My Bestie's Ex

Piper and Rayne are writing goddesses. They have gifted us with a great group of friends and I cannot wait to get to know each of them better. This is Blanca and Ethan's story.<br><br>This book, and I will guess this entire series based on the first book, is a bit heavier then the last few books Piper and Rayne have written. This doesn't have the lighthearted feel of the Bailey series but it's not something that will gut you either. It's deep, intense at times, but there is a lightness weaved into it so I didn't feel the need for tissues.<br><br>You can read my full review <a href="https://www.nadinesobsessedwithbooks.com/2020/02/my-besties-ex-rooftop-crew-1-by-piper.html" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1582116553i/28987277.jpg" alt="My Bestie's Ex by Piper Rayne" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1532689151i/26036765.jpg" width="100" height="100" alt="Nadine's Obsessed with Books" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"> <br>Where you can find me:  <a href="https://linktr.ee/NadineBookaholic" rel="nofollow noopener">https://linktr.ee/NadineBookaholic</a><br><br><input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="50e4c0a8-ae12-4c6b-9519-c525cfc96d4e" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="50e4c0a8-ae12-4c6b-9519-c525cfc96d4e"><br>We are thrilled to bring you the cover for MY BESTIE'S EX by Piper Rayne book 1 in a brand new series coming February 18th! Find out more here: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://nadineisobsessedwithbooks.blogspot.com/2019/12/my-besties-ex-rooftop-crew-1-by-piper.html">https://nadineisobsessedwithbooks.blo...</a><br></label></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]>

What a good time this read turned out to be! I mean even the <i>conflict</i> of the story was fun to read (obviously because it wasn’t <b>my</b> conflict LOLOL).<br /><br />I’ve loved this author duo from the moment I read my first book by them years ago and my live is still strong! They know how to bring you a feel-good story with a curveball that will honest to goodness make you smile thru the entire thing. These are not moments where you smile. The story is a huge smile. *happy sigh* I just love them!

My Bestie's Ex is the first book in a new series by Piper Rayne, and if the rest are even half as good The Rooftop Crew will be my new favorite series!<br /><br />For anyone who has read the White Collar Brothers series, you've gotten glimpses of Blanca Mancini. We now have her story, and it's even better than I hoped. Also, if you thought her brothers were hot just wait - I have a serious girl crush on her right now! Confident &amp; sexy but still reserved, Blanca is going after what she wants and starting a new life for herself. New town, new job, new friends - and a hot coworker she's insanely attracted to. <br /><br />Ethan is working his way towards his dream career in journalism, and won't let anything get in his way. Especially the new writer his magazine just hired to write opposite him. But even his rule of never dating a coworker can't stop the pull between them, and no matter how hard he tries he can't deny how much he wants Blanca.<br /><br /><i> <b> <blockquote>He kisses like he banters. A little bit of flirting and teasing with a heavy dose of swagg3er that some might misinterpret as arrogance.</blockquote> </b> </i><br /><br />I can't even begin to explain how much I adored these characters! They had off the charts chemistry, the kind even I could feel through the pages. I couldn't get enough of their flirty banter, and I devoured their story. It's fun and sexy, with plenty of laugh out loud moments weaved in seamlessly with panty-melting ones. <br /><br />And even better than my new favorite couple? Their friends! Piper Rayne flawlessly made me fall in love with Ethan &amp; Blanca, while also building up the excitement for the rest of the series. This new crew is amazing, and I am so intrigued and ready for each of their stories!<br /><br />**ARC received in exchange for an honest review**

Do you ever read books that just slightly don't work for you? But you try to justify it to yourself because you like the author? This was one of those books for me. I wanted to like it and I tried to justify the characters behaviours I didn't like but in the end I just had to give it up.<br /><br />I liked Blanca ………. for a while. She was this strong, independent young lady who quit the job she hated to chase her dreams. She reconnected with a childhood friend and was living the life she wanted. Then she just annoyed me with her weak choices when it came to Ethan. <br /><br />The first meeting between Blanca and Ethan was great and I felt the instant attraction. But I wanted him to be less wishy washy. Because omg did he run hot and cold worse than a teenage girl and I wanted my own set of rusty scissors. He drove me nuts and Blanca was just too accommodating for a woman with a backbone.<br /><br />But all that said, it's Piper Rayne and the writing was good. The next book is so well set up and I am really excited to read it. This one just wasn't the one for me.

I really liked this kick-off to a new series by Piper Rayne. It's a spin-off of the Blue Collar Heroes series, and My Bestie's Ex starts with the little sister of the Mancini brothers.<br /><br />There's an immediate connection with Blanca and Ethan, from the moment that they meet on the train one Sunday night. The chance meeting has an effect on both of them, so they are both wildly disappointed to discover the next morning that Blanca is Ethan's new co-worker. Ethan has some commitment issues, some anger issues stemming from his family, so he really waffles on whether or not to even date Blanca. And after lots of mixed signals and hot and cold behavior, Blanca puts him in his place, refusing to be a doormat if he doesn't want to take a chance.<br /><br />The little bubble that Ethan and Blanca are living in come crashing down when they discover that the childhood best friend she recently reconnected with and is living with is Ethan's ex. There's no breaking of girl code, since Blanca'd never met him and the rest of the crew calls him Sigmund. It all blows up in their faces, of course, when pal Dylan pieces it all together, and there's a lot of great conversations that come out of the revelation. A lot of honest conversations are had by all three parties.<br /><br />I really loved how mature they all were about it. I really loved the connection between Ethan and Blanca. Once he got over things and committed to her, he opens up his heart and their connection jumped off the page.<br /><br />There are some hysterical appearances by Blanca's older brothers and their women, for fans who read the Blue Collar series, but not enough that I felt lost for not having read those three books. I can't wait to see what comes next for the Rooftop Crew, expecially Dylan and Rian!! I received an advanced copy and voluntarily left a review.

So for the sake of full disclosure here, I'm going to tell you a little bit about my frame of mind when I started reading My Bestie's Ex. I had JUST finished reading a novel full of depth and heavy emotion and a ton of detail and when I picked up this Piper Rayne book. I was a little worried I might struggle with getting into it because I had a feeling it'd be more on the lighter side than the book I'd just read. (I don't know about you but sometimes shifting gears between books can be hard if you're a mood reader dealing with a major book hangover.) Well let me just say that THIS BOOK was exactly what I needed, the perfect hangover cure!! This deliciously addictive forbidden romance was fun and sexy and wildly entertaining and it swept me right up in the complicated dynamic surrounding Ethan and Blanca!!! <br /><br />This book was seriously SO MUCH FUN to read. But the finicky reader that I am also longs for angst and push and pull and some bumps in my reading experience. Well Piper Rayne came to play with My Bestie's Ex and delivered a story that was rife with complications and was perfectly peppered with just the right amount of angsty goodness. This isn't just a forbidden romance about a woman discovering she may have just fell for the guy her best friend dated. There's also a complicated workplace dynamic here that adds another layer of difficulty and strife to what was already a problematic situation. Toss in some personal baggage and a hero that doesn't always say the right things at the right times and it all made for such an addictive storyline. I could not get enough!<br /><br />I devoured this book and when I finished, I immediately preordered every single book in this new series. The Rooftop Crew is shaping up to be a fun, entertaining, sexy series with a captivating cast of characters and a good dose of humor and heartache. This is so my jam and I'm beyond excited to see what's to come for every character in this book. The tiny taste of this circle of friends and the potential for their future romances that Piper Rayne just offered up has me desperately ravenous for another bite! 

The title is pretty much self-explanatory when it comes to the plot… but in their defense, Blanca and Ethan really didn’t know. Blanca was childhood friends with Sierra (Ethan’s ex) and they haven’t been in touch for a while and only recently reconnected so that explains a part of this situation.<br /><br />From Blanca and Ethan’s first meeting something tugs at their hearts but the next time they meet was when Blanca gets a job where Ethan works. The attraction remains, but they begin as friends and co-workers before things progress. <br /><br />As for Blanca, seeing her brothers fall inlove affected her views on love so she didn’t want anything half-assed. Just like her, I was getting annoyed every time Ethan would run hot-or-cold and wasn’t being as straightforward as Blanca.<br /><br />I enjoyed the friend group the most in this book. The scenes when they're all together were so fun. I love that there are already little hints for the next three books!! It gets me so excited.<br /><br />Also: this is a spin-off to the Blue Collar Heroes series. You don’t have to read it before this (I haven’t yet) but if you have, I think you’d have more appreciation for the scenes in this book with Blanca’s brothers.

My Bestie’s Ex was the first book in the Rooftop Crew series by the authors Piper Rayne.<br /><br />Blanca Mancini was the baby sister to the Mancini brothers from The White Collar series. Although, it was not necessary to have read that series first. She had a career in banking and realized she was still young enough to change directions and start doing something she loved versus staying in a career simply for the security. She quit, got a new job as a writer and reconnected with her childhood friend as her roommate. Along the way, she met the man of her dreams, her co-worker Ethan Ryland, and life was good, until it wasn’t.<br /><br />Generally I don’t recommend reading a series out of order - and I don’t here. However, I’m glad I accidentally read Sierra’s story, book two, A Royal Mistake, before I read this one. Thankfully they can be read as stand-alones so I didn’t miss much, but it allowed me to see Sierra in a different light so that I could focus on Blanca and Ethan. <br /><br />In the end, it was a fun and quick read. As expected, humor was at the forefront and the bonds between “the Rooftop Crew” were entertaining and amusing. I enjoyed the storyline as well as the characters. Since I’ve already read book two (which I loved), it’s time to dig into book three, The Rival Roomies, and I can’t wait!

I can’t get enough of Piper Rayne and this new series started off with a bang! Blanca Mancini, who was previous introduced in the White Collar Series (which involved her 3 charming older brothers), is getting the story she deserves with a few surprise appearances from her protective older brothers. <br /><br />Blanca left her secure job in pursuit of her own happiness when she runs into her former childhood best friends who offers her a fresh start in a new town outside of the city. I loved Blanca from the moment she was introduced and loved her even more the more we got to know about her throughout this story. Ethan hasn’t had an easy year, between break up and dealing with some family things and working a job he just isn’t happy with, but it pays the bills. <br /><br />From the moment Blanca and Ethan met there was a connection, chemistry. They were both drawn to each other, despite being complete strangers. I loved the easy going feeling of their relationship and their banter was hilarious. They played so well off each other. Now, the Rooftop Crew themselves, I LOVE them all. They are all different, but have formed their own mini family together and all bring something different to the crew. I can’t wait to see what is in store for all of them!<br /><br />My Bestie’s Ex is a MUST READ and another hit from Piper Rayne!<br />

4.5 stars<br><br>Loved My Bestie's Ex by Piper Rayne.<br><br>I enjoyed the storyline, it's well written, entertaining from start to end. It's full of cute, sweet, funny and romantic moments and I loved getting to know all the characters of The Rooftop Crew.<br><br>Blanka and Ethan are likable, fun and passionate characters that I really connected with. I enjoyed their attraction, I loved their friendship and I loved watching them fall in love.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1582018150i/28980496._SY540_.jpg" width="450" height="400" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>My Bestie's Ex is a great start to the Rooftop Crew series, it's introduced some very entertaining characters and I'm excited to read their stories in the near future.<br><br>Now Live!!<br>Amazon US: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/2qWwEu9">https://amzn.to/2qWwEu9</a><br>Amazon UK: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/2OHscsc">https://amzn.to/2OHscsc</a><br>Amazon CA: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/33IiTME">https://amzn.to/33IiTME</a><br>Amazon AU: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/2P56bSZ">https://amzn.to/2P56bSZ</a><br>Amazon DE: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/2YaTMRr">https://amzn.to/2YaTMRr</a><br>Nook: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/2qd9peR">http://bit.ly/2qd9peR</a><br>Apple: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://apple.co/2r6cmOK">https://apple.co/2r6cmOK</a><br>Kobo: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/37X3knN">http://bit.ly/37X3knN</a><br>Google Play: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://bit.ly/2Lc8rGL">http://bit.ly/2Lc8rGL</a><br><br><i>*An ARC was provided in exchange for my honest thoughts.*</i><br>