Stella (and we know how much I love fake dating!), this book went around in circles, having the same conversation a few too many times for me. There was also a third act breakup a literal 20 pages from the end of the book, which felt totally unnecessary after all the previous back and forth. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Terminal illness, Cursing, Death, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Dementia and Homophobia

womanwill's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

3.75

FLY WITH ME is a sweet, faking dating sapphic dream! 

Olive is making the motions of life, but not truly living after a tragic accident leaves her brother in a coma. When she is thrust into the spotlight after pulling a Super Nurse and saving a man on her flight, sexy pilot Stella Soriano proposes a fake dating scheme to get her long fought for promotion to captain.

This love story is chock full of tender and silly moments, set against a backdrop of family turmoil, grief, and caregiving. Burke does a deft job of balancing the heavy and light moments and letting her characters lean on each other while they work through their own stuff.

The basics:
- fake dating
- sapphic love
- bi rep & lesbian rep
- sexy pilot x ER nurse
- GLUTEN FREE COOKING SEDUCTION 
- panic disorder & depression rep
- Parkinson's & caregiving rep
- Disney
- love letter to nursing

I really enjoyed this debut romance and can't wait to see what Burke puts out next!

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Sexual harassment, Death, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Homophobia

beesneysbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I was lucky to receive an e-ARC of this book, and when I say lucky, i mean LUCKY. This book had everything you need in a book: fake dating, queer characters, family drama, miscommunication that resolves itself rather quickly, found-family, a funny start-to-end joke that keeps popping up. Everything about this book was written with care, including an authors note at the beginning with triggers written in a way that makes the reader feel connected with the author. Would definitely recommend to anyone and everyone! (as always, check the triggers before you read and take care of yourself!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Sexism, Medical content, Sexual harassment, Death, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Drug use, Sexual content, Hate crime, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

spaghettireads's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I was really intrigued by the premise of this book! Queer romance! A pilot as the love interest! I enjoyed both of the characters but I didn't find the writing to be convincing about their relationship. My brain cared about their relationship but my emotions did not. I think that the book was trying to do too much, Both characters had multiple non-romance storylines that didn't get a chance to be developed enough, or resolved enough by the end. 
I am interested in what the author writes next because I think that this had some great parts, and a lot of potential but it didn't all come together for me in this one. 

Thanks St. Martin's Press & Netgalley for ARC

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical trauma, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment