In Case You Missed It

I remember the exact minute I got rejection from publishers: don’t worry it’s not a life changing moment for me and as you may imagine I was always mature, cool as cucumber and professional. So I didn’t hit my forehead to my computer screen and scream a few nonsense words, consumed two pints of Ben&amp;Jerry, half pack of soggy and flat Cheetos ( I think I opened it a few years ago and forgot it at my drawer, who cares?) and two gallons of Grapefruit juice which was fresh and disgusting at 9 am in the morning. ( okay I did, sue me for my tasteless junk food choices) Rejection meets stress eating is not great combination for your mental and stomach health! <br /><br />Anyways, I purchased the book because I was so curious what I missed by not getting an arc but as soon as I reached the half of the book I also reached two conclusions: this book is not as good as I Heart series and I urgently apologized to my stomach to give it the worst breakfast experience! <br /><br />My main problem was the heroine who is extremely obnoxious, irritating and very punchable! When you cannot connect with the MC of a romcom and you get to spend your time in her head throughout your reading, you absolutely want to dig a tunnel and escape urgently because the narrator you hang out is like a disturbing person you recently meet at a party and you just act like you get a call to get an urgent call to ditch her in the middle of conversation! <br /><br />So sorry Ros, if you have hard time to come back to the UK after for your in the US. The part about gathering pieces of life by reconnecting with your old friends and having regrets about dumbing your ex may be painful experiences and I could relate with them. But you get to learn from mistakes. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is definition of the insanity. Listen to brilliant German guy! <br /><br />I didn’t like the heroine ( as I mentioned bold and underlined) and lack of romance disappointed me a lot. But there are still good and clever laugh out loud parts. It’s soft, easy to read and a good candidate as a beach read. <br /><br />I can give solid three stars: let’s meet in the middle because neither I liked nor I hated it kind of story. I’ll possibly forget after a few minutes which make you Memento woman of literature journey! <br /><br />It’s still a good choice to spend your time with an easy, soft, partly sweet, entertaining story which will help to get rid of your daily stress if you don’t bother to hate the heroine! <br />But if you want a better read, please try the author’s I heart series of the author!

Lindsey Kelk writes a light, bright, frothy, breezy and fun rom-com with many of the familiar tropes from the genre, but she wraps them up in a decidedly stylish, moreish and hilarious package. After a three year stint in Washington DC as a radio producer, an unemployed 32 year old Rosalind 'Ros' Reynolds returns home, only to cringe on seeing that her parents are in the throes of a midlife sexual renaissance, and have adapted the shed at the bottom of the garden for her to live in. In dire financial straits and desperate to get a job, the first thing she wants is to get back with her friends that mean almost everything to her, high powered lesbian lawyer, Sumi, the married to creepy Dave and now heavily pregnant, Lucy, and her longest best friend, the financially well off Adrian Anderson. <br /><br />After putting out a universal I'm back email that in error reaches her ex-boyfriend, travel writer Patrick Parker, he gets in touch. For Ros, he is all she has ever wanted, okay her friends cannot stand him, but she is over the moon, rejoicing at the prospect of being back together with him. Life is beginning to look good and becomes even better when she finds a job almost immediately as a producer at PodPad. Her client at the company is a teen e-sport megastar, the mask wearing Snazzlechuff with a huge international following. It is made clear should she fail with him, she will be fired. A nostalgic Ros tries to resurrect the fun and joy of her twenties, organising skating outings, and more, but her friends are now in different places in their lives, and is she flogging a dead horse, trying to breathe life into her relationship with Patrick? Is it time for her to move on, particularly with the entry of barowner, John, into her life?<br /><br />Kelk writes an uplifting, warm and comic rom-com that hits the mark with it's central protagonist, Ros, surrounded by a stellar supporting cast of characters, from her parents who want to renew their wedding vows, and a fabulous bunch of supportive friends who are there for her when things go wrong, or her world falls apart, whilst celebrating her successes with her. This is a engaging and entertaining read, full of mayhem and misadventures, of a Ros who comes to realise she has to learn to move on from the past and confront the challenges of life's realities, and get more in touch with who she is and what it is that she wants. A great read to escape the troubled realities of our contemporary world. Many thanks to HarperCollins for an ARC.

This is a romance/chick lit. I honest just could not get into this book. The main character (Ros) I found boring and nothing exciting. There where a few parts of this book I found so very funny, but overall I just was bored reading it. At the beginning it was ok, but then it started to just become boring. I receive an e-copy of this book from Netgalley, and this is a honest review about how I feel about the book.

<b>You can look back fondly on the past, but you must always be moving forward.</b><br /><br />Ros returns home to the U.K. after putting in four long years in Washington DC. She’s positively thrilled and beyond anxious to slip back into her life with her best friends and parents. And oh yeah, maybe that short-sighted boyfriend that let her go just a bit too easily.<br /><br />Small problem. Her loving, (not so) straight-laced parents don’t want her back in the house. It seems they have <i>“rekindled”</i> their intimacy. In the words of Ros <b>“Ew!”</b> What’s more, her friends have since moved onto new hangouts, careers, pregnancies. And the ex-boyfriend? Well...what is there to say about ex’s??<br /><br />This is a fine welcome home! <br />However, Ros decides she may not be ready to give up her past while everyone around her keeps moving forward. <br /><br />A deliciously sweet, charming rom-com that has you rooting for Ros to find her place and maybe true love along the way. <br /><br />This one has all the ingredients you could ever hope for! Kudos to Lindsey Kelk! I will definitely be looking for more of her books.<br /><br />A buddy read with Susanne that we both really enjoyed!<br /><br />Posted to: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://books-are-a-girls-best-friend.com/">https://books-are-a-girls-best-friend...</a><br /><br />Thank you to Edelweiss and HarperCollins for an ARC to read and review<br />

<b>Oh So Funny, Sweet and Romantic, “In Case You Missed It” Hits All the Right Notes. </b><br /><br />After failing to make it big in DC, Ros hightails it back home to London and her parent’s house. Little does she know that they’ve renovated the shed in their backyard just for her. How sweet it’s not! <br /><br />Now that Ros is back, she reconnects with old friends, and thanks to a little phone blip that sent a mass text to “all contacts” in her phone with an “I’m back message,” she also reconnects with her ex-boyfriend Patrick who broke her heart. Sounds perfect right? <br /><br />What Ros finally realizes however, is that sometimes you can’t rekindle what you had, you have to move forward. Luckily for her, she has her several old friends and someone kind of great waiting in the wings.<br /><br />“In Case You Missed It” by Lindsey Kelk is a super sweet, funny, lighthearted rom-com that was exactly what I needed in these crazy stressful times.<br /><br />Another sweet buddy read with Ms. Kaceey!<br /><br />Thank you to Edelweiss, Harper Collins, and Lindsey Kelk for the arc. <br /><br />Published on Goodreads on 1.23.21.<br /><br />Review to be published on blog: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://books-are-a-girls-best-friend.com/">https://books-are-a-girls-best-friend...</a>

In Case You Missed It is a cute and light romance with some important issues mentioned. This book was very relatable.<br /><br />Thank you Edelweiss and Harper Collins for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.<br /><br />Full review: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://justreadingjess.wordpress.com/2020/09/21/in-case-you-missed-it/">https://justreadingjess.wordpress.com...</a>

<img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1601845537i/30194079._SY540_.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>Let’s get one thing clear right off the bat: this is a really good book, but this isn’t a romance.<br><br>At least, it doesn’t fit most readers’ current definition of a romance. The male and female leads aren’t constantly around each other, the main plot doesn’t revolve around them getting together, and for 98% of this book, they aren’t even remotely close to becoming a couple.<br><br>This is women’s fiction. And yes, I know that a lot of people don’t like that name, but honestly, I can’t think of any other way to sum this up. More than anything, this is about the personal growth of the female lead.<br><br>One thing the publication hype does get right is that this is a bonafide comedy. I laughed the entire way through it. The inner monologue of the heroine is so quick and clever and very, very British. There’s a lot of situational humor here too. I took over 50 notes on my e-reader and most of them are just “LOL” or “LMFAO” or “OMFGIAMHOWLING”. It really is hilarious from start to finish, unlike a lot of books that are labeled as comedies but usually stop being funny around the halfway point.<br><br>Rosalind, or Ros, as her friends call her, is a podcast producer recently arrived back to London from a three-year adventure to the US, where she oversaw a successful podcast about books. Her departure from the states was something of a surprise, so she didn’t exactly save for the move home. Her parents graciously let her crash at their place, or more like, the renovated garden shed out back, since they’re busy enjoying an empty nest and are “getting to know each other” again.<br><br>Cue Ros gagging.<br><br>Luckily, she manages to (mostly) evade their near-constant sexcapades and slides seamlessly back into her old life, finding a job right away, hanging out with her group of close friends, and even reconnecting with a past love.<br><br>The only thing is, while Ros is busy trying to relive the glory days of life before she moved to the states, everyone else around her is busy trying to move on. This is the real crux of the story.<br><br><i> <blockquote>“I want things to be exactly as they were before.”<br>“But you can’t turn back the clock, Ros.”</blockquote> </i><br><br>It can be frustrating at times, watching her cling to things that her friends have clearly outgrown, and from the near-manic focus she has on recreating some of her and her friends’ wildest adventures, you can tell that there’s something going on with her. Some reason she’s so stuck in the past. Some explanation for why she still thinks she’s in love with a man who clearly isn’t good enough for her.<br><br>Enter “Twat-Faced Wank Chops”. Ahem, I mean Patrick, her ex. Sorry, I sort of prefer the nickname her friends have for him. Because it fits. The reader is shown right away that he’s kind of a prick, but he’s a hot prick, and he can be surprisingly honest, and even sweet, so maybe he’s grown in the three years they’ve been apart?<br><br>I’ll admit that, like Ros, even though he gave me a weird vibe, I was willing to give him a chance, and that is part of the genius of this book. Not everything is black and white. He’s not a complete, irredeemable asshole. You see the good in him, the potential. And so you give Ros a pass when she willfully overlooks some of his negative behaviors.<br><br>Oh, and I should say now that he’s not the romantic lead. Not really. He’s more like something she has to get out of her system. Part of her journey towards realizing that the past is gone, and no matter how hard you try to bring it back, it’ll never be the same.<br><br>I weirdly enjoyed this aspect of the book, whereas oftentimes I’m left annoyed by characters who don’t “get it” as quickly as I would. I think it’s because as a woman in my mid-30s, with a past of my own, living in these uncertain times, I do find myself looking back more often lately. And I know I can’t be alone in doing that right now.<br><br>Let’s just hope that things settle down and it’ll become easier for us all to take a page out of Ros’ book and learn how to start looking forward again.<br><br>If you like great stories about women, filled with humor and a dash of romance, you should definitely check this one out.<br><br><b><a href="https://navessaallen.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">website</a> | <a href="http://www.thealliterates.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">blog</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/navessaallen/" rel="nofollow noopener">facebook</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/NavessaAllen" rel="nofollow noopener">twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/the_alliterates/" rel="nofollow noopener">instagram</a></b>

I give this 3.5 stars. It was cute, funny but predictable. I loved the quirky characters and how relatable they were. Between John and Patrick, I knew what was going to happen before I got half way through the book. So it kind of disappointed me when I was right, as I like to be hit with curve balls. It's still a worthy, light read.

Perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella! In Case You Missed It was a really funny and light romance that would be a perfect beach read. This was my first book by Lindsey Kelk and I really enjoyed her writing and her sarcastic sense of humor. I am always a fan of British rom coms and am surprised I am just discovering her. After a three year hiatus, Ros returns from London ready to get back to her old life. However, it seems like her old life has moved on without her in it. She finds herself living in her parents shed wondering what went wrong in her life. I could totally relate to the main protagonist being in her early thirties and feeling like everything is changing. Sometimes it was frustrating to read how Ros kept getting in her own way but overall a very enjoyable and quick read. The romance in this book took a backseat at times but was very sweet and believable. It was fun to watch Ros grow as the story went on and take control of her life. I also enjoyed the pop culture references and supporting characters. <br /><br />Thanks to NetGalley and Edelweiss for the ARC!

This is my first read by Miss Kelk. In Case You Missed It have such a potential. This is more chick lit than romance. And like many chick lit, it touches many aspect of finding yourself. <br /><br />There are some humor, some deep meaningful conversation about love. Different kind of love. Love from parents to their child, love between friends and romantic love. <br /><br />Sadly for me, the story feels flat. I want it to be picked up with more twist/ drama. I wait and wait and wait. Feel like nothing happen. Oh well....<br /><br />3 stars