How to Kiss your Best Friend

How to Kiss Your Best Friend (Hawthorne Brothers #1)

By: Jenny Proctor

Genres: Romance, Romantic Comedy

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Spice: 🚫

Trope: Friends to Lovers, Slow burn 

About the book:

 He’s a hot high school chemistry teacher living in a small town. She’s a globetrotting journalist running from her past. They used to be best friends. Then one kiss changes everything.

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Kate Fletcher is my kryptonite.

She’s also my best friend. Former best friend?

I’m not sure what you call it when we grew up attached at the hip and then she left Silver Creek (and me) to travel the world.

The important thing is: Kate is back. (Temporarily.)

And I’m still in love with her. (Permanently.)

But something is different now. The attraction doesn’t seem one-sided. I don’t think I’m imagining the heat in Kate’s eyes or the chemistry crackling between us.

But will that be enough to keep Kate here, when, for as long as I can remember, all she’s wanted to do is leave?

I’m determined to give her a reason to stay. Family. Connection. Roots. And me. I’ll have to start with sparks and fire, but if I take this step, there’s no turning back to simple friendship. And if she doesn’t feel the same way, I might lose her again—this time for good.

How to Kiss Your Best Friend is a sweet romantic comedy with all the crackling chemistry and sizzling kisses you want in a closed-door romance but no explicit scenes.

 

 

“There are never any guarantees, Kate.  Not in life, certainly not in love.  But that doesn’t mean you can’t believe a love like that is possible, even hope for it.  I’m willing to be the people who do find it are the ones who always believed they would.”

 

This is a very sweet Friends to Lovers story; this story follows Kate and Brody who have been best friends since they were kids.  However, Brody has been in love with her since the beginning without ever telling Kate about his feelings.  Kate is a free spirit travel writer and since she graduated High School, she hasn’t stayed in one place for long.  Brody and Kate are very different people he comes from a big family who are very close.  Kate is an only child with divorced parents and has a strained relationship with her mother. 

I love the character development I really felt connected to everyone in this book, I loved seeing how Kate worked through her fears to find out what she truly wanted.  I would say that she was in her head a little too much and I just wanted her to hurry up and pick Brody.  

I really enjoyed this book an I cannot wait to read the rest of the Hawthorn brothers stories.