Starry-Eyed Love

3.5

Starry-Eyed Love is the second book in the Spark House romance series. In this book London Sparks crosses paths with a multi-millonaire, Jackson Holt. When they start working together they decide they can't pursue a romantic relationship, However, as they spend more and more time together, their growing chemistry and feelings will complicate matters.

This was a cute and entertaining romance! Reading it was a breeze and I enjoyed getting to know the Sparks sisters more. You don't have to have read the first book to read this one.

I liked the first book in the series, but this one was definitely better for me. I really enjoyed the couple in this one a lot more. I loved how the serious businessman Jackson lost all his edge and toughness with London. I loved that London was the one to initiate a lot of the steamy scenes, I'm always here for sexually empowered women!

Their relationship was also very believable. Even though they were from very different backgrounds, they had a lot of commonalities. They both lost their parents, neither of them really gave love a chance, and they were both workaholics. I liked that this meant that they could understand and relate to each other on a deeper level and this helped grow their relationship.

While there's nothing wrong with being a workaholic, if that is your priorities in life, I did like that London and Jackson found in each other someone that made them want to reprioritize their life and put love first.

Even though their attraction starts as insta-love the fact that they can't date while spending all this time together means that they have a lot of time to bond and get to know each other outside a relationship. So when they do get together, you know that they understand each other on a deeper level.

Unfortunately miscommunication trope and blowing things out of proportion plays a big part in the main conflict, but at least I did like the resolution to the conflict.

The sister relationship played a big part in this book, similar to the first book in the series. I love that this series has such close sister relationship, but this book made me wish they would just sit down and talk instead of letting issues grow and grow until they came to a head. I love seeing positive sister relationships in books and the way they treated each other in this one, honestly made me sad at times. Plus, somehow Avery from the first book came off as a terribly selfish person in this book which was hard to reconcile with her character from book 1.

Overall rating ⭐⭐⭐.8, rounded to 4.

Thank you to St Martin's Press and Netgalley for the eARC!

4.5 stars

When I first requested this on NetGalley I hadn't realized it was the second book in a series. Luckily, I've read the first book When Sparks Fly and loved it so once I realized this was the second book in this series, I was even more excited to read it. 

The sister dynamic in the book is still amazing. Of course, they fight like all siblings but the love and support for each other is unconditional. I loved getting to see these sisters again and see what kind of hardships they had to make it through this time. 

The romance was so cute. I loved Jackson and London together. This was a slow burn romance and the whole time I was thinking just get together already. The banter was on point. I love a book with some good banter between characters. I will say I totally saw the conflict coming but that didn't take away from how much I enjoyed it. I applaud London on how she handled it though.

What caused me to dock a half a star was the repetitiveness about how her parents died and Jacksons. It was constantly brought up and it became annoying pretty quickly. They talk about their parents' death in the first book, so I didn't need to be constantly reminded about it in this book. I can understand mentioning it a few times throughout the book but as much as it was brought up in this book was totally unneeded.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and only had the one minor complaint about it. I can't wait to read the final sister's book. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with and ecopy in exchange for my honest review.