Book Review - The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone

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{Thank you @bibliolifestyle + @harperperennial for the #gifted copy of The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone!}

❓Are you a seasonal reader? Don’t get me wrong, I love rom-coms all year round, but they just hit differently in the summer! I tend to gravitate to them more in the summer, along with a sprinkle of thrillers.

I’ve got a great one to share today—The Friendship Fling by Georgia Stone!

What you can expect:

🇬🇧 Debut Author

🇬🇧 Slow Burn

🇬🇧 Witty Banter + Humor

🇬🇧 Reverse Grumpy Sunshine

(aka Black Cat & Golden Retriever energy!)

🇬🇧 Summer Bucket List

🇬🇧 Takes place in London

🇬🇧 Dual POV Story

All in all I enjoyed this one, but at times the slow burn was maybe a tad too slowwww. Also there are more chapters from the FMC POV and I would’ve loved more from the MMC.

📚 Book Summary 📚

No one would ever call Ava Monroe a people person, which isn’t ideal for a barista in a busy London coffee shop. She’s sarcastic, blunt, and cynical, and her relationships are strictly no strings attached. With her best friend Josie soon leaving for a year, Ava knows she’ll be all alone unless she shakes up her routine. But she can’t risk bringing chance back into her carefully controlled life.

Then insufferably cheerful, country-hopping, undeniably gorgeous Finn O’Callaghan rolls into her coffee shop with a horrifying proposal —a strictly friends-only summer fling. Finn needs a local to help him complete his London bucket list, and Ava needs to reassure Josie she won’t be on her own. And it’s only for a few months.

To Ava’s surprise, their mismatched friendship of convenience becomes oddly tolerable, and as they work their way through Finn’s list and around the sun-drenched city, from rooftops and floating bars to nights at the museum, their adventures—and Finn’s company—start to feel . . . nice. Incredibly, terrifyingly, dangerously nice.

Still, rules are rules—Ava has good reasons for them—and as the days get shorter, Finn’s departure gets closer. Because that’s the thing about summer: it always ends. Right?